Favourites Finland and Israel advanced from the first Eurovision semi-final on Tuesday, despite five countries boycotting the contest over Israel’s participation. Belgium pulled off a surprise qualification, while Croatia, Greece, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Serbia and Sweden also secured spots in Saturday’s grand final in Vienna.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47253352

May 12, 2026

As the team at Tehran-based Explosive Media keeps churning out viral artificial intelligence-generated Lego-style animated videos condemning the US-Israeli war on Iran, a Cuban version of the clips reacting to President Donald Trump’s threats to attack the island appeared Monday on social media.

First posted by Havana art historian and digital content creator María Teresa Felipe Sosa, the video was shared by users including US investigative journalist Ryan Grim and Explosive Media, which added, “Welcome to the #LRF Cuba,” or Lego Resistance Front.

This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/AnonomousWolf on 2026-05-12 22:32:33+00:00.

Content creator María Teresa Felipe Sosa hailed Cubans as "a people who refuse to submit to the true regime of horror, which the United States represents, as it goes around starting wars throughout the world."

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.commondreams.org/news/cuba-lego-video

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8484458

Banner image: The golden mantella, an endangered frog species found only in Madagascar. Image by Frank Vassen via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Africa’s amphibians are overlooked in conservation planning, experts warn

Herpetologists are calling for greater inclusion of amphibians in African conservation planning, in a recent letter published in the journal Science.

Africa is home to roughly 1,170 known species of amphibians, 99% of which are endemic. Some 37% of the amphibians are recognized as threatened with extinction.

The researchers note that amphibians — frogs, salamanders and caecilians — are especially important as early-warning detectors of ecological disruption, given their sensitivity to pathogens, thermal stress, pollution and hydrological changes in their wetland habitats. Yet amphibians as a group remain poorly represented in protected-area planning and management tools in Africa, the authors write. They note there are only 12 documented amphibian-specific action plans across the continent. These include a conservation plan for frogs in Cape Town, South Africa, and for the golden mantella frog (Mantella aurantiaca) in Madagascar.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), for example, doesn’t yet have conservation action plans specifically dedicated to amphibians, according to the letter’s lead author, Bienvenu Mwale, an expert on amphibians in the DRC and Cameroon. “To date, the DR Congo existing legal frameworks remain broad and give limited attention to this taxonomic group, with a stronger focus on large mammals,” Mwale told Mongabay by email.

Cameroon, on the other hand, has given full protection to six amphibian species, including the Goliath frog (Conraua goliath), the world’s largest, through a ministerial decree. This could be a good model for African conservation planning, Mwale said.

He added that several African amphibian species are currently classified as data deficient on the IUCN Red List, meaning there’s not enough information to assess their conservation status.

“One of the needs for amphibian conservation plans in Africa (that citizens can help with) is specific information on distribution,” Amaël Borzée, a co-author of the letter and member of the Amphiban Specialist Group at the IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority, told Mongabay by email. “This is something anyone can help with, and for instance, doing it through the iNaturalist platform is a great way for people to get engaged. This is easy: take a picture of any amphibian and upload it on iNaturalist, and the job is done, and it helps.”

Karen Lips, an amphibian expert not affiliated with the letter, told Mongabay in an email: “I agree that much more research and much more conservation is needed in Africa. It is a continent with incredible richness of biodiversity, but still needs research to understand patterns of distribution and threats to that biodiversity.

“Africa is one of the regions with the least amount of information on amphibian population biology, meaning that we are not able to assess how land use change, climate change, disease, or other factors affect those species, because we have no baseline population data for comparisons,” Lips added.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8484460

Banner: Secretarybird. Photo: Ronelle Visagie, Author provided (no reuse)

Birds of prey in South Africa are in trouble – a study analyses data from 16 years of road counts

Birds of prey and vultures (raptors) play a vital role in ecosystems, both as top predators and key scavengers. However, compared to many other bird species, raptor populations are declining faster. This is because they need large areas to live in, have low population densities, and reproduce slowly. For these reasons they are vulnerable to human impacts like farming with pesticides, electrocution, collision with wind turbines, or poaching.

