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Wired is reporting that a white supremacist youth group with ties to a global neo-Nazi network played a coordinated role in orchestrating anti-immigrant riots in Belfast, operating quietly in the background as Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson amplified outrage over a knife attack. It's a sharp reminder of how online platforms can serve as accelerants for real-world violence, and how organized extremist networks exploit those moments with precision.
On the security front, Microsoft has spent the past ninety days patching a serious firmware vulnerability in Surface devices — one that allowed a single malicious network packet to permanently brick the hardware. The flaw only affected devices with Secure Boot and Secure Core disabled, but what makes this story unusual is that Microsoft's own Copilot AI reportedly helped surface the faulty firmware in the first place. A case of the builder's tool catching the builder's mistake.
And in a quieter but meaningful development, Valve has pushed a new SteamOS beta that meaningfully improves compatibility with Intel hardware — good timing as several Intel-powered handheld gaming devices approach release. Performance on those machines has lagged behind AMD-based rivals, and Valve appears to be closing that gap deliberately ahead of a more competitive handheld market.
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