Man oh man, why is this game coming too? It's just one issue after another and it's not even like these are minor issues. It's issues that bring entire servers and entire continents down for days on a basis of simple mistakes which takes them forever to fix. It's literally becoming a meme of a game which is a shame because many of us were seriously enjoying it pre-patch 1.1 even though there are clearly certain bugs and issues there. Today guys we talk about the downfall of New World. How's it going guys? My name's DPJ and to give back to you guys I'm giving you the chance of winning 10,000 marks of fortune. To be the chance of winning these simply drop a like on the video, leave a comment down below, make sure you are subbed and have those notifications turned on. Winners will be picked from my comments section so the more videos you support me on the more of the chance you have of winning and good luck everybody. Now let's not be around a bush here. New World has never been 100%. I'd say 60, 70% max in terms of the game being in a great state but in reality no games really 100%. The difference with New World is with everything Amazon do to try and fix the game it basically goes backwards. Now pre-patch 1.1 the game had flaws, people exploited for self gain, people abused many many duping exploits and were able to earn themselves tons of gold. These exploits were at a start and they led to Amazon bringing a game offline and rightly so to address said issues. Problem is upon the fixes they applied they introduced hundreds of bugs which affected more players than these gold duping exploits. I mean the first gold exploit was used in the beta and I believe was somehow reintroduced after a patch they'd applied for general stability. We then had a second wave of people exploiting for duping gold among other things and the same happened again. They brought servers offline to fix things and yet when they were brought back online the affected head on the game pretty much reduced the game to a 40% state. A game which affected more players and the exploits did. Then we got the November update 1.1 and yeah guys I'm skipping many instances of Amazon working the game here but the update 1.1 introduced tons of new things into the game including avoid gauntlets. Many fixes, weapon changes and even adjustments to end game farming which they didn't even reveal to players within the patch notes and players had to learn these on their own. Changes like making high level enemies and elites much much stronger, reducing loot from elite chests, making skills much more of a grind, adjusting recipes and many many other things. Also seemingly added invisible lakes in the middle of farms and no doubt slow people down. This led to the game being in its worst state yet. It was a laggy beyond anything I'd experienced so far with this game and trust me when your trading post is laggier than 150 people slaying a portal boss with 50 enemies there too something is definitely off.  Now we'll state after the maintenance we got a post 1.1 patch before the latest update the game did feel a lot less laggy and buggy but then guys oh no Amazon seemingly thought it was a good idea to try and reimburse players that lost due to housing taxes and time skipping issues and with this the game was brought back off the line. Funny enough to do it in charge of the EU side of things must have headbutted its keyboard due to they somehow managed to refund players. EU players that is 10 times the amount they were owed in terms of gold coins players lugged back in to see they had 100k plus free gold coins to spend and well like what I think we'd all do they went on a spending stream straight away and with Amazon seemingly slow to react when they did realize the mistake they'd made somewhat hours later they pulled the entire EU continent back off the line and while it was offline for basically a whole day and the end result was a rollback to every player with an EU service due to being the only effective weather eliminated gold coin that players had been given and while free to spend and do whatever they want with which I completely understand rolling back the entire EU population makes sense because many many players would have spent that gold coin they had and if they rolled everybody back to a state before they introduced the reimbursed players or just after the reimbursed players but with the correct amount this time we'd be good to go from there wouldn't we but servers brought back online guys but now with another major issue trading had been suspended but this isn't the issue I'm talking about okay so they said in a statement and before we get into the issue it's probably important you understand what they said the trading post contracts take longer to address than character or company data in the interest of time while the trading post database is being restored we have made the trading post unavailable until the operation is complete and the major issue where players have been impacted people who were not affected by any reimbursement people who had things up for sale and sold things in between a patch and again being taken down just after the reimbursements they have been rolled back meaning that the gold they made from sale of said item has been taken away but the item they listed for sale in many many instances guys hasn't been given back to the player knows it's still up for sale so this means many players who were unaffected by any reimbursement have now lost gold or lost said items and while this is just one of many many issues I'm seeing reported since the servers were brought back online and it's the main issue on point in today's video because many of my friends have been affected this way I mean the game like I said earlier is quickly becoming a meme a game which is being added to a long list of games that have just sunk at the creator's expense due to the issues that just keep piling up now personally I love the game guys I wouldn't be making videos on it if I didn't but the direction the game is going in I've seen a hundred times before Amazon need to do something and although it's clear they are trying right now it isn't working out and it's like no wonder the player base is falling off massively one thing I will say it's real early days yet still there is plenty of time for this game to be turned around and hopefully something happens to where the game becomes a stable fun and enjoyable grind of a game it once was but we will see guys we will see I mean a video like this I just thought needed to be made I mean you ain't going to get many other content creators posting videos like this talking about the major issues the game is having on the basis of wanting the game to actually do better but yeah guys there we have it if you're at a state of confusion playing the game right now due to the many takedowns and many maintenance drops that amazon have been dropping on the game and you've logged back into notice something isn't right it's probably because of this and the things they've been doing over the past week but like I said hopefully they can sort these issues out but we will see all the time guys we will see if any news drops on the game or any new information from amazon in terms of things they're applying to try and fix things this that any other I'll have you covered right here on my channel but on that note the end of the video has arrived if you enjoyed it leaving a like really helps out if you're new around here want to see more new world be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video I upload you can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button guys thanks as always for stopping by and hopefully I will see you on that next one


Thanks to recent developments, pun intended, R&B singer Akon has become one of the more interesting real estate entrepreneurs on the planet. However, it has relatively little to do with the Atlanta homes he's continually trying to move off of, even as nice as they are. No, Akon's real splash has come with his decision to build an entire housing market by his own damn self for millions of people by creating a real-life Wakanda city in his home country of Senegal and Africa. And today, we're gonna take a look at all of Akon's real estate. In these videos, we don't reveal any addresses and even though I've done a house tour of my own place, please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. Akon is a singer, songwriter, producer and more who rose to fame in 2004 with the release of Locked Up, followed by the single Lonely. At the time of this recording, he has an estimated net worth of 80 million dollars and it's said he's using that to build his own housing market in Africa. So two or three years from now, if you just so happen to be visiting that area of the world, you could find yourself staying at an Akon-sponsored resort and booking time at a five-star Akon spa while paying for the whole thing with your very own Akon currency. Hey guys, it's Kara the Vampire Slayer back with another exclusive house tour here on Pima Entertainment, this one looking at the homes and plans of Akon. Be sure to like, subscribe and follow me over on Instagram to chat. And now let's get into this video. Akon started off his career by getting everyone to smack that, but if things wind up going to the way he wants them to in the future, that'll be one of the last things people think of when they hear the name Akon 30 years from now. Before we get into the biggest project of his life, Akon City, let's take a look at his earliest flirtations with the real estate game, his two homes located in the great state of Georgia. First up is a massively sprawling complex that was built in 1990 and is located at the tail end of a cul-de-sac in a gated community known as Sandy Springs. This 14,994-square-foot mansion sits on 13.3 acres of land and features six bedrooms, six full bathrooms, as well as two half baths. It also comes with a little bit of well, everything. Not only are the interiors lofty and bright, they offer a sleek white-on-white motif, something that we're definitely going to be seeing again before this story is through. Beyond the front door of the home is a double-height foie with a spectacular spiral staircase. Meanwhile, glass walls surround the primary living spaces, allowing for all that ample sunlight to filter in. There is also a large living room alongside a dining room with a built-in bar and of course, a spacious chef's kitchen. If you ever find yourself staying inside one of the home's two guest houses, I mean, I have no idea why you would. That's why I said if. So if you're ever visiting, you can also check out the endless entertainment options, like either one of the indoor or outdoor pools. Finally, if you just happen to be stopping by and suddenly find yourself in dire need of filling up your gas tank before you go, don't worry. Aikon's got you covered with the single weirdest purchase he said that he's ever made. That's right. You can fill up your tank at Aikon's very own Chevron branded gas pump. Once you're done with all that, why not spend some time on the indoor basketball slash tennis court? I'm sure Aikon won't mind. Odds are he won't even be here anyways because only three months after purchasing this place for $2.6 million, he turned right around and listed