Imperiment

[Praise @tufpraise]

This is literally capitalism.

[Daniel Tenreiro @TenreiroDaniel]

@Pontifex Holy Father the post will perform better if you append the url in a threaded reply as opposed to linking it in the tweet

[DJ Branham 🗽 @DJBranham]

When you're trying to rebuild a nation and prosecute war criminals I can see how someone forgot to chop down Himmler pet project # 784.

[State of Palestine @Palestine_UN]

Genocide.

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

This is an excellent example of AI training poisoning.

Microsoft's Forza Horizon series contains "Drivatars". These are bots which train off of your data. They learn how you drive and behave. They use your Xbox Live Gamertag. This technology exists to give single player and story-mode missions a more authentic feel.

Unbeknownst to Microsoft at the time, there is a player named "Bowie Knife99"

This player is incredibly aggressive, often times intentionally targets players, helps random other players, ... they basically don't follow the rules for anything. This player is incredibly chaotic.

Microsoft has been training off of this deranged persons behavior.

Recently Forza Horizon 6 players have encountered this AI Drivator. People have been angry online about it. This AI agent has been intentionally targeting players, crashing into them, intentionally crashing the entire race or ruining the race for everyone (including the other AI agents).

The chaos has gotten to such an extreme people are making meme compilations about this AI agent.

tldr some random guy named Bowie Knife99 is such a crazy player unironically their AI agent is ruining the Forza Horizon 6 experience. It's plays like an angry younger brother.

[pile of ants of #indextwt 🇮🇹 🇵🇸 @pileofants]

mommy has transcended desire and thus wants nothing

[fooler initiative @metroadlib]

WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?!

WHAT IS HAPPENING?!!!

WHAT?!!!

[maddy catgirlprostate @catgirlprostate]

hump hump hump sahur

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

NEVER stop the grind

[izzy @angelengage]

conversation i just had with my dad

dad comes up to the bathroom door

dad: are you on the toilet

me: yeah

dad: what does a nonbinary person do on a toilet

me: ??

dad: they/she/it

[f 🇵🇸 @AFrazzledScot]

Do you understand the aura and skill it takes to order in French, in Paris, and have the waiter not immediately revert to English?

This is like when Ronaldinho had the Bernabeu on its feet applauding him.

Truly the greatest to ever do it.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

disregard | verb | to pay no attention to : treat as unworthy of regard or notice

[Mesut Çevik @mesutcevik]

Drift problemi yaşayan kontrolcüleri tekrar kalibre eden yazılım geliştirmişler. Takıyorsun, aleti kalibre edip bilgiyi içine yazıyor ve her şey düzeliyor. Sorun yaşayan varsa baksın. Sitede bir çok gamepad için destek görünüyor.

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

I had some people DM me and tag me on this post to determine if it's malware or "slop".

Using the software requires providing billing information prior to downloading the trial. I got mildly annoyed by this and contacted support. I requested access to the binary without needing to provide billing information.

Their support team was ... actually very, very, very polite and nice. I was kind of taken back by how polite they were. They provided me the software with a 60 day trial. I can't tell if they know I do malware development and reverse engineering because (usually) places are hesitant to just give me the stuff like this on a platter.

I would feel bad if I was hyper-critical of this product because of how polite the person running this profile is, they're just a chill dude.

To be direct:
- Is this malware? No.
- Is this slop? Probably not, no.
- Does this actually improve FPS? Yes, unironically. However, it is very important you realize this software is changing the voltage and clock speed on your machine (among other things). They're achieving this in a legitimate way by working with AMD and Intel with actual SDK (Software Development Kit) documentation.

This product went to great lengths to secure its source code. It has junk code insertion, in-memory patching (stubs), junk variables, control flow obfuscation, and it also does device finger-printing to ensure you don't steal their product. All of this was performed using professional anti-reverse engineering products.

It was a real pain in my balls to deal with. I got mildly irritated at several points. Some strings are AES256 encrypted and decrypted when needed (run-time lazy loading) making static-analysis even more difficult.

Despite all of this, none of it is malicious. They just don't want nerds stealing their stuff. At first glance however it does use methods similar to malware to avoid reverse engineering.

The application UI is also incredibly heavy. It is using the latest and great .NET UI stuff to make it look super cool and gamer-like. It launches from HyperTune.exe which then loads the actual (super obfuscated) HyperTune.dll using HOSTFXR (Google it). The obfuscation tools they used disassembled and fractionated the application entry point (and subsequent functionality) down into 1,618 other functions (see attached image)

The only saving grace was the visibility into it's dependencies and other 3rd party libraries it uses (Realm for local settings savings, Sentry for logging errors, SimpleInjector for handling classes they use, etc).

I won't go into full details on how their product actually works, I would feel bad because of support dude being a chill dude, but here is my main criticism:

- Loading of kernel-mode drivers from vendors for overclocking. They load AMD and Intel drivers based on your hardware profile on your machine. However, the driver configuration settings are set to AUTOSTART. Hence, once you use this software these kernel-mode components will auto-start even if HyperTune is not running. Additionally, uninstalling HyperTune will not uninstall these kernel-mode components. These kernel-mode components come by default with the installer in a directory called /3p/ but move to SYSTEM32 after installation (as they should be).

- For reasons I do not understand, HyperTune modifies HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU ... it disables automatic updates from Windows. I don't know why. My presumption is this could prevent potential driver conflicts, but if not managed correctly this exposes users to security vulnerabilities.

Did they actually spend $1,000,000 developing this? With a full development team, infrastructure they're using (Sentry, VERCEL, enterprise and professional anti-reverse engineering tools, etc) ...maybe...?

[NotRoPro @NotRoPro]

Mommy wants you to help her defeat the Combine

[CS2 Society @CS2society]

Counter-Strike