In many cases, by the time scientists and conservationists fully understand how bad the declines are, it may be too late to act. Thus, having good population monitoring is vital to act as an early warning system of declines. Many countries in the global south host important populations of raptors but lack effective monitoring programmes.

Africa is an important continent for raptor diversity. Several studies across Africa have used road counts (counting birds from repeated transects across routes) to monitor how raptor populations have changed over time. A recent study went one step further, combining trends from these different surveys from across Africa to better understand these changes at a pan-African scale. Unfortunately, no data from South Africa were available to be incorporated into this analysis.

Monitoring on the road.

In our recent study we took advantage of data that was collected by one dedicated fieldworker, Ronelle Visagie, who drove nearly 400,000 km (the distance from Earth to the moon) across the central area of South Africa (see map) between 2009 and 2025, while she worked for the Birds of Prey Programme of the Endangered Wildlife Trust.

Map of the study area showing the distribution of all road counts conducted between 2009 and 2025. The black polygon indicates the core survey area.

During these 16 years, Ronelle counted all the raptors and large birds that she saw on these work trips. Comparing how the rate of these observations (numbers of individuals per 100km driven) changed over time allowed us to explore species population trends. We had enough data to examine trends for 18 raptors and eight other large bird species over this period. Unfortunately, we did not find a good news story.

These road counts revealed that 50% of the species (13 out of 26) declined significantly, while only three species (12%) showed significant increases. The remaining ten species (38%) showed no significant trends (see Figure 2).

The declining trends raise serious concerns about the conservation status of several species in a region known to host important raptor populations. Thus, urgent conservation actions are needed, especially for species declining by more than 50%. Given that several of these species are not currently listed as threatened either globally or regionally, their conservation status may need to be reassessed.

Fig.2: Estimated population change for 26 species from road counts between 2009 and 2025 in South Africa. (a) Negative and (b) positive trends. The dashed vertical black line indicates a −50% population change. Author provided (no reuse)

Trends in raptor populations

According to our results, 42% of the assessed species declined by more than 50% in the last 16 years.

Notable declines included all of the three migratory species assessed (lesser kestrel, amur falcon and steppe buzzard). These trends match other studies from their breeding grounds in the northern hemisphere, which also suggested declines. Protecting migratory species is especially challenging because action may be needed in breeding areas, non-breeding areas, and along migration routes, where the threats they face may differ.

We also found declines of several resident raptors, including jackal buzzard, Verreaux’s eagle and secretarybird. Populations of these species declined by over 50% in our study region.

In contrast, populations of white-necked raven, greater kestrels, and white-backed vulture increased. The latter is a critically endangered species, but seems to be increasing within our study area.

---

Read more: Nigeria’s Hadejia wetlands are a vital stopover for migrating birds: new survey records species found in the park

---

Amur Falcon. Ronelle Visagie, Author provided (no reuse)

Some of the trends we detected were similar to a recent study that explored raptor population trends from across Africa using similar approaches to our study. For example, our findings of large declines for secretarybird and lesser kestrel were very similar to those reported in Kenya and Botswana. Additionally, similar population changes for secretarybird were detected during winter (but not summer) using road counts in the Nama Karoo (a major part of our study area) during the period just before our study (a 61% decline between the late 1980s and early 2010s). This suggests that the decline detected earlier may have continued into the mid-2020s.

Secretarybird. Megan Murgatroyd, Author provided (no reuse)

We compared the direction of trends (whether species numbers were going up or down) from our road counts and the Southern African Bird Atlas Project (SABAP2). But only about half of the trends agreed between the two methods (road counts and the bird atlas). Species with consistent trends between the methods included amur falcon and lesser kestrel – both showing declines – and greater kestrel and white-backed vulture – both showing increases. Species with inconsistent trends all showed decreases according to our road counts but increases according to the bird atlas project. These included Ludwig’s bustard, blue crane, secretarybird, black-winged kite, and southern pale chanting goshawk.

If we assume that our road counts trends are reliable, these findings suggest that although the bird atlas project data can provide valuable information on the changes in distribution of birds, atlas data may be less well suited to capture changes in abundance at large spatial scales and across multiple species.

