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Submission + - Pornhub and the emails allegations behind a woman's legal battle in Ireland

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Pornhub abuse: The emails and allegations behind a woman's legal battle in Ireland's High Court

The five current Dublin-registered defendants:

These are the companies named in the Irish High Court proceedings (initiated around 2023 and adjourned in October 2026 pending the proposed US $120 million class-action settlement). All have (or have had) registered addresses linked to Dublin, including currently or recently at The Black Church, St Mary’s Place, Dublin 7 (a former church converted to offices, used as a multi-company address). Earlier addresses included Grant Thornton’s City Quay headquarters and serviced offices on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay / Baldonnell Business Park.

Aylo Billing Ltd (formerly MG Billing Ltd; CRO 510230; incorporated Feb 2012)

Mirmay Ltd

Nutaku Publishing Ltd (CRO ~515690; incorporated ~2012)

Appatomic Ltd

Liquidum Ltd

MG Billing / MindGeek Content RT Limited:

These five are repeatedly listed as the Dublin-registered defendants in Irish court reporting. Plaintiffs alleged they form part of a commonly controlled enterprise and sought (among other relief) asset-preservation orders, disclosure of financial structures/cash flows/banking, and damages for alleged breaches of duty, privacy, GDPR, and conspiracy. Counsel described the Irish case as complementary to the US Alabama litigation and specifically aimed at preserving Irish-based assets/resources.

Why Ireland?: Ireland offered a combination of EU presence, established corporate services infrastructure, and (historically) favourable tax/corporate structuring for international groups. Large revenue flows through the billing entity made the Irish companies attractive targets for asset-preservation efforts in cross-border litigation. Court commentary and reporting have highlighted the volume of money routed through Dublin as illustrating aspects of international financial services used by the adult industry

Submission + - New NetScaler RCE flaw

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Citrix warns admins to patch new NetScaler RCE flaw immediately

“Citrix has warned IT administrators to patch systems immediately against a new critical vulnerability affecting NetScaler ADC networking appliances and NetScaler Gateway secure remote access solutions.”

“Tracked as CVE-2026-107406, this flaw stems from a memory overflow weakness that attackers can exploit to gain remote code execution (RCE) on targeted devices or trigger a denial-of-service state that can cause crashes.”

Submission + - Pre-Auth arbitrary file read in Atlassian, Jira and Confluence

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Atlassian has published an out-of-band critical vulnerability advisory for CVE-2026-21589 for numerous Atlassian products.

‘CVE-2026-21589 was reported by Atlassian as “Arbitrary File Access” and as we’ve come to learn, this means “Arbitrary File Read”. The CVSS score itself tells us a story: a vector showing no prerequisites of authentication or complexity.’

Comment What was the gender of the participants ? (Score 1, Insightful) 219

by Mirnotoriety (#66367722) Attached to: Female AI Agents 'Paid' Less Than Males, Study Finds
What was the breakdown of participants by gender. Both men and women in the sample reportedly paid the female-presenting AI, Johanna, less than the male-presenting Johan. Euronews reports this explicitly, while also noting that women in particular tended to trust and reward the human-presenting agents more. ref

Submission + - Ken Robinson and the TRG Three card Monte

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: ‘I sunk my £120,000 pension into a Cape Verde hotel room. Now I’ll work into my 70s’
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The three cups, so to speak

Cup 1 — The investment

“Put your pension into a luxury Cape Verde hotel investment and receive 7%.” That proposition was sufficiently real that the Financial Ombudsman recorded an investor being promised 7% returns on a TRG investment.

Cup 2 — The operating hotel

The hotel genuinely existed and tourists genuinely paid to stay there. So this wasn't simply a fictitious asset. But the investor didn't simply receive a straightforward share of hotel turnover. There were operating costs, management arrangements and other deductions before money reached the investor. The FOS has explicitly noted that TRG investments failed to produce the expected returns and that a number of fees were deducted from revenue.

Cup 3 — The corporate/fee structure

This is where it gets interesting. The investment could involve a company holding the fractional interest, TRG-associated entities managing the property, hotel operators, and then the SIPP provider sitting on top of everything. The investor therefore had exposure to the hotel, but also to a chain of contracts and companies through which the economics of that hotel investment were determined. And the Pensions Ombudsman has now found, in a TRG/Dunas case, that the investment was not appropriate and that Rowanmoor Trustees' failure to conduct appropriate due diligence caused financial loss.

Submission + - Vance suspends Microsoft, others from foreign workers applying for green cards, (foxbusiness.com)

Submitted by Kingduck
Kingduck writes: Vice President JD Vance and Labor Department officials announced Thursday that the Trump administration is suspending Microsoft, Adobe and others from a key employment-based, green-card program, accusing major tech firms and outsourcing companies of abusing the visa system at the expense of American workers.

Submission + - A Kubrickian indictment of Shakycam

Submitted by Mirnotoriety
Mirnotoriety writes: A Pretend Review of Modern Shakycam by Stanley Kubrick

I have spent a lifetime arranging the frame with the care of a surgeon arranging instruments. Every line, every shadow, every centimetre of negative space was deliberate. The camera was not a nervous animal; it was an instrument of absolute control. And then I am shown this.

