Well yes, I've always regarded "bricked" as meaning that the camera was completely and irreversibly dead as a parrot, deceased, defunct and gone to heaven.
The way testing works is more complex than many imagine. If the program only have say 34 independent binary variables, the number of tests to run to check all possible combinations would be 2-power-34 which is about 17 billion tests! So what the companies usually do, combine those variables that are supposed to work together into some groups of 3 or 4 or more. In this example, 3-way groups require only 33 tests and 4-way requires 85 test to be run. So what happens is that some "coincidental" cases may happen outside of those anticipated groups that may lead to irreversible failures. Those cases are quite rare but may remotely happen. This is true for all testing departments of all companies manufacturing precision instruments, including cameras.
Maybe I didn't use proper word to describe situation. Camera was not bricked but hung. I had to remove battery to close down shutter. Apart from being hung there was no image from the sensor in EVF just after turning camera on - neverthless it was hung or not.
Generative AI needs computational power on the fly and creates new data so is best to use in post processing and would need access to the internet.
This site is no longer quick at releasing information like it used to. I actually got an email from Canon about the firmware and didn't see anything for days on here.
Yes, it pays to check a lot of sites regularly, some are faster than others. CanonWatch is usually pretty fast, but they and others often latch onto items that have appeared on CR first. Dpreview is usually very fast, but isn't specific to Canon, so minor things like updates take a bit of time to be reported. Even the sites of the official Canon distributors vary a lot in the speed at which they report updates.
I've started to take the brick stories with a grain of salt though. I mean I saw one poster here upset that he had to format his card in order to get the firmware update to read properly. While I believe bricking cameras is definitely a thing, I also think there could be more to each story in terms of people following Canon's instructions precisely.
