A hacker group called The Dark Overlord has reportedly leaked the entire fifth season of Orange is the New Black after Netflix failed to pay them 50 BTC ($66,142). This is probably a big upset for the streaming company, as the episodes were not set to debut until June. Interestingly, the hacker group supposedly has their hands on “hundreds of GBs of unreleased and non-public media,” as their infiltration point was a Hollywood studio.



DataBreaches.net was able to determine that the victim studio was Larson Studios, Inc., an award-winning audio post-production studio in Hollywood. TDO would later confirm their identity. TDO would not reveal the attack method nor how much the ransom demand was, but DataBreaches.net was able to obtain a copy of a contract both TDO and a representative of Larson allegedly signed. The contract, signed December 27, indicated that the studio would pay TDO 50 BTC by January 31. TDO signed the contract as “Adolf Hitler.” The signature of the company representative was indecipherable, but TDO claimed that it was the CFO of the firm who signed.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Hacker Leaks Entire Season of Netflix Show after Extortion Demand Not Met

Not that anyone wants to live in a dome that looks like cream cheese, but it is nice to see more headway on speedy, automatic building construction. It only took what I call MIT’s “swivel bot” 14 hours to construct the framework for a potential hideout, which would be finished using concrete. The ultimate goal for these is automated development in remote regions such as Antarctica, or Mars, even. Real-life StarCraft?



The system consists of a tracked vehicle that carries a large, industrial robotic arm, which has a smaller, precision-motion robotic arm at its end. This highly controllable arm can then be used to direct any conventional (or unconventional) construction nozzle, such as those used for pouring concrete or spraying insulation material, as well as additional digital fabrication end effectors, such as a milling head. Unlike typical 3-D printing systems, most of which use some kind of an enclosed, fixed structure to support their nozzles and are limited to building objects that can fit within their overall enclosure, this free-moving system can construct an object of any size.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – MIT Invents Robot That Can 3D-Print Buildings

The president of NOA spoke with Time about the “unprecedented demand” of his company’s tiny NES and suggests that the reason for discontinuation is lack of resources. Reggie says it was just meant to be a holiday product and had no idea it would be that popular. How hard could it be to make these things?



…Fils-Aime did suggest the reason why the company pulled the brakes on a system amidst unprecedented demand. “Even with that extraordinary level of performance, we understand that people are frustrated about not being able to find the system, and for that we really do apologize,” he said. “But from our perspective, it’s important to recognize where our future is and the key areas that we need to drive. We’ve got a lot going on right now and we don’t have unlimited resources.”

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I am fairly sure that most German gamers have figured out how to get the original, non-butchered version of Half-Life by now, but Deutschland has finally allowed the uncensored version of the classic game to be released—if Valve ever chooses to do so, that is. Over the last two decades, some gamers have been subjected to screws instead gore, NPCs that merely sit down instead of dying, and aliens evaporating into thin air. Will the censored copies be considered collector’s items now?



The changes to the German version of Half-Life are near-legendary. Most notable is the replacement of human enemies with robot soldiers who look like the Decepticon Shockwave signed up for Dad’s Army (as seen above) but there’s also a slew of bloodless deaths for aliens who simply evaporate moments later, while Barnacles particularly release a shower of screws rather than gore when killed. Friendly NPCs such as scientists and security guards aren’t visibly harmed killed if you shoot them but instead take a seat and the floor and give you a disappointed look.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Half-Life Finally Uncensored in Germany after 19 Years