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| Jan 26, 2023 | A TikToker apologized after she received severe criticism for calling a man a 'weirdo' for glancing at her in the gym | Culture A TikToker apologized after she received severe criticism for calling a man a 'weirdo' for glancing at her in the gym
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| Nov 29, 2022 | How Ariana Grande built her fortune | Entertainment How Ariana Grande built her fortune
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| Feb 1, 2022 | Minecraft NFT Initiative Blockverse Called a Scam After Team Appeared to Vanish with $1.2M in Crypto | An “unofficial” Minecraft NFT collection is now the most recent initiative that turned out to be a rug pull (but the founders claim otherwise).
Recently, the project called “Blockverse”, which offered an on-chain Ethereum NFT that claimed t... |
| Jan 28, 2022 | NFT Scam Alert: 'Minecraft' NFT Project 'Blockverse' VANISHES After Getting Over $1 Million From Backers | RJ Pierce, Tech Times 28 January 2022, 11:01 pm
Another NFT scam might have just occurred, and this is also a big one.
PCGamer reports that the "Minecraft" NFT project known as "Blockverse" has allegedly disappeared afte... |
| Oct 22, 2021 | Стримеры Twitch пожаловались на вывод денег из их цифровых кошельков | Стримеры платформы Twitch жалуются на потерю денег из цифровых кошельков — по их словам, хакеры смогли получить доступ к их аккаунтам и переадресовали платежи на собственные кошельки PayPal. Некоторые блогеры считают, что это связано с неда... |
| Aug 26, 2021 | The mystery behind OnlyFans’ flip-flop on porn | Well, that was fast. Sexually explicit content is allowed on OnlyFans after all. But we don’t know much about why the content subscription service made the abrupt policy change in the first place — nor why it reversed its decision in just a... |
| Jul 27, 2021 | [Updated] Activision Blizzard Under Scrutiny After “Frat House” Culture Claims | Activision Blizzard is being taken to court over allegations of sexual harassment, unequal pay and discrimination against its female employees.
The games giant has been under investigation for two years over claims of toxic culture, with fe... |
| Jul 26, 2021 | Chefe da Blizzard enfim se pronuncia sobre assédio às funcionárias | J. Allen Brack, atual presidente da Blizzard, e Michael Morhaime, ex-diretor da empresa, se manifestaram sobre o processo que a companhia recebeu o governo da Califórnia, nos EUA. Nos últimos dias, a realidade da Activision Blizzard foi tra... |
| Mar 12, 2021 | A Grand Theft Auto V roleplay server called NoPixel continues to dominate Twitch with its immersive ecosystem | The Grand Theft Auto V Roleplay server continues to grow in popularity YouTube/GTAWiseGuy
Grand Theft Auto V roleplay has dominated Twitch for the past year and shows no signs of stopping.
NoPixel, the most popular roleplay server, launched... |
| Jan 21, 2021 | ‘It breaks my heart’: Thumb injury forces pro video gamer to retire | A 25-year-old professional video gamer has been forced to retire due to a thumb injury.
Thomas “ZooMaa” Paparatto announced he’s “taking a step back from competitive Call of Duty” on Twitter.
“This is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to writ... |
| Jan 13, 2021 | COD Warzone Jan 13 Update: DMR Nerfed Again, Stim Glitch Fixed (Full Patch Notes) | CJ Robles, Tech Times 13 January 2021, 10:01 pm
Raven Software recently announced that a new update on game settings for "Call of Duty: Warzone" went live on Jan. 13 offering more weapon changes such as DMR.