it again. Why? Well, probably because this house is definitely something of a fixer upper. But still, what a fixer upper, am I right? Next up is Aikon's home located in Alpharetta, Georgia. It was only about a year after purchasing his first Atlanta home that Aikon scooped up this bad boy for $1.65 million. Part of the Atlanta National Golf Club, this mansion is situated on 4.6 acres of land, and if you thought Aikon's last home had a lot of white in it, well, this one is all white everything. In fact, it kind of resembles something out of Frozen, no? All six bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, and even the staggering nine car garage feature the same icy white motif. So you'll have to really be a fan of white, not to mention one of the cleanest people on planet Earth to get the most out of living here. In terms of what the home features, well, it's got a spectacular exterior with a lagoon pool and resort-like vibes emanating from the surrounding patio furniture that clearly spared no expense. This includes some gorgeous cabanas. Meanwhile, on the inside, he's got a killer living room with a baby grand piano and complimentary furniture with a silver finish. There's also an absolutely jaw-dropping dining room that looks like it's fit for a kink, especially with that gigantic chandelier hanging just above the table. Of course, no self-respecting recording artists would be without their own in-home studio, and you can bet that Aikon comes with all the necessary bells and whistles. Despite the fact that this residence has clearly been custom-made for Aikon, he's still had this home on the market for quite some time, asking for $7 million to complete the sale. All right, now that we have an idea of where Aikon stays when he's stateside, let's take a look at the thousands of homes he's looking to build for others in his home nation of Senegal. These days, Aikon is spending most of his time moving forward with his plans to create a $6 billion smart city in the country of Senegal. Aikon City is the place where one day be known as being hyped as a real-life Wakanda, a technological paradise that construction will begin on in the very near future. This 2,000-acre metropolis was first hyped by Aikon back in 2018 and is expected to run on clean energy, no doubt supplied by Aikon's other business venture, Aikon Lighting Africa. As you can see in these images, Aikon City is going to sport a futuristic aesthetic that will match all of the cutting-edge technology Aikon is pumping into the place. Designed by Baccarian Associates Development Consultants, this city is characterized by its gleaming skyscrapers that have an almost surreal feel. You know, kind of like a Ridley Scott filmed mixed with a neck massager, if you know what I mean. Aikon has promised the city will feature shopping malls, schools, music and film recording studios, eco-friendly tourist resorts, a sports stadium, a casino, open markets, restaurants, high-rise condos and its very own currency, Aikon. Yes, that's exactly what it sounds like, a cryptocurrency developed by Aikon. Man, he's really thought of everything for this place, hasn't he? As I mentioned a moment or two ago, Aikon City will be located in Aikon's home country of Senegal where he spent much of his childhood before moving to the states at the age of 11. It's Aikon's hope that with this new city, he's gonna stimulate the local economy and create a much needed jobs for his people. He also hopes that it will prove to be a place where black Americans can move to if facing racial injustice in America. So how is Aikon affording all of this? Sure, his $80 million net worth is mightily impressive but it's hardly a drop in the bucket for a task this big. To make sure his dream becomes a reality, Aikon has teamed with Julian Mualé, a Kenyan technology entrepreneur who has reportedly invested $4 billion into this project. That still leaves Aikon a few billion short of the necessary $6 billion he's projecting but the plan is for construction to get underway soon. As for right now, the only thing located in Aikon City is this ceremonial rock. So now we've taken a look at Aikon's homes in Georgia over the years and his plans for his Aikon city in Africa. Aikon has said that if this endeavor becomes a success, then he plans on franchising the concept to other countries in Africa. What do you guys think? Is there any chance we could all get to visit Aikon City sometime in the next five years? And let me know your thoughts on Aikon's Georgia homes as well or what your favorite aspects were. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram to chat and I will see you all next time. Bye.


Relay like it's a big store with like ropes and and The salmon ladder is if you ever watch American Ninja Warrior It's the thing where they have the bar and they have to they have to like pull it up on to the next rung But they're dangling from it So that you have to literally force it with your entire torso and your shoulder muscle lift to the next one Then pull yourself up and yeah green arrow uses it a lot on green You know just imagine a dog version of that I've been looking up what tenterhooks means tenterhooks You know as people say I'm on tenterhooks. Yeah, no, I've no one's ever heard that Really, okay Like you've never heard someone say like oh, I'm on tenterhooks to mean like I'm full of suspense. No, no Really Scott? I always thought it was tender, right? Tenderhooks not actually not it's spelled tenter, but a lot of people think it's tender This is your because you're yeah, you're you're in suspense. I'm tenderly waiting I we for this podcast I produce unfinished biz we Interviewed the former CEO of Cliff bar this guy named Kevin Cleary recently who was on American Ninja Warrior Really? Yes, it was just and it was like in this aside that he like threw in there kind of at the end of the interview We were like what wait back up. What are you talking about? Like did it make it on TV? And he's like, yeah, yeah briefly. I didn't do very well, but you know So then that's like all we cared about really Cliff are great, you know much success tell us more about an American Ninja Warrior Was it really hard? Apparently it is Well is a wooden frame Used to hang woolen or linen cloth and the hooks are what you hang the cloth off of And they were very common in around woolen mills hundreds of years ago How about that? Yeah, we only had We only had fleece we didn't really have real wool. That's how you hang your tinter you put them on the hooks Who's we didn't have real wool? I'm pretty sure you had access to wool Just More than a hundred years ago in areas where there were wool There were tenters and there were hooks and that's where that phrase comes from and you're like we only had fleece But no one was talking about you we were saying hundreds of years ago there were places with woolen woolen mills I wore plenty of wool growing up. I actually developed an allergy to it So now I don't fancier than wool. Isn't that like I thought fleece is just synthetic. I think so No fleece fleece is actually there is synthetic fleece, but fleece is a real thing Yeah, it's what I get ripped off at the car dealership. I've been fleece another Bicolor It's a co-product of the sheep, right? There's a part of the sheep That's the fleece of wool shorn from a sheep. Yeah I always thought of it as just a synthetic nice soft material cream of the wool. It's like My favorite for cereal in the 80s cream. So what's what's the what's the lanolin not to be confused with cream of After we do daily tech news show Oh that yarn We only had bread No cream of fleas in my house Oh cream of fleece Get you going please I was checking it. Okay, I Putting in the name and We are about to record Roger. Are you ready to record? Uh, yes already recording. Okay. Well, then here we go Carlene Kelly has supported independent tech news directly for five years be like Carlene become a DTNs member at patreon.com slash DTNs This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, May 8th 2019 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from studio feline I'm Sarah Lane Salt Lake City. I'm Scott Johnson and from cloudy gray overcats Guys, I'm Roger Chang the shows producer. Yeah, he lives in the cloud folks That's our producer We are the best tech news team in baseball and we're here to tell you about Some interesting stuff including whether the apps you're using are making you think there's more crime when there's not But let's start with a few tech things you should know E scooter startup bird announced a new model called the bird one which unlike the current bird fleet is available for purchase It could also be rented bird scooters were originally made by Xiaomi and Segway 9 bot They tended to depreciate pretty quickly bird one has a bigger battery more durable frame At least the company says so and is designed to stay in circulation for at least 12 months pre-orders are open today And it's gonna cost you $1,299 Wait till somebody tries to take your scooter away from you when you buy one of these for yourself Yeah, so I have to see them litter the streets Amazon announced a new version of its outdoor security camera the blink x2 one or two. I can't say the right blink 182 the blink 182 on torn now No, it's the x x t2 it adds two-way talk improve motion sensing to reduce false alerts and promises two years of battery life on Just two double a's it's pretty good. It's available for pre-order in the US now shipping may 22nd for $90 It's coming to Canada this summer as well So am I Some Uber and Lyft drivers are logging off their apps and some are protesting in the streets against working conditions and pay the protests come in advance of Uber stock IPO on Friday Protests started in Sydney and Melbourne continue in London, Nigeria, South Africa several US cities and elsewhere Uber and Lyft drivers are classified as contractors, which means Uber does not have to provide benefits I have to say the pictures I've seen of the protest have not made them seem overwhelming But there are people out on the streets Intel CEO Bob Swan said Wednesday that Intel will launch its 7 nanometer chip products by 2021 Intel's 10 nanometer chips were delayed, but should launch later this year Alright, let's talk a little more about Some of the Google announcements still coming out of IO particularly sky you've got one about chrome Yeah, Google continued with announcements well after its IO keynote ended that would have been on Tuesday yesterday including a new initiative Enhancing privacy on chrome the changes are at the developer level to start as they often are Only sites that originally set a cookie will be able to access it and third-party cookies Will have to identify themselves for the browser to allow them Making it easier for users settings to block them and clear them Google may also only allow cross-site cookies if they are encrypted over SSL Google is giving developers a few years to adapt Google will also launch the extension in the coming months That lets users see who is behind the ads that you see in your browser and what led to them being displayed I I like this. Uh, it's it's a it's actually an improvement on what microsoft's doing with the edge browser Where they're going to give you multiple settings. This is this is actually requiring