Any ambulance chaser will make short work of that slimeball move.
If anything, the stunt will make things worse.
How droll.

Netlfix raising prices. Disney+ raising prices, introducing ads. Amazon Prime raising prices, introducing ads.
My VPN costs me $70 for 40 months and torrenting costs me nothing, with no ads to watch.
It was easy to quit Netlfix after the last hike.
Cutting Disney and Prime loose will be just as easy.

With cable TV we called it cord-cutting.
Now it's stream-cutting. That sure didn't take long.

The difference between man and ape is less than a 1.2% variation in DNA material.
Also "not complete, but close".
But that difference gave us Einstein, Bach, Rembrandt, Escher, Steve Jobs, Terry Fox, and so on.

Credential stuffing was born after developers started storing passwords in plain text.
Man... who'd be dumb enough to do something so stupid?
Make anything other than 1 way hash password storage a felony, watch credential stuffing die off.

What does Sony know that the rest of the tech world doesn't know?
This past October, less than 3 months ago, Sony announced thusly:

" ...the PS5 shortage might end in 2024 if everything goes according to plan. "

And what has changed in the last 90 days?
Nothing.
The pandemic is still in full swing in many parts of the world.
The chip shortage is ongoing, no better, no worse.

A quick look around at retailer websites shows zero stock of the PS5.

The reality is this was a completely bogus announcement during their CES presentation.
The fact that they sandwiched it between playful announcements of other ingenious upcoming pie-in-the-sky product launches tells me Sony knew it was bogus and announced it anyway, to appease shareholders and give tech bloggers more Sony and PS5 fodder.

Meanwhile, Microsoft's Xbox Series X 1TB Console is flying off the shelves and seems to have a bottomless supply.
Victory loves preparation.

Sam Bankman-Fried: "I'm broke."
Court: "We're setting your bail at $250million."
Sam Bankman-Fried: "No problemo."

What I don't understand is, with billions obviously tucked away somewhere, why didn't this guy get his ass to a "no extradition treaty" country?
There's dozens of them, some really nice ones too, with very high standards of living.
Surely those should appeal to him far more than, say... Leavenworth or Sing Sing.

Not very bright, this guy...

Hard to believe that website and software developers still code their shit and design databases to store passwords in plain text.
That's the only way stuffing vulnerabilities like this even exist.
Seriously. Who the fuck still writes stuff that horrible?

It should be an indictable/felony offence to store a password in anything other than a super-strong 1 way hash. Bloody hell.

If I'm Putin, I'm declaring Edward Snowden the Russian Ambassador to the United States of America.
And the Russian representative at the UN.

The look on Biden's face when it's announced... priceless...

FYI, "2022-11 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5020044)" is listed in windows update, but not listed as a "preview".

They didn't single out China.

They mentioned "Hackers linked to China and other governments", and went on to mention "they have observed hacking groups linked to China and Iran" and further on mentioned North Korea and Turkey. These are their "observations", not their "conjectures" or "speculation".

The countries they mentioned are among the most despotic in the world, famous for not only this type of deplorable activity but also for some of the most serious and chronic human rights violations in the history of this planet, including ethnic cleansing resulting in thousands of deaths.

Should these countries be mentioned by name? Damn straight.
Should China have been mentioned? Oh hell yes.
Despite not being singled out, should/could they have been singled out? Absolutely.

I've come to limit my involvement with Intel products to CPUs, and of course any other equipment I might own that inadvertently contains Intel components unbeknownst to me. This was a direct result of their forage into cable modem components, and firmware, namely Puma. It was such a shitshow for so long, and for many continues to be. Just a plain buggy, bad piece of firmware that they hummed and hawed about for several years before announcing fixes, no doubt in response to the Puma class action suits presently in various stages of litigation and/or certification.

Am I going to trust their drivers? No.
Am I going to trust them to fix issues in a timely manner? NFW.

It's sort of like Singer starting to make motorcycles.
Love their sewing machines.
I think for a motorcycle I'd be inclined to go a different route.
For discrete video cards, I'll stick with NVidia and AMD.

That said, I wish both NVidia and AMD would do something to mitigate the absorption of 99.9% of their current product lines by the crypto-mining segment.

This is perhaps the most reprehensible behaviour ever shown by a hacker group. Just sickening. Quite frankly, it's exactly the sort of thing world powers need to see, so that they understand the severity of their gutless inaction on this type of activity. Twenty years ago hackers like this were celebrated with parades by their respective cultures for their hacker / cyber prowess.

This is exactly the type of event that can galvanize world powers. That so needs to happen. Programs to counter these groups need to be well-funded with billions and well-staffed with both powerfully skilled investigators (read: white hat hackers) and government intelligence. Countries need to begin treating this behaviour as terrorist activity. The culprits are absolutely terrorists. They need to be hunted down and disappeared permanently into the most awful prison systems we can find on this planet.

Absolutely agree. You cannot negotiate with terrorists, and that's what these people are - terrorists.
Paying out the ransom does nothing to tighten IT security, it gives the company an out, let's them sweep their IT ineptitude and lack of proper security under the rug.
It should be illegal to pay them, illegal to not report all of it, and even more illegal not to prevent it in the future.
If it happens twice to the same company they should either be nationalized or shut down permanently.

"Former U.S. President Donald Trump called the new coronavirus "the China virus" and other monikers, raising concern he was using the names as a political weapon to shift blame to a rival nation."

Seriously...

Trump called it "the China virus" to shift blame to the nation that originated the virus. China. So... "the China virus" - nothing vernacular or dishonest about that. Entirely accurate.

The "lettering" of variants are the machinations of bureaucrats eager to simplify the delivery of FUD.
They're going to beat this thing to death for years.

Speaking of Canada, Sidewalk is not an option here yet.