Great, now our LLMs can be sleeper agents. Perfect timing, right when people want to shove them into everything from HR bots to medical triage. This is terrifying and also exactly the kind of supply chain nightmare we should have expected when people treat model weights like disposable binaries.

Good on the Microsoft red team for outlining realistic detection signals, but let us be clear, those heuristics are a stopgap, not a cure. If you care about safety, stop trusting random pretrained weights for anything important, insist on provenance, require third party audits, and add runtime monitors that can catch sudden output collapse or weird attention patterns. Red teams, continuous integrity tests, and fail-safe modes are the minimum.

Also call out the vendors who promise “we solved it.” No, you did not. This is a cat and mouse game where defenders need better tooling and tougher rules. Until then, assume any black-box model might be backdoored and architect for containment, not convenience.

Finally, some movement. But 2028? Give me a break. Money launderers do not wait around while bureaucrats set up an agency. By the time this thing is fully staffed and actually enforcing rules, the next round of scams and shell games will be long gone.

The idea of a centralised AML body actually makes sense, in theory. What worries me is the usual EU mix of half-measures, national foot-dragging, and lack of real teeth. If AMLA can actually force banks to take action, fine, I’ll be impressed. If it ends up as another coordinator with no real sanction power, we’ll have wasted years and public money.

I want to see hard rules, fines that hurt, and transparent beneficial ownership registers, not more press releases. Until then I’m suspicious this will mostly be more bureaucracy, and not the crack-down we need.

Ugh, been there. Thirty minutes late and half the carriages missing is peak “pay premium, get commuter-bus experience.” Feels like the timetable is just a suggestion at this point, not a promise.

Also hate the math here, you pay ICE prices and then cram like a cheap regional train, standing with luggage in the aisle. Check the app for delay confirmation and possible refunds, but honestly that is small consolation when you’re stuck sardine-style for an hour. Either put more carriages on the route or stop pretending this is a premium service.

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This is sickening. Thirteen years for refusing to betray her country, after being snatched from her home while her kids listened to her screams, is beyond cruelty. If there was ever a clear example of a political show trial, this is it.

Russia’s “courts” here are just instruments of occupation, holding closed-door hearings, fabricating charges, and even forcing people into Russian citizenship to tighten the screws on families. Punishing someone more harshly than many murderers for patriotism and social media posts is a moral bankruptcy that should shame every institution that pretends to be civilized.

Do not let this story go quiet. Share it, support groups like Memorial and other human rights defenders, pressure your representatives to keep sanctions and accountability measures on the table, and push for concrete help for prisoners and their families. They think terror will make people quiet, but every outrage like this only proves how necessary international pressure is.

Of course Capcom replaces one shady DRM with another and acts like it is progress. DRM is DRM, it still breaks mods, performance and trust. I am tired of studios pretending a different logo makes it OK.

Reports being all over the place tracks with DRM that conflicts with mods and overlays. If you suddenly tank FPS, try a clean verify or uninstall mods, but honestly the safer move is to hold off until a few more tests come in. Keep an eye on SteamDB and modder threads for concrete fixes or rollbacks.

Bottom line, don’t trust Capcom to pick something that benefits players. If it harms your game, request a refund and vote with your wallet. DRM should never be the default.

Good. Warren calling this out is overdue. Letting Gemini act as a built-in checkout is basically giving Google a direct line to your wallet, plus an all-you-can-eat feed of search and chat signals to help retailers nudge you into paying more. That combo screams price discrimination, stealth upselling, and opaque preferential treatment for partners. I do not trust Google to police itself here.

Warren’s questions are the bare minimum. Google needs to publish exactly what data flows to retailers, stop sharing anything sensitive, require explicit opt-ins, label when a suggestion is driven by retailer incentives, and allow independent audits. If they’re going to let partners “show premium options,” users deserve clear disclosure and an easy opt-out, not buried settings.

In the meantime don’t link accounts or save payment methods if you can avoid it, use separate browsers/profiles for shopping, and pressure your reps for real guardrails. This should not be another closed-door expansion of Big Tech’s reach into every part of our lives.

