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"Stay motivated, it'll come," answered his 19-year-old contact. He went on to offer the child 150,000 kronor ($13,680) to carry out a murder, as well as clothes and transport to the scene of the crime, according to a police investigation of the exchange last year in the western province of Varmland seen by AFP.

In this case, four men aged 18 to 20 are accused of recruiting four minors aged 11 to 17 to work for a criminal gang. All were arrested before carrying out the crimes. The preliminary inquiry contains a slew of screenshots that the youngsters sent to each other of themselves posing with weapons, some with bare chests or donning hooded masks.

Questioned by police, the 11-year-old said he wrote the message to seem "cool" and "not show his fear". The case is not an isolated one.

Sweden has struggled to rein in a surge in gang shootings and bombings across the country in recent years, linked to score-settling and battles to control the drug market. Last year, 53 people were killed in shootings, increasingly in public with innocent victims also dying.

Sweden's gang crime is organised and complex with gang leaders operating from abroad through intermediaries who use encrypted messaging sites like Telegram, Snapchat and Signal to recruit teens under 15, the age of criminal responsibility.

"It is organised as a kind of (job) market where missions are published on discussion forums, and the people accepting the assignments are increasingly young," Johan Olsson, the head of the Swedish police's National Operations Department (NOA), told reporters last month.

Hits are subcontracted with the parties only communicating online, Stockholm University criminology professor Sven Granath told AFP. Others recruit in person, seeking out kids hanging around in their neighbourhoods. [...] Granath said the children who are recruited are often struggling in school, have addiction problems or attention deficit disorders, or have already been in trouble with the law. "They are recruited into conflicts they have no connection to -- they're just mercenaries," he said, adding that they haven't necessarily been a member of a gang before.

The number of murder-related cases in Sweden where a suspect is under the age of 15 rose from 31 in the first eight months of 2023 to 102 in the same period this year, according to the Prosecution Authority.

Some children even seek out the contracts, according to a report from the National Council for Crime Prevention (BRA), as they look for cash, an adrenaline rush, recognition or a sense of belonging. They're drawn in by flashy clothes as well as the promise of undying loyalty, experts say.

"Nowadays everybody wants to be a murderer," Viktor Grewe, a 25-year-old former gang member who had his first run-in with police when he was 13, told AFP. "It's incredibly sad to see that this is what kids aspire to," he said, with some "crimfluencers" glorify criminal lifestyles on TikTok.

There is a "ruthless exploitation of young people", Tony Quiroga, a police commander in Orebro, west of Stockholm, told AFP. The criminal subcontractors "don't want to take any risks themselves", he said, protecting both themselves and those higher up the chain.

According to a recent BRA report, recruiting kids is part of the gangs' business model, where children recruit even younger children -- and once they're in, it's hard to leave.

Sony Interactive Entertainment has launched a new interactive timeline website celebrating the 30th anniversary of the PlayStation brand, which falls on December 3, 2024. This website provides an extensive look at the history of PlayStation consoles, highlighting key milestones and sales achievements across all generations.

One notable revelation is that the PlayStation 2 has officially surpassed 160 million units sold worldwide, cementing its position as the best-selling video game console of all time. This figure exceeds previous estimates by confirming the milestone for the first time. Other significant sales figures include:

• PlayStation (1994–2006): 102 million units
• PlayStation 3 (2006–present): 87 million units
• PlayStation 4 (2013–present): 117 million units

The timeline reflects on past successes and looks toward future innovations.

What are your thoughts about the PlayStation's legacy in gaming? How do you think the brand should evolve as it moves forward?

I decided to work on all the resource lines for the Smart Plating factory, today, so I blueprinted up a new version of a small beltway, and built them all out for the Iron and Limestone lines that this factory will use. Also, power lines for the miners, which doesn't pull power from the main tubeway, but instead pulls lines from the factory, so that they're subject to shutoff from the factory's main power switch.

To get all those resource and power lines tied together, I also needed to finish building out the primary tubeway, at least up to the spot where the factory entrance splits off.

I made this decision after laying out the last 10 Assemblers for the factory floor, where I think I should be able to make them work, and running some power lines over the whole area.

At that point, the next step would have been finishing the beltwork, and configuring all the machines, and I realized.... I'm not even 100% sure what machines are supposed to be making which products anymore, and how I intended to route all the belts together. There's quite a bit going on here. So, instead, I figured I'll do the beltwork and configuration AFTER I have resources coming into the facility, so I can verify each chunk of the facility immediately, before moving on to the next.

I mean it's stormfront, but still it's real bad. Admins please don't mess up this space, there's only on place like chapo.chat on the interwebs.

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Microsoft hat wohl Updates der Office-Apps in Microsoft 365 ausgerollt, bei denen standardmäßig ein Opt-In in CoPilot aktiviert ist. Damit werten Word oder Excel (mit CoPilot-Lizenz) Dokumente standardmäßig aus, um eine Zusammenfassung zu erstellen. Dass die Daten benutzt werden, um die AI-Modelle zu trainieren, wird von Microsoft bestritten. Nutzer tun gut trotzdem gut daran, sofern möglich, diese Option auszuschalten. Mir liegen Leser-Informationen vor, dass von CoPilot auch streng vertrauliche Verschlusssachen ohne Nachfrage im Klartext in die Cloud übertragen und für eine Zusammenfassung analysiert wird – ein sicherheitstechnischer Alptraum, der mit Microsoft 365 gerade ausgerollt wird.

Microsoft Office mit CoPilot Opt-out
Das Thema ist am letzten Wochenende bzw. in den vergangenen Tagen durch mehrere Leser an mich herangetragen worden. Thomas hat mich in einer Mail auf den Medium-Beitrag MS Word is Using You to Train AI auf Medium hingewiesen (danke dafür). Die Botschaft des betreffenden Beitrags: Microsoft hat in Office irgendwann in den letzten Monaten heimlich eine Opt-out-Funktion aktiviert. Diese Funktion wertet die Inhalte der von Nutzern geöffneten Word- und Excel-Dokumente aus, um die internen Microsoft KI-Systeme zu trainieren.

So soll sich das abschalten lassen
Wer Microsoft Word verwendet, um geschützte Inhalte zu (z.B. urheberrechtlich geschütztes Material wie Manuskripte, oder Blog-Beiträge, Verträge, sensitive Berichtet etc.) erstellen, sollte diese Funktion sofort deaktivieren. Das Ganze soll sich unter "Connected Experiences" verbergen und in Word über: Datei > Optionen > Trust Center > Trust Center-Einstellungen > Datenschutzoptionen > Datenschutzeinstellungen > Optionale verbundene Erlebnisse > durch deaktivieren des Kontrollkästchens "Optionale verbundene Erlebnisse einschalten" abwählen lassen.