The developer publishe... |
| Oct 26, 2020 | ‘Calgary Canucks’ keep loading up, not Josh-ing when they landed Leivo | The truth is, there already is a team called the Calgary Canucks (courtesy of the Alberta Junior Hockey League), but you can understand why people were making that nickname a joke over the weekend after Josh Leivo became the third player wh... |
| May 28, 2020 | Andreas “Xyp9x” Højsleth Steps Back From ‘CS:GO’ Team Astralis Due To Stress | Astralis is now down two of its star players. Credit: ESL / Helena Kristiansson |
| Oct 14, 2019 | Blizzard says China had "no influence" on move to ban Hearthstone video gamer | Blizzard Entertainment says China had "no influence" in its decision to ban a Hong Kong video game player last week for openly expressing support for Hong Kong protesters during a Hearthstone tournament. Following public criticism... |
| Dec 18, 2017 | YouTube Red cancels release of Morgan Spurlock’s ‘Super Size Me 2’ following filmmaker’s sexual abuse confessions | YouTube’s subscription service, YouTube Red, is losing another of its bigger names. Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock’s “Super Size Me” sequel will be pulled from YouTube Red’s 2018 lineup, following Spurlock’s recent confessions of sex... |
| Jul 18, 2017 | PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds creator beefs with its most popular livestreamer | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Two of the biggest broadcasters on Twitch came together last night for a megastream. Tens of thousands of people were watching PlayerUn... |
| Jul 1, 2017 | Blizzard has squandered the trust of Overwatch’s competitive teams | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
From a distance, it seems Blizzard has everything figured out with Overwatch. $1 billion in sales and 30 million players is a massive c... |
| Jun 26, 2017 | Sega’s New ‘Sega Forever’ Emulation is a Train Wreck | In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Nintendo had one serious competitor — Sega. Other game consoles from various companies existed, to be sure. But only the Sega Genesis/MegaDrive (the system was branded differently in different markets) cam... |
| Jun 7, 2017 | Internet cameras have hard-coded password that can’t be changed | Enlarge
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| Jan 24, 2017 | Big Telecom is Ecstatic About Trump's New FCC Boss Ajit Pai | That sound you're hearing?
It's cable and telecom executives and lobbyists whooping it up and popping champagne corks over President Trump's choice to lead the Federal Communications Commission.
From Dallas to Philly to DC to... |
| Sep 30, 2016 | A Massive Cable Industry Disinformation Effort Just Crushed The FCC's Plan For Cable Box Competition | Back in February the FCC proposed a new plan to bring competition to the cable box. Under the plan, cable providers would need to provide their programming to third party hardware vendors without the need for a CableCARD. The goal? Bring so... |
| Sep 2, 2016 | Colin Kaepernick Takes Knee During National Anthem, Alongside Former Green Beret and Ex-Long Snapper Nate Boyer | In the aftermath of the country discovering Colin Kaepernick's silent protest of the national anthem two weeks ago, the most level-headed take came from Nate Boyer, a former Green Beret who had a cup of coffee as a long snapper in the ... |
| Jun 6, 2016 | Breaking silence, ex-Tor developer decries “vicious and spurious allegations” | Jacob Appelbaum in Berlin in 2014.
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| Jun 5, 2016 | Tor developer Jacob Appelbaum quits after “sexual mistreatment” allegations [Updated] | Jacob Appelbaum, as seen in this 2013 photo.
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| Jun 4, 2016 | Tor Project developer steps down amid sexual mistreatment allegations | The Tor Project confirmed today that one of its prominent developers, Jacob Appelbaum, stepped down in response to what it called “public allegations of sexual mistreatment.” The Tor Project, which develops the Tor browser and network, had ... |
| Jan 6, 2016 | No, Twitter won’t be increasing character limit to 10,000 | Share this article:
They just won’t die off; last September, rumours surfaced that Twitter was considering dropping its 140-character limit. Yesterday, more fuel was added to the fire by claims that the company is considering a 10,000 chara... |
| Sep 30, 2015 | Twitter looking to drop 140-character limit. Could spell death of Twitterstorms | Share this article:
Twitter is building a new product that will enough users Tweet with more than the standard 140-character limit, Re/code reports.
While the product is yet to see the light of day, sources report that it will most likely a... |
| Dec 31, 2014 | The unusual suspects: Ex-employees, Lizard Squad may have aided Sony hack | reader comments 74 with 53 posters participating, including story author
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| Dec 27, 2014 | Anonymous to Lizard Squad: Keep Your Hands off Tor | Nicole Arce, Tech Times 27 December 2014, 10:12 am
The Guy Fawkes-masked hackers of international activist group Anonymous are stepping in to stop Lizard Squad in its tracks -- not in Lizard Squad's attempts to bring down the gaming ne... |
| Oct 15, 2014 | Gamergate continues: Female video game developer flees home after receiving chilling death threats on Twitter | Nicole Arce, Tech Times 15 October 2014, 11:10 pm
Game developer Brianna Wu and her husband Frank have been forced to flee their home after Wu received violent rape and death threats from an anonymous Twitter user who posted her home addres... |
| Feb 10, 2014 | Emo! The Musical! | Two brassy New Yorkers have conceived a zygotic musical based on the discography of Panic! At The Disco. You can find it crowdsourcing on an IndieGoGo near you, maybe because the team are reluctant to pour their own pockets into something t... |
| Jan 24, 2014 | It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way | There is a story being told about us here in the tech industry in San Francisco — that we are entitled, or that we are oblivious. I don’t believe that’s true. Or I don’t believe that it has to be true.
