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Rockstar Games has published a new "launch" trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI, about a month before the game's release. The 90-second clip, captured entirely on PS5, showcases the Miami-inspired Vice City setting and features a new track from electronic duo Justice, who are scoring the game.
The UK's Legal Aid Agency said further analysis of an April 2025 breach found that roughly 250,000 stolen records predate 2007, with the earliest verified record from 1978. Most stolen data covers applications, claims and payments from January 2007 to May 2025, but the agency confirmed a smaller, older trove was also taken. The agency had previously disclosed theft of applicant and provider data including contact details, national ID numbers, criminal history, financial information and portal credentials.
The Department of Justice disrupted operations tied to Famous Chollima, a North Korean threat group, arresting two suspects and charging 14 individuals. The FBI's 'Lonestar Roundup' operation searched 40 Texas residences between September 21-25, seizing about 187 laptops and KVM devices used to run so-called laptop farms that let North Korean IT workers appear to be based in the US.
The Department of Justice says it has indicted and arrested two Americans and seized over 180 computers from more than 40 laptop farms across Texas, which North Korean operatives allegedly used to remotely access jobs at U.S. companies under stolen identities. Prosecutors say at least 70 companies across 17 states and DC—spanning healthcare, retail, manufacturing and other sectors—were infiltrated, generating roughly $3 million in illicit proceeds.
The FBI arrested OpenAI employee Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national, on October 9 after a covert recording device was discovered in the company's executive conference room. OpenAI said the device had been planted days earlier and the employee was fired; the DOJ says surveillance footage placed him near and inside the room beforehand, and a bag found nearby contained his ID and a second similar device.
DC Comics is launching 'Absolute Justice,' a crossover event that will bring together characters from its Absolute Universe line of titles for the first time. The event follows the individual Absolute books that have been running as a reimagined take on DC's core heroes.
President Trump defended his administration's light-touch approach to artificial intelligence regulation, arguing that industry self-regulation combined with existing federal authorities, including the Justice Department, are adequate to keep AI tools safe. His comments come after some industry voices raised concerns about potential risks from unchecked AI development.
The Financial Times reported that the US Department of Justice has seized millions of dollars in bank accounts and crypto wallets connected to Tether Limited, issuer of the Tether stablecoin. The seizures stem from an FBI investigation into Capstone, an unlicensed payment processor accused of running an elder-fraud scheme that funneled illicit funds into crypto, with the money reportedly moving through offshore bank EQIBank, which serviced both Tether and Bitfinex.
Director Lance Oppenheim's film Primetime, starring Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen, reconstructs the peak years of the NBC series To Catch a Predator, which paired Hansen with the group Perverted Justice to lure and confront men seeking minors online. The film, opening in theaters September 25, portrays Hansen as craving fame and validation rather than acting purely as a public servant, while noting the show still has an active fan community years after NBC canceled it in 2007.
Landscape architect Billy Fleming has published a book documenting communities that have successfully pursued decarbonization and climate justice initiatives. The book arrives amid a year marked by severe climate disasters, including a glacier-collapse flood in Nepal, a European heat wave blamed for over 35,000 deaths, and crop-destroying temperature swings in the U.S. Midwest.
Karen Serobovich Vardanyan, 35, was sentenced to 24 months in prison and three years of supervised release for breaching U.S. corporate networks and deploying Ryuk ransomware between March 2019 and June 2020. He pleaded guilty in July after being extradited from Kyiv following an April 2025 arrest, with prosecutors saying he and co-conspirators collected roughly 1,610 bitcoins in ransom payments, worth over $15 million at the time, from victims including a Michigan company, a Texas school and an Oregon technology firm.
OpenAI has asked Washington to take the lead in establishing global standards for AI safety, positioning the U.S. as the guiding force in international regulation. President Trump responded by saying he would avoid stifling industry growth, while noting the Justice Department could step in to “rein in things” if problems arose.