The Weekly Gazette 03-26-2023

[DerVVulfman]

(March 20 to March 26, 2023)

Welcome dear readers to the latest issue of the Weekly Gazette! Here in the Gazette, we give you the news in brief of what occurred in the past week as well as provide any news happening in Save-Point itself

Official Area

General Chat

Two pieces of legislation that US President biden signed hit this week's News of the World, the first a bill releasing of all intelligence over Covid-19's origins while the second overturning the DC crime bill that severely reduced penalites for all manners of felonies. And of Covid, AstraZenica is now being sued in the UK over deaths and severe reactions related to the vaccine. And the House passes the Parent's Bill of Rights demanding schools to publicly disclose the contents of their curriculum and library materials to parents after many parents saw the ideology being taught. The fight between NY Attorney General Bragg and former President Trump continues as Bragg states he won't be bullied as Trump's laywers file Ethics Violation papers and testimony on Trump's behalf criticizes Bragg's star witness.While the US plans to send tanks to Ukraine and conducts training exercises with NATO partners in the Baltic Sea, Russia scrambles interceptors while Russian President Putin threatens bringing Nukes into Belarus bordering Ukraine and NATO countries. The US putting fourteen more Chinese firms under scrutiny, the tornado disaster in Mississippi, a two-time bear escape artist being transferred to a high-security zoo, and much more hit this week's news.

Tech Talk

There was a lot of articles this week about social media in this week's News of the Cyber World, whether it was the layoffs in Amazon and Facebook, that Utah now requiring parental concent for access to social media, and Facebook's parent company sued over addiction claims. As the UK BBC urges staff to delete TikTok, the U.S. hearing with TicToc's CEO began as the CEO claims that the company isn't an agent of China, though Committee Chair Rogers relayed that CCP laws demand Chinese companies act as spies and allow data manipulation. And for users of ChatGPT, a data breach exposed users private data, the AI taken offline on March 20th to repair the breach.

Over concerns about Chinese Hackers, Google pulled the the Chinese-owned Pinduoduo app from its online store after finding it contained malware. And the same day a seminar over the dangers of China's Communist Regeme aired in New York, Orang County's largetst health care provider was shut down by a Chinese cyberattack.

Games Development

Development Discussion

For those who delve into game development, they may be interested in knowing What's up with their fellow RMers. And of that, it is the continuation of projects by DerVVulfman and Remi-chan. For DerVVulfman, the advances he made to his Paperdoll system was not enough and worked out multiple graphic layering for any item shown. Meanwhile, the next arc of Fantasia is being worked on as Remi-chan shows screenshots and remarks about the actual name of one of her supporting characters.

Special Projects

JayVinci Studios

JayVinci Resources

The work upon "JayVinci" Resurrection continues as JayRay eliminates redundant animations from his spritesheets, thus reducing his upcoming workload. But a few days later, he developed a new technique that reduced the time it took for what took three minutes to render. He is currently looking for more means to automate the procedure.

Well, that's it for this week.

"Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead." - Lucille Ball (1911-1989)

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[kyonides]

The fight between NY Attorney General Bragg and former President Trump continues as Bragg states he won't be bullied...

 What if that guy Bragg is just bragging about like crazy for the meantime to let the DOJ sue or indict Trump for something Mar-a-Lago related?
 Just saying, guys!

...a two-time bear escape artist being transferred to a high-security zoo...

 I wonder if  he feels like he's being treated like some   MS gangster of sorts.