I’m worried that if we do not have a c... |
| Dec 13, 2013 | YouTube slaps copyright violation notices on game footage videos | A number of YouTube users who post game walkthroughs and feature footage from games in other ways are finding that their content is being flagged for copyright violation. It seems that uploaders are falling victim to YouTube's automate... |
| Oct 15, 2013 | Xbox One graphics currently output in 900p, worse than PS4’s 1080p (Updated) | In the ongoing prerelease war between Sony’s PS4 and Microsoft’s Xbox One, the PS4 continually appears to be the clear victor, from Sony’s E3 showing and Microsoft’s DRM and indie game debacle, to the PS4’s superior hardware and the Xbox On... |
| Aug 23, 2013 | The Counter-Freakout To the Football Concussion Freakout Is Under Way | As more evidence emerges that repeated football head shots can lead to long-term damage, with 49 states having instituted return-to-play protocols for young players in order to minimize long-term concussion damage, with the President of the... |
| Aug 1, 2013 | Russia's Version Of Facebook, VKontakte, Offers Ed Snowden A Job In Data Protection | Well this is marginally amusing. Now that Ed Snowden is actually in Russia, apparently a bunch of job offers are flowing in — including from the somewhat controversial massive social network VKontatke, often called “Russia’s Facebook,” whic... |
| Apr 19, 2013 | It's Not About Whether Amateur Internet Journalism Is Good Or Bad, But That It Happens And Will Continue To Happen | There’s been a lot of hand-wringing among the types of people who hand-wring about these things, that there was a flurry of activity on Reddit and Twitter late last night / early this morning believing that one of the suspects in the Boston... |
| Oct 4, 2012 | Kixeye fires four after investigation into allegations of racism | Social gaming firm Kixeye said that four members of its staff, including a manager, have been fired after an investigation into claims of racism.
The move comes after a former contractor who is black complained about abusive behavior in a b... |
| Oct 4, 2012 | Kixeye fires four after investigation into allegations of racism | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Social gaming firm Kixeye said that four members of its staff, including a manager, have been fired after an investigation into claims ... |
| Aug 3, 2012 | Windows 8 Leaked to File-Sharing Sites – Does It Matter? | A version of Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 operating system has been published to the Web, but there are several reasons that potential pirates may not be able take full advantage of the leak.
A “non-boot” version of Windows 8 Enterprise-N... |
| Jul 31, 2012 | Twitter Finally Reinstates Journalist's Twitter Account, But Questions Raised Over Its Actions | Yesterday, we wrote about Twitter suspending the account of Guy Adams, an LA-based journalist for the UK-based Independent paper. Just a little while ago, the account was turned back on, and Twitter has now published a statement about the i... |
| Jul 30, 2012 | Biggest Critic Of NBC's Awful Olympic Coverage Has Twitter Account Suspended For Tweeting NBC Exec's Email | One of the loudest critics of NBC Universal’s awful Olympics coverage was Guy Adams, who certainly wasn’t pulling any punches with his Olympics-related tweets. Either way he was a bit surprised to find his account suspended. When he sought ... |
| Jul 27, 2012 | Greek Olympian Banned For Racist Tweet Thinks Her Punishment Was Excessive | Voula Papachristou, the Greek triple-jumper whose distasteful tweets earned her a swift exit from this year’s Olympic games, thinks that she was treated unfairly.
Earlier this week, Papachristou was expelled from competing at the London gam... |
| Jul 25, 2012 | Jason Alexander Says His Haters Have An Average Of 21 Twitter Followers, Are Mostly From Texas And Arizona | Actor Jason Alexander, who has been no stranger to controversy this summer, has been talking about gun laws on Twitter, and striking more than a few nerves in the process. He has plenty of supporters and plenty of “haters”.
