An 18-year-old hacker who leaked clips of a forthcoming Grand Theft Auto (GTA) game has been sentenced to an indefinite hospital order.
Arion Kurtaj from Oxford, who has autism, was a key member of international gang Lapsus$.
The gang’s attacks on tech giants including Uber, Nvidia and Rockstar Games cost the firms nearly $10m.
The judge said Kurtaj’s skills and desire to commit cyber crime meant he remained a high risk to the public.
He will remain at a secure hospital for life unless doctors deem him no longer a danger.
The court heard that Kurtaj had been violent while in custody with dozens of reports of injury or property damage.
Doctors deemed Kurtaj unfit to stand trial due to his acute autism so the jury was asked to determine whether or not he committed the alleged acts - not if he did so with criminal intent.
A mental health assessment used as part of the sentencing hearing said he “continued to express the intent to return to cybercrime as soon as possible. He is highly motivated.”
The jury was told that while he was on bail for hacking Nvidia and BT/EE and in police protection at a Travelodge hotel, he continued hacking and carried out his most infamous hack.
Despite having his laptop confiscated, Kurtaj managed to breach Rockstar, the company behind GTA, using an Amazon Firestick, his hotel TV and a mobile phone.
Kurtaj stole 90 clips of the unreleased and hugely anticipated Grand Theft Auto 6.
He broke into the company’s internal Slack messaging system to declare “if Rockstar does not contact me on Telegram within 24 hours I will start releasing the source code”.
He then posted the clips and source code on a forum under the username TeaPotUberHacker.
this kitten is vocalizing its annoyance, and it is indeed vocalizing it AT the water, as if the water is going to take a hint and stop being wet and gross on its paw.
you WET miette? you wet her paw like the fish???? oh! oh! jail for water! jail for water for One Thousand Years!!!!
Yalda is the name of the longest night of the year in Iran. We Iranians celebrate this night. All families eat pomegranates, persimmons, nuts and watermelons on this night, people go to friends’ and relatives’ houses and stay awake more on this night, read poetry, talk and laugh with each other.
I hate how people can openly complain about “overpopulation” in the global south and “low birthrates” in europe and japan
If you’re white and you have 8 kids you have a big happy family and you could even get a tv show from it
If you’re black and have 8 kids you’re contributing to the downfall of the west
It’s so blatantly racist, when talk of low birth rates come up here (In Norway, but I assume same in other european countries) the solution is never immigration or adoption. Immigration (from global south, not from white countries) is a problem that needs to be solved/stopped apparently, but we also need… More people to be born??? It is so transparently racist and based in white supremacy, I can scarcely fathom that it’s still even said outright, aloud with 0 consequences.
it is not just racist but a kind of anxious racism rooted in the tension between needing cheap labour to sustain capitalist growth and needing to maintain a white supremacist status quo. australia has always struggled with this, oscillating between importing labour for the sake of profit and turning it away for the sake of white purity. all the way from blackbirding and indentured asian workers in the 1800s to south european tradesmen post WW2 to the end of the white australia policy (which was not a triumph of anti racism but a concession to economic interest). right now there’s an “immigration crisis” because the government has decided the best way to pretend we’re not in a recession is to artificially inflate the economy via skilled migrants and their money. so these migrants are now the scapegoat for the concurrent “housing crisis” “rental crisis” “cost of living crisis” despite the fact that none of these problems would be truly solved by reducing immigration because the deterioration of social infrastructure is endemic to neoliberal capitalism. we have almost no social housing left but the most pressing problem is that international students are inflating inner city apartment rents and keeping vacancies low? despite the fact that those students have been allowed in the country BECAUSE of their relative wealth?
the non-racist answer to low birth rates is not immigration insofar as the question is still: how do we maintain a viable class of workers that can keep generating profit and reducing the need for social infrastructure. the need for aged care workers is going to be absolutely massive in the coming years and if these low-birth-rate countries resort to immigration to meet that need, i bet they will do everything they can to ensure those care workers remain an exploited underclass
Starfield really is just “More = Better: The game” and feels like Todd Howard’s love song to what the marketing department felt like made their previous games successful rather than the talent that made something good despite Todd’s best efforts.
Starfield 2, if/whenever that happens, will fully be on the AI train because Todd is a moron who thinks bad content is better than good content so long as there’s a lot more of it.
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does anyone have that one michael kirkbride story where he tricked todd into accepting his wierder designs by showing todd much more fucked up designs alongside the ones he actually wanted and it worked every time?
I used to have this thing with Todd, because he was one of the ones that’s like, “Let’s not make it too weird.” So I’d bamboozle him. There was a period where I would actually draw two different versions of a monster — the one that was weird and that I wanted to be in the game, and then one that was fucking crazy. And so I’d go to Todd, and I’m like, “OK, I think I’ve got the mid-level creature set.” And I’d show him a picture. He’d be like, “Nah, dude, that’s crazy.” Then I’d go back to my office and I would act like I was drawing something new, and I’d just come back with the original drawing of what I really wanted to be in there. Like, “Hey, is this what you were thinking?” And he’d be all, “Oh, yeah, that’s much better. That’s great.”
Earlier in the war, Gazans said they met mercenaries with American accents and flag sewn into their uniform. Earlier than that, retired US army colonel Douglas MacGregor said that American special forces entered Gaza with the IDF. The UK is involved as well. A few days ago, a message in German was left in a building saying Palestinians must die.
In a statement, Al Qassam Brigades spokesman Abu Obeida said that the Resistance believes the IDF is using mercenaries to bolster its fighting force. Now we have concrete proof.
The Houthis have far more expensive missiles and drones, theyre not going to use them just yet because they have a strategy in place. They launch cheap drones at either US aircraft carriers or other ships at sea knowing that the US will be forced to use missiles worth millions just to stop one drone or cheap rocket.
Here’s the thing about the American warships in the Gulf right now, they can’t be reloaded at sea. Once they’ve run out of missiles, they will have to find a port, preferably one in an allied country, to get loaded again which can take weeks. There’s a reason why the Houthis are not worried despite all the threats being sent towards them. The US Navy is in terrible shape and can no longer act as a deterrent.
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