Yet, it's probably the only site to talk about it ...

It's shocking that they didn't manage to hide their IP addresses or use rented servers like others do.

50GB storage for an iPhone backup is $0.99 / mo. That's pretty cheap (for Apple).
Perhaps the real push for their storage service is a way to collect the data they desperately need to improve their AI.

Once translated by the compiler (thanks to the `U`) the `salmon` bytes are a bunch of UTF-32 mostly invisible chars that represent the text shown when run (each LSB of the 32-bits integers are the actual characters).

The rest of the code is pretty explicit when special invisible characters are shown in hexa after the added char `^` for clarity

#define grill^f3^a0^81^81 ;while(putchar(*salmon++))
#undef grill

#define ^f3^a0^81^81 grill^f3^a0^81^81
#undef grill

int main() {^f3^a0^81^81 ^f3^a0^81^81
for (int i = 1; i printf("%d * %d = %d\n", i, i, i*i);
}
}

The 2 `#undef` are useless.
The first `#define grillHEX code` (which HEX are not visible) defines the real running code.
The second `#define HEX grillHEX` defines HEX as being the running code above.
Finally the invisible HEX is expanded as

;while(putchar(*salmon++)) ;while(putchar(*salmon++)) for ( int i ... ) {}

Since `putchar()` only prints the LSB and returns its value, the first `while` prints the entire string "Season salmon fillets..." and stops on the byte zero.
The 2nd `while` reads a zero and stops immediately, thus not executing the `for ...` that follows.
Amazing work!

Why? Because of His obfuscated policies?

No wonder the Netherlands are in love with him.

...and any code embedded in it.

Whether it's a true backdoor or a political accusation, the situation itself is hardly surprising.

Hasn't that been the way Microsoft has worked since 1975?

They can. Not only will the AI have the same voice as the original actors, but it will also capture the right intonations. In addition, the AI modifies the on-screen mouth movements to perfect the dubbing.

People didn't know at the time.