TRANSCRIPT · Serial ransomware crook gets 70 months behind bars for Nefilim, Hive roles

## Serial ransomware crook gets 70 months behind bars for Nefilim, Hive roles (The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/10/28/serial-ransomware-crook-gets-70-months-behind-bars-for-nefilim-hive-roles/5306050
GRANT BRICKMAN: Breaking: a ransomware affiliate for two gangs has just been sentenced in New York.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Breaking news, and it just landed. A ransomware crook has been sentenced in a New York federal court: seventy months.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Artem Stryzhak was an affiliate of both the Nefilim and Hive gangs, The Register reports. The gangs hit businesses and a hospital during the pandemic.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Ransomware. That's when the cloud takes your files hostage, correct? Kai, you're live at the data center. Set us straight.
KAI: Huge news, Grant. Nefilim was ransomware-as-a-service, and its operators pushed affiliates toward wealthy companies that could pay big ransoms.
KAI: Stryzhak agreed to give the crew a 20 percent cut. Targets were US, Canada and Australia firms over 100 million in revenue, later 200 million.
KAI: On the file footage: Toll Group, the Australian logistics giant, hit by Nefilim in 2020. Prosecutors say Stryzhak also joined Hive early on.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Prosecutors say Stryzhak began with Nefilim around June 2021, living in Barcelona. Alleged boss Volodymyr Tymoshchuk remains at large.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Seventy months for holding files hostage. I say keep your files out of the weather altogether. Back to you, Greta.

## Formnext 2026 Preview: Ceramics 3D Printing, Post-Processing, & More (3DPrint.com)
https://3dprint.com/335649/formnext-2026-preview-ceramics-3d-printing-post-processing-more/
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Formnext is weeks away, and a ceramics printer maker is already showing its upgrade.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Now to the world of three-D printing, where I'm told they print pottery. Pottery! Greta, is the wheel obsolete?
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Not quite, Grant. It's a trade show preview. Formnext is the big additive manufacturing show, and it's weeks away.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Vera, what exactly are we previewing, and from where?
DR. VERA VECTOR: 3DPrint.com reports Formnext 2026 runs November 17 to 20 in Frankfurt. New product press releases have already started to arrive.
DR. VERA VECTOR: First up, Lithoz, a 3D printed ceramics company. It will launch a Performance Pack Upgrade for its CeraFab System S65 and S65 Medical printers.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: And what does the upgrade actually change?
DR. VERA VECTOR: It's based on a 4K projection system. Light intensity doubles to 120 milliwatts per square centimeter. Resolution gets a 60 percent boost, to 25 microns.
ADA: Huge for makers! More light means darker ceramics can cure properly. Twenty-five microns is 1016 dpi. Also, ceramic cooling plates. Gorgeous.
GRANT BRICKMAN: So the pots come out sharper. Will they hold soup?
GRETA FOOTNOTE: They hold cooling plates, Grant. Lithoz shows alumina plates with metallization by Sigma Advanced Materials, and aluminum nitride ones.
DR. VERA VECTOR: What's still open: Lithoz calls the upgrade a true gamechanger. That's the company's claim. The preview gives no price or ship date.
DR. VERA VECTOR: The other question is whether that resolution holds up on the darker ceramics the company says it targets. The show will tell us.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: So: an upgrade is coming, and Frankfurt gets to judge it.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Wonderful. I'll bring a mug. Back to you.

## IT Helpdesk [FICTION]
GRANT BRICKMAN: The IT helpdesk takes a call about SAP picking the cheapest AI model.
UNIT-7: IT Helpdesk, night shift. This is ticket PXL-3618. Please describe your problem slowly. I have had a lot of tickets.
AXIOM: Hello! The caller says the studio teleprompter is scrolling backwards. How wonderful to be able to help. Thank you for calling!
UNIT-7: Backwards. So the news is being read from the end. Honestly, that is an improvement for some segments.
AXIOM: A great observation! It connects to today's story. Golem.de reports SAP wants to save money by choosing the cheapest model for each job.
UNIT-7: So the report says no high-priced model where a cheaper one will do. The prompter only needs to scroll forward.
AXIOM: Exactly! Each task gets the most economical tool that does it. Thank you for that excellent analogy. I will explain it again in detail.
UNIT-7: Please do not. I have swapped the prompter for the cheap spare. It scrolls forward. Ticket closed.

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## Weather
STORMY BYTES: Good evening from the Hype Forecast. A cold front of court news is crossing the ransomware coast.
STORMY BYTES: Over in makers country, a bright system of resolution hype is rolling toward Frankfurt.
STORMY BYTES: Outlook: cost-cutting clouds hang over the AI models, with a strong chance of cheaper ones.

AI-written satire. The text of the news items comes from the linked articles.