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THQ Nordic Issues Fresh Formal Apology For 8Chan AMA
THQ Continues The 8Chan Apologies Last week, the rather bizarre news had emerged that video game developer THQ Nordic, had agreed to hold an AMA with website 8Chan. Now, for those of you unfamiliar with this website, let me give you a quick recap. 4chan is a website, similar to…
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Martin Shkreli Interested in Buying 4chan
It seems the iconic message board 4chan is falling on hard times, again, as Hiroyuki Nisimura posted that he can no longer afford the infrastructure costs, network fees and more that are required to keep the site up and running. While the site hasn’t been doing well for a while, the…
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4chan’s Moot Joins Google
4chan founder Christopher Poole, aka Moot, has announced that he has joined Google, tasked with helping the tech giant to “[build] online communities”. “Today I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined Google,” Poole wrote on his blog. “When meeting with current and former Googlers, I continually find myself drawn to…
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4chan Message Board Sold
The influential and controversial message board 4chan has been sold to Japanese web entrepreneur-turned-magazine editor Hiroyuko Nishimura for an undisclosed sum, it was announced yesterday. Revelling in its reputation as the filthy, sweaty engine-room of the internet, 4chan was the originator and hub of a crazy amount of internet subculture including…
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Moot Sells 4Chan to 2Channel
Christopher ‘Moot’ Poole, founder of the infamous 4Chan message board, has, after twelve years and two billion posts, sold the site to Japanese messaging culture pioneers 2Channel. Control of the site will pass from Moot – who effectively retired from running the site at the start of this year –…
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Whistleblower Who Posted Sensitive Materials to 4Chan Not Taken Seriously
A former employee of Australia’s Department of Defense, who held fellow countryman Julian Assange up as an idol, posted sensitive materials he stole from the workplace to 4chan, where no one took him seriously (and called him “newf*g”, presumably). 21-year-old Michael Scerba uploaded documents related to the Five Eyes spying…
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4Chan Anon Developing Emoji Programming Language
Emojis, a collection of ideagrams born out a unique brand of shorthand born out of the electronic communications, has fast become the universal language of the internet, so was only a matter of time before the character set was implemented as one of tech’s sub-languages, programming code. A resourceful member…
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Apparently Microsoft has Never Heard of 4chan
It’s not uncommon for the business world and popular culture to clash, more often than not, it ends in hilarious consequences, but Microsofts’ latest gaff may be one of the best ones yet. It seems that no one at Microsoft has ever heard of a little thing called 4chan, legendary…
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Don’t Trust the Internet
From time to time we like to keep things mellow here at eTeknix. We bring you the latest news from around the world, so let’s take a seat and let the internet entertain us. This time, in the form of never trusting photoshop users on the internet. Photoshop is a…
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4chan Founder ‘Moot’ Leaves the Site
Founder of 4chan Christopher Poole, better known under the pseudonym ‘Moot’, has said farewell to the site he started 11 years ago. He said his goodbyes in a live broadcast on YouTube, watched by over 400,000 people. ‘Moot’ announced his departure in a front page post on 4chan on Wednesday,…
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Lizard Squad’s DDoS Tool Used to Take Down 4chan
A for-hire DDoS tool, run by Lizard Squad, the hacker group responsible for the Christmas attacks on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, has been used to take down infamous den of depravity, 4chan.org. Lizard Squad made the DDoS tool, which they call Lizard Stresser, available to use by anyone who…
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There was no ‘Leak’ to the iCloud – Apple Proclaims
We’re sure you’ve seen the above image by now. In recent days, an apparent Apple iCloud hack has seen numerous A-list celebrities have naked pictures and videos leaked all over the internet – stemming from popular image board website 4chan. Some people seem to think they may have even found…
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The Main Suspect behind the Celebrity Nude Leak Denies All Accusations
The leak of hundreds of erotic and nude photos of celebrities quickly got the interest of most of the internet and has dominated the news headlines for the past day already. As it is with every leak, people start to wonder where it came from and who could be behind…
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Don’t Count on GTA V for PC and Next Gen Any Time Soon
New rumours are starting to appear that we shouldn’t expect to play GTA V on our PC, Xbox One or Playstation 4 during the Christmas holidays as many had hoped for. Some point towards a 2015 release date while other suggest the project has been completely cancelled. There are a…
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A 4Chan Post Sold For $90,900 on eBay… Wait, What?
Everyone can sell literally anything on eBay nowadays. For example, this eBay seller has auctioned a simple 4Chan post and expected to get a lot of money for it. The really interesting part is that the user actually made a fortune off the post. It is said that Artnet originally…
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