GameStop trolls Valve’s Gabe Newell for his ‘inability to count to three’ — playful jab for never releasing a third installment for blockbuster game franchises like Half-Life, Dota, or Counter-Strike

GameStop trolled Valve founder Gabe Newell in its latest press release, saying that the company is ready to help him count to three. According to its post on X, the company said its “Buy 2, Get 1 FREE on ALL pre-owned games is back, while supplies last” is documented and verifiable evidence that it can […]

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This Week In Techdirt History: December 21st – 27th

from the ghosts-of-christmas-past dept Five Years Ago This week in 2020, Congress sold out to Hollywood yet again by sneaking the CASE Act and a felony streaming bill into the funding omnibus, with the former introducing absolutely insane damages especially when compared to COVID stimulus money. Meanwhile, we looked at the issues with a new […]

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Building an internal agent: Progressive disclosure and handling large files

One of the most useful initial extensions I made to our workflows was injecting associated images into the context window automatically, to improve the quality of responses to tickets and messages that relied heavily on screenshots. This was quick and made the workflows significantly more powerful. More recently, there are a number of workflows attempting […]

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New MongoDB Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Read Uninitialized Memory

Dec 27, 2025Ravie LakshmananDatabase Security / Vulnerability A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in MongoDB that could allow unauthenticated users to read uninitialized heap memory. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-14847 (CVSS score: 8.7), has been described as a case of improper handling of length parameter inconsistency, which arises when a program fails to appropriately […]

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