developers To use the to use a particular feature in order to keep the cookies From being used across site without your knowledge. So the the same site Feature which has been around forever is basically they're going to be enforced in chrome that that is very interesting And another example of of google putting in place some efforts to protect privacy also as a user I I love the idea of being able to see Uh, where the ads are coming from and how would I got initiated because sometimes that's still surprising Um, there's there's extensions now in some browsers that do similar things But sometimes you'll find out a thing came from a place and you're like, whoa I don't know if I want to go to that site anymore. Just because I don't trust this Originating url or whatever. So that's that's good On the subject of privacy a few folks have noted how google and facebook tackled the issue at io and f8 Which happened last week pretty differently mark zuckerberg said the future is private Soon darker chai said the present is private Probably was not an accident with google leaning into several products that are ready to ship or ready to demo facebook's privacy commitments have been accused by some of being More like vague pr tactics to encourage users to keep sharing their data and keep regulators off facebook's back Zuck said that messenger and instagram direct would both become encrypted But we haven't really gotten a timeline from the company yet already announced features like clear history And facebook's data transfer project didn't get any f8 stage time even though they've both been Introduced some time ago Yeah, we uh, we we didn't really talk about it or we didn't you know shine a light on it yesterday when we talked about the announcements but uh maps getting an incognito mode search getting an incognito mode uh the The google assistant going uh being able to be used in airplane mode on your device I know I was kind of shying google for not emphasizing the privacy aspect of that more, but it is there Uh google actually launched or put products into demo That are protecting privacy and not gonna let them off the hook They certainly could do more but compared to f8 where they said we will uh eventually encrypt this end to end We will eventually do this and do that Uh, it it it is quite a stark contrast Well, I'm old enough to remember and i'm not going to go find the actual quote like a professional or anything but I remember hearing various interviews or moments where zuckerberg talked about how openness and sort of just everybody knowing Everybody and That was the future we were heading toward that society wouldn't care these sorts of issues and obviously some of that stuff is blown back Um, so it's interesting to see Them not scramble, but you know say things like the future is about privacy or the future is private but Not be able to do that on a dime. I mean they're they're they're a company that for time was celebrating the fact that everybody And now they gotta kind of change direction. So I don't know. It just feels like it was got a head start Yeah, your connection broke up there for those years Yeah, uh, well, uh Maybe having a problem on your end then I apologize for that. But your point is well taken, right? Google, uh, even putting out a nest commitment to privacy in the home Uh for its cameras its home sensors its wi-fi data saying we will be transparent about the data we collect We will never sell your personal information to anyone. We will empower you to review move or delete your data That that's not the same as actually doing it, but at least Putting it up front saying this is what we're committed to whereas that's kind of all facebook did sarah Yeah, and and I think what what the the sticking point is To have and not just mark zuckerberg, but facebook executives in general the company's sort of stance is You you don't realize how serious we are about this. We're really serious about changing the culture and and making sure that you trust us and Okay, well, you can either decide to believe that or not But putting it up against a company like google Which does seem to be backing up a lot of claims with and here's this product We're shipping today where it's now available or it's going to be available on the state It is very easy then to look back at facebook and be like well, where where are all your launch dates? yeah, uh and and I I granted uh Like the fact that that facebook did launch some things to allow you to talk More privately in other words, you know the sort of not in the public square But but in the living room sort of stuff But that's not the same as what google's doing where they're adding, you know tls 1.3 support Uh with with with their with their android q operating system Facebook doesn't make an operating system, right, but uh, this is this is different. Uh, this is this is This is again, not to let google off the hook and say oh, they've solved everything and there's no more problems with them But they are at least making tangible efforts you can point to and audit or as facebook mostly is making promises All right, uh, let's talk about a security breach. Why not? Mosab Hussein a security researcher at dubai based cyber security firm spider silk discovered coding project stored on a Git lab instance by samsung engineers were set to public That meant anyone who knew where to look could access the code The instance included source code private certificates and secret keys for several internal projects Including samsung smart things and some bixby services One project included credentials to access an aws account and more than 100 amazon s3 storage buckets Hussein reported the findings to samsung on april 10th The company began revoking credentials and samsung says it has not found evidence that any external access occurred But continues to investigate now it's tempting to want to just go kick a samsung in the gut For this and say why did you let this happen? What do you how how are you responsible? Are you? But this is a good thing. This is for for us on this end if you don't want to punish samsung This is a good story. This is a story of a white hat hacker Discovering a problem letting a company know and the company's starting to fix it. That's good We want that to happen You know if you're if you've been around this industry at all, you know breaches are going to occur problems are going to occur The second part of this is it's bringing to light this fact that developers need to change their culture at multiple companies And that's why i'm like don't go kicking samsung too hard for this because they are not alone. There was a Person i was talking to recently who worked for a company. I'm not going to name the person or the company Who said that they had requested access to some data for their job and were given access to an entire server And they were like I didn't need all of that I had access to way more information than I needed But you know what it was just easier to give me access to everything and that's why this stuff happens It was just easier to market public because then you didn't have to bother processing requests for people to have access You can't do that anymore. You you have to start with security not at it later when it's discovered to be a problem Yes, so really it's it's more of a okay. Well for the people who build and manage these sorts of things How many of them will say you know what? I need to be more responsible and go the extra mile and give that person a small piece of access to this server So that nothing bad happens and and not everybody's gonna do that It needs to start from the top it needs to start with cto's it needs to start with uh department leaders saying You know what security is real important. We can't skimp on that anymore. I know it makes your job harder I know it makes things take more time. I know it slows things down sometimes But it will be worth it in the end you have to do it Well 10 cent, how do I sound? All right, 10 cent has decided not to publish player unknowns battlegrounds aka pub g For all you gamers out there in china As it cannot get a license from the government to collect revenue from the game 10 cent is reportedly moving pub g users to a similar title Helping jingling. Sorry jing ying or elite force for peace the game is described as a quote tribute to the people's liberation army Air force and is approved for monetization It has similar gameplay background of graphic design to pub g but is less violent players for instance do not bleed uh china renaissance estimates pub g had around 70 million players in china it's an interesting story because uh china has long had much more stringent controls uh on video games and content that people can access within the nation and uh One of the more recent and notable examples for me Anyway was when world of warcraft debuted in that country was a very important market for blizzard activision to get into um one of the demands of change was you couldn't have any skeletal Imagery so if the undead were in the game even though there are heroic characters where their elbows or their knees would show Bones here in america and other territories you could not do it in china So they made them remove all of that so there's a lot of that kind of thing Uh for example when your your character dies in america There's a pile of bones where you weren't swer in china. There is a little gravestone instead So that's not unusual. What's unusual here is This is more about uh pub g and it's and it's violence But also it's addiction qualities as as talked about by the government. They don't like addictive games So games that are based on the battle royale game uh type like this and like fortnight Are huge huge influences and they are very wary of those So I would expect more announcements like this and more and more of these games are going to have to I don't know remold themselves to be more like paintball and less like actual shooting people in a military type simulator I mean elite force for peace if it's as as like fortnight as or like pub g as it sounds, uh Would be pretty addicting too. Wouldn't it in theory? I mean the addiction factor may lessen Maybe there's just a balance they have to strike of okay. Well, it's super addicting But everything's cartoony and fun and whimsical and nobody's really bleeding So that's that's enough for us to be okay with it But the addiction is the big is the big reason china is cracking down Because you can change the guns to be cartoony that that's true What surprises me is that other games haven't had the same level of addiction scrutiny because there are plenty of games Thousands of different titles that are popular in china and in the in in that entire region That you could qualify as highly addictive But these are the ones getting the attention. So I don't know why that is except I feel like there's a balance between the violence and the addiction I don't know where that is Twitter user walking cat Which is a great username discovered links to the mac os versions of microsoft's edge browser That's the one that's built on chromium from valid microsoft servers The links are to the weekly dev version in the daily canary build This is earlier than expected for the public but microsoft hasn't changed the links least not yet microsoft has been working on keyboard shortcuts the mac look and feel and touch bar support the privacy controls and collection functions Announced at build aren't in this version yet. However tom and scott. I know both of you have been playing around with it already Yeah, in fact, I have been reading all of my stories off of it using at the dock I logged into patreon earlier with it. I did some some google stuff on it It feels like chrome and when you set it up it pulls in all your chrome bookmarks pulls in your chrome history for you You can log into microsoft not chrome if you want to sync across different versions of your edge browser Which I did quite nicely, but yeah It uh, it's it's fast And I know I fall in love with new browsers too easily Anybody who's followed me across shows for years probably knows this Vivaldi forever, but yeah, I Really like it so far scott I liked vivaldi a lot when it came out as well, but then vivaldi got heavy and weird So I I Just one with the same kind of like I know that it's gonna get chubby. It just these just do Um, they all do but I'm very excited about it for the same reasons I see a brand new browser and I think oh, what are we doing different here? And I like the the unloading is really cool.  