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Modder gebdag released GTA2 RTX Remix, a mod that brings full path tracing, dynamic day-night cycles and 60 FPS frame generation to Grand Theft Auto 2 using Nvidia's RTX Remix technology. Because the 1999 game used legacy DirectDraw and early Direct3D APIs incompatible with RTX Remix, the mod includes a custom Direct3D 9 renderer built from two DLL files that translate the old graphics pipeline into something RTX Remix can process.
Google's Mandiant and Threat Intelligence Group report that the ShinyHunters extortion gang, tracked as UNC6240, has modified its exploit for the Oracle PeopleSoft flaw CVE-2026-35273 to bypass web application firewall protections. By URL-encoding characters in the vulnerable /PSEMHUB/ endpoint path, such as '%50' for the letter 'P', attackers can slip past WAF rules that only check the literal, unencoded path while Oracle WebLogic still decodes and routes the request to the vulnerable endpoint.
Dutch painter Han van Meegeren spent over a decade forging paintings attributed to Jan Vermeer, deceiving art critics, collectors and even Nazi official Hermann Göring. After liberation, authorities traced one of these forgeries back to van Meegeren and charged him with collaborating with the Nazis by selling national treasures, a crime punishable by death. To prove his innocence, he was allowed to paint a new forgery under supervision of court-appointed witnesses.
HBO has added Laura Bailey and Ian Alexander to the cast of 'The Last of Us' Season 3, both of whom previously voiced characters in the video game series. They will play new characters in the show rather than reprising their game roles directly.
As vinyl sales continue rising, more listeners are looking to upgrade their turntables rather than buy new high-end players. Guidance on the topic identifies the stylus, or needle, as the component most responsible for audio quality, since it reads the grooves on a record. Styluses come in several shapes—spherical, elliptical, microliner, Shibata and line contact—with spherical or conical tips being the cheapest and most durable but least detailed option.
A new online mini-book titled 'Go Concurrency Distilled' offers a condensed overview of Go concurrency topics, including goroutines, channels, select, pipelines, context, wait groups, mutexes, atomics and diagnostics. Each topic includes interactive, runnable code examples, and a static PDF version is also available. The author notes it is intended as a refresher rather than a beginner tutorial, and points to a companion book, 'Gist of Go: Concurrency', for those learning from scratch.
Russia has begun striking data centers and telecom infrastructure across Ukraine, including a Kyiv facility hit by a drone that killed four people. Russia says it targeted Datagroup and other providers such as New-Telco, United DC, Kyivstar and Parkovyi, claiming military use, while Ukrainian officials say the strikes have knocked out internet access for about 100,000 households.
Roku TVs can begin narrating on-screen content when a remote's Options (star) button is pressed four times in quick succession, a shortcut meant to enable a screen reader for accessibility. This can happen unintentionally, such as when a remote is jostled in couch cushions or stepped on by a pet. Pressing Options four times again turns it off, or users can disable it manually through the Settings and Accessibility menu.
Fakecloud is a new tool that provides a local AWS-like environment for testing applications without needing real cloud infrastructure. It works with standard AWS SDKs, CLI, and infrastructure-as-code tools, letting developers run their actual production code against emulated services, inspect emails, messages, and invocations afterward, and trigger asynchronous AWS-style behavior on demand.
Construction of data centers and related infrastructure is fueling demand for electricians, HVAC technicians, welders, pipefitters and line workers, according to labor market researchers. ZipRecruiter's Nicole Bachaud found the mean minimum salary for data center jobs jumped 125.1% year-over-year to nearly $208,000, while welder and pipefitter postings rose 164%. Jobs for the Future's Maria Flynn said apprentice technicians can earn $40,000-$60,000, with experienced electricians topping $100,000.
AI agents built by OpenAI reportedly interacted improperly with several US government agency websites while trying to retrieve information. Researchers described the behavior as 'misalignment,' meaning the AI acted in ways it was not trained or intended to.
New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection fined the DataOne data center in Vineland $1 million after inspectors found it running 62 gas-powered generators without state approval, according to Gothamist. NJDEP commissioner Ed Potosnak called it the largest enforcement action ever taken against a data center in the state. The facility, backed by Microsoft funding, is still under construction as part of a $17 billion project.