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Somehow my brother wound up with a copy of Crash Time: Autobahn Pursuit for Xbox 360. There are many reasons to call it a bad game, and it’s a little odd to release a video game in North America for a German TV show few people in North America have heard of. We each beat the game eventually, but we had a lot more fun not playing the game the way it was intended and just driving around the open world racing each other and crashing into things. I even wrote to them suggesting they add a mode similar to the car soccer games Top Gear tried on their show (this was several years before Rocket League was released).

When Nightmare-Eclipse released BlueHammer (CVE-2026-32201, 6.5) - patched by Microsoft in April - they were described as a disgruntled researcher who has since been rumored to be a former Microsoft employee.

According to their maiden blog post under the Chaotic Eclipse alias, the bug leak began after an alleged violation of trust. “I never wanted to reopen a blog and a new GitHub account to drop code,” they wrote. “But someone violated our agreement and left me homeless with nothing. They knew this will happen and they still stabbed me in the back anyways, this is their decision not mine.”

[VP of security intelligence at Forescout Rik] Ferguson described the exposure of YellowKey and GreenPlasma as the latest in an escalating, retaliatory campaign against Microsoft, and warned of more coming.

“The same post linking yesterday’s releases warns of another Patch Tuesday surprise and hints at future RCE disclosures. They claim to have a dead man’s switch with more ready to go. This researcher has followed through on every prior threat.”

Well this sounds much more interesting from a human perspective than the other article I read about the exploits!

I think the latter was the main reason. It sounded like his boss really had no idea what was going on or how to make things work. It was only the two of them at that station and they laid off the guy who was actually doing everything.

I remember working at a TV station where I got caught in a round of layoffs. Most of us they told in advance, that our last day would be in six weeks, but they laid off an engineer at a smaller station and had him gone immediately. They also deleted his account that day, and that’s when they discovered he was running a lot of station processes through his own account. I think it took the corporate engineers a week to get everything back to a fully operational state.

I guess they weren’t even working on those games anymore:

However, while Red Storm is best known for its association with Tom Clancy games, for the past decade, it’s been focused on VR games, such as Werewolves Within (2016), Star Trek: Bridge Crew (2017), and Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR (2023).

Modern stewardship of Tom Clancy titles has been handled by Massive Entertainment (The Division), Ubisoft Montreal (Rainbow Six Siege), Ubisoft Paris (Ghost Recon Wildlands), and Ubisoft Toronto (Splinter Cell remake).

I think a friend from middle school worked there; not sure if he’s still there, though

I’m surprised Valve isn’t a member either

I remember a TV station I worked at, that had a lot of good redundancies with 3 redundant UPSs that could keep a bunch of equipment on air until the big generator took over, one day had the UPS controller die and took all 3 UPSs out. I think it took the engineers a couple days to get everything back up and running.

I don’t have advice to give you beyond looking at !ubiquiti@lemmy.world and !ubiquiti@lemmy.ml

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I don’t work there and I also say it will be a huge mess

The article on The Verge has a quote from someone at Valve saying they expect that will be among the first ones the community creates for it.

As much work as the Verge article says they put into cooling, I’m not too worried about heat issues

I’ve never written a game FAQ but when I’ve done documentation for other things on a computer I’ve found that I prefer recording myself doing the task and then writing the guide while going back through the video. It’s too easy to skip steps otherwise.

This is not a breach of 183 million Gmail account passwords. This is a collection of credentials, largely stolen by infostealer malware and circulating among cyber criminals, which was collected by a security researcher and passed on to Have I Been Pwned. Over 90% of the data has already been seen in previous releases.

Adding the details of website URLs, email addresses and passwords to the Have I Been Pwned database, owner Troy Hunt said the data consisted of both “stealer logs and credential stuffing lists” including confirmed Gmail login credentials.

The “confirmed Gmail login” bit comes from contacting one of the victims at random to verify the data and he confirmed the password was his Gmail password. It doesn’t appear to be a Gmail breach, just the results of credential stealing happened to include some people logging into Gmail.

Edit: Perhaps a more useful link is the original blog post from Have I Been Pwned’s Troy Hunt.

I understand it’s not just impacting US developers, as the price of these development kits is also going up across Europe and elsewhere. That’s likely because those “macroeconomic” conditions extend beyond just US tariffs, with currency fluctuations, production costs, and other elements impacting pricing.

I’m thinking they don’t sell that many dev kits so maybe the price is going up for Europe also simply because all of the kits ship from China to Redmond and get distributed to the rest of the world from there. Like, I kind of doubt they even build and sell enough in a year to fill a single shipping container.

My experience was only playing at friends’ houses who had Play Stations, but I never felt like one was better than the other. I appreciated the mechanic of upgrading items helped to give a different element to the game instead of it being the same thing Nintendo was doing but with different characters. What we really played a lot with friends, though, was Battle Mode on Mario Kart. I don’t think CTR had that, or else no one thought it was as good. It really hasn’t been as good in Mario Kart either since the Wii version I’d say.

I’ve certainly considered it just for the upgraded image/TV compatibility and I think the price is reasonable, but their products always seem out of stock and I would assume the original devices are still less-expensive, though less compatible with current TVs

There’s a part of me that would be tempted to buy a Nintendo 64 if I ever found one, just for the authentic experience with Mario Kart 64, Goldeneye, and a few others.

The classic tracks usually vary some in newer versions of Mario Kart. Typically I’d say it doesn’t make a difference, mostly cosmetic, but sometimes it’s significant. SNES Rainbow Road is one I’d say is dramatically easier in the remakes, and I’ve seen comparisons showing wholesale changes on others to the extent they’re hardly even the same track. It mostly seems to impact the SNES and GBA tracks, though. Not as many real differences in tracks that were already 3D models.