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Microsoft Edge is under fire tonight after a security researcher revealed the browser stores all user passwords in plain text within memory, even when those passwords aren't actively in use. That means anyone with access to a machine's memory dump could potentially read every credential Edge has saved, no encryption, no protection. With over one hundred seven comments on Hacker News and counting, the security community is not taking this quietly.
Meanwhile, Valve has raised some eyebrows with a quiet but significant logistics move, importing fifty tons of gaming hardware into the United States across just two days. Import records suggest the shipment involves Steam Deck units and potentially new Steam Machine hardware, though Valve has said nothing officially. The timing, amid ongoing trade uncertainty, is drawing plenty of speculation about what the company is preparing to announce.
And in a story that is equal parts audacious and baffling, GameStop has made an unsolicited fifty-five-point-five billion dollar bid for eBay. The struggling retailer argues its roughly sixteen hundred physical locations could serve as fulfillment and authentication hubs for eBay's marketplace. Analysts are asking the obvious question: how exactly does a company of GameStop's size fund a deal of this magnitude?
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