Across Africa, declines in birds of prey are often linked to human population growth, agricultural expansion and climate change. In our study area, there have been no major recent changes in land use or population density, but more subtle or long-term human impacts may be driving these changes.

Conflicts between people and raptors, including illegal killings, could play a role. Climate change and infrastructure like power lines and wind farms are adding further pressure by fragmenting aerial habitat and affecting survival and reproduction.

---

Read more: Finding space for both wind farms and eagles in South Africa

---

Trends in human populations

Ronelle Visagie. Author provided (no reuse)

Human populations in Africa are expected to grow significantly over the next three decades, which will increase pressure on biodiversity.

Given the projected human population growth in Africa (79%), and a corresponding rise in demand for resources and energy, threats to vulnerable bird species are likely to get worse.

Gareth Tate. Author provided (no reuse)

It is therefore essential that we have reliable tools to monitor species trends and better understand the impacts of these pressures.

This is crucial for understanding the current biodiversity crisis and preventing severe wildlife loss.

Ronelle Visagie and Gareth Tate of the Endangered Wildlife Trust contributed to this research.

Comments

System & Software Stack

• Hardware: ASUS Zenbook 15 UM3504DA | AMD Ryzen 7 7735U (8C/16T) | Radeon 680M iGPU (512 MB BIOS-limited VRAM) | 32 GB LPDDR5 RAM
• OS: CachyOS (Arch Linux) | Wayland + Niri compositor
• Runtime: llama.cpp custom Vulkan build | llama-server with preset routing
• Deployment Scope: Single-user local inference | 2–3 year static configuration window

Build Configuration

The binary is compiled with hardware-aware optimizations and server/tooling support. Each flag addresses a specific constraint or capability of the target platform.

cmake .. \
  -DGGML_NATIVE=ON \
  -DGGML_OPENMP=ON \
  -DGGML_VULKAN=ON \
  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
  -DCMAKE_INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION=ON \
  -DLLAMA_BUILD_SERVER=ON \
  -DLLAMA_BUILD_TOOLS=ON

Server Launch & Routing Architecture

The server is invoked with strict resource controls to prevent memory thrashing on constrained hardware:

llama-server --port 8080 --host 0.0.0.0 \
  --models-preset /mnt/data/ai/models.ini \
  --models-max 1 \
  --tools all

• --models-max 1: Enforces single-model residency. Prevents concurrent RAM/GTT allocation spikes.
• --models-preset: Loads declarative INI configuration for deterministic parameter application.
• --tools all: Activates full OpenAI-compatible tool/schema support for agent workflows.
• Port 8080 bound to all interfaces for integration with local UIs (OpenWebUI, Helium) and routing scripts.

Configuration Architecture (models.ini)

The preset system uses a global-defaults + per-model-override structure. This eliminates runtime flag management, ensures baseline stability across all workloads, and allows precise parameter alignment per model architecture.

version = 1

[*]
; Global defaults - CPU-optimized baseline
seed = -1
top-p = 0.95
top-k = 20
min-p = 0.05
presence-penalty = 0.0
repeat-penalty = 1.1
jinja = true
batch-size = 256
ubatch-size = 256
threads = 8
threads-batch = 8
cpu-range = 0-7
cpu-strict = 1
kv-offload = false
defrag-thold = 0.1
poll = 25
poll-batch = 50
cpu-moe = true
gpu-layers = 0
ctx-size = 16384

Global defaults prioritize CPU affinity, strict thread binding, MoE routing on CPU, and conservative KV cache management. Per-model sections override only the parameters required for their specific workload profile.

Per-Model Profiles & Parameter Rationale

Quick Reasoning: gemma-4-e4b

[gemma-4-e4b]
model = /mnt/data/models/daily/google_gemma-4-E4B-it-Q4_K_M.gguf
temperature = 0.7
reasoning-budget = 256
gpu-layers = 32
ctx-size = 32768

• Purpose: Low-latency code completion, rapid drafting, lightweight Q&A.
• Rationale: 4B MoE fits entirely within GPU offload limits. Extended context (32K) enables long-file navigation. reasoning-budget = 256 constrains chain-of-thought to prevent token waste. temperature = 0.7 maintains creative variance for ideation tasks.

