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Bitsnoop Torrent Site Shut its Doors For Good
Bitsnoop has been around for almost a decade, but no more. Late in the day on the 31st of March, the site was changed to a goodbye message and a redirect. The site was founded back in 2008, nearly a decade ago, and it quickly grew to one of the…
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Major Facebook Outage Seems to Affect Millions
It seems that people around the world have trouble accessing their Facebook accounts and as a result, the worldwide productivity rises by 80%. Nah, I’m just kidding about that last part, but Facebook does seem to be unavailable to a lot of people. The downtime of Facebook can easily be…
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Over £5b Worth of Gaming Skins Were Bet Illegally in 2015
Gambling sites are a huge problem for many, with anyone and everyone being able to pop online and place a bet. With betting now available on hundreds of professional gaming events, unlicensed gambling sites are letting children bet millions. Many sites will now let you trade different pieces of digital…
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Facebook Is Creating Its Own Gaming Platform For PC
After buying up the hugely popular game Farmville and the company behind the VR revolution’s Oculus Rift, you would think Facebook has had enough of the gaming industry. That couldn’t be further from the truth as the social media network is looking to launch its own gaming platform. The gaming…
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Google Ending Support for Chrome Apps
When it comes to your browser, the added experience that comes from add-ons and apps. If you’re like me and use a few of them for Chrome then you’ll want to start looking elsewhere after Googles latest announcement saying that they’ll be ending support for Chrome Apps. Starting later in…
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BioWare Shutting Down Their Iconic Forums
BioWare is known for their games, from their tales in Baldurs Gate and Dragons Age to saving the universe in Mass Effect and Star Wars: The Old Republic. With big games and big expectations a key factor on how long a game lasts is if it is supported well, both…
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CS:GO Skin Gambling Outs Streamers For Illegal Behavior
When it comes to online gaming there are several areas that prove to be almost dangerous to those involved. Firstly you have actual online gaming, with people often resorting to childish name calling or swatting to try level out the playfield. The second area is streaming, with swatting being opened…
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Facebook Will No Longer Link Their Videos to Other Sites
When it comes to watching your daily selection of kitten videos or people doing silly things, YouTube has often been the place to go. This has started changing in recent years with the addition of videos to many social networking sites, including the likes of Facebook. Now it would seem…
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Mozilla Wont Get the Secrets Behind FBI’s Hack
When the FBI started taking people to court for accessing and storing illegal materials that they had managed to track back thanks to a vulnerability in the Tor browser, people started to worry just how the FBI had managed to track the defendants. When Mozilla wanted to know the secrets…
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While The Last One Was A Hoax 123-reg Has Actually Deleted People’s Websites
A few days ago we reported on the fact that a company had apparently deleted itself, news which later turned out to be a hoax as part of a bad marketing scheme. For people who used 123-reg, a website hosting company in the UK, the joke may be on them as…
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Microsoft Reveals How Their Bing Algorithm Determines ‘Mobile-Friendly’ Websites
Microsoft first revealed their interest in mobile-friendly web pages and finding a way to figure out some guidelines for them last year. It seems that the company has been busy since then and finally revealed how they plan on determining which page is good or bad for a mobile device.…
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Gaming Site Joystiq to Shut Down
Re/code reports that AOL, owner of gaming site Joystiq, is “likely” to shut it down. They say that the site will probably be closed as part of a wider effort to cut its under-performing properties. The site itself poked fun at the “rumour” with its own article, saying that “We do not…
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Torrent Site Admin Sentenced to Five Months Prison
The case started two years ago when Rights Alliance filed a complaint against Tankaner, a Swedish torrent site. The alleged owner has now been sentenced to five months of jail in the somewhat bizarre trial. The 40-year old man was prosecuted for copyright infringement related to the illegal distribution of 32…
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AT&T to Release Sonim XP6, Rugged Anti-Smartphone
American mobile operator AT&T has just announced a new product under the ‘anti-smartphone’ category – the Sonim XP6. Said to be extremely rugged in design, this new smartphone incorporates a physical keyboard and button support into its architecture. This announced device has been marketed as a phone that can support…
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Pirate Websites Generate $227 Million A Year From Ad Revenue
Reports show that pirate websites make a fortune out of advertising. The Digital Citizens Alliance is said to have released a detailed report emphasising how much piracy websites are making in ad revenue. The report is named “Good Money Gone Bad: Digital Thieves and the Hijacking of the Online Ad…
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