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A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history

August 30, 2026 Blogmaster

Here at Ars, we’re intimately familiar with data leaks surrounding Valve’s games, hardware, and the workings of Steam itself. But nothing could have prepared us for this weekend’s “terarelease” encompassing…

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Why it matters that President Trump just dialed into a NASA news conference

August 30, 2026 Blogmaster

As is standard procedure for major NASA missions, the US space agency held a post-launch news conference on Sunday morning at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to provide information about…

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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

August 30, 2026 Blogmaster

This week, MrWilson scores another double-win with both top spots on the insightful side. In first place, it’s a piece-by-piece response to a commenter who defended ICE’s failed illegal raid…

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Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers

August 30, 2026 Blogmaster

Meta is testing robots that can plug in cables, reset servers, and handle other tasks inside its data centers, according to several current and former workers familiar with the projects.…

Cybersecurity

TerminalFix Uses Fake Cloudflare CAPTCHAs to Deploy Reverse-Tunnel Backdoor

August 30, 2026 Blogmaster

Microsoft has disclosed details of a new ClickFix variant, dubbed TerminalFix, that aims to trick users into running a malicious command in Windows Terminal or PowerShell. “While traditional ClickFix campaigns…

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This Week In Techdirt History: August 23rd – 29th

August 29, 2026 Blogmaster

This Week in 2016 India Criminalizes Merely Visiting A Copyright Infringing ‘Blocked’ Site Anti-Piracy Operations Are Fabricating Links To Non-Existent Torrents In DMCA Notices Peter Thiel’s Lawyer Now Sending Questionable…

Cybersecurity

Five Critical WordPress Plugin and Theme Flaws Enable Site Takeover or RCE

August 29, 2026 Blogmaster

Multiple critical security flaws have been disclosed in WordPress plugins and themes, including WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, Pods, and GiveWP, that could lead to authentication bypass, account takeover, and…

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I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.

August 29, 2026 Blogmaster

I filed a request with McDonald’s earlier this month to access all of the personal data the fast food company collected about me, and I received a stunning 515-page report…

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Buc-ee’s Decides The Right Response To Pushback On Its Trademark Bullying Is To Invoke Partisanship

August 28, 2026 Blogmaster

We’ve been detailing the trademark bullying ways of Buc-ee’s, famous gas station and convenience store chain in the American south and infamous IP bully, for over a year now. Buc-ee’s…

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“RFK Jr. has lied to the Senate”: Lawmakers call for criminal probe, ouster

August 28, 2026 Blogmaster

Senators are renewing calls for anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy to step down or be ousted—and at least one is calling for a criminal investigation—amid the release of documents…

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