Wired has the story of a superuser cheating scandal. Professional poker is the latest community to reckon with the impact of a high-profile cyberattack. Cases where a player manages to cheat by getting unfair access to another person's cards is known as the superuser strategy, and it has popped up from time to time in the poker scene over the years. This most recent attack appears to have been a long-term campaign that may have seen millions of dollars stolen from across major online poker platforms. The story claims that the hacker exploited third-party tools allowing people to run multiple poker games at once to install a malware program called MeshAgent on specific players' computers.

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The world's changed a lot since Seán McLoughlin, better known to 31 million subscribers as Jacksepticeye, began making YouTube videos. He started uploading in 2012, in what many people consider to be the platform's golden age when vlogging, video game playthroughs and comedy escapism were all the rage. Like many in the content creation space, he's been branching out in recent years, taking more acting jobs and getting involved in film production. BBC Newsbeat caught up with McLoughlin to talk about his new role, his work on bringing one of his favourite video games to the big screen and why he misses the whimsical days of the internet. McLoughlin got famous playing video games, and these days there's a good chance you'll see - or hear - him in one.

Illicit software on the computers of some of the world's best online poker players allowed the accused cheater to see what cards were in the victims' hands--and trounce them at the tables. In a fitting sign of the times, the hacker's carefully laid plans were foiled by an AI agent . It was September 25, 2026, and Alex, a professional online poker player, was using his Claude AI agent to review some play statistics. After Alex's SQL database crashed and needed to be reset, the Claude agent noticed something suspicious: A program called MeshAgent was operating in the background, where it seemed to be capable of capturing Alex's screen and even controlling his entire machine. Thanks to the Claude agent's report, Alex could see the program had been installed on April 24, and not by Alex himself. Alex says the agent identified 11 time-stamped events when the program had been capturing his screen based on graphic errors it caused during screen sharing instances.

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Social media is full of weird video game mashups. Where are they all coming from? Don't get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? I f your social media algorithms have clocked that you're into video games, something strange will have happened in the past few weeks. Your feed, like mine, will have been full of clips of streamers playing bizarre mashups of popular video games .

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