Either way, all ... |
| Jul 25, 2012 | Jason Alexander Takes Time Out From Twitter Gun Debate To Plug Franklin And Bash | Twitter can be quite the marketing vehicle, and actor (and apparently director) Jason Alexander knows this. He took the time to plug an episode of the quirky TNT lawyer series that he directed with a few tweets right at a time when his Twit... |
| Jul 25, 2012 | Greek Athlete Kicked Off Olympic Team For Tweet | Voula Papachristou, Greece’s triple-jump champion, was barred from competing in the London Olympic Games by the Hellenic Olympic Committee after an offensive tweet on Monday.
She tweeted, “with so many Africans in Greece, at least the West ... |
| Jul 12, 2012 | Iceland Court Orders Visa To Start Processing Wikileaks Payments Again Within Two Weeks | It’s been about a year since Wikileaks filed its complaint against Visa, Mastercard and Paypal for cutting off all payments to the site following the infamous leak of the State Department cables. Wikileaks saw this is a clear attempt to cen... |
| Dec 23, 2011 | Gibson Guitar & Others On SOPA Supporters List Say They Never Supported The Bill | I mentioned that we’d been hearing reports that some of the companies named on “the list” companies that are in favor of SOPA were surprised about this and wanted off the list. Gibson Guitar — which has been dealing with its own ridiculous ... |
| Sep 21, 2011 | Italy Proposes Draconian One-Strike Anti-Piracy Law | In recent years the entertainment industry has been lobbying extensively for tougher anti-piracy legislation. So-called three-strikes policies, where repeat copyright infringers are disconnected from the Internet, are particularly high on t... |
| Sep 19, 2011 | Italy Proposes Law That Will Ban People From The Internet Based On Single Accusation Of Infringement From Anyone | Glyn Moody points us to a frightening analysis of a proposed copyright law in Italy that seems positively ridiculous, in that you could lose access to the internet based on a single accusation (which doesn’t even have to come from the copyr... |
| Jul 21, 2011 | Can Google Get Past The Big Faceless White Monolith Stage? | I’ve discussed in the past that one key area, which I think has been Google’s Achilles heel, is its customer service. To most outsiders, Google comes off as something of a big, white monolith. When things go wrong, it’s often nearly impossi... |
| Jul 1, 2011 | WikiLeaks Intends To Sue Visa And MasterCard For Blocking Payment | WikiLeaks and its credit card processing partner Datacell have just announced their intent to file suit in the EU against credit card companies Visa and Mastercard for blocking donations to the service last year.
In early December the two p... |
| Feb 15, 2011 | Jailbreak your iPhone? iBookstore purchases may be unreadable | reader comments 165 with 92 posters participating
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As hackers push to crack Apple's iOS security checks, Apple appears to be pushing back. One user recently discovered ... |
| Jan 11, 2011 | Band Discovers Leaked Song… And Its Response Is To Release A Better Version For Free | We’ve talked in the past about how there are all sorts of ways that bands and musicians can react to the fact that their music has leaked out into the world (and, yes, it will leak out). There’s a range of strategies from calling your fans ... |
| Jan 10, 2011 | Wikileaks Calls for Sarah Palin’s Arrest | The official Twitter account for Wikileaks has posted a press release this evening drawing a comparison between the controversial rhetoric from public figures that some believe contributed to the attempted assassination on Saturday of Arizo... |
| Dec 6, 2010 | WikiLeaks mirrors multiply as main funding source gets cut off | reader comments 252 with 74 posters participating
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| Aug 27, 2010 | Don Henley Still Really Confused: Actually Claims Copyright Office Is Not An Advocate For Copyright Holders | The aging rocker brigade continues to make foolish statements about the internet and copyright. We’ve already mentioned John Mellencamp’s and Stevie Nicks’ anti-internet comments, but we should probably include Don Henley in there as well. ... |
| Feb 19, 2010 | Help, iPod jailbreaker, call the police! | If you’ve jailbroken your iPhone or iPod touch with little to no regard for the law, maybe it’s time you reconsider your evil ways. Apparently, jailbreaking your iDevice will get the cops on your back if you’re not careful.
Not knowing any ... |