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• GTA 6 footage leaks: Roughly 90 clips of the subsequent Grand Theft Auto sport leaked out this week, with the uploader claiming to have hacked Rockstar Video games’ inside Slack. Rockstar confirmed the “community intrusion,” including that they’re “extraordinarily dissatisfied” to see issues leaked this fashion however that improvement will “proceed as deliberate.”
• Wipro fires 300 staff for moonlighting: India’s IT large Wipro “has fired 300 staff in latest months who had been discovered to be moonlighting for rivals,” writes Manish, with Wipro chairman Rishad Premji calling moonlighting an “act of integrity violation.”
• Revolut hacked: Banking/monetary companies startup Revolut confirmed this week that hackers had been in a position to breach particulars for a “small share” of its prospects. The corporate declined to get particular about precisely what number of prospects that works out to, however a breach disclosure filed with authorities within the firm’s dwelling nation of Lithuania suggests it’s round 50,000.
• Brelyon’s wild monitor: Need one thing extra immersive than a typical monitor however don’t need a VR headset strapped to your face? Brelyon is attempting to reimagine the show, and so they’ve raised $15 million from a reasonably spectacular roster of traders to get it finished.
• Kia and Hyundai sued over design flaw: Earlier this 12 months, a TikTok went viral that publicized a not-very-complicated option to steal sure fashions of Kia and Hyundai automobiles. Now a category motion lawsuit has been filed towards the automakers, with the grievance claiming the vehicles had been “intentionally” constructed with out “engine immobilizers,” which Rebecca describes as an “cheap and quite common machine” meant to forestall this difficulty.
• Google’s new Chromecast: Two years in the past, Google launched a 4K model of the Chromecast — the primary Chromecast to come back with a devoted distant, slightly than requiring a smartphone for all the things. They’re now bringing the identical design plus a distant to the extra inexpensive HD (1080p) mannequin. The HD mannequin will value $30, whereas the 4K model will value $50.
• Fb customers sue Meta over iOS monitoring: “The grievance,” writes Taylor, “alleges that Meta evaded Apple’s new restrictions by monitoring customers by Fb’s in-app browser, which opens hyperlinks throughout the app.”

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• The Fairness workforce requested, “What does breaking into enterprise capital seem like as we speak, and the way is it altering?”
• My buddies on Discovered talked to the co-founders of Change about how/why they constructed a crypto-centric API for charitable giving.
• The Chain Response crew talked about — what else? — the latest large adjustments to the best way Ethereum works, and the perhaps-surprising impression “the merge” had available on the market.

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