News of the Cyber World

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Hollywood needs videogames
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51799504

Kim Libreri, an award-winning visual effects artist based in Northern California, has worked on movies including Artificial Intelligence and War of the Planet of the Apes.
For nine years he has been working with a piece of technology better known for computer games, in particular the smash-hit Fortnite.
The Unreal Engine, owned by Epic Games, provides the building blocks and tools that a computer game developer needs, but is increasingly an attractive technology for TV and film producers.

Who would ever say that Hollywood would end up depending on a game engine!?


That expert even claims that the creative staff, including the director and the technicians, can collaborate efficiently by using such an engine.

Germany seizes server hosting pilfered US police files
https://apnews.com/ab0a5f01a0bcdd4da347ba6763dcab61

The data, dating back to 1996, include emails, audio and video files and police and FBI intelligence reports. DDoSecrets founder Emma Best said the data, dubbed “BlueLeaks,” comes from more than 200 agencies. It has been stripped of references to sexual assault cases and references to children, but names, phone numbers and emails of police officers were not redacted.

One thing is to investigate cases and another one is to just leak cops' names endangering them and their relatives as well. Plus they didn't get an informant working at a station to tell them what he or she found strange, they simply breached Houston's police servers to snatch as many files as it pleased them! Then DDoSecrets just grabbed them without making any questions!
Plus they relied on a server located in Falkenstein, Germany!
Seriously, I can't believe that organization isn't involved in that data breach one way or another. It's just too convenient to claim they just published it in the best public interests.