It's an interesting dynamic where the ransomware groups have to be reliable and professional for their business model to work.
This is a bit of cliche, but still relevant to our current times:
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.
Antonio Gramsci (Italian Marxist philospher from the turn of the century)
Their subscription service costs $24 a month? This is madness.
I am guessing this because the processing is done in the cloud? But then why the $700 price for the "AI Pin" device; what exactly does it do justify a $700 cost if processing is done in the cloud?
Google had a privacy chief?
What exactly was he doing? Jacking off Pichai?
I wouldn't go as far as making a big deal out of it, but it is funny.
Until there are proper incentives for executives (e.g. full asset seizure and mandatory multi-year community service in roles such as junior janitor, junior hospice care specialist, live-in support for late stage alzheimer's patients) that require them to take ownership and responsibility for their actions (or lack of thereof), this will continue.
Just look at the 2017 Equifax breach in the US:
Wikipedia background:
An Equifax internal audit in 2015 showed that there was a large backlog of vulnerabilities to patch, that Equifax wasn't following its own timescales on patching them, that IT staff did not have a comprehensive asset inventory, that Equifax didn't consider how critical an IT asset was when prioritising patches, and that the patching process worked on an 'Honour system'. The report set out actions to improve the process, but the time of the breach, two years later, many of them had not been completed.
Equifax press release states that CIO and CSO can now enjoy retirement:
As part of the company's ongoing review of the cybersecurity incident announced September 7, 2017, Equifax Inc. (NYSE: EFX) today made personnel changes and released additional information regarding its preliminary findings about the incident.
The company announced that the Chief Information Officer and Chief Security Officer are retiring.
Richard Smith, the CEO under whose watch this happened, got to retire at the ripe old age of 57 and got a nice bonus of $90 M
Richard Smith, 57, is the third Equifax executive to retire under pressure following the company's massive data breach revealed earlier this month, putting the personal information of as many as 143 million people at risk.
But the CEO is still set to collect about $72 million this year alone (including nine months' worth of his $1,450,000 salary), plus another $17.9 million over the next few years. That's when the rest of Smith's stock compensation hits a few important milestones or "vests," allowing Smith to essentially put it in his bank account. Altogether, it adds up to a total potential paycheck of more than $90.1 million, according to Fortune's calculations based on Equifax securities filings.
Android OS updates have been somewhat lackluster since Android 8/9. The OS and smartphones in general are increasingly becoming mature products with little true differentiation.
They will try to leverage "AI" to accelerate upgrade cycles, but we'll see how that goes.
Read this via another source.
This is how you know Google (and other gigantic companies) are little more than criminals. Not every criminal is a street gang member.
I would say a good base assumption is that all content on the public internet is scrapped and used for AI schemes.
It's the other factors that matter.
Why the /s though? :)
Good find, I honestly didn't notice that this was from Dec 2023.
For movies/TV shows, try rutracker.org. The interface is in russian, but the torrents almost always include english audio tracks for US/UK movies. Movies from other countries typically do include the original audio track and english subs.
They have a tone of older torrents, with some relatively rare content. There are some strange nuances such as SD rips are often posted with Xvid encoding (even new ones) and HD releases have a rule where they need to include all known russian Dubs/MVO/DVO/AVO audio tracks, so a large part of the file is audio.
But the good thing is that, even low health torrents often eventually have a seed appear. They have a massive networks of seeds/peers that are actually "federated" with lots of other trackers).
For relatively high seed/peer content you can also basically stream the release via "Download in sequential order" and "Download first and last piece first". I regularly essentially stream movies via this method.
They are decent for music too. Video games will likely be challenging if you don't speak russian and many releases actually don't include the original language.