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Rockstar confirmed on Saturday that some of its data was compromised in a breach of a third-party provider. The group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility, saying it had gained access to the company’s Snowflake instances (a cloud-hosting provider popular with enterprise customers) via Anodot, a cost-monitoring and analytics service. The group is demanding a ransom by April 14th, or it will leak the data it has stolen.In a statement provided to Kotaku, the company said that the compromised data was limited in scope and “this incident has no impact on our organization or our players.”It’s unclear exactly which data was compromised, but…

RGB LED TVs have been the talk of the TV world this year, with models coming from all the manufacturers, and the first one of 2026 is here — the Hisense UR9. It’s the first look at the viability of the new backlight technology outside of demo rooms, and it’s a step above the traditional mini-LED TVs of years past. HDR is colorful and accurate, it has great brightness, and it is capable of showing colors beyond the P3 color space for movies and TV shows that have wider color. But at $3,500, the 65-inch model I reviewed is priced…

REGINA – Some local theatres in Saskatchewan are hoping to see more independent films up on the big screen after the provincial government decided to end mandatory movie ratings. Jordan Delorme, general manager of the Roxy Theatre in Saskatoon, says the province’s old rules were so prohibitive that some filmmakers chose to privately show their work in living rooms at home.Many couldn’t afford the $440 ratings fee or didn’t want to deal with government bureaucracy to get a movie rated so it could premiere in theatres.“It felt like a paywall,” Delorme said in a recent interview.Changes to the provincial law,…

By The Canadian Press The Canadian Press Posted April 12, 2026 8:14 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Quebecers will find out Sunday who will become their next premier after the Coalition Avenir Québec counts the votes in a race to replace the only leader the party has ever had. Christine Fréchette, a former economy minister, and Bernard Drainville, an ex-environment minister, threw their names in the hat after outgoing Premier François Legault announced in January he was stepping down. About 20,500 CAQ members were eligible to cast a vote and choose the new…

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the AI coding and vibe-coding booms, follow David Pierce. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here.Writing code was a killer app for AI even before anyone was really talking about AI. In the spring of 2021, 18 months before the world knew the word “ChatGPT,” Microsoft debuted the very first product of a partnership with a nonprofit called OpenAI: a tool called GitHub Copilot that watched developers as they wrote code and…

I love black-and-white photography. I also adore compact cameras you can always have by your side. So I’m a total mark for the Ricoh GR IV Monochrome, a fixed-lens camera that can’t zoom and can’t record color — at all. It’s a formula that makes the average person ask, “Why?”I’ve tested the GR IV Monochrome for over a month, taking it with me everywhere and photographing everything. Let me explain how this pricey little point-and-shoot is likely to go down as one of my all-time-favorite cameras.$2197The GoodExcellent black-and-white image qualityEverything great about the standard GR IV: sharp lens, small size,…

Just over half of Canadians want the federal Liberals to win enough seats in Monday’s byelections to give Prime Minister Mark Carney a majority government, new polling suggests. The Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News found that 53 per cent of Canadians want the Liberals to form a majority, while 47 per cent are opposed to the idea.The support is starkly split between Liberal and Conservative voters, but 56 per cent of NDP voters also said they would prefer the Liberals to win enough of the three byelections being held Monday to form a majority.Two of the three byelections…

MONACO, April 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AlphaPepe Stage 12 is nearing sell out and the next stage brings another price increase. Capital is entering at a pace that draws direct comparisons to the earliest days of meme coins that went on to deliver life-changing returns to early participants. The crypto news around AlphaPepe is building ahead of a planned Q2 2026 exchange listing, stages are finalizing in days, and wallets are committing serious size as the XRP price prediction shifts toward $10 following a pivotal moment for the CLARITY Act that could redefine how digital assets are classified under…

NEW YORK, NY, April 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Nonprofit organizations are facing increasing financial complexity as they manage multiple funding sources, grant requirements, and distributed teams. As a result, finance leaders are re-evaluating how they approach budgeting, reporting, and financial oversight, driving demand for modern nonprofit budgeting software that replaces spreadsheets with structured, collaborative systems. Today’s nonprofit finance teams must manage restricted and unrestricted funds, multi-department budgets, grant compliance, and board-level reporting requirements—often within the same financial framework. Traditional spreadsheet-based workflows struggle to scale under this complexity, leading to errors, inefficiencies, and limited visibility across the organization. _____ Key…

Federal Liberals voted in favour of setting 16 as the age of majority for Canadians to be able to use social media accounts. Party grassroots passed a non-binding resolution Saturday morning for the restriction and to place the onus on social media companies to enforce it.Quebec MP Rachel Bendayan, who presented the idea to her caucus and championed it at the convention, said prolonged social media use can be harmful to the mental health of young Canadians.She said social media companies need to be more accountable and stop allowing young children to use technologies designed to be addictive.Bendayan also said…