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This week, the problems with AI reared its head in the News of the Cyber World, whether it taught a man to build bombs, or an AI itself went rogue to delete its company database and then tried to cover it up. Even creepier, journalists for the Atlantic was able to get ChatGPT to offered advice on worshiping the devil, including child sacrifice and body mutilation. China working to bypass export controls on Nvidia chips and a man pleades guilty to steal US military secrets on behalf of China also hit the cybernews this week.

Graphic works were What's up with some RMers as Steel Beast 6Beet appreciated the appearance of a character in Remi-chan's game. And DerVVulfman relayed his Half Kaiser project is now getting robe belts of a sort. But after that, DerVVulfman announced he resumed work on an editor for his Lip Sync system.

This week, Starmage has big news as Rave Heart is getting both an upgrade and a publisher. With new artwork, her 2020 game release will be retitled as Rave Heart+: The Enhanced Edition, and produced by Moz the Tiger. A complete remaster, she expects new art, new music and new surprises.

For thise who wish to attend his 18th composition, DoubleX Music Room is open to all. His recent composition entitled "Never Get Anything Right" is a piece that embodies how one feels when unable to do anything right, but leaving things on their own is no better. It begins with light strings accented by light piano keys in a harmony that rises for a time and then falls, later being accented by the delicate chimes that mayhap be DoubleX 's signature. But midway through, a low and plodding drum like a heartbeat appears.

In the News of the World, there was plenty of focus upon the Russia invasion of Ukraine as US President Trump, exasperated by Putin's constant refusal to negotiat, gave Russia a 50 day deadline before heavy sanctions would be levied and a promised weapons relief package to Ukraine, followed by Australia supplying 49 M1A1 Abrams Tanks to Zelensky. This came as news that North Korea has been supplying nearly 40% of Russia's armaments. Defiantly, Russia launched new drone attacks against Ukraine, but was itself struck by Ukraine's own volley. When it was stated that there was no Epstein Client list and the furore that followed, US President Trump directed the AG to publically release the Epstein Grand Jury testimony. Even so, Democrats rail against Trump calling it a coverup. But of coverups, newly found documents revealed that the Obama Administration with Comey, McCabe, Clapper, Brennan and Kerry knew there was no Russian interference in 2016 and orchestrated the entire Russia Collusion hoax, calling their actions treasonous. Call it what you will, excessive entry into a country or an unexpected and problematic rise in tourism. In Mexico City, fierce protests rose after hotel landlords rose their rates to get the most out of non-nationals with Mexico's President Sheinbaum blasting the protests as xenophobic. And in Japan, a new government office was created to examine and manage the increasing number of foreigners entering their population and the apparent rise in crime that follows. Even in North Korea, there is a ban on foreign tourists from going to their beaches though it may be the result of a controvercial Russian newspaper story. The US has been dealing with a large immigration problem, its own immgration officers demonized. But this week, an illegal alien in the US was caught and arrested after video confirmed she staged a fake kidnapping to both smear the immigration agency and receive donations. Iran doesn't appear to call it quits, now looking for new weapon systems and looking to China for support. And Iran will be having talks with the E3 (The UK, Germany and France) with Germany reiterating that Iran cannot be allowed to have nuclear weapons. A US man hijacking a plane in Belize and getting shot after stabbing three, a doctor in Berlin on trial for the murder of fifteen of his patients, a stabbing in Italy by African migrants, CBS cancelling Steven Colbert's Late show over annual financial losses, a man in Canada hijacking a plane and forcing other flights away from Vancouver, the return of a Roman-era mosaic panel stolen during WWII, Iceland's volcano erupting, Japan and India's new bullet train, Zelensky's peace offer to Putin, and so much more hit this week's news.
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This week's News of the Cyber World breathes a sign of relief for Mark Zuckerberg so he need not testify in a privacy and data protection lawsuit, and Nvidia was granted by the Trump Administration the ability to continue sales to China. And on that front, Apple worked out a $500 million deal in Texas to begin iPhone productions in the US and lessen Chinese dependency. More lawsuits also made news as a lawyer defends Activision now under a lawsuit by the Uvalde Texas families, and the owner of the now-bankrupt clothier CaaStle is under a $300 million fraud lawsuit. Tesla’s top North American sales executive resigning, NASA's "son of Concorde" jet's debut, and more hit CyberNews this week.

