Michelle Madigan, Associate Producer for Dateline NBC was caught reporting undercover and breaking convention rules at the 15th annual Defcon, the world's largest annual hacker convention.
Dateline NBC's goal was to secretly record hackers admitting to felonies. According to "Priest", a senior Defcon staffer, Dateline also wanted to videotape a federal agent going up on stage and then broadcast it on national television.
"It just really isn't cool to do that," Priest said, adding that criminals or terrorists could recognize the agent if they were to travel overseas.
Defcon's security team wasn't going to let that happen and hatched a plan to turn the hunter into the hunted.
Hit the jump to read more of this ironic story.
Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $61.9 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 20 percent.
Xbox content + services up 62% while hardware down 31%... seems about right with the way they tout you don't need the hardware to play. People can play on their phones or smart tv or other means. I don't hardly play on my consoles directly since getting devices like the logitech g-cloud and ps portal. Which is to also say I have been playing more digital than physical because of these devices.
Too expensive hardware when others offer the same or more for less? Good work, Green Team.
"Despite some early successes for Xbox games on rival platforms, Xbox hardware is down by a massive 31 percent this quarter."
"Without Activision Blizzard, Microsoft’s overall gaming revenue would have actually declined this quarter."
"Xbox content and services would have only been up a single percent without Activision Blizzard..."
"It looks like next quarter is going to be a similar story for gaming at Microsoft, too."
That is crazy... so A/B/K is carrying the whole Xbox gaming.
Oh and Microsoft will be fine. Windows, Office and Cloud are growing with each pc purchase.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series , will debut never-before-seen games & content updates across more than 100 titles on May 25th.
Those hackers totally humiliated that perky blonde.
Hackers vs. Blonde. Just think about the huge gaps between the IQ scores. What makes her think she could outwit so many computer geniuses?
That's total pwnage, b!tch.
NBC and Michelle shall be the target.
thanks guys esp. The_Round_Peg for the reports and suggestions.
[edit] look at poor baby's face. src: Inquirer
She should have never walked to her car.
Now they have her Tag number and her VIN number, and you know what a hacker can do with that? Just about anyhting they want.
She should have taken a cab.
She made a run for it thinking these geeks were gonna fry her for sure. You can hear her panting and almost crying while rushing to the car.
Hilarious. Paparazzi = Punked!