See I'm sort of on the other side of all of this I'm a chrome user chrome is constantly bogging down my system. In fact when I have to restart my computer It's almost always because chrome has just I also have like 500 tabs open at any time But that's the way I work and I wonder why I stick with it when there are so many other options Or at least a good five other options Yeah, well, you know firefox is a better browser these days than chrome as well Uh, but there are things in chrome that just lock you in certain extensions certain google features Yes, uh, I will say though that edge seems much more compelling In that way that it it feels like chrome and I even was able to put the last pass extension on so, um I don't know. Uh, it's uh We've got a new contender Brad and Scott and I are you know midlife. So this may be just our midlife crisis, you know I want to take a shiny new browser out for a spin, but Maybe we're we're considered edge cases Hey, that was that was Uh, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes Be sure to subscribe to daily tech headlines dot com A recode story from ronnie mola and hat tip to ronnie. I've been using a lot of his stories lately Do doing really good work there Is called the rise of fear-based social media like next door citizen and now amazon's neighbors It starts this article does with the fact that violent crime in the united states fell 49 percent between 1993 and 2017 and that's not cherry picking either It's a big consistent drop if you look at the graph across that entire range Property crime rates fell by 50 to 69 percent depending on who's estimating it But it's still a nice steep consistent decline between 1993 and 2017 However, if you ask people Whether there's more crime in the u.s than a year ago you get a flat line 68 percent of people asked in 2017 said yeah, there's more crime in the u.s than a year ago Even though there that's not the case and it's been like that forever. In fact, it's slightly increased Since the early 2000s Now a lot of this can be affected by geographic variation For instance st. Louis has a higher murder rate than chicago But if you're living st. Louis and you see the chicago being touted as oh, it's the the worst for murder and you're like Wow, it's bad there. It's even worse here. You know that can affect your perceptions There's also a lack of a clearance rate With the police they're not able to solve crimes and so that may make people feel like there's more crime Because they reported say a stolen car and it never gets solved In the past coverage of crime on television often led to this misperception. There's been a lot of studies about that You watch the local news They do a lot of crime stories because boy if it bleeds it leads and then you start to feel like there's more Crime because you're seeing it every day. You're seeing it on your television Well now ronnie mola suggests that apps like next door citizen and amazon ring's neighbors app are feeding that misperception now For instance next door often has your neighbors reporting suspicious characters in the neighborhood or actual crimes in the neighborhood constantly in your feed The app citizen actually encourages users to report crimes in progress and band together To prevent crimes citizen used to be called vigilante if that gives you any hint on where they're coming from Uh and rings neighbors app lets you share alerts from your ring doorbell Videos it's like some person is hanging out on your porch or maybe maybe somebody taking a package That gets shared around and amazon's actually hiring an editor to create local crime reports out of these alerts all of this stuff Makes it feel like there's more crime than there is because you're experiencing it multiple times on these apps Uh people reported as suspicious or more often than not Uh not of the same ethnicity as the dominant race in the neighborhood and that usually means non-white There's no evidence that these apps make you safer But they can raise your stress level uh Pamela Rutledge director of media psychology at the research center At the media psychology research center told recode essentially using these apps. You're elevating your stress level There's buckets of research that talks about the dangers of stress from high blood pressure to decrease mental health And that's something that should be studied So solutions in mola's article Media literacy being more mindful when reading things things you hear about when talking about fake news in other contexts are suggested Maybe reduce the radius of the reporting you see in these apps and companies should help reduce emphasis of unverified reports and call out Things as unimportant when they are unimportant Whether companies will do that or not a whole different thing But sarah i found this fascinating that that we are no longer getting our perceptions of crime from local news Uh, but now we're getting in from our neighbors. Yeah next door I I started using next door when I still lived in san francisco and I lived in a neighborhood that was crime ridden That's just sort of it was just it was a bit of a rough rough few blocks that I lived in And next door became almost untenable because it was just bad news all the time some of it was helpful But a lot of it was yeah, it was fear mongering and and some unfair stuff being said I I actually just never changed it because I had gotten sick of it until Yesterday so the timing is great here I'm now in the next door area of my current neighborhood and I found And there's still there's some complaining and and this is something that people almost laugh about next door about now It's like oh, yeah, that's where people go to complain about crime and you know spy on their neighbors and unfairly try to get people arrested My neighborhood now is much more kid-centric And so there's a lot more family kind of community kid stuff that I'm seeing where I'm like, oh, wow, this is like a Actual like community next door. I never really had that in my neighborhood before there was nothing of the sort So in a way, I'm sort of invigorated to start using it again And maybe I don't know meet some of my neighbors at the same time I this feels just like The the the way that people complain about social networks, too. It's like there's so much fake news being shared now It's because it's a tool. I mean, it's not as if people didn't share stuff like this before You might sit on your porch and be part of neighborhood watch and be nosy and and And share the same kind of information that community based services and platforms are sharing now It's just on a larger scale Yeah, it'd be a real hoot at the end of all this we study this a hundred years from now and find out that While it raised everyone's stress levels and everyone started dying on average earlier because of all of this But it was actually contributing to the lower crime rate This isn't saying that but it would be interesting to know that if that's the case I had this weird relationship with next door here every time I check in there It's weirdly too nice like way over nice like people are like, hey, I found a dog on the road I'm not sure his tags are missing. So I don't know what he goes by or anything But if you go, I think that that's not like weirdly nice. That's just like it's just nice That's a good person. Yeah, that's all it is. It's all that constantly. It's people saying I made an extra batch of cookies I don't have anywhere to take them. We're not going to eat all these anybody within the range of this street Want to come get some free cookies like that kind of stuff constantly no one ever talks about crime I guess it causes you to have a misperception of how nice people are because yeah Yeah, like there's probably something dirty going down and I don't know it because next door is being You know, so kind of goes both ways I You know, I follow that next door twitter account that like only tracks the funny stuff or the ridiculous stuff like probably everybody does but Uh, I I feel like part of the drop in crime and whatever is knowledge It's it's it's us knowing and being more connected and all of that But at the end of the day if we're all super stressed because we think everything we read is bad Uh, and it's a misperception. That's not good either So I nobody's got any good answers for this today, but it's pretty fascinating how this stuff can go That's why I think it needs to be studied Find out like what effect is it actually having? What are the parts that are making things better? Like you're saying Scott there might be and then as as as mola suggested in the article De-emphasize the stuff that isn't the first thing I did when I installed a ring doorbell Was turn off the neighborhood alerts because Eileen my wife looked at it and said oh my gosh There's so much crime. I'm like no, there's not that's just People who turned on their alerts and anything that happens makes it seem like that Like we're we're not going to pay any attention to that and we didn't but yeah My next door is kittens in need of a foster home for the week and teeth cleaning for dogs any suggestions Anyone wants the storage bin like it all depends on where you where you live and who's in your neighborhood I I think and not just next door But but many of the the similar tools and I'll check out amazon citizen eventually I think in in theory. They're really great It's people that are not so great sometimes, you know, so I I I find it hard to To blame the platform at times and I also want free cookies. So Salt Lake City people When you moved to my neighborhood I'll let you right in Thanks to everybody who participates in our sub reddits You're probably all very nice neighbors as well submit stories and vote on them at daily tech news show reddit.com Or also on facebook facebook.com slash groups slash daily tech news show. Let's check out the mailbag Let's do it. Tim magnuson wrote in and said Morning best team in tech baseball. Thank you, tim Said I wanted to point out another reason not to use facebook a lot as if we needed one He says really I listened and shared a tune from a 1974 album three and a half years ago This is something that he shared on facebook over three years ago Woke up to this in my feet And he screenshots a notice from facebook that says your post goes against our community standards on nudity or sexual activity It's a link to a youtube video of a track from a from led zeppelin's houses of the holy Album which shows the album art. So not only was this Not flagged correctly, but quite old Yeah, and and the album art on houses of the holy does show what looks like Naked people crawling on rocks, but they're they're not Frontal nudity pretty well known. Yeah, it's a really well known album cover I think it's the cliffs of mower in in ireland. It's a it's a historical site that you can go visit there So, yeah, uh, that's uh, that's that's great. Now the same mistakes that are made by youtube's bot are coming to facebook Yay Hey Well, thanks for the heads up tim.  