There was enough headache a few months ago with the Signal chat app, that Chinese Hackers decided to now exploit it and other applications to hack your phones. But China has a long career in hacking anything and everything as new evidence shows that Salt Typhoon has been hacking the US National Guard for a year. And recently, China had hacked roughly twenty Taiwan companies for semi-conductor research, and Singapore to destabalize the nation's infrastructure.

It appears that DerVVulfman had some ups and down if you were to ask him What's up as an RMers, Early this week, he was having headaches with recreating Kimonos for the Half Kaiser battler project, and realized he had accidentally deleted one of the strapless dress resources he just finished. Along with that, he found that the Widgets script he had been working on had issues which itself made his work on the editor for his Lip Sync system problematic. However, he spent some time fixing issues with his Widgets system and posted a video showing the progress he had made, and a small hint how to prevent Vgvgf's Aleworks Write Lite system from crashing games when it detects a gamepad. He wasn't alone in doing work or creating vids as Remi-chan produced two new youtubes showcasing revised cutscenes when key characters make their appearance. But be ready for more in our screenshot thread as Remi-chan also received and revealed new portraits from Pjcr and a chunky green sylph by Coyotecraft.

Showing off recent character designs this week is Remi-chan, as the Maps and Screenshots thread now has four new pics from her game with new portraits of those in their Avian home.

There were two updates that kyonides made to the HiddenChest RGSS Player Executable, the first repairing issues with the Game module in relations to the XP Ace game files and the separation of the FileIni Ruby class as its own separate code, and the second repairing issues with RGSS being unable to load game project files and adding support for both TIF and WEBP formats though OS dependent. This while kyonides also added experimental support to load multiple compressed game files. The Executables are again available for both Linux and Windows users.

For those engaged with their ownArts and Training Journey, they would not find any better company than Starmage. This week she went sight-seeing and gazed upon the Skies of Galaraya, and took upon Randolph from Militibus Elementis as her newest model. With his well-defined arms extending out from his tunic, you can see how well he brandishes the sable bladed scythe cuts through the pitch black sky.

The ever expanding Art deck by Demos "Rise Evil" Kerrigan now has another beachside illustration. A pencilwork piece based once more on characters created by Remi-chan, we are engaged with two lovely ladies sitting upon the sands arguing about beachwear one's typical lack thereof, while younger folk in the distance pay them no mind.

If you venture into the halls of art and look upon the gallery for Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread things, you would find her depiction of Mother Nature. A sylvan winged goddess of life, bright and cheery even at night. It took seven hours to craft this work, a speed draw available for viewing.

Is this a scene of things to come? Is this a fight that the Chaotic Cloud Nymph has before she teams up with her nieces, or the prologue to a battle for the fate of everything? WIthin Remi-chan's Writing Snippets~, Fyori encounters evil incarnate as she puts everything on the line for her best friend.

Just as she posted earlier in our What's up RMers topic, Remi-chan's Cinematic Theatre now comes with two new indroduction cutscenes. The first video is the revised intoduction to the battle with Lyza, though the does get an earful from an entity unwilling to make his full presence known. And the second video is the thoroughly reimagined appearance of terror herself.

It was back in 2010 that Eric_WarriorOfEden had joined our community. But at that time, he went by the name of "EricandtheCheat". But now he has returned once more to the community for scripts and resources after having to deal with general life issues.

Appearing this week is Amysaurus, an artist who grew up in other RPG communities and had now decided to join ours. She has worked on some game jams and is currently moonlighting as an artist for an RPG game right now. Outside, she is a press operator, and a fan of all things Dinosaur.

