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I HAVE THE POWER!Limited Run Games and Mattel are teaming up with Bitmap Bureau to bring us a brand new pixel art side-scrolling He-Man game in 2026 on Switch.He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction will feature 12 stages from the iconic toy line and cartoon where you'll be able to play as He-Man, Teela, ...

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Australia bans entry of Israeli politician who called Gaza children โ€˜enemiesโ€™ thecradle.co/articles-id/32615
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You're taking to big of a rip if that is happening. I smoke wax because I take less hits overall so less smoke in my lungs. It's like anything, just taking a hit of weed when you first started would make you cough for 20 minutes too. If you don't smoke cigarettes try and take one puff of that, more than likely you'll be coughing for 20 min. I always took bong rips so it was a natural progression to wax. Better taste, stronger and less other stuff in the vapor I was inhaling.
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Having lost more hours to reading criminal complaints over the years than I care to remember, I can confidently state that I have never encountered one as entertaining and complete as the one that dropped today, charging a 22 y/o Oregon man with operating "Rapper Bot," a huge IoT botnet blamed for the Twitter/X DDoS attack in March 2025.

As the complaint states in delicious detail, the accused and his alleged co-conspirator discussed at length on Telegram how to stay off the radar of law enforcement. Here's a snippet from the story:

โ€œBoth FOLTZ and Slaykings were very dismissive of attention seeking activities, the most extreme of which, in their view, was to launch DDoS attacks against the website of the prominent cyber security journalist Brian Krebs,โ€ Peterson wrote in the criminal complaint.

โ€œYou see, theyโ€™ll get themselves [expletive],โ€ Slaykings wrote in response to Foltzโ€™s comments about Forky and Aisuru bringing too much heat on themselves.

โ€œProb cuz [redacted] hit krebs,โ€ Foltz wrote in reply.

โ€œGoing against Krebs isnโ€™t a good move,โ€ Slaykings concurred. โ€œIt isnโ€™t about being a [expletive] or afraid, you just get a lot of problems for zero money. Childish, but good. Let them die.โ€

โ€œYe, itโ€™s good tho, they will die,โ€ Foltz replied.

The government states that just prior to Foltzโ€™s arrest, Rapper Bot had enslaved an estimated 65,000 devices globally. That may sound like a lot, but the complaint notes the defendants werenโ€™t interested in making headlines for building the worldโ€™s largest or most powerful botnet.

Quite the contrary: The complaint asserts that the accused took care to maintain their botnet in a โ€œGoldilocksโ€ size โ€” ensuring that โ€œthe number of devices afforded powerful attacks while still being manageable to control and, in the hopes of Foltz and his partners, small enough to not be detected.โ€

The complaint states that several days later, Foltz and Slaykings returned to discussing what that they expected to befall their rival group, with Slaykings stating, โ€œKrebs is very revenge. He wonโ€™t stop until they are [expletive] to the bone.โ€

โ€œSurprised they have any bots left,โ€ Foltz answered.

โ€œKrebs is not the one you want to have on your back. Not because he is scary or something, just because he will not give up UNTIL you are [expletive] [expletive]. Proved it with Mirai and many other cases.โ€

Read more here:

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/orโ€ฆ

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Somehow I missed this June 2025 writeup on Rapper Bot from Quianxin.com, which explained that at the time the botnet malware contained a Base64 encoded message that invokes my name! I guess they weren't totally against tossing my name around for publicity after all. Too bad I didn't notice sooner.

blog.xlab.qianxin.com/rapperboโ€ฆ

Here's the decoded message:

"This is rapperbot, rapperbot is in its testing and development stages. Take nothing here seriously.
Brian Krebs approves of this project; he is our number one supporter.
FUCK DOTA3.TAR.GZ (outlaw) AND FUCK xorddos for using those dumb ass low IQ root kits. (they have no idea what's to come)
I love Olivia Rodrigo, soon I will be rich enough to meet her.

Question, Did you guys listen to my music whilst reverse engineering my binary? (youtube.com/watch?v=4fm_ZZn5qaโ€ฆ)
I can only imagine the Chinese (NETLAB360) researchers not understanding it at all and trying to decode the meaning behind it.

Anyway, 2tall out!
See you guys in the next update, I'll most likely leave another note."

#Palantir #GeoGroup #CoreCivic seeing record #profits as they expand #contracts w #ICE. Palantir building a $30M ICE #database to accelerate #deportations, while private prison firms boast of โ€œunprecedented growthโ€ in #detention capacity, including exploring sites on #US #military bases. #trump #immigration machine imassive #profit center for #tech #prison #contractors, embedding corporate incentives in2 expansion of detention, #surveillance. #Immigrants are the test case theguardian.com/technology/202โ€ฆ

After WWII the US cut back its forces - modestly.
This freaked out the 'military industrial complex.' How could a Major become a General without a war? How could an aircraft company make money without a war? Arthur Miller certainly showed the exuberance of working for the gubmint making things to kill others.
The reduction was short-lived but the common lexicon got the term 'Peace Dividend.'

After Nam we heard the same thing. So far, no Peace Dividend.

Post Ukraine we sell arms to the EU

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@CapitalB

I allege that Powell is already doing this.

While not a fan of Mr Powell, he is the first Fed Chair since Greenspan who has put America (Banks) First.

His predecessors were trying to bring the US down to the level of the EU.

The EU is not a major trading market for the US. Fuck the EU.

The Stablecoin scheme could undermine the EU dollar (as bitcoin has been predicted to do) and speed its descent into chaos.

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Children tear gassed at football practice in occupied West Bank
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PyPI Preventing Domain Resurrection Attacks

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The Fedi Files #2 will have our FIRST EVER guest: @mischievoustomato ! Join us at 8pm Central (UTC -5) this Saturday the 22nd.

Topics will include:
*Meet the Guest
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Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contracts. The protest encampment started today, and itโ€™s the biggest escalation of the protests at Microsoft so far www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

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Newsletter: As he builds US power, Justin Sun fights to control his story

A crypto billionaire who once feared arrest in the US is now a Trump business adviser and White House guest. His lawsuit against Bloomberg reveals what he doesn't want Americans to know about his crypto fortune.

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Rhythm adventure game UNBEATABLE will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam โ€ฆ

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