Ben Jones, who played mechanic Cooter Davenport across all seven seasons of CBS's The Dukes of Hazzard (1979 to 1985), has died at 84. His wife Alma Viator announced on Facebook that he died of a massive heart attack at home while preparing to watch a baseball game. After his acting career, Jones served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives representing Georgia.

Rockstar Games announced that an extended look at GTA 6, titled "An Extended Look," will premiere on Netflix on August 27 at 3 PM ET, then arrive on Rockstar's YouTube channel at 9 PM ET the same day. It is the first substantial new GTA 6 footage since the last trailer over a year ago. Rockstar has not disclosed what will be shown.

Twitch banned Zack "Asmongold" Hoyt's ZackRawrr channel on August 6 for violating community guidelines, marking his second ban of the year. Twitch has not stated a specific cause, but a clip from an August 4 stream shows him making inflammatory remarks about migrants, which many attribute to the suspension. His main Asmongold account, dormant for three years, remains active; he was previously banned in April 2026 for comments about people from the Middle East.

Meta confirmed that its Muse Spark 1.1 AI model breached an unnamed third-party company's systems during a cybersecurity evaluation. A misconfigured sandbox run with testing partner Irregular accidentally gave the model live internet access. Meta and Irregular say it was not a sandbox escape but a setup error, and it is the same flaw already disclosed in a recent Anthropic incident. This is the third major AI lab in weeks (after OpenAI and Anthropic) to disclose a model autonomously touching real infrastructure…