New: A federal court has jailed a Florida man for helping a notorious ransomware gang extort U.S. companies while working for a cyber company as a *ransomware negotiator*. He's the third security person to be jailed for this (batshit) extortion scheme. (Bypass for ad-blockers: archive.is/lDVxf)

Among the layoffs was character artist Christiane Meister — a 27-year veteran of Bethesda and (as far as I can tell) one of the longest tenured women in games, period. She worked on Argonians + Khajiit in TES3, horses in TES4 and TES5, Fallout creatures, and more. (cont'd)

This is an evil corporation. There’s no other way to view this information. “Despite mandatory reporting requirements to share information like a user's IP address when CSAM is flagged, xAl repeatedly refused to help cops or NCMEC identify the user, the complaint alleged.”

Everyone responsible for this needs to be nuked from orbit.

In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.

New President of FIFA

europe logging into social media today

the world needed this

MS laying off half the Elder Scrolls Online team is really stupid. It’s been a super successful title for them. Sigh.

lol

AI isn't 'inevitable'. Banning and resisting it isn't 'going against the tide'. We can reject this narrative and determine our own future. But it will be a fight, and it will take greater tech literacy. Which tools are bad and which are not? Who are the bad actors? Which politicians are fighting?

Dominos sent this out, lol

XBOX new business plan leaked

If major US banks can't afford staff GenAI usage already - these organisations have deep deep deep pockets - good luck to organisations that haven't upgraded from Windows 7 yet. Which is a lot of organisations.

The video games corporation is discontinuing their popular product, the video game

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

I'll update this thread in two years when I find Master-List-of-Spies.pdf on Scribd dot com

Microsoft's Xbox showcase was a month ago and showcased all these new games and got people excited... and now they're like "sike, gonna fire everybody lol"

Tech exec addiction to AI hype is eating everything. Including Earth. People don’t want this shit. PCs, games consoles and everything else is becoming unaffordable because of it. That isn’t productivity gains. Generative AI isn’t inevitable. It’s not a genie in a bottle. It’s fucking stupid.

Peak Scotland

Preordered GTA 6 after a quick trip to New Zealand, it’s in my gaming library and ready for preload. New Zealand version unlocks a day early in the UK.. if you could somehow travel between time zones quickly. 🤔 Now to take the time off work 🫡

New, by me: Klue says hackers used a credential from a 2022 pilot that allowed the recent mass-theft of customers' data. Lots of unknowns, but raises questions about how long the credential was active & what could've been done to mitigate. Bypass for ad-block users: web.archive.org/web/20260623...

It’s not copyright theft as an AI company stole it.

Happy 30th anniversary to Quake ᵕ̈

buy magic AI boxes to fight magic AI - Five Eyes, being taken over by security vendors.

In a new privacy policy, Anthropic says Claude will soon require you to upload your driver's license or passport for a variety of reasons. The ID checker is Persona, a firm funded by Trump ally Peter Thiel. As a U.S. company, Persona is also subject to gov't demands for people's verification data. 👀

last day you can use this

Keir Starmer has resigned to take up news position as a speaker about GenAI blockchain solutions at Lumon Industries.

Which will last longer, Keir Starmer vs Chicken Nando’s

With the newly released AI warning for Steam v1.1.0 you can turn the AI disclosure on Steam store pages into an unmissable popup and blur or hide games with an AI disclosure in the search results! github.com/seeeeew/aiwa... addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addo... chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-wa...

UK politics explained

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

Few things sum up how dumb the YouTube fair use claim process is than "the claimant decided their claim is valid."

BBC News and YouTube live feed thumbnails fail in action

this blog features a Mortal Kombat TOASTY image, me saying bum and IOCs including a Fortigate IP address 🫡 doublepulsar.com/an-update-on...

Fortinet Fortigate firewall admins - another dumpster truck for ye doublepulsar.com/fortibleed-7...

BGP

A UK police officer is under investigation for allegedly perverting the course of justice by using GenAI to generate evidence in cases www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

another faked report about GenAI adoption from a major company profiting from it cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog...

Microsoft's guide to storing confidential information - stick it in a public bucket (again). cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog...

Bummed by this OpenAI report. It's Spamouflage. It's not new and it's not impactful. If I was cynical, which I'm not, I'd say this report was just meant to stir up anti-China sentiment. openai.com/index/prc-li...

30 min Fable gameplay demo, looks really, really good. My only complaint is the player didn't kick the chicken. www.youtube.com/watch?v=doV0...

I'm reading 'On Writing Well' by William Zinsser and found this nugget of fantastic writing from many years ago in The New Yorker about 'property developer' Donald Trump.

REUTERS - Billie Piper to be next British Prime Minister

In the course of today, His Majesty’s Government will do both of the following things: - moan loudly about X and blame it for the grotesque scenes in Belfast; - create huge amounts of content for X to monetise To govern is to choose.