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3DFX Twitter Account Deletion Confirms What We Knew Already!
I daresay that if you’ve been paying to the tech news over the last week, you’ll be aware of the fact that we’ve had a pretty amusing sideshow regarding former graphics card manufacturer 3DFX. If you’re not, then let me try and quickly bring you up to speed. There was…
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Facebook Deletes 7m Posts With Coronavirus Misinformation
It’s certainly been a rough few months as we all look to try and stay safe in these troubling times. For social media, however, attempting to keep on top of the masses of misinformation surrounding COVID-19 has been more than a little tricky. In something of a positive step (well,…
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Prince of Persia 6 Rumor Confirmed as Fake!
Earlier this month, it was rumored that with a domain name registration, a new Prince of Persia game was set to be announced by Ubisoft. Showing information such as Gandi.net as the registrant and noting Ubisoft’s DNS servers within the code, it did appear somewhat legitimate based on the prior…
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FCC to Reveal IP Addresses of Fake Net Neutrality Supporters
It’s been two years now since net neutrality protections in America were officially revoked and, if we’re being honest, so far things haven’t been as bad as many (including ourselves) predicted. For those of you unfamiliar with what ‘net neutrality’ is, they were a set of protections applied in the…
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YouTube Starts Purge of 5G Coronavirus Conspiracy Videos
So, at the risk of bringing this rumor to your attention, if you’re been looking to pass your Coronavirus self-isolation time on the internet, the chances are that you’d come across a rather (and let’s be charitable here) bizarre conspiracy theory on how COVID-19 is being spread. Specifically, that 5G…
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Epic Games offers $1m Houseparty Bounty to Tackle ‘Fake News’
There have been many stories in the news recently suggesting that Epic Games’ ‘Houseparty’ social media app may have a number of rather disturbing security issues. Specifically, unconfirmed sources have claimed that downloading the app has led to various other platforms on their smartphone being compromised. Well, it seems that…
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Twitter Buys Start-Up AI Company To Battle Fake News
Twitter Purchases Fabula AI One of the biggest issues currently facing social media is how they handle the excessive amount of false information that is spread on their platforms. Popularised by the term ‘fake news‘, many of them have started looking for ways to help them speedily identify it and,…
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Facebook Fights Fake Account Companies With Legal Action
Facebook Tackles Fake Account Companies One of the biggest issues currently affecting Facebook and social media, in general, is the way in which news or even people can be manipulated to higher prominence. An example of this is companies who, for a certain fee, will allow targeted ‘likes’ or ‘follows’…
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Elon Musk-backed OpenAI Program Is ‘Too Dangerous’
OpenAI Is ‘Too Dangerous’ To Release AI development is currently one of the biggest research industries in the world. Public opinion, however, seems to largely be divided into two camps. One suggests that it will provide the means of propagating the survival and betterment of the human race while others suggest…
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Facebook Lose Two Key Fact Checking Companies
Facebook Lose Two Key Fact Checkers Over the last 12-months, one of the key focuses on Facebook attempting to win back our trust has been the pledge to improve the information shared on their website. This has already resulted in a somewhat notable change in their advertising standards as well…
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US Net Neutrality Gets Dirty With Fake Automated Calls
US Net Neutrality Gets Dirty With Fake Automated Calls Since the US repealed the Net Neutrality protections many people and even States have spoken up regarding their wish for them to be reinstated. Perhaps the most vocal supporter of these in America is California which recently attempted to (unsuccessfully) launch…
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Facebook Has Said It Will Not Remove Fake News
Facebook Has Said It Will Not Remove Fake News In the last year, Fake News has been a major part of criticism against social media. We have regularly been told that social media sites will improve to try and raise the quality of content they promote and crack down on…
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Exceptionally Dodgy Nvidia 2080TI Benchmark ‘Leaks’
Exceptionally Dodgy Nvidia 2080ti Benchmark ‘Leaks’ Literally, at any moment now, we’re expecting Nvidia to give a confirmation on the next series in their graphics card line. We know its coming, Nvidia has said so, but for exact details, they have remained exceptionally tight-lipped. There was not such much as…
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YouTube Dedicates $25m To Fight Fake News
YouTube Dedicates $25m To Fight Fake News The term ‘fake news’ was never really popularised until Donald Trump started mentioning it. It has, however, fallen into general use since in the English language. The term is quite literally as in referring to a news article (be it written or video)…
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AMD Clarifies Warranty When Using Aftermarket CPU Coolers
Fake News Circulating Regarding AMD Warranty False headlines were spreading a few days ago about AMD‘s Ryzen CPU warranty. In particular, it involves the use of aftermarket CPU coolers and how it invalidates the warranty. Some sites even claimed that this is a new change for Ryzen CPUs, but a…
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