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MSI Intends ‘To Continue With Afterburner’ Overclocking App Despite Not Paying Its Russian Dev
“War and politics are the reasons. I didn’t mention it in MSI Afterburner development news thread, but the project is semi abandoned by company during quite a long time already. Actually we’re approaching the one year mark since the day when MSI stopped performing their obligations under Afterburner license agreement due to ‘politic [sic] situation’.” Nicolaychuk says development of the app has continued over the past 11 months, but that may also be ending soon. “I tried to continue performing my obligations and worked on the project on my own during the last 11 months, but it resulted in nothing but disappointment; I have a feeling that I’m just beating a dead horse and waste energy on something that is no longer needed by company. “Anyway I’ll try to continue supporting it myself while I have some free time, but will probably need to drop it and switch to something else, allowing me to pay my bills.”
Development of the RivaTuner Statistics Server — software is pivotal to many of the functions of Afterburner — is materially separate from Afterburner and will continue, Nicolaychuk notes. Nicolaychuk suggests the issue comes down to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and we’ve since confirmed with MSI that this is the case. MSI has stated to PC Gamer that the payments were halted due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, saying: “payments had been put on hold due to the RU/UA war and the economic regulations that entailed.” […] On this being the end for Afterburner, MSI disagrees. “We fully intend to continue with MSI Afterburner,” MSI tells PC Gamer. “MSI have been working on a solution and expect it to be resolved soon.”
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Russian hackers reportedly targeted three US nuclear research labs
Russian hackers have reportedly targeted three nuclear research laboratories in the US. A group called Cold River carried out a phishing campaign against scientists at the Brookhaven, Argonne and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories last summer in an attempt to obtain passwords, Reuters reports.
The efforts are believed to have taken place in August and September, around the time UN experts visited a nuclear power plant in Russia-controlled Ukrainian territory to help prevent a potential disaster following heavy shelling in the area. Meanwhile, President Vladimir Putin has alluded to a readiness to defend Russia-claimed territory with nuclear weapons.
It’s not clear whether the phishing attempts were successful or why the hackers were trying to gain access to the labs’ systems. However, Adam Meyers, senior vice president of intelligence at cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, told Reuters that Cold River is “involved in directly supporting Kremlin information operations.”
Last year, the group leaked emails from the former chief of MI6, the UK’s foreign intelligence service. Cold River is also said to have targeted non-government organizations investigating war crimes. It reportedly conducted such a campaign around the time a UN commission said that Russian forces were responsible for war crimes and human rights violations in the early days of the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Russian Orthodox Priest Claims BIGFOOT SIGHTING in Crimea Mountains
A Russian Orthodox priest claims to have observed a Bigfoot or hairy hominid in the mountains above Yalta, Crimea in 2021. He attempted, unsuccessfully, to photograph it.
I recently received the following account:
“Good afternoon. I am an Orthodox priest from Russia. In 2021, in the Crimea in the mountains above Yalta, I personally saw Bigfoot. It was attracted by the sound of the whistle on which I played in the Uchkosh Tract. Bigfoot went out to a rock located opposite the west of me. I was on the east side of the gorge. There were about 300 meters between us. It looked tall, strikingly taller than a man, massive body and shoulders, long arms, and long legs.
While I took out the camera to photograph him, he went up the slope, with huge steps of about 2 meters approximately. When I photographed the place where he was, all the pictures were overexposed, and my Canon Eos 5 Dmark 2 let me down for the first time. Such is the short story of my second and such a bright meeting with Bigfoot.” Отец Феофан (Father Feofan)
NOTE: This is not the first time that I have received a sighting report of a supposed Bigfoot or similar hairy hominid in Crimea.
According to the BFRO:
“The nearest region to Ukraine with a substantial history of reports is the Caucasus Mountains, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. There may be one or two stories from Ukraine (Crimea). In the Caucasus, by contrast, there are hundreds of witness accounts extending back into history, and many living eyewitnesses. Bigfoots are called “Almasty” (or “Almasti”) in the Caucasus mountain range.”
Anyway, I’m not sure what the priest actually witnessed. Lon
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Former Head of Russian Space Agency Wounded in Ukrainian Shelling
The notorious Russian politician Dmitry Rogozin, former director general of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, said he was injured during an attack in Donetsk on Wednesday after someone leaked his whereabouts.