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Does kind of suck having someone pull the rug out from under you and an overall positive you were trying to do for the community so they can get a quick payday… but getting scooped like this happens in life. Assholes are gonna asshole, because “if they don’t do it, somebody else will”.

And sure this is the last discovered hypervisor bug, but in a software as complicated as the PS5 firmware, you’re gonna find more eventually, especially if/when they add features.

Nobody thought a software bug was ever gonna be found in the XB360, and now we have BadUpdate taking literally seconds to exploit your console from a USB - I mean it did take 20 something years for the right person to come along and try it, but the point is it’ll happen eventually.

Otake’s mother was seen in tears, saying, “My daughter is not coming back”.

I feel so sorry for their family. Imagine losing your child because their employer didn’t want to risk losing a single day’s sales

A sales manager reflected on the incident, saying, “Looking back, the sales proceeds were not worth a human life”.

The company’s director was also quoted saying: “This is a matter of profound sorrow, and I offer my deepest apologies to the bereaved family.”

It’s easy to say all this in retrospect. Two families lost their children because of this, no amount of retrospective analysis and apologies can make them come back.

If the company truly cared for the human lives they needlessly destroyed, they’d have never sent them back into harm’s way.

The Steam Machine itself is just a very fancy prebuilt PC - so while it is your preference, there’s no reason a similar spec prebuilt wouldn’t work too

The pardon was sought by her grandchildren, who have long fought to reduce her conviction because the repeated sexual, emotional and physical abuse Ellis endured was not considered during the trial or afterward, when she could have been granted a reprieve from the death penalty.

“Justice has finally been done,” Laura Enston, a granddaughter, said in a statement. “This pardon does not undo what happened 71 years ago. It does not restore the lives that were broken — the children left behind, the years lost. But it says, formally and finally, that Ruth should not have been executed; that the justice system failed her. That acknowledgment matters profoundly to our family.”

While from the outside this feels like little more than a token gesture, it at least seems to have brought closure to her surviving grandchildren - to have this failure by the justice system acknowledged and apologised for in a official and public capacity.

Wow, today I learned. That’s a rather interesting story.

A bit of a sad ending, but a perfect example of why we can’t have nice things - someone will always find a way to abuse it.

Google lost their “Don’t be Evil” compass a long time ago, round about the time they started universal mass surveillance of their users back in 2012. The fact that they kept stooping lower from there doesn’t surprise me all that much.

So encourage children towards what they appear to be good at, rather than pushing them all towards academia and shaming those who don’t choose that path?

Seems like an obvious conclusion to me, but the UK Government rarely cones to the obvious conclusion.

Never played Pokémon Go myself, partly because it felt weirdly invasive - and now I’m kinda glad to know I was somewhat justified

Exactly what I was thinking. The US is literally renowned for slavery-esque prison labour, yet Trump is the one trying to put an anti-slavery tariff on other countries?

I sincerely hope other countries do call the fake-tanned paedophile out on yet another tariff related grift.

Was about to say exactly this. Didn’t realise Donny still had any sense left to give. If only he could have such a moment of clarity about himself

Good on Starmer for having just a bit of integrity not getting us involved such a stupid fight.

Seems even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Was about to say, pot calling the kettle black much?

Hell fucking no. My car definitely won’t be having 300GB of RAM in it - the only automata driving will be me

Do we need to remind people that LLMs don’t actually have a brain, and really, really shouldn’t be in charge of anything with real life implications?

They aren’t actually doing a cost-benefit analysis on the use of Nuclear weapons. They’re not weighing up the cost of winning vs. the casualties. They’re literally not made for that.

They are trained to know words, and how those words link in with other words. They’re essentially like kids doing escalation of imaginary weapons, and to them nuclear bombs are just a weapon particularly associated with being strong and deadly.

You mean to tell me that all these years of the UK Gov refusing to increasing the NHS’s budget to match inflation - in effect cutting their budget - has resulted in worse care outcomes, as it incentivises shorting on staff and cutting corners to meet targets?

Writing rules and procedures can’t get you out of a problem caused by said rules and procedures not being followed due to external pressures.

The UK Gov loves to fixate on dealing with symptoms rather than the actual problems behind them, then goes all Surprised Pikachu when their “fixes” don’t work. It’s been the same routine for decades now.

That’s gotta be a joke right?

The US Government is quite literally sending bloodthirsty hounds against their own people, and dragging innocent tourists off to detention centres for no reason, yet the UK is rated worse due to the couple of terror attacks we’ve had over the last year??

I think I know where I’d rather take my chances as a tourist. Yikes.

So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? A possible answer began to emerge over the weeks she was incarcerated. As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” Karen says.

It’s no secret that the Trump administration has been pouring money into ICE. Its annual budget – $6bn a decade ago – is now $85bn; ICE is now the highest -funded law enforcement agency in the US. Since last August, new recruits can expect to receive a signing-on bonus of up to $50,000. Karen’s experience has left her convinced that ICE agents are being given even more incentives – to arrest and detain anyone they possibly can, even blameless tourists who have all the paperwork they need to be in the US.

Knew they had sign-up bonuses, but had no idea that ICE agents were also given a bonus for locking people up - that’s an absolutely perverse incentive for a job that should be as objective as possible.

No wonder innocent people are getting dragged off to detention centres (or worse), it literally pays for them to shoot now and ask questions later.

Also, the US government has $80 billion to throw at bloodthirsty hounds, but had to send DOGE to scrounge through various agencies to find a few billion? Something doesn’t quite add up there, almost like the incentive wasn’t finding money.

Yeah. I think this is the likely answer.

Amongst the sheer number of initiatives and councils being pulled out of, concerningly many of them relate to the enforcement of international law, and to human rights in general.

If the US was planning on violating international law (again) anytime soon, this would certainly be a good indicator for it.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see Donny J make good on his threats. Question is how will that play out when both parties have nukes and might be willing to use them.

Looks like the US is intent on starting this year with a bang.

The list is HUGE and spans across so many agencies and so many disciplines it’s absurd.

I mean FFS does Donny J actually mean to tell us that the “Science and Technology Center in Ukraine” runs contrary to US interests?

If that’s actually true - that doesn’t spell good things for the US’s future intentions for Ukraine.

Also a few of these are rather telling of the current trajectory of the US’s policies:

• Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals, and Sustainable Development;

• Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services;

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

• International Renewable Energy Agency;

• International Union for Conservation of Nature;

• UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries;

For starters this is a metric fuck tonne of environmental initiatives to pull out of, and shows the Republican-led US is going to be making a generational push towards screwing over the environment.

… And then some other notable initiatives:

• Freedom Online Coalition;

• Global Forum on Migration and Development;

• Global Counterterrorism Forum;

• International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property;

• International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance;

• International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law;

• UN International Law Commission;

• UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals;

• UN International Trade Centre;

• UN Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children in Armed Conflict; Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict; and Secretary-General on Violence Against Children;

• UN Democracy Fund;

• UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women;

It’s rather concerning how many of the councils the US is pulling out from relate to international law, upholding democracy, and to human rights in general.

An agreement with Russia isn’t worth the paper its written in. The Kremlin lies as easily as it breathes.