General Purpose: gemma-4-26b (Daily Driver)

[gemma-4-26b]
model = /mnt/data/models/daily/google_gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-IQ4_NL.gguf
temperature = 0.65
repeat-penalty = 1.05
reasoning-budget = 512   
batch-size = 512          
ubatch-size = 512         
defrag-thold = 0.05
gpu-layers = 18

• Purpose: Primary conversational, analytical, and long-form generation workload.
• Rationale: Heavily optimized for sustained throughput and thermal stability. Detailed parameters documented in the following section.

Agentic Router: qwen3.5-9b

[qwen3.5-9b]
model = /mnt/data/models/daily/Qwen_Qwen3.5-9B-Q4_K_M.gguf
temperature = 0.65
top-k = 25
repeat-penalty = 1.05

• Purpose: Function calling, tool selection, structured API routing.
• Rationale: top-k = 25 narrows sampling distribution to improve tool-call determinism. Reduced repeat-penalty prevents schema repetition loops. Global CPU defaults apply to minimize latency during routing.

Complex Reasoning: qwen3.6-35b

[qwen3.6-35b]
model = /mnt/data/models/daily/Qwen_Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Q3_K_M.gguf
temperature = 0.6
presence-penalty = 0.8
reasoning-budget = 256
repeat-penalty = 1.05
ctx-size = 8192

• Purpose: Deep analysis, multi-step reasoning, constrained exploration.
• Rationale: 35B MoE requires memory safety limits. ctx-size = 8192 prevents GTT saturation. presence-penalty = 0.8 forces lexical diversity during long-form generation. reasoning-budget = 256 maintains structured output without unbounded context accumulation.

Experimental: lfm2-24b

[lfm2-24b]
model = /mnt/data/models/experimental/LFM2-24B-A2B-Q4_K_M.gguf
temperature = 0.6
presence-penalty = 0.8
reasoning-budget = 256
repeat-penalty = 1.05

• Purpose: Architecture evaluation, quantization testing, parameter isolation.
• Rationale: Mirrors 35B safety guardrails. Kept separate from daily workflows to prevent context contamination or parameter bleed during testing.

Primary Model Optimization: Gemma-4-26B

The 26B MoE profile represents the core optimization target. Parameter selection resulted from systematic empirical testing across offload depth, batch sizing, cache management, and thermal behavior.

Measured Performance:

• CPU-only (0 layers): 9.9 t/s generation | 0 GB GTT
• 18-layer offload: 16.9 t/s generation | 9.8 GB GTT | Stable >50 hrs
• 24-layer offload: 18.6 t/s generation | 12.6 GB GTT | Marginal stability
• Real-world 2,090-token response: 116s → 68s (40% reduction)

Hardware Constraints & Empirical Findings

1. VRAM Limitation: BIOS locks dedicated VRAM to 512 MB. GPU offloading immediately utilizes GTT (system RAM mapped as VRAM). amdgpu_top confirms usable VRAM caps at ~450 MB.
2. Offloading Diminishing Returns: Layers 0–6 yield +0.73 t/s per layer. Layers 6–18 yield +0.15–0.33 t/s per layer. Layers 18–24 yield +0.15–0.28 t/s per layer with >0.5 GB GTT cost per layer. Stability degrades past 20 layers.
3. Thermal Firmware Constraint: ASUS fan curves respond exclusively to CPU load. GPU-only inference bypasses thermal regulation. threads = 6 ensures consistent CPU activity to maintain airflow.
4. Context Scaling: Generation throughput drops ~27% at 40% context fill due to O(n) attention scanning. 16K context is the practical ceiling for 32 GB RAM with 20B+ models.
5. Reasoning Budget as Cache Optimizer: Enforcing explicit reasoning tokens structures KV cache layout, reduces attention fragmentation, and prevents unbounded context accumulation during long sessions.

Deployment Parameters

This configuration is locked for sustained single-user deployment. No dynamic context routing, no concurrent model loading, no over-engineered orchestration.

