Asian Factories Struggle, Brexit Throws Up New Threats

YouTuber and investigator Coffeezilla has followed up on his initial blast aimed at the company responsible for the Rabbit R1 artificial intelligence (AI) device. The online personality, real name Stephen Findeisen, who often takes a deep dive into various influencer scams, turned his ire on Rabbit Incorporation for what he described as a product “built on a scam”. In response, the company played down Coffeezilla’s findings but instead of allaying concerns or providing answers, the rebuttal only provoked further scrutiny and bad publicity. In part two of his investigation, Coffeezilla commenced the 18-minute-long YouTube broadcast with the following intro: “This tech company gaslit me so hard about their previous scam that I decided to investigate their current project, Rabbit (R1), and what I found was shocking.” Specifically, he wanted to break down what exactly was the AI model within the Rabbit R1 gadget, as purported by the company.

For those alienated by Google’s new AI search, especially the fact it’s now the default option, with no means of turning it off, there are hacks or workarounds to get it off the page and get you back to browsing links to pages, written by humans, telling you what you really want to know. Loosely described as the “udm=14” trick, Ars Technica over the weekend showed how it works.

The iconic instant messaging platform ICQ has declared that it will cease operations permanently in June. A brief notice on its website reads, “ICQ will stop functioning from June 26,” offering no further details, and recommends VK Messenger as a substitute. That being said, the official account posted a GIF on X on May 24, featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger in “The Terminator” with the caption “I’ll be back.” This was their first post since 2022. pic.twitter.com/JZRmAAlpk1 — ICQ New (@ICQ) May 24, 2024 ICQ, which stands for “I Seek You” and was launched in 1996, had nine million users and 2.5 million daily active users at its peak.

Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake was announced three years ago, but publisher Square Enix has gone radio silent on the project ever since. Fans on Monday finally got proof-of-life for the game with a teaser post to X confirming the game’s platforms. Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake will launch on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Windows PC via Steam and the Windows Store. The legend of Erdrick draws near.

In a recent social media post, former President Donald J. Trump expressed his support for the burgeoning cryptocurrency industry. He said: I am very positive and open minded to cryptocurrency companies and all things related to this new and burgeoning industry. […] Our country must be the leader in the field, there is no second place. This statement comes as both Trump and his rival, President Joe Biden, appear to be vying for the support of pro-crypto voters in the upcoming presidential election. The former president’s recent embrace of cryptocurrency has been notable, beginning with pro-crypto comments made at an event earlier this month.

Hackers are reportedly using malicious scripts within a spoofed version of Microsoft’s classic Minesweeper game to launch attacks on financial organizations in Europe and the U. S. Ukraine‘s cybersecurity teams, the Cyber Security Center of the National Bank of Ukraine (CSIRT-NBU) and the Government Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) have linked these attacks to a known threat actor identified as ‘UAC-0188’.