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GTA Online’s Next Big Update, the Kortz Center Heist, Releases Next Week, and Fans Have Already Spotted a Few Rockstar-Related Easter Eggs
Rockstar Games has confirmed that the next major GTA Online update, the Kortz Center Heist, will launch on 14 July 2026, tasking players with robbing the prestigious Kort Center art museum. The heist centres on mansion owners, who use a new art studio as a preparation room and work through a series of setup missions…
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Alex Williams Went on a Hair-Metal Side Quest. He’s Back to Outlaw Country on a New EP
Country artist Alex Williams is returning to the outlaw country sound that launched his career with a new five-song EP titled Discount Country, due out on Friday. The release marks a shift back to his roots after last year’s Space Brain, an album of country-styled covers of hair-metal acts such as Ratt, Poison and Skid…
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New York Times and Other News Outlets Accuse OpenAI of Lying in Discovery, Demand Legal Sanctions Against AI Giant
The New York Times and several other news organisations have filed a motion for sanctions against OpenAI, accusing the AI company of concealing for more than two years that it could search the training datasets and output logs behind its models. The outlets allege that OpenAI initially claimed it was unable to access such data,…
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Heatwave drives office working boom as employees ditch sweaty WFH in favour of air con
As Britain endures its third heatwave of the summer, flexible office providers say they are seeing a surge in staff coming into air-conditioned workplaces rather than working from home in overheated houses. It matters because it suggests extreme summer temperatures are beginning to reverse, at least temporarily, the working-from-home habits that became widespread in recent…
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Block reaches $45M settlement with 46 states over Cash App fraud probe
State attorneys general said they found that Block misled users by falsely advertising that Cash App provided bank-like protections, including advanced fraud detection.
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Bungie hands Destiny 2 players a free emblem as maintenance mode begins
Bungie has marked Destiny 2’s transition into maintenance mode by giving players a free farewell gift: a code posted on X that can be redeemed on Bungie.net for the Gloriabundus Emblem. Once claimed, the emblem is added to a player’s in-game Flair Collection and can be equipped at any time, with a design featuring a…
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GTA Online’s Next Big Heist, The First Since 2020, Is Coming Soon And It Looks Great
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Anthropic’s new Claude feature is quietly selling you on AI
Anthropic has launched “Reflect,” a built-in Claude dashboard that lets users track and visualise how they use the AI chatbot, including the topics they discuss and the tasks they turn to it for. TechCrunch argues that beneath its analytics veneer, the feature’s deeper purpose is to shape how people think about AI at a moment…
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“Great job Microsoft”: Former id Software artist says the legendary dev has been “relegated to support studio size” after Xbox’s strategy of “nuking a team into the dirt”
A former id Software artist has publicly criticised Microsoft over the current state of the studio behind Doom and Quake, claiming the legendary developer has been “relegated to support studio size” following Xbox’s handling of its teams. The former staffer accused Microsoft’s strategy of “nuking a team into the dirt” and sarcastically remarked “great job…
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Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are bigger than the last 25 years of tech exits
SpaceX has floated on public markets at a $1.77 trillion valuation, with AI firms Anthropic and possibly OpenAI expected to follow, and their combined scale is drawing attention for eclipsing decades of technology exits. According to the latest NVCA-PitchBook Venture Monitor report, cited by TechCrunch, these three offerings together are set to “generate more value…