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When thinking of processors, what comes to your mind first? (Outside of a food processor, that is.)

The internet has been breathlessly talking about the Grand Theft Auto VI leaks ahead of the extended look coming to Netflix this week, but one former Rockstar Games lead is telling everybody to "calm down."

An individual or group known as CyberLeek has leaked alleged clips of GTA 6 gameplay last week, including maps and videos. Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. (the parent company of video game publisher Rockstar Games) subsequently subpoenaed Microsoft, Discord, and GitHub over "stolen content," confirming that at least some of the information from CyberLeek is legitimate.

But Obbe Vermeij, former technical director at Rockstar North (an Edinburgh-based Rockstar Games studio), posted on X that the leaks are a "nothing burger."

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"Calm down everybody," he wrote. "The leaks are a nothing burger."

Vermeij goes on to claim that Rockstar's marketing strategy is to keep the game under wraps longer than other publishers do, and that all that happened was that some footage escaped.

"90 [percent] of future players don't spend their time on the internet looking for video snippets. They don't have the time and don't want spoilers," he continued. "I imagine the teams are a little annoyed about it but not more than that."

"I was there during Hot Coffee," Vermeij wrote, referring to a controversy surrounding a hidden minigame in the 2004 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas that included a sex scene. Rockstar and Take-Two settled a lawsuit over it. Vermeij said it was a "nightmare" for Rockstar's New York office, it didn't affect Rockstar North as much, and that the current leaks are far less consequential.

"It looks like gta6 will be phenomenal and sell for the next 15 years or so. The leaks are just a tiny blip," he concluded.

TL;DR: Watch Elche vs. Barcelona in La Liga for free on CazéTV. Access this free live stream from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

La Liga is showcasing some thrilling fixtures this weekend, including the return of champions Barcelona. They begin their title defense against Elche at the Manuel Martínez Valero. Fans will be expecting a strong performance and a confident win against a side that finished 15th last season.

If you're interested in watching Elche vs. Barcelona in La Liga from anywhere in the world, we've got all the information you need.

When is Elche vs. Barcelona?

Elche vs. Barcelona in La Liga kicks off at 3:30 p.m. ET on Aug. 23. This fixture takes place at the Manuel Martínez Valero.

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TL;DR: Watch PSG vs. Rennes in Ligue 1 for free on CazéTV. Access this free live stream from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.

Ligue 1 is all about whether any team can truly challenge PSG. The champions have just won their second consecutive Champions League title, and they're looking to win their sixth consecutive Ligue 1 title. That's total domination.

PSG's opening game against Rennes was supposed to be at the Parc des Princes, but it has been moved to Roazhon Park due to poor playing conditions. PSG will be looking to bounce back after losing to RC Lens in the Trophee des Champions last weekend.

If you're interested in watching PSG vs. Rennes in Ligue 1 from anywhere in the world, we've got all the information you need.

When is PSG vs. Rennes?

PSG vs. Rennes in Ligue 1 kicks off at 2:45 p.m. ET on Aug. 23. This fixture takes place at the Roazhon Park.

How to watch PSG vs. Rennes for free

PSG vs. Rennes in Ligue 1 is available to live stream for free on CazéTV.

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The best VPNs for streaming are not free, but they do tend to offer generous money-back guarantees. By leveraging these offers, you can watch PSG vs. Rennes without committing your cash. This is obviously not a long-term strategy, but it gives you enough time to stream this fixture (plus Premier League action) before recovering your investment.

What is the best VPN for Ligue 1?

ExpressVPN is the best choice for bypassing geo-restrictions to stream live sport on CazéTV, for a number of reasons:

• Servers in 105 countries, including Brazil

• Easy-to-use app available on all major devices, including iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, and more

• Strict no-logging policy so your data is secure

• Fast connection speeds free from throttling

• Up to 10 simultaneous connections

• 30-day money-back guarantee

A two-year subscription to ExpressVPN is on sale for $68.40 and includes an extra four months for free — 81% off for a limited time. This plan includes a year of free unlimited cloud backup and usually offers a generous 30-day money-back guarantee. Alternatively, you can get a one-month plan for just $12.99.

