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Rockstar Games is playing whack-a-mole this week as leaked GTA six footage spreads across the internet. Two video clips and what appears to be a full world map surfaced ahead of the studio's planned trailer drop. Rockstar is issuing takedowns, but as anyone who's watched the web knows, that's a difficult genie to put back in the bottle.
Shifting to a quieter but genuinely consequential legal battle — who owns the codes that determine what your hospital bills you? A copyright dispute over medical billing codes is working its way through the system, and the outcome could affect how publicly accessible that information is. When proprietary claims collide with public health infrastructure, the stakes are higher than they might first appear.
And finally, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured images of a crater on the moon's surface created by a spent Falcon nine rocket stage that impacted back in two thousand twenty two. It's a small but striking reminder that the debris we send into space doesn't simply disappear — it lands somewhere, and sometimes we can see exactly where.
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