including billionaire Peter Thiel's Palantir

There's your answer on why this happened. JD Vance is Peter Thiel's Gay Buttsex Prostitute Boy. Notice the eyeliner he always wear. This is Vance making good for his LITERAL Gay Prostitution Sugar Daddy.

Seems like Trump's Shitfaced Inbred America-Betraying Treason Fuck Corrupt Crap Cronies want to spread government money to their friends. - There, fixed that for you.

We all know what's going on here. Republicans are America-hating Corrupt Sacks of Shit who should be kicked out of the USA or given the firing squad. MAKE AMERICA GREAT by ENDING THE TREASON SHIT REPUBLICANS.

It has precisely 2 purposes: to serve as a pyramid / "greater fool theory" scam, and to hide transactions for crimes like extortion/ransomware, illegal drugs and Kiddie Pr0n.

Precisely this. Facebook is actively banning people for posting links to the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. Facebook/Meta is a NAZI platform that needs to be summarily executed.

I'm shocked! Shocked I say!.... well, not that shocked.

The idea that someone can just throw a crap-ton of random data into a system, have it generate a statistically connected node network, and that anything it outputs will be meaningful? Yeah, that's pretty much delusional in itself.

The Raspberry Pi was connected to the same network switch used by the bank’s ATM system...

Probably simple social engineering. Show up in an outfit that looks like you're an electrician or something else... or just pay a bank employee to let them in and look the other way...

LOL Crypto isn't "privacy" you fucking pedophile. And we don't have to help you buy CP.

PROTIP: it's always a scam. Even when corrupt fucks like Pedophile J. Trump are selling it, it's a fucking scam. ESPECIALLY when corrupt fucks like Pedophile J. Trump, Epstein's Best Pedofriend, are selling it.

but how much creative effort is there in being the voice of some character in a different language?

Tell us you're a creativityless hack with no talent, without using those words...

Reading a script *is* something that AI is good at doing if you want an emotionless robot voice.

Or maybe we draw the line and stop fucking people over with generative shit that STEALS THEIR VOICES AND ART. You fucking Nazi cunt.

WHY do they act like visa and mastercard are the only players in this game.

Because, functionally, they are. The Visa/Mastercard Cartel has a lock on more than 80% of the market. "American Express" sits at 18%, because they signed a cartel alignment deal with V/MC.

Discover, by contrast, sits at 2% of the market by transaction frequency.

Vote for people that break up monopolies and don't take bribes to let monolithic companies grow even bigger.

Wouldn't that be nice? Unfortunately, the Corrupt Shitrag Trump Administration just dropped the Antitrust lawsuit against V/MC that Biden's DOJ had filed last September. Republicans are corrupt shitrags who WANT cartel monopolies like this, because then a corrupt Fascist regime like Trump's can do precisely what's been done here.

The inbred Klanass Republicans who are insisting on banning games and threatening the credit card processors are FASCISTS. It's no coincidence that this is happening at the same time as all the "age verification" laws in Klan Inbred Shit States like Texas and Florida.

Gizmodo should be retracting their writeup and slapping the writer for needless sensationalism. The supposed "refuting a well established theory in physics" isn't real - the theory in question is about stability of crystalline lattice structures. And the writeup itself is self-contradictory.

Beyond those temperatures, superheated gold is supposed to reach the so-called “entropy catastrophe”—or, in more colloquial terms, the heated gold should’ve blown up....To be fair, this superheated state lasted for a mere several trillionths of a second. Also, it blew up.

These White-Supremacist Inbred Klan Losers are determined to isolate the USA from the world. Sigh.