What's been going on? Well, I was just noticing somebody's doing some testing on what they call microblading So they need some models up the road here for some microblading, which I guess is just tattooing your eyebrows So hey, I've got a bug. I got my afternoon carved out. I don't know about you guys Anyway, uh, there's a lot of cool things happening on my side of the uh, not pond really I'm not that far from you guys But if you want to find out exactly what i'm doing you can go over to frogpants.com It will lead you to everything all roads lead to what i'm doing At frogpants.com and if you want to chat with me on twitter you can find me there at scott johnson Uh, apparently green dog dental is the solution for the dog teeth cleaning that I was mentioning earlier So that's just in on next door. Um, thank you everyone who supports the show If you didn't know already there are all kinds of perks to being a member of daily tech news show You can get special episodes. 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She thought it was a dog at first just a few All right, I did I finally found a controversial one says who has detailed information on the odor Is there any more context he says before we were house hunting no one told us about this aroma Is it getting better? Is there any funding to fix who is the center of information on the subject? Did you write you should write back and say waste management Area well, we don't live very close to any kind of dump We have a lake here full of ducks and geese that in the late summer gets kind of reeky just because they're ducks and geese But I think this and then all these replies seem to indicate this person may just be smelling themselves or something Nobody knows where it's coming from Where's this odor? It's just always near me. It's always where I'm walking everywhere I go Even when I drive to work 30 minutes away. It follows me. That's the first one. I found like that. Okay, this just in here is the coyote Uh picture of the coyote running down the street. I got a bunch of them in my neighborhood I just saw one the other day in plain plain daylight I had one little anything to us I had one run past me and the only thing that I noticed about it is they don't make any noise Injured baby bird. Oh We saw a raccoon last night Which I'm used to having grown up in the country, but I have not never seen one in LA before the gun buyback is saturday Not a miss gun buyback if you want to nice tom you can take your uh Berenger, whatever. Hell yeah Yeah, well, um I have that Your tom berenger gun that you have What was he he was the he was the the the hitcher, right? Was he the hitcher? No, that was um, you're thinking of uh, tomasie. Howl No, no, you're thinking of uh, rutger howler rutger howlers. Oh Yeah, that movie was so good and then they remade it and it became horrible. Yeah, that deserves better Someday we'll get something better. I will say on my next door real quick. You know the weird house that I've been I've been studying uh Somebody is complaining about that house not me But I read about it this morning and I I can tell by the there are certain tell tale Ways that was described that I'm like, uh, huh The neighbors don't like that house either. Well, I don't actually have a problem with it I'm just sort of fascinated by what's going on in there, right Title wise we have next door vigilantes Uh chromium on the edge Sarah wants free cookies Posho, yeah, that's our title every day our scott's neighbors too nice Mm-hmm Samsung's baby is breach. Oh man Okay, uh payment unknown battleground It's not bad. Uh next door vigilantes. I actually like that Maybe over promises, but I like it. You live next door to the arrow Cream of fleece is suggested for gdi All right, that's good. I like it All right, I've learned something the most controversial stuff is in the old people area there There's a retirement community near here. They're awesome, man Postman did not pick up my taxes before the 15th. I smell a conspiracy. Did anyone else not have their taxes picked up? Let's start a movement. Yes. It must be a conspiracy Wait, I don't see an old people area that that feels like it's prejudicial to have an old people area It's only because I know it is one. Oh People who are retirees you have to be a certain age to even go there. It's super. You have to You know that this particular Neighborhood area. Yes. Yeah. Oh because they have it listed. They they have, you know Guy's name what part of the little place you're in and then the city And they're all just here in south jordan.  It's all like that's no good. Sorry.  So I don't know if they're they'd be fun to hike with but There's a pretty good seems to be community of my immediate neighbors who are like getting together and hiking I'm like, so that's what I like this for Yeah, of course if you want a little bit more of a community aspect to your life and and and actually get to know people It's like it's a good tool. It's how you use it Barbecue street street food and yeah, you know, it's next door is essentially just that cork border that You know, like when you used to have like a community like center or something people would post like notices and stuff Yeah, the only difference rogers. Nobody would go up to that board and put a big poster that says Suspicious black man scene walking past my yard. It like this is they would use they would use different descriptors Right. No, but no, I think scott's right. You didn't put up that kind of thing on the community cork board It was it was not it was not done.  I think it's the effort, right? I think roger nailed it Having to print out the flyer means you have more time to consider like Oh, do I really want to put this picture on here? Is this fair? Also, other people see it as you're getting it ready to put on there like wait, is that okay? Whereas the next door post it done It was easy and it's out there and then people may complain about what you put up there But it's already up. We know it's what the irony is that Again, I switched over to my new neighborhood on next door yesterday and the reason I did Was because somebody had put a bunch of flyers on telephone pools around here Telling us to join the next door community And then had that, you know, the name of the neighborhood and I was like IRL redirect like hey, we're no longer posting the information at this address I would like to meet that person. I would like to know if that person is on the paranoid Next door ha ha side or just like wants to bake me some cookies Maybe both and you would like them to bake you some cookies. I'm sure very much would I don't even really like cookies that much, but if they're free I want them Really good for unloading stuff. You don't want Like I did that yesterday and loaded a giant goldfish Well, not that I didn't want it. It's just I couldn't keep it anymore The wider point I will pull out of this discussion is we're all looking at next door and going actually Yeah, there's not that much crime granted neighborhoods change, you know neighborhoods vary, but When you look at next door every day And you see a crime every so often It starts to make it feel like there's more crime even though it's the minority of what you're seeing on next door Yeah And and so and so that neighbor's app from amazon's ring Is even worse because everything there is like oh alert something bad happened at my ring doorbell And you look at that map and it's like oh my gosh, it's happening everywhere Some of those are months and months old the companies do need to do a better job Of figuring out like okay, what are the productive uses of this technology and what aren't and then adapt accordingly It's no different than fake news Which is let's find out what effect this stuff has and then mitigate it So that's a human foible like if you see a bunch of comments and 90 percent of them are positive Why do we fixate so much on the one guy who didn't like exactly? I I mean I I buy the fact that we're evolved to look for threats That's what kept us alive in the early parts of of humanity's history, right? Is like oh if we always thought a tiger might be nearby Then we made sure to stay away from tigers and we lived over simplifying it, but that's not so productive now Nothing is a tiger It's also kind of what drives you to post something and I've posted I mean not a ton of negative Yelp reviews But that a negative experience would drive me to a review much more than a positive one because the positive one You're just like that went well if it was negative you're like, well my day is ruined and people should I'm gonna do something about it. Yeah That's true.  That that's just an irresponsible use of the doorbell data Because all you're gonna get is 90 false positives It's just it's just not useful but people love it because like oh what's happening I want to see oh look there's the suspicious person in a hoodie standing on the sidewalk outside of that person's house I'm gonna keep an eye out for him. Well, it turns out it was me Okay, I was wearing a hoodie walking ray that day, but I had a dangerous dog with me Like this Not that that happened. I'm just making that up You know, what's weird is there was a crime that happened across from me and it never showed up on next door Roger Well, you know that the police looked into it and unfortunately it was it was more of a door-to-door scam Or because you're doing a lot of construction Some people went to my neighbor across the street and posed as workers and say we need to see your gas line It's very important. And so he's showing them to the back of the house Some other guys came in and basically took a bunch of stuff and left and see that's the kind of thing that I think would actually make be beneficial to scott's point, right? Like if if we had a good system where we knew that posting that kind of thing didn't make people more stressed out It's beneficial to know like hey if you're having construction done here's something you might want to be on the lookout for Yeah, the only reason I know about it is because the foreman came over and talked to me Like the jossite form is like oh you can be careful. There's some guys posing as us And we're we're not going to knock on your door asking for that stuff And he's doing what I would just suggested just you know, irl to to people around So people aren't very good indicators It's it's weird because it's a version of telephone But it's like a 21st century of it and it's not it's just it's not any better Than kind of going down the grapevine because people tend to embellish Did you hear about that construction site where someone stole an entire house roger was telling me about it? I know Watch your house might be gone. Apparently they stole like three houses. I think And you know the last the only time I was The only time I was reading next door right now The only time I was steamed about crime in san francisco was Every so often in san francisco There would be a string of car break-ins That was every three or four months and it would not just be the city It would happen in different areas of the bay area And the police all the police were trying to figure out was just a basically a roving gang But you could always tell when something happened because there would be a long light at the The glass auto repair shop Just a line of people because that was that time of the year It's annoying I lost posted. I just posted my first question on next door just for fun Anybody got cookies? Is that what you're? I'm hungry The subject is big goose at the lake and I said and this is actually true I said there's a goose that has been at the lake for years who looks totally different compared to all the other geese dark coloring Etc Seems to roll with a couple of duck friends and get a little aggressive sometimes with runners Has anyone seen him this year anyone know where this guy is?  