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GTA 3 & Vice City Reverse-Engineering Projects are Back After Takedown!
Do you remember the fantastic Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City reverse-engineering fan projects? Known as re3 and reVC, the projects were both hit by a DMCA from Rockstar’s parent company Take-Two, claiming copyright infringement. Of course, Take Two were unhappy as the fan-created source code for both games…
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Hundreds of Git Code Accounts are Hacked for Ransom
Git Coders Face Ransom If you are a coder working in a team, then the chances are that all your work and data is stored within some form of Git repository. This allows all users to access the ‘source‘ data to ensure (in very basic terms) that everyone working on…
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vkQuake 2 (Quake 2 on Vulkan API) Now Available on GitHub
In Celebration of Quake 2’s 21st Anniversary If you fancy some classic gaming this weekend, it just so happens that Id Software‘s Quake 2 is celebrating its 21st this month. In celebration, developer Krysztof Krondak makes his vkQuake 2 hobby project available to the public via GitHub. Quake 2 was…
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NVIDIA’s Proprietary PhysX Engine Is Now Open Source
Physics Simualtion for Everyone NVIDIA is announcing via their blog that the PhysX physics simulation engine is finally going open source. According to the company, they are doing this because “physics simulation — long key to immersive games and entertainment — turns out to be more important than (NVIDIA) ever…
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Microsoft Snaps Up GitHub For $7.5 Billion
GitHub Joins Microsoft Cloud + AI group Over the past decade, Microsoft has been making massive investments in new fields. No longer just Windows and Office, the company has picked up numerous projects, most notably LinkedIn recently. While some buyouts like Nokia or Skype have been controversial, others like Mojang have done…
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GitHub Subject To The Worlds Biggest DDOS Attack
GitHub The website GitHub is popularly used by coders who either want help with their coding or are willing to check others to help them solve their coding troubles. For those unfamiliar with coding, the basic premise goes that your program coding may have 99 errors, you fix one of…
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40 Old Samsung Galaxy S5s Turned into Bitcoin Mining Rig
The words “bitcoin mining” and “good for the environment” don’t exactly belong in the same sentence. However, Samsung unveiled an impressive demonstration of what an upcycling initiative can do using old Galaxy S5 phones. With 40 old Galaxy S5 arranged in a tower, Samsung demonstrates the usefulness of old devices…
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Amazon Lumberyard Engine Source Code on GitHub
Amazon Lumberyard Engine Good news for games developers today, and hopefully for gamers too in the long run. Amazon has revealed that the source code for their Lumberyard Engine is now available on GitHub. This is an interesting move, and it means that developers can really dive into everything that…
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Obama’s Facebook Messenger Bot Now Open Source and Available to Download
The Obama Facebook Messenger bot was released in August and created to communicate with people on behalf of the president. In theory, this allows the US president to receive comments, questions and other remarks from US citizens in a quick manner. The “meet the public where they are” strategy provides a…
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Hacked Passwords Cause GitHub A Headache
These days, when you start to work on programming something, it’s common for a group of people to start working on a project. Be it a simple program or a complex one, keeping track of who has done what changes and making sure you know what’s happening is hard enough…
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Facebook Anti-Hacking Tools Now Open Source
When it comes to security, companies are looking at the best and most ingenious ways to test their systems. A common way for them to detect and train their people in security matters such as hacking is to hold what’s called a Capture the Flag competition. Hack the other teams…
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Amazon Reveals How to Build an Echo Speaker With Raspberry Pi
Amazon wants to push its Alexa voice assistant as far and wide as possible, so much so that one of the company’s employees has released a step-by-step guide to building an Alexa-powered speaker yourself with a Raspberry Pi. The DIY echo can be made using a cheap USB microphone, speaker and…
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Nvidia Partially Open Sources GameWorks Library
One of the biggest complaints about GameWorks is the closed source nature of the toolkit. Because of this black box like nature, developers and competitors have had a hard time optimizing games and hardware for it. With the release of GameWorks 3.1 though, Nvidia will be open sourcing parts of…
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Create Your Own LCARS System Using A Raspberry Pi
Star Trek has had a lasting impact on everything from science fiction to people’s everyday lives. Everybody who has watched the series has their own generation, and for myself it was the Next Generation. I remember watching the first episode when it aired and gazing at the screens as they…
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Play a Game of Snake on Your Keyboard
I still remember the old Nokia 3310, the indestructible brick. I would steal it off my family and load up the only game worth playing. Snake, the classic tale of food and growth, was all the hit back in the day and even with its evolutions, from being able to…
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