Earlier this week, Blizzard announced what's coming up in Season 3 of Diablo 4, and underneath the mountain's worth of lore and loot updates, there was the surprisingly good news that WASD key controls were finally being added to help provide even more accurate and precise movement in the game over the series' traditional mouse clicks. Not that any of them could decide how to actually pronounce WASD when it came to talking about them on last night's Developer Update stream, though, as there were competing cries of "was-dee", "wased" and "double-you-ey-es-dee" all over the shop as they debated this clearly very "controversial topic" live on air. Read on for more details about what they're hoping to achieve with WASD controls in the game, but more importantly: how do you pronounce WASD? Let's get a poll up asap.
'Cyber kidnapping' scam: How This student was found in US after $80,000 ransom paid by parents
02.01.2024 - 04:22 / tech.hindustantimes.com / Cyber Crime
A Chinese exchange student who fell victim to a "cyber kidnapping" scam in which his parents were extorted for $80,000, was found alive but "cold and scared" in a tent in the Utah wilderness, police said. Kai Zhuang, age 17, was reported missing on Thursday after his parents in China told officials at his host high school in Riverdale, Utah that he appeared to have been kidnapped and a ransom had been requested.
The case followed a typical pattern for cyber kidnapping, in which "kidnappers" tell a victim to isolate and provide pictures of oneself as if being held captive -- photos that are then sent to the victim's family to extort a payment.
The victims comply under the belief their family will otherwise be harmed.
After analyzing bank records, purchases and phone ping records in a days-long search, police became convinced he was isolating in a tent some 25 miles (40 kilometers) north in a large area near Brigham City.
"Due to the cold weather in Utah this time of year, we became additionally concerned for the victim's safety in that he may freeze to death overnight," the Riverdale Police Department said in a press release after he was found Sunday.
A sergeant hiking on foot up a mountainside discovered Kai's tent -- which had no heat source but only "a heat blanket, a sleeping bag, limited food and water and several phones that were presumed to be used to carry out the cyber kidnapping," the department said.
The detective "contacted the victim inside the tent and found he was alive but very cold and scared."
After being rescued, Kai "requested a warm cheeseburger" and to speak to his family, which had paid $80,000 to bank accounts in China during the scam, according to Riverdale police.
Kai's host family in Riverdale had initially been unaware he was missing, having heard him in the kitchen in the early morning the day of his disappearance.
Riverdale police worked with the FBI, the US embassy in China and Chinese officials to find the missing teenager, according to the press release.
Cyber kidnappers have been targeting foreign exchange students recently, and in particular, Chinese foreign exchange students, Riverdale police said.
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Todd Howard says he's been sitting on everything about the Indiana Jones game "forever," from "what Indy was going after" to the "arc he was going to have"
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Extremely Rare Counter-Strike Skin Found After 10 Years, Could Be Worth $1 Million
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LEGO Fortnite: How to Retrieve Your Backpack After Death
You’re here because you had a run-in with death in LEGO Fortnite and it didn’t go your way. Dying means you lose your backpack and all the items you had at your disposal. As a result, you’ll be left defenseless and without the resources your character needs to survive. Luckily, there is a way to retrieve you backpack in LEGO Fortnite and restore your inventory.
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