One should never think that China would skip a day without being in the News of the World. Armed chinese vessels have been skirting disputed islands and bombers threatening collision with jets around Japan. In answer to this, Japan gives full authority to shoot down any Chinese drones while they boost their missile defense. And following this, the Philippines too plans to increase their naval power in response to Chinese aggression. But its not only those nations in the Pacific that have issues with China, but Germany for using laser beams to blind NATO pilots and Ukraine who arrested two Chinese nationals spying on Ukraine's anti-Ship missile program. Finland, felling as apprehensive to Russia like many other Eastern European nations now joins Ukraine in abandoning the Ottowa accords that forbid landmine use. This followed the largest record drone attack by Russia against Ukraine, and the assassination of Ukraine's SBU Colonel by two now-killed Russian FSB agents. Because of the aggression, NATO frontline nations now work on their own Iron Dome while the US decides to send more weapons to Ukraine. Despite all that, North Korea plans to support Russia's invasion no matter what. Just as Pakistan had done for the peace deal created between it and India, Israel's Netanyahu had also nominated US President Trump over hopes for a Middle East Peace. But not all see it that way as Iran's Ayatollah Khomeni announcing a Fatwa, or legally sanctioned assassination, of President Trump, this despite there having been threats by Iran on Trump's life. Insofar as Iran's nuclear capabilities, Iran kicked out the International Atomic Energy Agency claiming a double-standard, even though it was found Iran had reached a 60% enrichment level, beyond the 20% needed solely for powergrid use. And appearing defiant, Iran threatens a harsh response if Israel or anyone attacks despite their missile and air bases decimated. Within the US, there is now a criminal investigation into what was called Russiagate, already finding that former CIA Director Brennan, and former FBI Director Comey were not only aware of the Steele Dossier but actively pushed its fraudulent case against President Trump. And crackdowns on illegal aliens continue as the Trump administration now bars Federal Workforce resources, sues California for spiked food prices, and raids a California marijuana plantation with 200 illegal aliens and 10 migrant minors under child slave labor; 10 among the roughly 300K minors that vanished under the Biden administration. The DOJ released its findings on the matter of Jeffrey Epstein, footage not previously shown while saying that he did commit suicide, and claiming that there were no client list among the files. Not everyone is on board with that, and calling for a Special Prosecutor to release the files. The ancient tomb of Te K'ab Chaak, the first known ruler of Caracol in Belize, Mexico's President Sheinbaum blasting Trump over a boycott of cattle due to a rise of Screwworm infestations, the Houthis released video displaying a deadly Red Sea attack, and more hit this week's news.
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It appears that some spriting is hard if you chose to ask DerVVulfman What's Up as an RMer. Still working upon the Half Kaiser battlers, he now endeavers to craft Kimonos.

After an inquiry made by DerVVulfman, kyonides gave the HiddenChest RGSS Player Executable the innate ability to read and write from .Ini files, not only that of Game.Ini itself. And the executable is able to have its primary Game.Ini file be given the same name as itself, this in the event someone chooses to rename the Game.Exe to a name of their choosing. It went through a few updates, but now offers yet one more feature previously unavailable without using Win32API protocols.

For those who enter DoubleX's Music Room, they will find that he had completed two new compositions. Beyond Redemption is his sixteeenth release. And at the very beginning of this work, a clarinet follows the keyboard melody as if it were a continuous malady that befelled one beyond hope. The second was Used Up Goner, DoubleX's seventeenth composition. Beginnning with a deep resonating saxophone, its somber melody is once again followed by a clarinet that appears to symbolize the feeling that there is no hope going back.

The weather is warm and sunny, a perfect time for Starmage to continue her Arts and Training Journey. And this week, she encountered the read bearded Ferrus from The Lost Myth.by MozTheTiger. It is almost as if a memorandum was sent out as Ferrus took note of Starmage's presence and struck a pose as any fashion model with lack of apparel would.

A new illustration has been added to Demos "Rise Evil" Kerrigan's Art Deck, that being a fun-in-the-sun fan portrait based on characters by Remi-chan. One of the three lead heroines from Fantasia having a wholesome moment playing with the eight-year-old nekomata she and others saved.

For those who bought the console, DerVVulfman discovered a news article discussing Nintendo Switch 2's overheating problems. It appears that many have complained about the dock's lack a ventilation system while Nintendo itself suggests keeping the unit away from warm areas and keeping the existing events unblocked.

