Belka Games

VC Gem Capital Targets Veteran Founders and Indies

VC firm Gem Capital said it is seeking founders with proven track records, first movers and high-potential independent studios for its next investments. Gem recently benefited from Sensor Tower’s acquisition of AppMagic and cited that first-mover thesis when backing alternatives such as Skich, which later signed a payments deal with Xsolla to offer a flat 15% commission. Gem joined a Play Ventures-led $3.6m seed round for Studio 42, a Cyprus-based mobile studio founded by former Belka Games leaders. Gem’s co-managing director Kirill Gurskiy said the firm increasingly backs teams pre-launch if founders have relevant prior success and expects stronger evidence of revenue durability as UA costs rise. Indies operating on lower budgets, such as Odd Meter (maker of Indika), also remain of interest.

Thirdlove Launches Reusable Silicone Nipple Covers

Thirdlove announced a product launch of reusable silicone nipple covers as it expands its intimates assortment. The covers come in three shades and two sizes (A–D and DD+), are designed for about 15 wears, retail for $29, and feature perforations for breathability. The SKUs took roughly three years to develop and will be sold via Thirdlove’s website, physical stores, wholesale partners and TikTok Shop. The move follows consumer demand surfaced through Thirdlove’s Fitting Room quiz and aims to address outfit moments (backless, deep-V) not served by existing bras. The company is also expanding activewear and highlighted recent product performance: the 2025 TempSync collection generated $1 million in its first six weeks, wireless bra sales are up double digits year-over-year, and the Minimizer Bra has driven higher-than-normal new-customer adoption. Thirdlove sells through its own stores in California and wholesale partners including Nordstrom, Amazon, Kohl’s and Belk.

Kubernetes Default Service Account Overuse Creates Security Risk

A technical report published on 2026-06-04 warns that widespread reliance on Kubernetes default service accounts has created a systemic security vulnerability. The author found that 60% of workloads in a two-year-old cluster still use the default service account, which can inherit cluster-scoped API access and legacy RBAC roles. A security audit flagged 40 critical deployments needing remediation. Key issues are lack of per-workload API auditing, fragmented identity practices (some workloads use IAM role annotations while most rely on defaults), and undocumented permission dependencies that make retrofitting risky. The article outlines mitigation steps: forensic permission-mapping, incremental decoupling with least-privilege service accounts, standardizing IAM role annotations, enabling Kubernetes audit logging, and handling legacy edge cases via isolation and documented exceptions.