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Facebook Reinstates ‘Storm Area 51’ Group
A little over a month ago, a social media group that was effectively looking to organise a ‘raid’ on Area 51 (presumably to say hello to some aliens) started going viral and last week had as many as 2 million people committed to ‘storming’ the gates with the ethos that…
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Facebook Will Not Ban Hate Or Conspiracy Theorist Pages
Facebook Will Not Ban Hate or Conspiracy Theorist Pages Facebook has been fighting off bad news stories left, right and centre for the last 6 months. The social media site has regularly found it subject to criticism be it for the content it hosts or for the way it has…
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Win a Copy of Owlboy On Steam
Owlboy Competition As you know, we at eTeknix regularly like to arrange competitions and giveaways to say thanks to our fans. This one, however, might be one of the simplest and best yet. In this competition, we are giving you the opportunity to win a free copy of the Steam…
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A Reddit Thread For Men Who Blame Women for Being Single is Banned
Reddit Bans ‘involuntarily celibate’ Group for Sexist and Misogynistic Theme Reddit is never too far away from controversy. The message board has often found itself the center of unwanted attention. This, in fairness, is generally down to their ‘everything goes’ policy. Ironically, even that policy went as in recent years, due…
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AMD’s Open Platform Compute to Support OpenCL and More
AMD has divulged more information on their Open Compute Platform which deserves some attention. The ROCm officially supports OpenCL 1.2+ which consists of an OpenCL 1.2 compatible runtime and OpenCL 2.0 kernel language. Key features include Coarse Grain SVM, C11 Atomics, OpenCL 2.0 Images Support, Latency to compute optimisation and…
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EU Code of Conduct Hopes to Tackle Hate Speech Online
Every time you go online you risk many things, from companies taking your details and advertising to you with ads from all over the internet or at the worst cases, the people online can leave rather hateful comments. With harmful comments appearing on pages and forums all over the internet…
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Piracy Group Suspends New Cracks to Gauge Sales Impact
There’s always a heated discussion regarding the reason why people illegally download content. Some argue it’s simply down to wanting the latest film/games/album without paying, while other figures like Gabe Newell have suggested piracy is a “service problem”. Whatever the case, it’s evidently clear that there are quite a lot…
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Researchers Catch Cyber-Espionage Groups After Hackers Infect Their Own Systems
A cyber-espionage group who is believed to be tied to the Iranian Government, and has targeted over 1,600 defense officials, diplomats, researchers, journalists and more, may have just landed themselves in their own hacking trap. The group known as “Rocket Kitten” has been going since 2014, and for quite some…
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Online Digital JPEG images May Soon Be Subject To DRM
Oh what fresh hell is this? If you thought the pitfalls of DRM (Digital Rights Management) had finally dawned on the tech industry, then well no, no it has not. Considering an initiative which has been launched by the Joint Photographic Experts Group with the aim of attempting to persuade people…
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Anonymous Attacks The Canadian Government and Leaks Classified Data
In the real world, the establishment counteracts instances of criminality by an extensive array of resources and a structured organisation. In cyberspace, groups such as Anonymous are organised, well versed in operational hacking activities and are able to use tools which are inexpensive, perhaps this is why governments and companies…
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99% Of Women Profiles On Ashley Madison Were Fake
Oh, well I am not surprised but here we go, the well reported data breach on dating website Ashley Madison has exposed a wealth of information including a huge proportion of fake profiles. Impact Team who were the group behind the hack, announced that it was releasing the information in…
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Facebook Keeps Banning People With Unconventional Names
How weird can a name be for Facebook decides to ban you from creating profile page? Well, apparently not that weird. This is the case of Al Overdrive, who got his Facebook account disabled second time around. Before you ask, yes, his real name is Alister Overdrive, or Al Overdrive…
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Daybreak Games Under Attack after CEO Threatening Lizard Squad
Publicly attacking the cyber bullies Lizard Squad might not have been the best idea that Daybreak Games CEO John Smedley ever had. A day after he made headlines with his twitter posts, the massively multiplayer online zombie game, H1Z1, is experiencing trouble and people can’t login. Other Daybreak releases also experienced…
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WhatsApp Messages Led to Belgian Terror Arrests
The FBI have been trying hard to get unlimited access messages passed by encrypted messaging services. However, it apparently didn’t need that level of access to WhatsApp messages sent between members of an alleged Chechen jihadist group operating in Belgium. According to reports released. A pair of men were arrested and warrants were issued…
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Internet Access Makes You Think You Are Smarter than You Actually Are
Yale University has made a study regarding the psychological impact of searching for answers on the internet, having some interesting results regarding people and how well prepared they believe to be. “The internet is such a powerful environment, where you can enter any question, and you basically have access to…
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