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Nvidia reverses decision to disable overclocking on GTX 900M after gamer outrage
Last week Nvidia Corporation, producer of graphics cards for PCs and laptops, made a controversial decision to disable overclocking on its popular GTX 900M card for notebooks with a driver update. The reaction from customers to this decision was palpable and sudden and has led the manufacturer to rapidly reverse course on that decision. The ...
Microtransactions coming soon to Blizzard’s Diablo 3, just not for Americans
Diablo III has a long, storied history now of being a labor of love for Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., which launched the title in May 2012. From the outset, Diablo III was beset with server troubles at launch, and hosted an auction house that delivered a foray into the realm of Real Money Transactions (RMT) that ...
Lizard Squad rebrand with Silk Road replacement to become drug kingpins?
After becoming infamous on the Internet for the Christmas Day siege of Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, which knocked the services offline, Lizard Squad quickly launched a DDoS-for-hire Lizard Stresser. The Internet mayhem group used their newfound notoriety to market this service, and now the group is teasing a new site that will hawk ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 February 18: Bitcoin exchanges get hacked and close, Porn.com 5% BTC sales, Bitcoin Core 0.10.0
This week starts with grim news for the Bitcoin exchange market space with 2015 seeing over five exchanges suspending or shuttering services, and several of them after suffering security compromises. Amid the exchanges suspending or closing includes Neagio, Vault of Satoshi, CAVIRTEX, Excoin, and BTER.com. In lighter news, Porn.com reports that bitcoin represents 5% of ...
Lizard Squad is back: Xbox Live and Daybreak Games Company face DDoS battering
The great Christmas Day siege of Xbox and PlayStation doesn’t seem to be enough for notorious Internet mayhem group Lizard Squad who have continued their campaign of denial of service attacks against gaming companies. The crew is back and has claimed credit for DDoS, or distributed denial of service, attacks against Xbox Live and the ...
Multiple Bitcoin exchanges go offline over weekend, several hacked: BTER.com, Exco.in, HitBTC
Over the past week several Bitcoin exchange services suffered time offline. BTER.com reported a loss of 7170 BTC due to a hack, complaints report that HitBTC is experiencing a service interruption, and Exco.in suspended operation after a DDoS attack and hack. BTER.com Sunday, Chinese Bitcoin exchange BTER.com went offline after releasing a statement that ...
Blizzard’s virtual pet goat raises $1.9 million for Ebola charity
During December 2014, World of Warcraft players raised $1.9 million by buying a special charity pet in game. Agri, a $10 blue goat stylized after the draenei race from the game, went on sale December 3rd and December 31st last year. 100 percent of the $10 price-tag went to the Red Cross. Blizzard Entertainment announced the ...
Meet Spot: Boston Dynamics’s kickable robot dog
The ongoing work by Boston Dynamics, a leading engineering and robotics design company owned by Google Inc., on our future robot overlords continues apace. In a video released by the company, robots mimicking uncanny, skeletal decapitated deer (or perhaps dogs) can be seen being put through their paces navigating all manner of terrain and even, ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 February 11: How did The Silk Road Trial change perception of Bitcoin?
Last week saw the end of the trial of Ross Ulbricht, accused of being the proprietor of The Silk Road under the romantic moniker of the Dread Pirate Roberts. Bitcoin featured in the trial as the de facto currency of the underground, dark web marketplace. So, we ask: How did the trial and its proceedings ...
Screenshots coming soon to Xbox One, says Xbox head honcho
Xbox head Phil Spencer at Microsoft teased a new capability for Xbox One yesterday on Twitter, announcing “Nice to finally be doing this on my Xbox One dev kit.” The tweet came along with a screenshot of the operating system main screen. Screenshots are a go-to mechanism for gamers to communicate interesting events or odd ...