A leaked Steam dataset totaling more than 12TB appears to contain Valve and third-party beta builds and finished games published between 2003 and 2013, including early versions tied to franchises like Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, and Portal.
Aug 30, 2026 ·
Engadget
More than 12TB of Steam game archives leaked, including builds uploaded from 2003–2013 and early content from multiple games, with users already finding assets tied to canceled Half-Life 2: Episode 3 and cut Portal 2 material.
Aug 30, 2026 ·
The Verge
Musk says building in-house casting for gas-turbine blades and vanes at SpaceX can accelerate natural-gas turbine production by up to 18 months, potentially adding more AI power capacity faster than waiting on the grid.
Aug 30, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
OSHA data analysis found that test drivers for Waymo and Zoox sustained more than two dozen injuries in 2024 and 2025 linked to hard braking or other sudden autonomous-vehicle movements.
Aug 30, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Texas Governor Greg Abbott froze state spending on Flock AI surveillance cameras after a Texas Tribune investigation found the state spent more than $30 million on the devices.
Aug 30, 2026 ·The Verge
A man who posed as a San Francisco 49ers player (or a wealthy real estate investor) allegedly defrauded 26 women out of $1.3 million in a romance-and-investment “pig butchering” scheme.
Aug 30, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Eminent domain condemnation awards are not considered earned income for Social Security’s earnings test, so Social Security benefits won’t be withheld regardless of the check’s size.
Aug 30, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
93% of British adults say they have a right to private conversations online and 89% say no one should access their personal encrypted messages without a court order.
Aug 30, 2026 ·
The Register
Android Auto usually fails because of a phone-to-car connection problem, so check that your wired USB cable supports data transfer (not just charging) or that Bluetooth and Wi‑Fi are on for wireless, then force a reconnection and confirm the car is set to the Android Auto menu.
Aug 29, 2026 ·Engadget
Milo Yiannopoulos was arrested by ICE and deported to the UK after overstaying his visa after a final order of removal was issued on July 22.
Aug 29, 2026 ·The Verge
Morgan Stanley raised its CrowdStrike price target to $238 from $227 while keeping an Overweight rating after CrowdStrike reported record Q2 net new ARR of $333 million, up 51% year-over-year and 17% above Street expectations.
Aug 29, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Sony Music and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking up to $150,000 per work plus up to $25,000 for each instance when identifiable copyright data was stripped, with total damages potentially reaching several billion dollars.
Aug 29, 2026 ·The Verge
Windscribe’s Back to School deal cuts a full year of Pro VPN access to $39 instead of $69 (64% off), which works out to a little over $3 per month and stays locked for the lifetime of the subscription.
Aug 29, 2026 ·
CNET
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals overruled Kalshi’s attempt to block Nevada from overseeing its prediction market platform.
Aug 29, 2026 ·Engadget
Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable became unavailable to users outside Europe earlier in 2024, prompting European investors and founders at TechBBQ to refocus on whether Europe should control the AI models and infrastructure rather than renting power from the U.S. and China.
Aug 29, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Meta’s code-named Project OT (Organization Transformation) to shift to an “AI native” model would have cut teams by as much as 60%, but Zuckerberg pulled back on May 19—leading Meta to do about 8,000 layoffs (~10% of its ~79,000 workforce) and cancel the planned November wave.
Aug 29, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al Nahyan–linked investors are reported to hold the largest 49% stake in the holding company created for World Liberty Financial’s proposed U.S. trust bank venture, following a $500M investment for that 49% stake in World Liberty Financial itself.
Aug 29, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Testing 100 CCPA access requests, the author found multiple companies misclassified access requests as deletion or refused to process requests through the methods listed in their privacy policies.
Aug 29, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Victims who report a missing debit card before any unauthorized charges are made are not responsible for those charges, but costs rise to up to $50 if reported within two business days of an unauthorized charge and up to $500 if reported after two business days but within 60 calendar days of the statement, with account funds potentially unprotected beyond 60 days.
Aug 29, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Defense startup Mara raised $7 million to develop its Spike backpack and vehicle-mounted counter-drone system that uses small 250g Seeker interceptors to engage FPV drone swarms.
Aug 29, 2026 ·The Register
