64: Aurora Global Hack Challenge, RES MI Event, Ingress News and New RES Host Joins the show

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Today on the show:

Global Hack Challenge
- Infographic & Timer
Prime update – The contrast slider is here! (IOS only?)
TG Ingress Updates discussion – 360 agents and Andrew Krug in the chat when it opened up
- Fast and furious – like a live AMA for Andrew
- In a month they may be starting up Beta Tester program again
- Redacted scanner is on borrowed time.
  - The software it was written with can’t be updated and is no longer supported.
  - Google and Apple want it gone – they are the ones pushing it’s removal. (Krug)
  - The app stores see it as an issue and will force all apps using that software to design apps to be removed from their stores.
- Prime updates about twice a week. Player feedback influences the updates. Working hard on stability
Bans were throughout all of Niantic’s games, including Pokemon Go and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
- 22,000 Ingress Bans
- 500,000 Pokemon & Wizards Unit Bans!
  - Local Pokemon purest had not heard of bans for local agents – Getting bots and spoofers as expected? – Poke spoofers to get Poke only available in certain places around the world.
OP SEC RESTRICTED NEWS – “There is a res only event called mi prime but it’s purpose is mysterious. “
- Directed by the mysterious operators to state it just that way.
- For more info RES ONLY agents can contact DeweyJ directly
- It will be posted in the Not So Super Secret Restricted Resistance ONLY section of the Agent Academy Podcast website. (Once it is fixed and no peeking Goonie!)
PRICES GOING UP and new stuff in the Store!
- Fracker prices DOUBLED – (4,800 from 2,400 for one fracker)
- Aurora Bundle
  - 10 Heat Sinks
  - 10 Common Multi Hacks
  - 1 Nemesis Beacon
Devra Bogdanovich Facebook Live Stream from the NIA facility (1 hour on 8-13) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWaiputsJ6o
- LOTS of story line stuff
- Recent actions and deaths of the researchers were simulacra. Now back in their body with those memories as well thanks to Calvin. Trapped in a NIA facility (bubble – pocket universe?). Nemesis has not broken in yet – but there was an alert @ the end of the broadcast and a strange person seen on camera so . .
- HINTS of Nemesis compromising the Redacted scanner. So will it be Nemesis that kills of Redacted? (Not NIA’s fault!)
- HInts – We need to help them escape that dimension AND defeat Nemesis
- Trapped researchers probably will not be able to reach their Telegram accounts so Nemesis may be spoofing as researchers and putting disinformation there
Niantic has selected the winners of the first Ingress First Saturday Artwork Competition for September, October, and November this year.
- Winners were from Germany, Japan and Finland