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Back in the early days of Android (circa the early 2010s), I decluttered my phones of redundant files with third-party storage-cleaning apps. At one point, I even used one of those infamous RAM cleaner apps, but I quickly realized the error of my ways and banished memory cleaners from my phone for good.

Windows 11 came with a number of refreshed default apps and a sleek new user interface, but it still leaves a lot to be desired. The basic media app often struggles with unusual formats or HDR content, the UI changes were not universally popular, it still lacks the ability to interact with some kinds of files effectively, and managing your installed apps is a messy nightmare.

If you own even a moderately modern car, you may not have a CD player in your vehicle at all, but that doesn't mean you can't find some way to enjoy your high quality audio collection on the road.

If you know a thing or two about power tool brands, you're probably well aware that Black+Decker is primarily aimed at at-home DIYers looking for affordable, easy-to-use power tools. On paper, I sound like the perfect customer, but I have some real regrets a year after buying my first cordless drill from the company.

Google Maps is one of those apps I use so often that I just assume I know everything it can do. I was wrong. When I started digging, I found some features that solve surprisingly common problems and make everyday journeys easier. Here are seven hidden gems worth knowing.

An aggravating amount of software today requires a sign-in to use, even if it doesn't require a subscription or license to use. Software that just used to install and work now has an extra step.

When I first planned out my home theater setup, I knew there was one thing I didn’t want: a bunch of wires running all over the room. Having fewer wires reduces the tripping hazard and the chance of them getting caught on something and pulling what they are connected to down.

How we date and who we date will never not be a hot topic on social media. Oversharing our dating lives is the foundation of the internet, but it's also the source of some of the worst takes you'll ever hear.

Because the internet is cyclical, certain ideas and expectations about sex and dating get repeated ad nauseam on TikTok and X. While a lot of it is centered on heterosexual dating norms about first dates and hookup culture, occasionally (re: annually), we're dragged into discourse about dating bisexual men.

SEE ALSO: I'm tired of bi women being the internet's Pride punching bag Discourse about bi men hits the internet (again)

In the past month, TikTok and X are embroiled in takes and reactions and reactions to takes about straight women not wanting to date bi men.

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Bisexual dating and labels are a conversation we have basically every year. Here's a tweet about it from 2024. Here's a tweet about it from 2020. I'll even throw in a tweet from 2018 about the "bi-lesbian" label discourse. This time, however, it's about bisexual men.

For Zachary Zane, author of Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto and sex expert for Velvet Brands, a sex toy manufacturer, the reason this conversation has an annual loop is its complexity. He's also quick to push back on the instinct to label every rejection as biphobic.

"It's a very similar argument every time," Zane said to Mashbale over email. "I think it never resolves because it's actually a more complicated question than it seems on the surface. I don't think that if you don't want to date a bi guy, you are automatically extremely biphobic. And I'm saying this as a bi man who's had plenty of people not want to date me because of my (bi)sexuality."

A 2023 meta-analysis in Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity pulled together 61 studies from 1999 to 2022, totaling over 32,000 participants, to figure out who actually holds the most anti-bisexual bias. Across the board, men reported more negative attitudes toward bisexuality than women did, and that gap widened specifically around male bisexuality, meaning straight men, more than straight women, tend to carry the biggest hang-up about bi guys. (Gay men and lesbians, for what it's worth, had similar attitudes about bisexuality.)

So why does the online discourse keep circling back to women specifically?

A separate study on actual willingness to date bi people gets closer to an answer. Researchers surveyed over 1,800 people across sexual orientations and found that straight people and gay/lesbian people were both less willing to date bisexual people than bisexual people were willing to date them. However, the reluctance to date bisexual men specifically was unusually strong. Strong enough that even bisexual women reported hesitation about dating bi men.

Added together, these studies suggest varying conclusions: Men, straight men especially, apparently carry more measurable anti-bisexual bias overall. But when it comes to who bi men are actually trying to date, it's resistance from women — bi and straight alike — that keeps showing up as the real sticking point.

