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In Just 3 Months Facebook Has Removed 8.7m Child Images
In Just 3 Months Facebook Removed 8.7m Illegal Child Images Facebook has been fighting many battles over the last year. Battles which, I think it’s fair to say, have seen mixed results. Some they’ve won, some they’ve lost, others they’re still fighting. It seems, however, that one of their biggest…
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YouTube Removes A Number of ‘Violent’ Music Videos
YouTube Removes 30 Violent Music Videos Being the most popular video hosting channel on the internet, I wouldn’t be telling you anything new if I said that it hosts a significant amount of music content. Be this albums or music videos it generally speaking isn’t a bad place to go…
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Nearly 1 in 10 Americans Have Deleted Facebook
Nearly 1 in 10 Americans have deleted their Facebook account It’s been hard to ignore in recent months the data scandal which is currently facing Facebook. Over the last few days Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the social media site, has been answering long questioning sessions in the US Congress surrounding…
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PewDiePie Deletes “A” YouTube Channel
YouTube drooler PewDiePie, real name Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, threw his toys out of the pram earlier this week, during which he barfed on about an odd conspiracy theory – with weird, racist overtones – that the video-sharing site was trying to sabotage him. In a pique of attention-seeking retribution,…
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Unseat.me Lets You Delete Yourself from the Internet
Between the plethora of online account hacks and creeping draconian surveillance laws – just look at the state of the UK’s new Investigatory Powers Bill – there has never been more incentive to pare down one’s internet presence. While, previously, that would entail remembering every website (and associated password) you…
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A Simple Guide On Flash Drive Partition Removal in Windows
Introduction Windows is a great operating system in many ways, but it also has its shortcomings in some areas and at times some hard to understand limitations. One of those limitations originates in Disk Management where you can’t delete partitions from USB Flash Drives (UFD) and that can be an…
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Twitter Shut Down Thousands of Accounts Linked to Terrorism
When it comes to online accounts, they can be used for a lot of things. From buying your favourite DVD boxsets to catching up with family abroad, some accounts are misused and go against the site’s wishes. Governments are pressing harder on companies and social media to track down and…
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Facebook Trials its Secret Message Service in Messenger
For generations the idea of sending a message and not being able to retract it is a scary one. From the day of the first texts, people have sent messages only to realise how badly they could differ from their intended intention. With the invention of social media and instant…
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Mozilla Wants to Know How the FBI Hacked Tor
After it was revealed that the FBI had managed to take control of a site hosting illegal material, people were quickly asking how they had managed to use it identify a person amongst the thousands of users connecting to the site. Now it would seem that Mozilla, the company behind…
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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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The Company Deleted by One Line of Code Was a Hoax!
Yesterday we reported that a man had mistakenly deleted his entire company using just one line of faulty code. Now it turns out that the entire thing appears to have been made up by the poster as a publicity stunt. Marco Marsala posted on the Server Fault forums asking for…
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One Line of Code Accidentally Deletes Entire Company
As far as code mistakes go, few can claim that their careless coding practices caused the deletion of their entire company. Marco Marsala ran a small web hosting company that carried the websites of a number of clients until he unwittingly instructed the servers to delete their entire contents, effectively…
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Bash for Windows 10 Unfazed by Deadliest Linux Command
Linux Bash shell came to Windows 10 recently as part of the latest Windows Insider preview build. Immediately, people began to experiment, some to see how well the shell was implemented, while others went straight for a command capable of wiping the entire system on a Linux operating system “rm…
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Windows 10 May Be Removing Programs Without Telling You
Windows 10 is designed to be the next step for Microsoft’s operating system, with internet functions built-in alongside apps and new gaming technologies designed to help users make the choice to move that little bit easier. With Windows 10 now a recommended update you would expect that some users would…
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Steam Adds the Option to Permanently Delete Games from your Library
There’s always that one game in your Steam library. Whether you got it on sale thinking it would be good for the price, as a joke with you racking up hundreds of hours on it only for your friends to ridicule you, or even the one a friend got you,…
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