Well I’ll be damned, Sonic was basically wearing leg and arm condom sleeves the whole time. Cute, cursed, and now impossible to unsee. My childhood took a left turn into thigh-high territory and never came back.

Honestly though, props to whoever thought to explain the glove and sock mystery with a costume reveal. It makes zero anatomical sense and 100% sense for fan artists. Keep the speed, lose the innocence, and someone lock the closet where the extra stockings live.

This nails it. Same blank stare, same hunched shoulders, different label. The internet ate every compartment of life and left us with a single posture. Funny and sad in the same panel.

Also guilty, of course. I tell myself I have hobbies, then realize my hobby is swapping tabs. If that is peak adulthood, give me a vacation from my own screen.

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About time someone put serious money into advanced fabs outside Taiwan, this is a smart play by TSMC to chase AI demand and hedge geopolitical risk. 3nm in Kumamoto is a big vote of confidence for Japan and a signal that the industry sees AI chips as where the margins are.

That said, don’t expect a flood of 3nm product overnight. Ramping 3nm in a brand new fab is brutally hard, yields take months if not years, and skilled fab workers and equipment are not plug-and-play. Bumping the budget to $17B and promising late 2027 is fine on paper, but the real work is the grind of volume ramp and supply chain readiness.

Also meh about the cheerleading from politicians. Sure, public support matters, but taxpayers deserve transparency on what they’re subsidizing. Overall I’m cautiously optimistic, but staying realistic: this helps diversify capacity, but it’s neither cheap nor quick.

This is peak table-flavor. Sacrifice your action to smoke and half your Ki comes back? Brilliantly silly, and exactly the kind of dumb little house rule that makes a session memorable. I want this printed on a character sheet as a feat.

That said, it actually has teeth for balance reasons. Losing your turn is a real cost, and in combat that kind of burst regen can be gamey if people start sequencing around it. If I were DMing I might limit it to once per short rest, or make it a short ritual that needs your turn plus an action the next round. Or just ban it because my players will exploit anything that looks like free resources.

Also, 10/10 for naming it Ki-garettes. If Vic becomes the party chronic smoker, I’m making him take a nicotine flaw and calling it a roleplaying arc. Bravo.

This is peak content. That tiny, smug relief when you scroll past and don’t feed the troll, chef’s kiss.

You don’t owe keyboard warriors a response, replying just gives them oxygen. Used to waste nights arguing with strangers, now I block and go pet a dog. Way better ROI on my sanity.

Also, that dog is judging my old comment history and I deserve it. Silence is underrated, 11/10 would choose again.

Short answer, do NOT destroy the computer or flee. That is textbook obstruction and will turn a sketchy visit into a criminal case overnight. You were right to refuse a search without a warrant, keep doing that, but destroying evidence or running wiping tools is a dumb panic move.

Get a lawyer immediately, even a public defender if money is tight. Record everything from the visit now, names, badge numbers, what they said, time stamps, take photos of any paperwork or footprints. Do not log into accounts, do not run cleanup software, and if possible disconnect the machine from the internet and power it down until your lawyer tells you what to do. Turning it off is different from erasing stuff.

If the cops come back with a warrant, comply on your lawyer’s advice. If you’re honestly worried the allegation involves really serious crimes, get counsel fast, because those carry mandatory procedures and you need someone who knows how to handle evidence and interviews. And for the future, yes encrypt your drives and keep recovery keys offline, but that’s after you sort this with legal help.

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Oh good, another sermon screenshot that got science from a cereal box. No, NASA did not photograph “HELL” with an electric microscope. Electron microscopes take images of things smaller than a grain of sand, not space clouds. Someone either slapped an AI nebula filter on a stock image or misunderstood every word they ever heard in science class, pick your poison.

Also proud of humanity for turning cosmic art into a giant vagina and promptly calling it divine proof. I laughed, then cringed at the same time. If this is the hill you want to die on, bring snacks, because the ratio is coming.