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Valve has emailed European customers who ordered a Steam Machine or a Steam Controller. A cyberattack on CEVA Logistics, the firm that ships Valve hardware across Europe, took their delivery details. CNET’s Tyler Graham reported the warning on Monday….
Court McGee will fight for the final time at UFC 332 on October 3 at Delta Center. The TUF 11 winner retires after 16 years and 29 UFC appearances. No opponent yet.

The Arena Group is renaming itself Paradium.AI. The publisher of TheStreet, Parade and Men’s Journal expects the change to finish by the end of August. Business Insider had it first. Steven Tweedie and Ben Shimkus obtained a staff memo from chief execu…

Google is testing a homepage with no Search button. A small group of signed-out users see three AI shortcuts in its place, and the familiar layout returns the moment they log in. Search Engine Watch spotted the change on Monday and reproduced it across…

Levi Strauss has disclosed a breach that involved no software vulnerability at all. Attackers used social engineering to reach three employees’ work computers, then took corporate data out with them. The company set out the incident in a regulatory fil…

CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks hit record highs on Monday. Each rose more than 5%, after a week in which the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas turned into an argument about AI agents. CNBC’s Samantha Subin reported the move. CrowdStrike gained 11.3…