I always see every year. So yeah, I posted that question Are you somewhat worried about how you could start about the goose? Yeah Well, he has a name. I named him Mendoza. I think he's out to get me every time I see him. He hisses and like Well, that goose do that they hiss at everyone.  This is my like buddy. Stay away I hope I get a little something going back and forth with somebody. It'd be great The lake near my house Otis mostly lives in harmony with there's ducks and geese and some weird birds that I can't identify and For the most part, you know, they kind of have hissed a little bit But they but they're little baby geese gosleons They're just like, I don't know everybody had baby geese and now the geese are really Like they're protective. Yeah, and so it's like when I see them We have to go all the way around or just like leave the lake all together because I don't want to find out what happens Django was a chill dog most of the time But when we would walk her around lake merit in oakland where there are tons of geese The geese would hiss at her and she would just be like, oh, no I am not taking that from you and she would try to get at them. Yeah Yeah, there was there's Otis is mostly afraid of everything but I'm like, I just don't If yeah, if a mommy or daddy goose goes after I just don't I just don't want to find out No, no tom tom buried the lead. You had a lake called lake merit. Was it named after family and stuff? No, no, it's uh, lake merit is in downtown oakland. It's been there for years. No relation But I live near it I used to live near it And my my cousin came to visit and thought it was hilarious When she drove to my house and everything in the neighborhood was named merit this and merit that because of the lake You'd made quite a thing of yourself. Yeah No, exactly. Uh, well folks, uh, we've made quite a thing for you today. Thanks for watching the video and audio folks Please stick around. There is more where this came from. We promise hilarious


this is Global Connections. I'm Jay Fidel. Let's take a look at the Moscow concert shooting a few days ago. Was it ISIS? Was it Ukraine? Was it someone else? And how does it change the calculus in Russia and everywhere else? For this discussion, we have Dr. Rupati Kandekar, a global geopolitical strategist. She's going to help us understand what happened and why it happened. Welcome to the show, Rupati. Hello, Ajay. And thank you for having me. And let's discuss this Moscow terror attack now. It goes from country to country, this terror attacks, which we're talking about, Jay. And last time we spoke about how Middle East terrorism would affect the U.S. And we have to program on how terror is affecting Russia. So 137 confirmed that the number is far, far higher, like you said. And Jay, when we talk about this, Russia has consequently, subsequently put Ukraine on the radar, right? So let's start with describing what happened in this attack, Jay, that it was in the Caucasus City Hall that we see and there was supposed to be a concert by a euro rush known as the picnic. Now this is the concert hall and it has a seating capacity of 6200 people. And it is very difficult because it's a Friday night. People are relaxed, they're going out for a normal evening. And this thing happened which stuns the world. And Jay, when we saw that it has, this hall was packed to its capacity, but it was not yet filled. And it has three levels, this city hall. And we had four armed militants with automatic guns. And the shooting took place mainly in the foyer region of the city hall. And that is when we see that they were shooting at point blank range and they were targeting unarmed civilians. This entire act of targeting civilians, Jay, is what hurts the most and what terrorists thrive on, like we have always said time and again. It is the propagation of terror. When you don't, you're not prepared, they're not in the war zone. These are only civilians who are going for a concert. Israeli is going for a music concert. So this targeting unarmed civilians is real terrorism, Jay. We are witnessing real terrorism, real time. And Russia put the blame of this on Ukraine saying that first was ISIS. And we have news that the United States had warned Putin about impending terror attack. But like we know, there are so many warnings and there are so many intimidations given, but we don't take them seriously or rather we think that it is part and parcel of the proceedings. And when something like this happens, really, that is when we understand that this was a real threat and which materialized. So that's it. And then these four unarmed terrorists escaped in a car near the Brian's region bordering Belarus and Ukraine. And this was the car that the Russian forces intercepted and the Russian authorities said there was an opening created for them at the Ukraine border for them to enter. Kiev vehemently denies any involvement in this because they know what was going to come out of this. And when the terrorist was caught, they have all four of them were caught, presented in the trials just a few hours ago, and we saw them bashed and bruised. And rightly so, they're going to be interrogated.  Okay, well, let's let's let's examine what happened here. Why is ISIS doing a terror attack in the center of Russia on civilians at a concert in the Crocus Crocus concert hall? Why are people coming from southern Russia? I guess it was Tashkent. Why are they coming from Tashkent? Why are they coming from ISIS? ISIS K, which actually has its headquarters in Afghanistan, why are they coming to do violence in Russia? Are they at war with Putin or Russia? What is it? This is not the first time that ISIS has targeted Russia and Russia continuously indulges with them in the northernmost area, Islamic groups in the north, in the Crocs region in Russia, and he has got disputes with them. But when we talk about ISIS being involved head on front with them, the radicalization of ISIS and aim and objective of ISIS does not give a clear cut picture as why they would attack Russia at this juncture. There is no immediate trigger for them to do this attack and such an overt attack on Russia. So this was this was stunning. And it was a terror attack on a liberal country. What's the relationship between Putin's fake election only a few days ago and this? Do you think there's a connection? In other words, these guys said, well, he wants to make a fake fake election and elect himself, you know, for another term for, you know, for another term until I think 2030. We'll show him a few things. Do you think there's any relationship between one and the other?  So I don't think this would have any effect on his elections and present a bad or good picture of Putin. He is not a democratically elected leader. He rules by law by his law. So getting votes and garnering votes and pleasing the people is not his cup of tea. Any which ways he does what he wants. And this terror attack would mean just that he strengthens himself more because nationalism is what plays in communist countries or, you know, close them up close countries, the patriotism and this only brings the people closer to Putin. They're not going to distance himself themselves from Putin. I say these four, and I guess I will have to assume at least for the moment that the principal actors were only four from ISIS, came from Tashkent, had weapons, had inflammable liquids they used to burn the concert hall and effectively destroy it. And so the people who were wounded or who weren't wounded, a lot of them were killed when the roof fell in on the concert hall. It must have been quite a time. Can you imagine being there? It sounds like they came, they shot automatic weapons, they burned the place down, and they were trying to create as much terror, as much violence, as much outrageous murder as they possibly, possibly could. And in that way, you know, it does remind you of October 7th, doesn't it? The idea is to create the most awful, atrocious murder that you possibly can. Is that the way it works these days? Exactly, this radicalization of ISIS, this tactic that they use now, these were not military people, these were not military establishments, these were not sensitive points of the government, they were just a city hall playing a concert and normal people going out for an evening after the day of work or enjoying themselves at leisure of citizens of civilians. And that is when terror strikes and that is where it hurts the government most, because you can't protect every civilian we had discussed that there is no line of defense against terrorism. When you have four unarmed people attacking a hall packed full of 6,200 people, just check the asymmetry. It is really difficult to protect and shield every civilian from such an attack. It could be anyone, it could have been one of them, it could have bought a ticket and blown themselves up in the hall. So they have so many means and ways to go about. Yeah, and it is also reminiscent of the Beslan school siege and hostage crisis and massacre that took place in southern Russia, I guess in Chechnya in 2004, just 20 years ago. And when the reporters say this is the worst terrorist violence in Russia in the past 20 years, you ask yourself, what happened 20 years ago? Well, the Beslan school siege and hostage crisis and massacre happened in 2004, just 20 years ago, in which thousands of people were involved, including hundreds and hundreds of school children, elementary school children, which was really shocked the conscience kind of violence. And although there were those who said that Putin himself created that to use as a provocation, a provocation to consolidate his power. And indeed, his reaction to that enhanced his power. I'm not sure that he was the one who created the crisis, but he certainly took advantage of the crisis. And he went after the