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Games Workshop Bullies E-Book Author Over Use of “Space Marine”
Games Workshop, well-known publisher of tabletop games such as Warhammer 40,000, has decided that they need to take the fight to cyberspace over the use of the term “space marine” in science fiction. Having spent part of my life living in a comic book store, I’m used to seeing GW games and reading their short-but-punchy ...
TPB-AFK: The Official The Pirate Bay Documentary Available for Download and Viewing Out Now
The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard is a grim documentary that follows the founders of TPB during the trials in Sweden up until the final verdict—produced by Simon Klose as a documentary of TPB’s impact, both cultural and personal—and now it’s been released for free as a BitTorrent (indexed on TPB itself) and as a ...
Gameloft and EA Throw in with B10 but is it Enough for BlackBerry Gaming?
When Research In Motion now known as BlackBerry are brought into a conversation the first thing that comes to mind is not gaming. The so-dubbed “crackberry” got its name from how extensively social networking can take over a mobile device but not about how fun they were to play games on. BlackBerry’s new launch model ...
OnLive Has Game Changing Plans for the Cloud-Streaming MMO Market
The year of 2012 was a troubled time for the video game cloud-streaming outfit OnLive, but they managed to pull through only because, after becoming insolvent, they were bought out by another company—also called OnLive. Red Bull UK interviewed general manager Bruce Grove about how OnLive intends to regain a place in the video game streaming market ...
China Once Again Takes Hacking Headlines by Storm
It seems like every time cybersecurity experts turn around, China is standing right behind them. The country has been accused (and caught) in numerous hacking attempts against multiple targets and the most recent hacks against US held journalism sites has just been added to the country’s shady cyber resume. Very recently, numerous US journalism cites ...
Twitter Hacked, 250,000 Accounts Compromised in Expert Intrusion
Thousands of Twitter users woke up this morning to discover e-mails from the social media service asking them to change their passwords. Why? Yesterday, Twitter announced that they’d experienced an internal breach that compromised more than 250,000 user accounts before they brought a stop to it. The incident, reported on the Twitter blog on Friday, ...
Just Look at These Amazing 3D Printed Pieces of Art from Colony
Jessica Rosenkrantz of Nervous System has been working with 3D printed objects for some time now and she develops generated works of art based on generative design. Her newest project, Colony, which is still somewhere been the drawing board and production is all about producing 3D printed designs based on natural phenomena to produce interesting works of ...
Amazon.com Appears to Be Down [Updated]
It’s not just you. Right now, Amazon.com is unavailable in the United States and for me. Reports are that the service (the web page at least) seems to be unavailable for numerous people and only sporadically available for others. The first report of the outage was noticed by Hacker News contributor Nathan Bashaw at around 11:40am PT. Checking the ever-so-useful ...
European Central Bank Concern for Bitcoin Gets Attention (Again)
Digital currencies have a strong potential to be a disruptive technology in a sector that’s seen very little change in many, many years. In October of last year, the European Central Bank published a report about digital currencies that mentioned Bitcoin 183 times while commenting on the impact of digital currencies on the current state ...
How Do I Keep My Data Safe Using a Cyberlocker Like Mega?
Kim Dotcom’s Mega recently launched as the spiritual successor to the now extinct Megaupload. It contains a lot of interesting security features, including what looks like some impressive encryption; however, in spite of its much-trumpeted security, it seems to be riddled with flaws and this may well give pause to anyone who wants to use ...