Locked Baseline:

• Vulkan + OpenMP + Native ISA compilation
• Global CPU defaults with per-model parameter overrides
• gemma-4-26b at 18 layers (16.9 t/s, 9.8 GB GTT)
• gemma-4-e4b at 32 layers (full GPU offload)
• ctx-size = 16384 default, model-specific reductions where required
• threads = 6 on 26B profile for thermal regulation
• Single-model residency enforced via --models-max 1

The stack delivers deterministic throughput, stable memory residency, and predictable thermal behavior within hardware constraints. Configuration changes are restricted to model quantization updates or hardware replacement.

Comments

Małopolscy policjanci zatrzymali dwóch podejrzewanych o podpalenia lokalu gastronomicznego w Andrychowie, do których doszło 24 kwietnia oraz 9 maja 2026 roku. W działania zaangażowani byli funkcjonariusze pionu kryminalnego z Komenda Wojewódzka Policji w Krakowie oraz policjanci z Andrychowa.

Jak informuje Policja, wczoraj (11 maja) na terenie powiatu oświęcimskiego zatrzymano jednego z podejrzanych — 20-letniego mężczyznę. Dziś nad ranem na terenie powiatu legionowskiego policjanci zatrzymali również 16-latka.

https://oswiecim112.pl/zatrzymania-po-serii-podpalen-lokalu-gastronomicznego-w-andrychowie-jeden-z-podejrzanych-zostal-ujety-na-terenie-powiatu-oswiecimskiego/

In the aggregate, as many as 295,000 more people may have left the U.S. than immigrated there in 2025, according to one study

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/americans-leaving-citizenship-emigration-trump-b2975395.html

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Affected factories back up and running, we're told

Tens of thousands of Argentines were flooding the streets of major cities nationwide to protest funding cuts by libertarian President Javier Milei to the public university system — a near-universal point of pride in this crisis-prone country

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/javier-milei-argentina-buenos-aires-donald-trump-university-b2975394.html

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Comments

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8484460

Banner: Secretarybird. Photo: Ronelle Visagie, Author provided (no reuse)

Birds of prey in South Africa are in trouble – a study analyses data from 16 years of road counts

Birds of prey and vultures (raptors) play a vital role in ecosystems, both as top predators and key scavengers. However, compared to many other bird species, raptor populations are declining faster. This is because they need large areas to live in, have low population densities, and reproduce slowly. For these reasons they are vulnerable to human impacts like farming with pesticides, electrocution, collision with wind turbines, or poaching.

In many cases, by the time scientists and conservationists fully understand how bad the declines are, it may be too late to act. Thus, having good population monitoring is vital to act as an early warning system of declines. Many countries in the global south host important populations of raptors but lack effective monitoring programmes.

Africa is an important continent for raptor diversity. Several studies across Africa have used road counts (counting birds from repeated transects across routes) to monitor how raptor populations have changed over time. A recent study went one step further, combining trends from these different surveys from across Africa to better understand these changes at a pan-African scale. Unfortunately, no data from South Africa were available to be incorporated into this analysis.

Monitoring on the road.

In our recent study we took advantage of data that was collected by one dedicated fieldworker, Ronelle Visagie, who drove nearly 400,000 km (the distance from Earth to the moon) across the central area of South Africa (see map) between 2009 and 2025, while she worked for the Birds of Prey Programme of the Endangered Wildlife Trust.

Map of the study area showing the distribution of all road counts conducted between 2009 and 2025. The black polygon indicates the core survey area.

During these 16 years, Ronelle counted all the raptors and large birds that she saw on these work trips. Comparing how the rate of these observations (numbers of individuals per 100km driven) changed over time allowed us to explore species population trends. We had enough data to examine trends for 18 raptors and eight other large bird species over this period. Unfortunately, we did not find a good news story.

These road counts revealed that 50% of the species (13 out of 26) declined significantly, while only three species (12%) showed significant increases. The remaining ten species (38%) showed no significant trends (see Figure 2).

The declining trends raise serious concerns about the conservation status of several species in a region known to host important raptor populations. Thus, urgent conservation actions are needed, especially for species declining by more than 50%. Given that several of these species are not currently listed as threatened either globally or regionally, their conservation status may need to be reassessed.