Chechnya means over it. And he became more powerful for it. It's an opportunity. And so then you make a comparison between the Beslan school crisis and this and you say to yourself, well, for Putin, even if he didn't do it himself as a provocation, he used it, he will use it to maximum advantage to enhance his own power. And that's the discussion we need to have. What will he do now, just like the Beslan school crisis? What will he do with this crisis to enhance his own power? Yeah, Jay. See, the ISIS was a militant group which emerged in eastern Afghanistan in 2014. They claimed responsibility for this attack immediately, but Putin directly pointed at Kiev, because security has been a very central point of Vladimir Putin's precedence. And he sees this as an opportunity, as you said, he can't fight on all two fronts. He can't take on the ISIS and Ukraine at the same time. He has to focus on one front if he wants to win the sport. And though he will deal with ISIS, if it's ISIS responsible, he will go after them, but it will be covered. He will not declare it. He will just declare his war on Ukraine. And the ramifications of this terror attack will be that he will strengthen his aggressiveness towards Ukraine. Now he has got no limitations on him, Jay. It is all going to be vengeance for this terror attack. He is going to head on into Ukraine and do everything is going to be justification for this terror attack. Yeah. Well, that's the awful part of it. Ukraine denies responsibility for the attack. And I believe that. I don't think they would do that at this point in time, especially given the fact that billions are at risk in terms of support from the EU and from the United States. They can't act badly and do an attack like this. So I think you have to believe they're rational. They're not going to do an atrocious attack like this. Nevertheless, it really works well for Putin to blame them and that they use it as justification to ratchet up the war against them. And he can justify that in his propaganda. And I'm sure, well, already he is making disinformation to the Russian people. He is saying, I don't believe this was really ISIS. They took responsibility, but I don't believe it. This is really the Ukrainians. Look where we caught them. We caught them near the Ukrainian border. And that tells us they were trying to return to their friends in Ukraine. They were sent by Ukraine. And therefore, let's really bomb Ukraine into oblivion now, much worse than before, and get the Russian people to back him up on that. Because he has problems with the Russian people. And the way to deal with those problems, about supporting him, the way to deal with those problems is to give them propaganda, lie to them.  They keep seeing their sons and soldiers coming back in body bags. And they suspect, perhaps, but they can't say it out loud, that Putin is lying to them about Navalny and others who oppose him, about pre-Gotion and others in the Army. They may be questioning whether he's telling him the truth.  This was Ukraine. And for that matter, it was Western Europe and the United States. This is all our enemies packaged, all at the same time. They're the ones who did this to us. We must respond. Do you think the Russians will buy that? Jay, we live in liberal democracies. And when we see a terror attack, any scale happening to us, we kind of unite. And we give the government the entire autonomy to act. We see that, you know, that shock brings the nation closer. The same thing will happen in Russia. The same thing that people will come together for the sake of the country. It's a terror attack on Russia. And then it comes right of self-defense. And then your leader becomes supreme. And that cycle is uniform in every country. And to oppose your leader at a time when the country is in need never happens to you. And Islamophobia is a reality now in the United Nations. There was a resolution passed by China and Russia about Islamophobia. 114 countries voted for it. It is happening. And they don't want that to happen. But terrorism has a majority face that comes across ISIS. Islamophobia, it comes out. And the country then really takes the side of the lesser evil. That is happening in Russia. So now Putin seems like a lesser evil and he seems like a savior and protector of the lighting effect. When he's lighting the candle, his emotions for Russia. Russia becomes supreme. So the people are never ever going to question him now. I mean, Navalski will go a little bit in the background. The anti-Putin agencies will have to take a step back. It happens. This raises some interesting things that we didn't know. I mean, it raises one thing, as I thought, that ISIS was no more. But that's really not true. ISIS is still alive and well. It doesn't have a headquarters the way it used to have in Syria and Iraq. It's in Afghanistan now. They call it ISIS-K. It's not like a special breakfast cereal. ISIS-K. And they're particularly violent. And they're giving the Afghanistanis a headache too. So they operate out of Afghanistan just the way that terrorists operated on 9-11 out of Afghanistan. The other thing that I didn't know is that Russia has had a lot of Muslims, lots of them, from the south mostly. And a fair number of them are terrorists or susceptible to terrorism. And that Putin has had a problem in dealing with them over the years. This didn't happen in a vacuum. This has been something that he has been aware of but has not shared on his propaganda. He sort of ignores it, just the way he ignored the ISIS statement that taking responsibility. He blew that off. It's interesting. And he went right to blame Ukraine because that's his agenda to marshal all his forces and all his propaganda against Ukraine. But the fact is that there's a problem with the Islamic State and with other terrorist groups inside of Russia. Now we know. The Russian people may never realize it because he's not going to tell them. But the fact is that he has a problem and it's not going to get better. And he can put the FSB on all of them. He's going to interrogate these four guys till the cows come home. They will wish they were dead by the time the FSB is finished with them. God knows where they're going to go. I mean, Navalny had a quiet death compared to what's going to happen to these guys. There is no death penalty in Russia. So they'll take it all the way on torture. Anyway, bottom line is this reveals, at least to the West, the problem for Putin. Let me add that a few weeks ago, the United States shared intelligence with Putin. And they told Putin, you are going to have a terror attack. And it is going to be in a public place where people gather like a concert. Wow. What a premonition that was. They must have had the U.S. intelligence agencies must have had some pretty interesting intelligence to be able to make a prediction that accurate. And of course, he blames the U.S., but the fact is the A, the U.S. has intelligence about what's cooking in Russia, in the Islamic State community in Russia. And they shared it with him. Here we are with an adversary and a war in Ukraine where both different sides of the fence and yet they shared that intelligence with him. I'm not sure exactly why they did that. It reminds me, actually, of the titanium issue where we found in the newspaper a few days ago that the United States was buying titanium from Russia at an expense of hundreds of millions of dollars. So we have these sanctions going and sanctions with a small s that don't have that much effect on Russia. And we are at the same time buying precious resources, minerals, from Russia in the form of titanium. So it's a bittersweet mixed bag connection we have where we share intelligence with them to ostensibly try to protect them. And of course, Putin blew that off. He characterized that warning as, quote, I'm not kidding you, blackmail, blackmail. That was the U.S. trying to blackmail him. So we're in a strange position where no kindness ever goes unpunished. We try to help the guy and he blames us for what happened. So this raises interesting questions about the relationship of the EU, whether they believe Putin's propaganda, whether the, let me call it the base, the right wing, the right flank in Europe, believe Putin's propaganda about it being the fault of Ukraine, and whether the base here, whether Trump and Mike Johnson believe it. You know, how much traction do you think Putin is going to have outside of Russia about trying to blame Ukraine for this attack? Jay, this ISIS Khorasan is a byproduct of the policies of the superpowers in the Middle East. So these people got armed. They started off as something against anti-state. But then when they withdrew and they became something like cash for one deal or cash, you know, Putin has spoken about this a few years back in a conference that now ISIS works as you want something, then you pay us and we get it done. They had been reduced to that after they went into oblivion. And they were reduced to oblivion because of the crackdown on terror financing in the international system. That's why they changed the name from ISIS to ISIS-K. I told you these Islamic outfits, terrorist outfits, when you ban the accounts, they change a wording or letter and they start new accounts. So that's what happened with ISIS to ISIS-K. And these people kept their activities on because Jay, it's very easy for them to create like this havoc in a system. And like you said, US and Russia have been dealing financially in trade and everything because Jay, there is a strategic geopolitical interdependence that nothing can change. You know, political events and all they'll continue. But there is a strategic interdependence amongst countries which always continues irrespective of what happens. So dealings of Russia and the US will always take prime precedence over other issues. If it comes to a point when they have to come together to fight terrorism, they will do that for sure. They will overwrite their differences because they are responsible superpowers. That's what's the difference between a nuclear weapon coming in the hands of a rogue state like Iran and the thousands of nuclear arsenals resting with Russia and America. They are responsible superpowers, the responsibility that they take in the economy, in their military front, in their future thinking they have a foresight. Terrorist states, rogue outfits, they don't have a foresight. They think about now that immediate effect, they don't think about immediate repercussions is unknown. I think nothing for them. Yeah, you sound like I'm an Indian who we talked about a couple of times ago. He's the guy who used to be with, he was with ISIS and then he sort of turned on that and began consulting with the West on exactly what was going on with ISIS.  