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Smuggler Gets Nicked With 420 SSDs Strapped Around His Stomach
In another classic smuggling fail, Chinese customs caught a man trying to traffic 420 M.2 SSDs by strapping them around his stomach. Man Fails To Smuggle 420 SSDs As reported by TomsHardware, Chinese customs caught a man trying to smuggle 420 SSDs into China from Macau to Zhuhai through the…
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Thieves Raid Apple Store For $500,000 Worth of iPhones After Tunneling Through Wall
Last weekend at the Alderwood Mall in Washington thieves managed to break into an Apple store location to steal $500,000 worth of iPhones, by digging a hole through the adjacent coffee shop bathroom. Apple Store Raided As reported by Seattle’s King 5 News the team of thieves managed to bypass…
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UK Police Announce Major Crackdown on Illegal Sports Streams
Piracy is a crime, streaming dodgily obtained movies is illegal, etc. etc. – We all know it, and for those of you who do engage in it, don’t expect any judgment from me here. While the online variety of this was once more predominantly focused on music and software downloads,…
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UK Proposes New Law Making the Sharing of ‘Adult’ Deepfakes Illegal!
Following relatively recent development and overall improvements in AI technology, ‘deepfake‘ videos are undoubtedly becoming a problem that the internet, and perhaps the entire world as a whole, is sooner or later going to have to tackle. – For those of you unaware, this technology gives people the ability to…
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UK Police Trial AI System Designed to Report Drivers Using Their Phones!
Driving while using your phone is not just a really stupid idea, but it’s also a crime. And following the closure of a prior loophole earlier this year that could potentially allow people to get away with it, police in the UK are now clearly keen to really start clamping…
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17-Year-Old From UK Arrested for Rockstar Games GTA 6 Hack!
Last week we saw the bombshell news that not only had Rockstar Games been hacked, but the person who did this began the subsequent online publication of what eventually turned out to be the source code from an early build of GTA 6. – Representing the first window into the…
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Scammers Accused of Uploading Copyrighted Movies Just to Blackmail Downloaders
Piracy is a crime, and downloading copyrighted material or using it without the owner’s permission, as I’m pretty sure that the vast majority of you know, is against the law. This is, incidentally, no judgment of any of you who do involve yourselves in such activities. It’s just a fact.…
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Ransomware Experts Believe More Businesses Are Paying to Get their Data Back
Ransomware currently represents one of the biggest cyber security threats to both businesses and individuals. – For those of you unaware, this particular malware encrypts all of the main data on the PC (or laptop) and then requests a payment (usually in the form of Bitcoin) to give you the…
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TikTok Sued After ‘Blackout Challenge’ Reportedly Claims 7th Death!
It seems that every now and then a brand new (and mostly ridiculous) trend appears on social media platforms. You may, of course, remember a somewhat stupid one relatively recently that got people filming themselves eating a washing machine soap gel pack. Over the last couple of years, however, a…
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Club Penguin Fan Remake Shutdown with UK Police Currently Holding Website!
I never once visited the official Club Penguin website. And even if I wanted to at this point, I’d have a hard time considering that following their purchase of it in 2007, Disney shut it down in 2017 (with a largely unsuccessful attempt to move people onto a mobile version).…
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Russian Warehouse Workers Steal GPUs Worth $38,000!
Following confirmation that AMD, Intel, and Nvidia had all ceased product shipments to Russia following their invasion of Ukraine, while GPU supplies around the world still sadly remain pretty low, things within the former Soviet Socialist Republic are undoubtedly a lot worse! – With various reports confirming that pretty much…
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Alcohol Start Sensor Might Be Coming to Cars in the Near Future!
Although drunk driving isn’t perhaps the huge problem it was 20-30 years ago, we still, unfortunately, see too many people today still deciding to get behind the wheel of their car when they’ve had one, or several, drinks too many! Yes, although awareness campaigns and police monitoring has had a…
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XFX in Potentially HUGE Trouble Amid China GPU Import Tax Fraud Allegations?!
For those of you unaware, China is currently in the middle of something of a huge battle when it comes to graphics cards being brought into the country. The key reason for the crackdown is primarily to attempt to stop or at least curtail cryptocurrency mining organisations which the government…
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Sonic The Hedgehog Wanted for Attempted Bank Robbery!
With Sega recently announcing that they were withdrawing from the world of arcade gaming, it did seem that the house of Sonic the Hedgehog had possibly fallen on some hard times. Just how bad are things at Sega though? Well, following a report via Kotaku, their mascot was recently spotted…
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Spanish Police Raid Property Expecting Drugs – Find Crypto-Miners Instead!
With the growth of cryptocurrency mining operations, in order to boost their profitability, a portion of their (less ethical) owners decide that it would be a lot more cost-effective to, you know, not actually pay for the masses of electricity they are using. In something of an interesting coincidence, however,…
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