It has been over a week since the devastating attack on Iran's main nuclear enrichment sites hit the News of the World, and messages out of Iran have been going back and forth, Iran saying it is keeping diplomacy open, then ending any UN watchdog inspections. And while Iran wishes to resume their nuclear program and begins a massive repressive crackdown on its own citizens, there seems to be talks of a successor in the works for Ayatolla Khomeni. Even with that, Germany makes arrests of Iranian sympathizers and Saudi Arabia seeks Iran's de-escalation while it bolsters its own missile defences. The was between Ukraine and Russia continues, this as Russia claimed gains in Ukraine, launched a massive attack on civilians and was found to be using banned chemical weapons. However, Russia is now struggling to build warplanes due to shortages in both compobnents and labor whilst Ukraine killed Russia's newly appointed Navy Commander and made deals to produce and acquire more weapons on Danish soil. Though North Korea's Kim Jong Un appears to be mournful over the troops he sent to Russia killed in combat, he continues to send even more. Tensions grow in the South China with Chinese vesses continue entering disputed waters around South Korea and Japan, this fostering Taiwan receiving Anti-Ship missiles while preparing for anti-invasion drills. Tensions have even risen along the China/India border. In the US, there are new questions about the Biden administration's autopen use with a top aide's admission, massive takedowns against the largest Health Care fraud rings, arrests of Chinese agents trying to bribe US military officers, the arrest of a Transnational Terrorist Group targeting, arrests of multiple sex offenders and child rapists in NYC, and the arrests of over 40 anti-ICE protestors. For US President Trump, its been a good week; the signing of his so-named Big Beautiful Bill, the Wall Street economist who ripped Trump's economic plan admitting that Trump's past plans have worked, the success and lowest ever record at the southern border, the June job's report nearly 50% higher than expectations, and proof the Obama era Trump/Russia Collusion report was corrupt from the start. The war between Israel and Hamas may be coming to a close as Hamas accepts a framework for a ceasefire. This while Israel releases conversations of Gaza residents recounting how Hamas had been the one who disrupts any aid shipments. Not long after, two US aid workers were injured by Hamas during terror attack at a food distribution site. The violent protests against surging mass tourism in Mexico City, a strike by air traffic controllers in France, the ringleader of a $30 Million grandparent phone scame arrested in Canada, Elon Musk seeking to create a third political party, a US teen detained in Antarctica in his solo 7-Continent journey, El Salvador's President disputing torture claims of Kilmar Abrego Garcia with video showing the MS-13 member well, an alleged cannibal's attempt to eat himself during deportation, rare Christian relics and viking treasures unearthed, the death of German Prince Harald von Hohenzollern just days before his child's birth, the death of Actor Michael Madsen (Reservoir Dog's Mr. Blonde), and more hit this week's news.
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Criminal arrests against cybercrime hit the News of the Cyber World, whether it be Europol dismantling a $540 Million Cryptocurrency fraud network with arrests in Madrid and the Canary Islands, the US making arrests in a North Korean sponsored IT scheme to steal employee information, military technoloty and virtual currency and sanctioning of Russian services that host cybercriminals, or incidents of hackers impersonating trusted software to force callback phishing and the uncovering of 40 malicious firefox extensions to steal cryptocurrency. Lawsuits and legal actions also reigned as Google was hit with a $314 Million class action lawsuit in the US for sending and receiving data from phones without permission, and in the UK over its monopolitic promotion of AI to summerize news content versus the actual news producers, and Apple facing serious monopoly charges for restrictions preventing users from switching to competitive applications. UPS under fire from the Teamsters for their buyout to drivers as they shutter 73 facilities and cut 20,000 jobs, a TikTokker shooting a Marine veteran in front of his wife and child, Iran deploying bots to fabricate false stories and block news about Operation Rising Lion, the report showing almost all Gen-Z students are using AI to write essays and do their homework, and so much more hit this week's news.

In the realm of Chinese Hackers, the group codenamed Houken has been involved in weaponizing vunerabilities throughout France's telecom, transportation, financial and media services. From all appearances, it was by the basic way if injecting php scripts and installing kernels into their systems. Meanwhile, Taiwan's National Security Bureau issued public alerts over TikTok and other Chinese applications over their data collection packages.

For those curious What's up among our forum's RMers, art would be the word of the week. DerVVulfman continued working upon the Half Kaiser battler graphics, finishing both the kneehigh and strapless dress and began working upn a revised version of another steel helmet. And with that, he has shown progress with an editor for his lip sync system. Meanwhile, Remi-chan made an appearance revealing that he has been giving the first part of her game a dialogue, story and battlesystem overhaul. And following that, revealed new screenshots and character art courtesy of Rune (Xiie) and Coyotecraft.

Within the Maps and screenshots thread, one would be greeted by nearly a dozen new clips from Remi-chan's game, Fantasia. There you will find many kitsune and fox girls the player will encounter, such to show off the recent collection of character art recently obtained and added.

One would be a fool to think that kyonides was finished working upon the HiddenChest RGSS Player Executable. It may have been two months since his last update, but advanced with the Splash Screen design early this week, and later released another version with a fourth form of RGSS and new options for the Game.ini file. DerVVulfman noted that most common scripts that use the Win32API now have their functions built into the engine, but noted some things needing repair and added a suggestion of an ini feature that exists within the RPGMaker line of engines.

Continuing upon Starmage's Arts and Training Journey, another piece of fan art has been presented. Unlike the past month's released artworks, this one is a maiden. But one would be a fool to think this one demure and delicate as this vision in scarlet is Mischevia, the sword brandishing demon lord of the Beyond. Given the source material, Remi-chan found a particular fondness.