And your primary mission is to provide the security for your people. So they didn't have to worry about a lack of security. They didn't have to worry about this kind of terrorist attack. And then you have these non-state actors. And I'm afraid to say that a lot of them seem to be generated right out of Islam. These various terror groups are all, they're all hijacked from Islam. And so they're not state entities. And those are the ones we have to worry about. And I pose to you as a geopolitical analyst person, Rootmati, are we involved in some kind of change where states, even rogue states, cannot provide security for their people because of these non-state actors who go out and do terror. It almost sounds like we're sliding into a new world where the terrorists who strike at random, who do outrageous and atrocious things. They are the ones who control the personal security of the individuals who are in the states and citizens of the states. Are things changing globally? Very much, very much. Now, immediately, France announced a terror alert in France. So what happens to traveling the restrictions? The movement in France gets restricted. And Jay, when these terror attacks happen, now when we look at the Russian terror attack, these are four key persons who have come with a backpack in a car.  So they don't need a lot of equipment to do this. They need just one personal, what is that, personal ammunition and just create, spread the terror. And that terror has a lot of repercussions. And on every person's movement, Jay, we have security checks, airport security checks coming in. We have people being viewed with suspicion at every nook and corner. And that's what hurts. You really don't know. There is a lot of suspicion. And when suspicion happens, your movement falls down. And modern world, modern world is coming, it developed to a point that there is freedom, freedom of movement, freedom of interacting, freedom of interminging of cultures like this, there is implosion.  And these boundaries, Jay, they will come in every country. Now the swinging movement that used to happen, it used to happen amongst all 41 countries, you are free to move. Now, because of the immigrant problem, everything, they are being questioned if you have entry into Switzerland, why you entering through France, they question this now. So it's going to go step by step. But I tell you, because of these non-state actors, it's a big problem that you mentioned very properly, Jay, Hamas and Palestine. Palestine state, the Hamas terror outfit, we talk about the lines getting blurred. And we speak about Hamas, the terror outfit which carried a terrorist attack on the state of Israel. But how many people speak about it as Israel versus Palestine? These lines get blurred. Now Russia will always have, in the heart, they'll have suspicion towards Middle Eastern terrorism. So these people may not be from Idemes, they must be from Tashkent, they must be from Tajikistar, Central Asian province. You never know. Radicalization does not require too much change, it just requires your mind and indoctrination. Well, you know, what's interesting is that this, that when you have repeated terror attacks, such as Israel has experienced, and, you know, it's an interesting comparison, such as the Palestinians themselves have experienced. You know, Hamas took over the Palestinians in Gaza. They made it impossible for you to be a responsible citizen. They made it impossible for you to have a responsible government or a responsible economy. They changed Palestinians. They changed Gaza after Israel left in the early 2000s.  The society changes to deal with the unpredictable terrorist attack that could happen anytime. And arguably it happens more and it happens worse now. So if you have it happening in a given country or region, then you have the society changes to deal with it. And that's very sad because, I mean, think about it. You're going to go to a concert? No. I'm not going any public groups right now. And that was the warning the United States gave to, you know, Putin a few weeks ago. It's groups of people that are at great risk. And so at the surface it affects the arts. It affects, you know, public theater and public entertainment, public gatherings, which, you know, as they knew from the Greek and Roman times, this is the most important part of our society, of Western society anyway, of any society that you have the ability to be in the town square, so to speak, to talk to people, to engage with them and not to be isolated at home or away from others.  And I'm serious. I think this kind of thing will happen. And to the extent that it happened in Russia, it could also happen in the United States. We could have increased terrorism by the Islamic State or others that they've shown us they can do it. And other countries, Western Europe, for example, you see an increasing amount of this terrorism at random and increasingly atrocious with effect. It's hard to measure the effect, but with some effect on the society in general. So I have one question that comes out of all of that for you, Ruban. So if I'm a member of ISIS, or ISIS-K as a case may be, and I see that Putin says, I don't think it was ISIS. It was really Ukraine and the West. It was Ukraine and the EU and NATO and the United States that made this happen in the center of Moscow. So I'm going to blame them.  I'm going to fight Ukraine all the more aggressively. So what do I then, as a member of ISIS, think about my next attack in Russia? Is it going to be sooner or later? If I want to prove my point and terrorize people in Russia and attack more groups in more atrocious ways, am I going to wait? Or am I going to do it now while Putin is beating his breast about Ukraine? Wouldn't it be a great idea to have another attack now and show the world that ISIS can do it and that it is not Ukraine as ISIS? If they took responsibility for the thing last weekend, they're going to want to make their point again, don't you think? I suggest to you that this may actually step up the risk of further attacks by terrorists in Russia. I mean, that is what Putin lies about, the source of it being Ukraine. What do you think? Yeah, Jay, most probably terror attacks do not stop. They don't, they're motive. They're motive is to create an ISIS state all over the globe. So that will never stop. And Jay, to say this talk about this, there was no valid reason for ISIS to carry out an attack in Russia. There was more immediate trigger for ISIS to carry out an attack on Russia. Nothing happened. Putin did not have aggressive policies against any Islamic state or any terror out of it. He has just been busy with Ukraine for the last two, three years. This was a diversion or it was, you know, a deed for cash, only isolated incident of four people could have been easily bought to create this terror attack. It is not, ISIS doesn't have any aim to achieve against Russia. They have been carrying out attacks and troubling, niggling Putin, but never a concerted attack to overthrow the government of Russia. They don't have any agenda versus Russia. So ISIS claiming responsibility seemed like a dicey thing from the very start, from the very beginning. But Ukraine being involved in it. Now this becomes like a FBI investigation, Jay. Who did it? Who has done it? Has Putin done it himself? There are the questions that has Putin done it himself. Is Kiev really Ukraine really involved in it? Their frustrations at losing the war, coming out or, you know, to think Putin's popularity after the elections, because Russian people do have a strong nationalism streak in them. They do love their country more than the outside world and they do support the president of 24 years. Two and a half decades, they have been supporting Putin. So he is not a stranger to them. He is like family to them and they support him. So who is the troublemaker in this entire system? Has to be brought out, Jay. And ISIS coming out so forth in claiming responsibility, what will happen if they claim responsibility? What will they get? There was nothing to achieve voices. So ISIS claiming responsibility becomes a very, very dicey issue. Yeah. Well, you know, I have a thought here. I'll express it to you and see if you agree. He's going to, Putin is going to get more aggressive in dealing with Ukraine because he's going to capitalize on what happened at the concert hall, you know, as an opportunity. He'll do a lot of investigation through these four people that they captured and find out as much as he can about, you know, terror cells in Russia. I'm not sure he's going to get anywhere with that because there are many terror cells in Russia. And as a result of the increased aggression that he mounts against Ukraine, I suggest to you that the people in the EU will see it as even more emergent than they did before. They'll say, hmm, Putin is really determined now. We have to provide support for Ukraine. And in this country, you know, there's only a majority of only one Republican in the house. One more Republican, you know, drops out in favor of a Democrat, and it'll be even Stephen or worse for other Republicans. And at that point, you know, we're going to have a lot of pressure to provide aid and weapons for Ukraine. So it may be only a matter of time before everybody gets wise to Putin and decides they are going to support Ukraine more actively. And if that's the case, Putin is really going to have a problem because Ukraine with more weapons, more money, will be able to do more in beating off Putin. And in fact, in attacking infrastructure and the like in Russia. So if he does what it looks like he's going to do, it may backfire. Your thoughts? Jay, he will get more aggressive in Ukraine. And Jay, he has woven it into the fabric of Russian politics in the recent years, this Ukraine conflict. He has won the elections. He is very safe. He's kept his front going because it serves his point well that he talks of Russia-Russia as a superpower. Ukraine is now just one side point. Now he's trying to come into mainstream politics by coming out.  When everybody writes we stand with Russia, he comes right back into global diplomacy. The person who was isolated walk him in and then now we stand with Russia because a terror attack is something which hurts every liberal democracy and every freedom-loving citizen of the world. So he comes back right back into the sympathy that Russia got out of this attack is what serves him well. And Ukraine getting more weapons and fighting in the front, they are going to continue this for a long time because Zalsensky also in his fatigues, he is used to this. It is now become really, I'm telling those become routine for them. They're not taking it as an urgent war or something to achieve. None of them have clear means on your objectives what they want. Putin wants to take over entire of Ukraine. They just want them not to join NATO. Ukraine wants to, it's very happy collecting money and continuing the struggle with Russia. But nothing and they keep on asking for membership of NATO. So this is like this ongoing conflict that they've kept it on. It's a good funding idea for Ukraine, don't you think, Jay? Well, yeah, but you know all of this reflects a deterioration of security, of national security, of regional security. And for that matter taking it together of global security. So we live in a time when regional, national and global security have never been so questioned and questionable. So I'm more worried than I was before this happened because I think it has implications far beyond Moscow and Russia and Putin. Well, thank you, Romani Kandekar, a global strategist, a geopolitical analyst. Thank you so much for joining us for this discussion. We'll do it again soon. Thank you so much. Aloha. Aloha. If you liked this show, why don't you give us a like or subscribe to our channel? Thanks so much.