Fig.2: Estimated population change for 26 species from road counts between 2009 and 2025 in South Africa. (a) Negative and (b) positive trends. The dashed vertical black line indicates a −50% population change. Author provided (no reuse)

Trends in raptor populations

According to our results, 42% of the assessed species declined by more than 50% in the last 16 years.

Notable declines included all of the three migratory species assessed (lesser kestrel, amur falcon and steppe buzzard). These trends match other studies from their breeding grounds in the northern hemisphere, which also suggested declines. Protecting migratory species is especially challenging because action may be needed in breeding areas, non-breeding areas, and along migration routes, where the threats they face may differ.

We also found declines of several resident raptors, including jackal buzzard, Verreaux’s eagle and secretarybird. Populations of these species declined by over 50% in our study region.

In contrast, populations of white-necked raven, greater kestrels, and white-backed vulture increased. The latter is a critically endangered species, but seems to be increasing within our study area.

---

Read more: Nigeria’s Hadejia wetlands are a vital stopover for migrating birds: new survey records species found in the park

---

Amur Falcon. Ronelle Visagie, Author provided (no reuse)

Some of the trends we detected were similar to a recent study that explored raptor population trends from across Africa using similar approaches to our study. For example, our findings of large declines for secretarybird and lesser kestrel were very similar to those reported in Kenya and Botswana. Additionally, similar population changes for secretarybird were detected during winter (but not summer) using road counts in the Nama Karoo (a major part of our study area) during the period just before our study (a 61% decline between the late 1980s and early 2010s). This suggests that the decline detected earlier may have continued into the mid-2020s.

Secretarybird. Megan Murgatroyd, Author provided (no reuse)

We compared the direction of trends (whether species numbers were going up or down) from our road counts and the Southern African Bird Atlas Project (SABAP2). But only about half of the trends agreed between the two methods (road counts and the bird atlas). Species with consistent trends between the methods included amur falcon and lesser kestrel – both showing declines – and greater kestrel and white-backed vulture – both showing increases. Species with inconsistent trends all showed decreases according to our road counts but increases according to the bird atlas project. These included Ludwig’s bustard, blue crane, secretarybird, black-winged kite, and southern pale chanting goshawk.

If we assume that our road counts trends are reliable, these findings suggest that although the bird atlas project data can provide valuable information on the changes in distribution of birds, atlas data may be less well suited to capture changes in abundance at large spatial scales and across multiple species.

Across Africa, declines in birds of prey are often linked to human population growth, agricultural expansion and climate change. In our study area, there have been no major recent changes in land use or population density, but more subtle or long-term human impacts may be driving these changes.

Conflicts between people and raptors, including illegal killings, could play a role. Climate change and infrastructure like power lines and wind farms are adding further pressure by fragmenting aerial habitat and affecting survival and reproduction.

---

Read more: Finding space for both wind farms and eagles in South Africa

---

Trends in human populations

Ronelle Visagie. Author provided (no reuse)

Human populations in Africa are expected to grow significantly over the next three decades, which will increase pressure on biodiversity.

Given the projected human population growth in Africa (79%), and a corresponding rise in demand for resources and energy, threats to vulnerable bird species are likely to get worse.

Gareth Tate. Author provided (no reuse)

It is therefore essential that we have reliable tools to monitor species trends and better understand the impacts of these pressures.

This is crucial for understanding the current biodiversity crisis and preventing severe wildlife loss.

Ronelle Visagie and Gareth Tate of the Endangered Wildlife Trust contributed to this research.

The paper is here

After 2026 saw the launch of several strong single-player games—Pragmata, Resident Evil Requiem, Crimson Desert, and Far Far West showing strong performance in terms of sales, Sega has just released its financial results for the year ending on March 31 (FY 2026), and it's not looking good for the gaming giant's live-service games. According to the results, Sonic Rumble Party showed poor performance, and there was a delay in some as-yet unannounced games. Most notably, Sega has officially cancelled its mystery "Super Game," citing no additional costs with associated with the game's cancellation. What exactly this super game was is unclear, but it was announced as far back as 2021 as a collaboration with Microsoft and would see Sega build a game using Microsoft Azure.