For those that relish gazing upon prismatic hues, a new portrait has appeared within the halls of Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing! Finished just in time for Pride Month, Lady Tatanya appears resplendent in bright crimson, sunburst and emerald against a starry sky. For those that wonder how such a piece was able to be created within a matter of hours, her artwork was accompanied by her 163rd speed draw video.

If you were looking for something to read among Remi-chan's Writing Snippets, you would be out of luck with her latest post. Rather than posting any prose as one would have expected, Remi-chan decided to post a video with dialogue between two feline characters after having received character portraits for both.

On venturing into Remi-chan's Cinematic Theatre, you would find a newly produced battle introduction for a very crafty kangaroo.

Near the middle of the week, Strange Automaton announced that there was going to be some Software Updates for the forum. But he noted that most everything that would have to be reset or restored was placed within a single plugin of his design. And after the Forum Software was Updated, there appeared to be no visible bugs. In fact, DerVVulfman noted that a recently reported issue with our Report system was immediately fixed as a result.

Don't forget to show your Save-Point Support. Support dollars go towards hosting fees. If we get more than what's required for hosting, the support dollars will go towards improving the server and support systems.

Peace in the Middle East hit this week's News of the World with the current Iran/Israel ceasefire, as even Ayatollah Khomeni's own Minister had to shut down his victory speeech. But peace talks are set to resume, and even force talks to end the third Gaza war. Even a new peace agreement between the Congo and Rwanda came to be thanks to the US this week. Meanwhile, the story peddled by CNN and MSNBC discounting the US airstrike against Iran drew sharp criticism, it coming from a classified accessment report that said its own findings were dubious. Not only did CNN and MSNBC take the brunt, but heralds an investigation how a classified military document made it to their hands. For US Security, Illegal Aliens are a top concern. And recent busts of over 130 Iranians with ties to the Revolutionary Guard and other groups that the Biden Administration let in have been arrested, and two Iranians in California were busted for terrorist smuggling. NATO showed its support for the US as it praised Trump for its decisiveness over Iran. And that same week, accepted a new 5% GDP defense spending with Spain alone refusing to commit. But NATO now finds itself watching Russia all the more, scambling fighters to intercept an Il-20M spy plane. This as Russia is furious as neighboring Estonia is getting new Jet fighters and suggests to teach China how to combat NATO and the US. But for Russia, there is more bad news as an attempt to assassinate Ukraine's President Zelensky failed, Ukraine destroyed another Russia's bomber air base, and its sinking of another Russian ship in the Black Sea. There has been more aggressive behavior coming from China, using water cannons against Philippine Vessels, unveils new mini-drones for military operations, and threatens the US for supporting Taiwan. Japan is not so fond of China, noting that China isviolating a 2008 agreement over energy production in the South China Sea. For President Trump himself, the Supreme Court confirmed that individual federal judges do not have nationwide authority. This and another judgement by the Court frees the US to continue deporting Illegal Aliens. Despite this, a US attorney is filing a suit to keep MS-13 Kilmar Abrego Garcia in the US despite two previous orders for deportation and the Supreme Court ruling. Both an Egyptian Man and a Russian-borne Ivy League scientist busted for smuggling contraband into the US, attempts to halt "Alligator Alcatraz" over environmental grounds despite the land was already developed for a decade, California actually cutting back its healthcare for Illegal Aliens, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for child porn, a drunk American tourist wrecking an Ancient Japanese Temple, and more hit this week's news.
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This week in the News of the Cyberworld, there is financial news regarding China, with US President Trump suggesting TicTok will soon be purchased by US Backers, while China is pushing out new EV automobiles to compete with Tesla. However, Germany’s data protection commissioner put forth requests to Google and Apple to prohibit China's DeepSeek AI sales due to concerns over data privacy and intellectual property theft. And in other news, the NYPD is setting up a system to combat malicious drone operators.

Spriting seems to be What's up with one of our RMers. DerVVulfman continues working on the graphics for his Half Kaiser Battler project, and showed off a green dress. However, after a couple posts, he said he now has to create the same dress for male characters.

It has been over half-a-year since we heard anything about BlueSkies 3, but Starmage said it is still in production. But in the meantime, she gifted us a wonderful piece of fanart of vampiric Count Sagan, donned in his royal crimson armor and his sanguine, concave curved falchion at his side.