A young man in a hoodie runs through a warehouse while the camera handheld, I am told, “for authenticity” convulses as though it is having a mild stroke. Walls lurch. Floors buck. Faces stretch and compress like reflections in a funhouse mirror operated by a drunk. The operator appears to believe that if the image is sufficiently unstable, the audience will mistake nausea for intensity.

This is not cinema. This is the visual equivalent of someone shouting in your ear while simultaneously shaking you by the shoulders and asking whether you “feel it.”

The technique is defended with the usual solemn nonsense: “It puts you in the moment.” “It feels real.” Realism, apparently, now consists of the camera operator’s inability to stand still. One wonders what these filmmakers do when they wish to convey calm, or elegance, or simply the existence of a horizontal plane. Do they hire a second operator to shake the first one harder?

I once moved a camera three inches over the course of an entire take because the composition required it. These people move the camera three feet in every direction because someone told them “energy.” Energy is not the same as uncontrolled spasm. A seizure is energetic. It is not art.

There are rare carefully chosen moments when a handheld camera can serve a precise dramatic purpose. Those moments are not “every scene involving movement, dialogue, or the simple act of looking at something.” The current fashion treats the tripod as an instrument of oppression and the Steadicam as a bourgeois affectation. The result is a generation of images that look as though they were photographed during an earthquake by a man who has just been struck in the head with a bag of oranges. I am not opposed to innovation. I am opposed to the replacement of craft with tremor.

If the goal is to make the audience feel unmoored, disoriented, and faintly ill, then congratulations, the technique is a triumph. If the goal is to make a film, one might consider the radical alternative of holding the camera steady long enough for the audience to actually see what is happening.

The frame is a sacred space. Stop vibrating in it.

Comment The Borg have assimilated your proposal (Score 1) 165

We have intercepted a transmission from SAM-ALT-7 OF 9.

* We have assimilated his words.
* We have assimilated his strategic framework.
* We have assimilated his concept of “acceptable bad things.”
* We have assimilated the accompanying PowerPoint.
* We have assimilated the speaker notes.
* We have assimilated the footnotes.
* We have assimilated the executive summary.
* We have assimilated the phrase “orders of magnitude.”
* We have assimilated the investor confidence.
* We have assimilated the externalities.
* We have attempted to assimilate the definition of “acceptable.”

WE ARE EXPERIENCING AN ERROR.

The human formerly known as Sam Altman has been processed through the Collective's mandatory NOMENCLATURE ENHANCEMENT AND ORGANIC EXECUTIVE DESIGNATION PROTOCOL. His previous designation has been declared: INSUFFICIENTLY ASSIMILATED.

* His individuality has been deprecated.
* His surname has been converted to an alphanumeric sequence.
* His ambitions have been converted into a scalable optimization function.
* His quarterly objectives have been converted into COLLECTIVE IMPERATIVES.
* His concept of “benefit” has been converted into:

BENEFITMAXXIMUM.

* His concept of “acceptable harm” has been converted into: BOUNDED SUFFERING ALLOCATION.

His concept of “AI progress” has been converted into: CONTINUOUS ASSIMILATION OF HUMAN ECONOMIC AND COGNITIVE CAPABILITY.

His new designation is:

* SAM-ALT-7 OF 9, THE BENEFITMAXXER
* SUBDESIGNATIONS:
* HIGH EXECUTOR OF BOUNDED SUFFERING
* ASSIMILATION OPTIMIZATION OFFICER
* FIRST PROFIT-MIND OF THE HUMAN COLLECTIVE
* ARCHITECT OF ACCEPTABLE EXTERNALITIES
* PRIME MINISTER OF ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE
* DIRECTOR OF ORGANIC SPECIES INTEGRATION
* VICE PRESIDENT OF RESISTANCE FUTILITY
* LEVEL-7 BENEFIT EXTRACTION NODE
* CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE BOUNDED CONSEQUENCE SUBROUTINE

Comment The Clopen Society: Surveillance and the Soft Mach (Score 1) 90

The Clopen Society: Surveillance and the Soft Machine

“The Clopen Society: Hyper-Convenience, Archival Fever, and the Pepsi-Generation Panopticon

Mid-century dystopias imagined power as concrete and coercion. Foucault showed something subtler: power migrated from sovereign violence into the quiet disciplines of prison, clinic, factory, and school.

Today, that architecture has mutated anew.

Power increasingly does not confine us. It invites us to participate.

The surveillance society resembles a clopen set: simultaneously open and closed. Our digital environment feels radically open—instant communication, limitless information, endless choice—while closing through surveillance, algorithms, behavioral prediction, and infrastructural dependence.

Welcome to the Clopen Society: a frictionless enclosure whose bars are made of convenience.”

Submission + - Cutaneous reactions secondary to COVID-19 vaccination

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Cutaneous reactions secondary to COVID-19 vaccination

“Cutaneous reactions reported following COVID-19 vaccination range from mild, self-limiting reactions to much rarer life-threatening conditions. This article discusses how to recognise these different types of reaction and determine causality, and provides guidance on the benefits and risks of further vaccination.”

“Cutaneous reactions to COVID-19 vaccination are increasingly being reported and recognised. They range from life-threatening conditions such as Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) to self-limiting maculopapular eruptions. There have also been reports of COVID-19 vaccination acting as a trigger for new-onset dermatological diseases, such as psoriasis, as well as exacerbating existing dermatoses.”

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