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  1. AI-decompiled browser ports of Halo, GTA: Vice City and other games surged, raising IP fears. Nvidia is in talks to acquire Reflection AI. A CMS Slack gave Microsoft, OpenAI and others behind-the-scenes influence over AI health policy. Publishers HarperCollins, S&S and Hachette staff say they quietly use AI for covers and copy without author consent. DJI and Insta360 control 93% of the smart camera market as GoPro falls to 3%.

  2. A ransomware attack on SoftBank-owned IDC Frontier hit 495 organizations, disrupting JR East, police, logistics and e-commerce; up to 6.09 million records may be exposed. Telegram Desktop patched a critical flaw that let one malicious link steal sessions. A Haverford professor was charged with cyberstalking a Jewish colleague on X. Researchers found 981 suspected AI Russian war-propaganda tracks on major music platforms.

  3. CPython developers are exploring an optional Rust zlib in Python 3.16, while NumPy 2.5 ships np.searchsorted up to 25Γ— faster and advances abi3/Limited API work for cross-version wheels. Datadog unveiled an async-aware Python profiler that preserves asyncio task context and cuts overhead by over 60%. Also: VEX shell halved cold starts via lazy imports, and Glazer cut disposable-browser startup to ~2s.

  4. Margaret Hamilton, who led Apollo flight software and helped define software engineering, died at 90; her code was critical to the moon landing. OpenAI released 372 major math results, including a claimed proof of the Unique Games Conjecture, though proofs remain unreadable. A rare American chestnut grove in West Virginia faces possible clearing for a data center, and ICANN revealed 1,615 applications for new gTLDs.

  5. Paramount completed its $111B Warner Bros. Discovery merger, forming Skydance with Paramount+, HBO Max, CBS, CNN and sports assets, after the Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch block. Lawmakers introduced the Ban Flock Act to curb federal use of Flock license-plate cameras, while reports say Tumbler Ridge shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar used ChatGPT far more disturbingly than known, evading safeguards.

  6. Linux 7.4 is shaping up big: AMD Zen 6 gains BTB CTX isolation, Google Tensor G5 and Pixel 10 support land, and Intel’s rugged Panther Lake R gets broader enablement. Elsewhere, Mold 3.0 arrives after its Rust rewrite, Google proposes a major ZRAM rework for better memory savings, and Mesa developers weigh a formal governance council. Phoronix also compared ROCm vs. Vulkan for Llama.cpp local AI.

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