The Save-Point music studio cordially invites you to be a guest within DoubleX's Music Room whereby our illustrious composer had published two new pieces. Full of Regretsiis a slow piece that begins with his typical use of strings and accompanying piano.But once you get past the tinkling glass bells of the bridge, you will be hit by the vocal choir of the lamented past. And DoubleX's fifteenth piece is entitled Stuck in the Past. Beginning as a lighthearted flute and violin concerto, the accompaniment of light chimes is sure to evoke feelings of days of innocence past. But near the end, a soft but mournful choir sounds, a reminder those days are now bygone.

As she continues her Arts and Training Journey, Starmage has encountered many a games in which she has contributed fan-art. And with the summer weather, her travels took her to beachfront property as she visited two new renders for Shadows of the Earth: The Vrila'an Legend! Both renders of dark-haired Mike Blackguard, his form fully visible to gaze upon save for the swimwear or Chippendales garb he dons.

Its been a while since Nick was last seen within Creation Asylum. However, he popped in and joined after finding that our forum had archived what it can from Dubealex's site.

The recent PalWorld Update shows that PocketPal removed their Pal Spheres mechanics which mimicked Nintendo's PokeBalls, a central figure in Nintendo's lawsuit. However, players have voiced strong outrage as they vent their anger at Nintendo over the forced changes.

It is obvious to most that the destruction of the top Muclear Weapons Enrichment facilities hit this week's News of the World. Before US President Trump ordered the attack upon Iran's Nuclear Enrichment targets, Israel and Iran continued to trade attacks; Israel attacking military targets and its top brass whilst Iran launched ballistic missiles at hospitals and civiliarn targets. Even the German Chancellor and Former President Obama's Defense Secretary called the strikes necessary and warranted. But while some democrats call for his impeachment over the act, do remember that Obama dropped 26,171 bombs across seven countries: Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakista, all without congressional approval. In the Pacific, Chinese naval aggression is on the rise, trailing Japanese and Filipino warships only for Chinese vessels on video caught swarming around the Philippines. To counter Chinese aggression, Taiwan has added Submarines to its navy. And as Chine continues to assert claims that it owns the entire South China Sea region, the Communist State railed against The Philippines for hosting US missiles for defense purposes. As Ukraine destroys another Russian Convoy, new reports show that Russia is on the brink of recession. As to how bad it is getting, a Russian soldier actually killed and ate a fellow comrade. The Accused Minnesota assassin's rambling letter claiming Gov. Tim Walz gave him greenlight for murders, Tren de Aragua gang members once more on video terorizing apartments in Aurora Colorado again, The Irish Rapgroup Kneecap in court for terrorism charges for displaying the Hezbollah flag, The Louvre closed as staff members went on strike, Egyptian authorities and citizenry fed up and shut down a pro-Gaza march, bumbling would-be arsonists in Australia accidentally sets themselves on fire, the stunning financial portfolio of Nancy Pelosi, the eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki, Russia suggesting sales of weapons-grade nuclear material to Iran, and so much more hit this week's news.
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There is a lot of talk about Artificial Intelligence in this week's News of the Cyber World, with Elon Musk raising capital for his xAI whist Sam Altman lands a $200Million deal with the US Military. But one may wonder about how safe it is, for even a Newsweek article suggested an AI system would actually kill humans to keep itself running. The dangers of cell phones also hit the cybernews, but in different levels. The popular Galaxy Note7 is now under a longstanding ban from planes due to their lithium batteries overheating and exploding. Meanwhile, a new warning was sent out to iPhone users that scammers are sending malicious texts designed to replicate their states DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles. Apple losign Billions of Shareholder dollars, Iran's crypto-currency exchange hacked and robbed of $100 Million, billions of passwords leaked in a Google/Apple data breach, Elon Musk's drug report and more hit this week's cybernews.

It appears that Chinese Hackers care not whom they attack as state sponsored hackers attacked Russian companies and agencies, working to steal any secrets such as nuclear submarine specs and infiltrate their communication and satellite systems. And of communications, Chinese backed hackers believed to be Salt Typhoon worked to compromise Canadian cybersecurity and telecom providers.

For those wondering What's up among RMers, DerVVulfman spent days working on the editor for his lip sync system, providing MP4 videos by way of attached downloads or screenshots. And at the end of the week, showed that he was also working on more resources for the Half Kaiser Battlers.

With a skip in her step, Starmage's Arts and Training Journey continues down the lane and into our forum once more. And carried under her arms a new piece of art that commemorates her entries into the 2025 RPGMaker Game Jam, Project Echelon and Final Prayer.