Glamour and YouGov polls from the same general period found similar patterns: Most women surveyed said they either wouldn't date a man with any male sexual history, bi or not, or weren't comfortable with the idea of a bi partner at all.

For Zane, desire isn't something anyone owes a justification for, but he does draw a hard line between someone simply not being interested and someone being cruel about why.

"There's a difference between people, more specifically cis women, who don't want to date a bi man because, 'Ew, that's gross, he sucks dick.' That's clearly homophobic and biphobic."

So where does the fear come from, if the stereotypes don't hold up?

Common stereotypes against bisexuality range from bi men who are "actually" gay and in denial, that they're incapable of monogamy, and that they're at a higher STI risk. These stereotypes seemingly persist because bi men are an easy target for stigma that would be socially unacceptable if aimed at almost any other group.

Zane doesn't pick one so much as point out they're all load-bearing for each other. "These stereotypes are all interconnected," he says. "Being labeled 'secretly gay' fuels the stereotype that bi men pose a greater STI risk, just as the myth that bisexual people are incapable of monogamy reinforces those same STI concerns." Killing one myth, in his telling, barely matters if the other two are still propping it up.

Much of the pushback in this discourse relies on a straw man argument that anyone raising the topic is trying to shame or guilt straight women into finding bi men attractive, as if attraction itself is up for debate.

"I think often, though not always, 'discomfort' is synonymous with insecurity," says Zane. "But a person doesn't want to admit that they're insecure, so instead they use the word discomfort."

Nobody's arguing women should be forced to date bisexual men; the argument is about the reasons some women give for ruling them out categorically — the idea that they're secretly gay, more likely to cheat, or riskier for STIs. It's one thing to have a preference, but another to base that on unfounded assumptions. Plus, treating any pushback on those beliefs as an attempt to "shame" women into attraction lets people avoid actually defending the belief.

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Honestly, part of why this conversation comes back every year has nothing to do with bisexuality specifically — it's just how the internet works now. Writer Daysia Tolentino nailed it when she described online discourse as react-first-think-later, where the goal isn't actually figuring anything out, it's staying mad enough to keep scrolling.

Everything gets treated like the biggest deal ever, so annoyingly classist conversations about bonnets in classrooms and discourse about bi men's dating lives end up hitting your feed with the exact same energy.

One tweet basically called the whole thing out, joking about having to do "the bisexual men and straight women conversation" again next year, and the year after that, forever. It's not even really about bi men at this point — it's just what happens when the internet finds a fight it can have on repeat.

The cost of this is that bi men are obviously the ones affected the most by this discourse. They're still the least likely group in the LGBT community to be out to the people in their lives, by a lot. The Pew Research Center found that only a small fraction of bisexual men were out to most of the important people around them, compared to the large majority of gay men and lesbians who were.

Even Zane, someone who's spent years publicly unpacking this exact discourse, doesn't think the conversation is going anywhere soon. He compares it directly to the equally exhausting, equally cyclical "should straight people go to Pride" debate that resurfaces every June.

"The discourse is undoubtedly exhausting," he admits. "But I think the only way we can move the needle forward is through discourse. It just takes time."

Nothing beats the experience of unboxing a brand-new phone, removing the protective sheets, and turning it on for the first time while you're gliding all over it with your fingers to get a feel for the case's texture. After unboxing dozens of phones in my life, this still hasn't gotten old.

OpenAI wants California to toughen up the AI safety law it helped get across the finish line less than a year ago.

In a post from OpenAI's Global Affairs team on LinkedIn, the company laid out its case for amending SB 53, the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act, which Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law back in Sept. 2025. OpenAI says the law needs new teeth, specifically, requirements that frontier AI models be monitored during training or evaluation for signs that they could bypass a third party's security controls or obtain confidential information they shouldn't have.

The company is also pushing for beefed-up cybersecurity across the entire model development process, aimed at preventing AI systems from circumventing their internal safeguards.

