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Mythic Dungeon International Returns May 2!
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Start your timers and prepare to watch the most resilient runs yet—the Mythic Dungeon International returns! Watch the live broadcast starting May 2!
Spread the word and gather at the Gallagio—it’s time to watch Azeroth’s most daunting dungeoneers redefine reality and shatter world records! The premiere dungeon competition has returned in the latest season of The War Within and has followed our competitors into the depths of the Undermine.
Season 2 of the Mythic Dungeon International marks the start of a new competitive era for our PvE programming as we transition away from speedrunning and head toward a pushing format. As such, “The Great Push” will now be the primary format for our premiere PvE competition, with further twists such as a new Spec Variety rule in Season 2. Tune in to each stage of the competition and watch as world records are shattered and champions are crowned, starting with the Groups Stage!
For three weeks, hopeful heroes will compete in the MDI Groups for gold, glory, and their spot in the Global Finals! Eight teams will compete each weekend to discover their limits and push as high as possible in the assigned Mythic+ Keystones. The top two teams from each group will qualify for the highest-stakes competition yet— the Global Finals. With $300,000 and the Championship title up for grabs, these teams will surely bring their best to the weekend!
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Gallagio Loyalty Rewards Club Fixes are Now Live - April 29
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During maintenance today, we made changes to correct the Gallagio Loyalty Rewards Club bug that resulted in some players exceeding the current intended cap of Renown level 9.
With fixes that are now live:
Renown
All players who were above the Gallagio Loyalty Rewards Club current Renown level cap of 9 have been reduced to 9.
To address the inconsistent advantage this issue provided to many players, all players who had any progress on the Gallagio Loyalty Rewards Club Renown track have been advanced to level 9.
The raid buff Loyal Customer and the movement speed buff Time is Money have been removed from all characters, and the relevant quests can be recompleted from Paula Piranha in The Incontinental Hotel.
Any obtained Furious Flarendo and Darkfuse Compactor mounts will be unusable to players until they reach the appropriate levels of the Rewards Club.
The High Roller title and Hero’s Path teleportation spell will be unusable to players until they reach the appropriate level of the Rewards Club.
Please note: Renown quests need to be re-completed from Paula Piranha. You may need to delete your existing Gallagio Loyalty Card: Silver (in your bags) in order for the first quest in the chain to become completable.
Thank you very much for your patience and understanding!
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From the how-about-that department: Bitcoin mining has crossed a critical economic threshold, with costs now exceeding market value for most operators. According to data cited by CoinShares, large public mining companies spend over $82,000 to produce a single Bitcoin -- nearly double last quarter's figure -- while smaller operations face even steeper costs of approximately $137,000 per coin.
With Bitcoin currently trading around $94,703, the math no longer works for most miners. The economics become particularly challenging in high-electricity-cost regions like Germany, where mining a single coin requires approximately $200,000. Industry analysts suggest larger mining operations are adapting by optimizing energy consumption and positioning their computational infrastructure for alternative uses. These companies can potentially lease their mining setups for other computational tasks during unprofitable mining periods, then resume mining when market conditions improve.
For individual miners, however, the era of profitable home operations appears effectively over, as industrial-scale facilities with strategic positioning and optimized technology have fundamentally altered the mining landscape.
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From the action-creates-consequences department: An anonymous reader shares a report: Reddit's top lawyer, Ben Lee, said the company is considering legal action against researchers from the University of Zurich who ran what he called an "improper and highly unethical experiment" by surreptitiously deploying AI chatbots in a popular debate subreddit. The University of Zurich told 404 Media that the experiment results will not be published and said the university is investigating how the research was conducted.
As we reported Monday, researchers at the University of Zurich ran an "unauthorized" and secret experiment on Reddit users in the r/changemyview subreddit in which dozens of AI bots engaged in debates with users about controversial issues. In some cases, the bots generated responses which claimed they were rape survivors, worked with trauma patients, or were Black people who were opposed to the Black Lives Matter movement. The researchers used a separate AI to mine the posting history of the people they were responding to in an attempt to determine personal details about them that they believed would make their bots more effective, such as their age, race, gender, location, and political beliefs.
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From the tough-luck department: A former Disney employee who hacked into the company's servers to alter its restaurant menus, including falsifying allergen information and printing profane language, has been sentenced to three years in prison. From a report: Michael Scheuer, a Florida resident, was sentenced last week in federal court and ordered to pay nearly $690,000 in restitution, with most of that going to Disney. He pled guilty in January to one count of computer fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.
"Scheuer remains remorseful and apologetic to his former co-workers. We are grateful that the judge heard all of our arguments and mitigation when fashioning a sentence that was half of what the government was seeking," said David Haas, Scheuer's lawyer, in a statement to CNN.
Scheuer worked as a menu production manager for Disney and was fired last June for misconduct, according to the original complaint. He had access to, and also used, secure internal servers for creating and publishing menus for all of Disney's restaurants as part of his job at the company.
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From the first-of-many department: Amazon successfully launched the first 27 satellites for its Project Kuiper internet constellation, kicking off a major effort to compete with Starlink by deploying over 1,600 satellites by mid-2026. It company is investing $10 billion in Kuiper and plans to begin commercial service later this year. CNBC reports: "We had a nice smooth countdown, beautiful weather, beautiful liftoff, and Atlas V is on its way to orbit to take those 27 Kuiper satellites, put them on their way and really start this new era in internet connectivity," Caleb Weiss, a systems engineer at ULA, said on the livestream following the launch.
The satellites are expected to separate from the rocket roughly 280 miles above Earth's surface, at which point Amazon will look to confirm the satellites can independently maneuver and communicate with its employees on the ground. [...] In his shareholder letter earlier this month, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Kuiper will require upfront investment at first, but eventually the company expects it to be "a meaningful operating income and ROIC business for us." ROIC stands for return on invested capital. Investors will be listening for any commentary around further capex spend on Kuiper when Amazon reports first-quarter earnings after the bell on Thursday.
A livestream can be found here.
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