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A game developer claims that the AI, Google Gemini, was able to access and reveal unreleased information about his game from his private Google Docs. Screenshots shared online suggest that Gemini provided specifics about a character named 'Vantage Tripod', which the developer had not yet publicly announced. The developer also noticed Gemini recalling accurate details about unreleased game mechanics that were only documented in Google Docs the previous day.

Google Maps is a widely-used navigation app, but it can sometimes hog significant storage space on devices with limited capacity. This storage overflow is due to a combination of factors: offline maps you've downloaded, location history data stored locally, and cached searches and map tiles. Here's how these culprits work and how to free up space.

President Donald Trump's administration is facing challenges in diplomacy across the Middle East as a result of ambassadorial positions remaining vacant. The ongoing Iran war is providing a real-time test of this approach, with the conflict having affected a dozen Middle Eastern countries that have normalized relations with the US.

Currently, only Egypt has an active nominee for an ambassadorship, while the remaining countries, excluding Israel, lack Senate-confirmed US ambassadors. Oman and Bahrain are the only Gulf states with serving US ambassadors, both of which were holdovers from President Joe Biden's time in office.

In South Korea, financial regulators recently approved investment products allowing leveraged access to the nation's two largest stocks, Samsung and SK Hynix. Designed to entice investors away from similar US products, these leveraged single-stock exchange-traded funds (ETFs) provided double the return of the underlying stocks. However, the timing was unfavorable, as both stocks experienced significant gains earlier in the year.

A Senate panel is scheduled to vote on Thursday regarding the potential contempt of Congress claim against Dr. Anthony Fauci and the referral of the case to the Justice Department for possible prosecution. Dr. Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination over 100 times during a Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing about his management of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Franco-Argentine tourist who visited France in July has been detected with hantavirus, prompting international concern, the French Health Ministry reported on Thursday. The patient, who exhibited minimal symptoms, is now in isolation in Spain. The ministry emphasized that comprehensive measures are in place to trace the patient's travel history.

Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) are implementing Ebola and cholera screening procedures for all 255 passengers on board the intercepted Yingfeng 2 boat, originating from the city of Kisangani. The vessel, operated by a Chinese company, was halted near Bende Bende port, situated 65km upstream from the capital, Kinshasa.

FIFA issued an apology on Wednesday for the mistakes surrounding Gianni Infantino's failed attempt to sell World Cup stakes, emphasizing that senior staff at a crisis meeting in Morocco had reaffirmed their full support for the embattled president. The statement admitted the process should have been handled differently and pledged to prevent such errors from recurring in the future.

Secretary-General Mattias Grafström's support was particularly notable, as he had distanced himself from Infantino's abandoned plans in an internal email. The FFE proposal, which aimed to create a commercial subsidiary for profits, was now off the table.