What will happen with Intel ?

Microsoft has modified the Windows 11 setup process to enforce the use of a Microsoft account and an active internet connection during the Out-of-Box Experience (OOBE). Previously available workarounds for creating a local account, such as the “start ms-cxh:localonly” command and the “bypassnro” trick, no longer function in recent test builds. Microsoft states these methods often led users to bypass essential configuration steps, resulting in improperly configured devices. The company now mandates internet connectivity and a Microsoft account for both Home and Pro editions.

So how to create a local account now?

There is one method that works and has always worked: Answer file/Autounattend.xml. This is what you should use in my opinion. This solution is designed for deployment, and unlikely will be disabled or removed.

In response to user feedback, Microsoft now permits custom naming of the default user folder (C:\Users\<name>) during installation. This feature is accessible only through the command line: users press Shift + F10 on the sign-in screen, navigate to the OOBE directory, and execute SetDefaultUserFolder.cmd with a valid name. The name must contain no more than 16 Unicode characters and exclude special symbols. If unspecified, Windows generates the folder name from the Microsoft account email address.

Weird stuff going on. This is a CRAZY anime arc. I beg you to read this post. This shit is crazy.

Check this shit out

June 16th, 2025: Phrack reports suspected offensive state-sponsored activity from China and/or North Korea targeting South Korea. They notify KR-CERT (Defense Counterintelligence Command).

*In other words, evidence of China and/or North Korea successfully hacking companies in South Korea.

June 26th, 2025: South Korean government responds

July 17th, 2025: Phrack notifies KISA, Ministry of Unification, LG Uplus Corp, KR-CERT about offensive operations from China and/or North Korea

August 15th, 2025: Phrack e-mails terminated from Proton.

September 9th, 2025: Everyone starts screaming at Proton on social myself (us included). Proton apologizes and re-instates Phracks Proton e-mail

... then the twist

September 24th, 2025: South Korean parliament launches an investigation into the allegations against China and/or North Korea. They want to investigate the companies which were compromised

September 25th, 2025: South Korean government says they are going to perform an on-site inspection on several of the alleged compromised facilities

September 26th, 2025: A government data center is burned to the ground. 96 servers destroyed. All evidence gone. This includes evidence of China and/or North Korean offensive operations.

September 27th, 2025: Server fire reported to be caused by a Lithium-ion battery. The batteries that caused the fire were made by one of the companies which was compromised by China and/or North Korea

October 2nd, 2025: Another location which was believed to be compromised by China and/or North Korea is burned to the ground. All evidence gone.

October 2nd, 2025: A South Korean government official who was appointed to manage these inspections and overviews commits suicide

What the fuck is going on? How did a simple Lithium-ion battery burn an entire data center to the ground? Is it weird that another massive data center burned to the ground a few days later? Why did these fires only impact servers which were believed to be hacked by China and/or North Korea? Why are government officials killing themselves? Why the fuck is this not getting more attention? Why does my tummy hurt?

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You can now chat with apps in ChatGPT.

Note: Outside of EU

https://fixvx.com/OpenAI/status/1975261587280961675

BREAKING: Qualcomm Acquired Arduino!

Highlights of the acquisition:
• Arduino's Acquisition will combine Qualcomm’s leading-edge products and technologies with Arduino’s vast ecosystem and community to empower businesses, students, entrepreneurs, tech professionals, educators and enthusiasts to quickly and easily bring ideas to life.

• New Arduino UNO Q, Arduino’s first dual-brain board powered by the Qualcomm Dragonwing™ platform, bridges high-performance computing with real-time control to enable “AI in a blink.”

• Arduino App Lab is a new, integrated development environment that unifies the Arduino journey across Real‑time OS, Linux, Python, and AI flows—simplifying build, test, and deployment.

More information:
https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2025/10/qualcomm-to-acquire-arduino-accelerating-developers--access-to-i

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EA has officially shut down the servers for Need for Speed: Rivals

Well it was expected anyways

I know what you all will generate 💀

Real

https://fixvx.com/ManMilk2/status/1975546659850317947

The Nubia RedMagic 11 Pro scheduled to release this year with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 will not only feature air cooling through fans, but it will also feature water cooling in a smartphone.

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Damn, a drone shower.
This is what fireballs coming from the sky looks like

https://fixvx.com/kirawontmiss/status/1975697958503882887

China's Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. has reportedly suffered a data breach

A threat hacker from the secret forums website, allegedly selling the source code, including the tools they use (eg. unlocking bootloader, edl authentication, etc.)

There's no further announcement from Huawei yet, and the source was sold now. The revenue is around $98.5B, and sold it for $1K only.

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Nyarch Linux - For all my degenerated weebs out there

Some features:
- Free and Open Source
- Cute catgirl picture downloader
- Cute and Quirky assistant (with roleplays!)
- The whole system changes color according to your waifu wallpaper

And more!

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Here's how Apple solved the antennagate problem with the iPhone 4.

Back in 2010 when the iPhone 4 came out, some people discovered you could grip the phone in a certain way and the signal bars would plummet from 5 to, like, 2.

Apple at that time responded in a number of ways, including Steve Jobs famously suggesting that users were holding the phone wrong, but the issue was resolved by changing just 20 bytes of code.

Apple also published a blog where they admitted that, they made an error in the formula responsible for displaying the number of signal strength bars.

Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength. For example, we sometimes display 4 bars when we should be displaying as few as 2 bars. Users observing a drop of several bars when they grip their iPhone in a certain way are most likely in an area with very weak signal strength, but they don’t know it because we are erroneously displaying 4 or 5 bars. Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the first place.

Due to this antennagate problem, Apple was forced to offer buyers a free bumper case as well as settle a class action lawsuit in the US. 

Now after 15 years, a software engineer and designer dug into that 20 bytes of code to figure out what Apple actually changed to fix the problem.

If you are interested in understanding the fix, check out the thread below where the guy posted his findings. It's a worthy read, especially for network engineers.

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https://fixupx.com/samhenrigold/status/1975360407935328544

Chat, we are cooked

Discord is being extorted by the people who compromised their Zendesk instance

They've got 1.5TB of age verification related photos. 2,185,151 photos

tl;dr 2.1m Discord users drivers license and/or passport might be leaked. Unknown number of e-mails

Google's Quantum AI’s Chief Scientist of Quantum Hardware has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics today.

Google now has five Nobel laureates among our ranks, including three prizes in the past two years.

https://fixvx.com/Google/status/1975623817943752714

This is why Apple did not want to offer customizations to iPhone users

https://fixvx.com/app_settings/status/1975893272670396852