For context, SB 53 was already a pretty significant piece of legislation when it passed. According to the Governor's office, the law requires large frontier AI developers to publish safety frameworks, establishes a formal channel for reporting critical safety incidents to California's Office of Emergency Services, protects whistleblowers, and grants the state Attorney General the authority to levy civil penalties on companies that don't comply.

It also created CalCompute, a public computing consortium meant to give safety and equity research a boost, and it requires the state to revisit the law annually as the tech beneath it shifts. Newsom pitched it at the time as proof that California could protect the public without choking off the AI industry that has become such a huge part of the state's economy. It was also called a stopgap for Washington's inability to pass anything resembling a real federal AI policy.

It makes sense, then, that OpenAI is calling its broader strategy "reverse federalism" — the idea being that while Congress continues to sit on its hands on comprehensive AI legislation, states can move first on compatible safety standards that can eventually be turned into national policy.

The company was careful to frame this as forward-looking rather than reactive, insisting that the ask isn't "to write rules for one particular incident" but to build a framework that catches problems earlier and ensures lessons are shared industry-wide. Such demands are all well and good, and one that conveniently keeps OpenAI in the room to shape what those standards look like.

Disclosure: Ziff Davis, Mashable’s parent company, in April 2025 filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.

Everyone says Linux is technically complicated, intended for tech-savvy users who like to dwell in the terminal. However, as someone who has used Linux as my daily driver for 10 years and nudged plenty of friends and family toward it, I can tell you that reputation is a myth—at least on modern Linux desktops. To prove my point, I put my mother-in-law—a completely non-technical user—on Linux. And spoiler alert: it went better than her time on Windows ever did.

An old Kindle can do far more than you might imagine. The only thing holding it back is Amazon's locked-down software. By jailbreaking my Kindle, I was able to turn it into a useful second monitor in less than an hour.

If you're new to the world of cordless power tools, it can be rather confusing. There are brushless tools, older brushed motors, different voltages, battery capacities, different output types, and so many brands to choose from. Ryobi is popular with the DIY crowd, but you'll also hear people everywhere suggesting buying Milwaukee. And while there's a lot to consider in that decision, don't go by voltage alone.

While I don't have the built-in MSN Weather app on my Windows 11 PC (I deleted it ages ago), I decided to reinstall it to see whether those recent reports about the app using more than 1GB of memory on Windows 11 weren't overblown. And, well, I was indeed surprised, and not in a positive way.

A class-action lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California alleges that the fitness tracker Oura Ring doesn't actually track one's sleep.

The complaint, filed on Aug. 20, states that Oura can't measure brain electrical activity, eye movements, muscle tone, "and other signals measured through electrodes placed on the scalp, leads on the eyes, and sensors on the chin," and because it doesn't do this, it can't track sleep or sleep cycles.

SEE ALSO: From Oura to Whoop, we tested the best sleep trackers of 2026

"Instead, Oura's AI models are doing guesswork as to what may be happening," it reads, "based on improper inputs, and thus taking advantage of desperate consumers who struggle with their sleep or are concerned for their health by selling faulty AI-based inference as reliable science."

While Oura states in technical materials that it doesn't track brain activity or eye movements, the lawsuit alleges that the company still claims to measure sleep stages and cycles. Clarkson Law Firm and named plaintiff Madison Surber filed the complaint. It states that around May 22, 2025, Surber bought an Oura Ring 4 Gold for $513.68 directly from Oura, and believed the ring could provide accurate data about her sleep.

The suit alleges Oura engaged in fraudulent advertising, unjust enrichment, breach of express and implied warranties, and violations of California's Unfair Competition Law, False Advertising Law, and Consumers' Legal Remedies Act. Over 100 class members seek monetary compensation totaling more than $5 million.

Mashable has reached out to Oura for comment.

After seeing several videos of drivers getting out of trouble because they had dashcam footage, I finally bought cameras for both my SUV and my wife's car. She drives about 15 miles each way to work, much of it on the highway, and I'm always thinking about how quickly a normal commute can turn into a mess if there's a crash or some other incident.