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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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Malaysian Police Seize 1,720 Bitcoin Mining Machines in Power Theft Crackdown
Over the last year, it seems pretty clear that the Malaysian government’s patience has run out in regard to illegal cryptocurrency mining operations. A great example of this was seen last July when a police video was posted online showing them publically crushing over 1,000 ASIC machines. – What’s their…
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Apple to Start Scanning US iPhones for Child Abuse Images
It’s a difficult subject to discuss, but sadly there are a lot of people out there who actively seek, obtain, and/or create images of child abuse, and specifically regarding sexual activities. This is, of course, an exceptionally illegal activity, but one that can be very tricky for the police and…
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Police Publicly Crush 1,000+ Crypto-Mining Computers – Video
Industrial-scale Cryptocurrency mining operations have definitely become something of a major problem, particularly in developing countries where the attraction of low energy prices and/or low-key locations often tempts people into setting up their base there. In a public demonstration against illegal mining, however, Malaysian police have released a video in…
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Smuggler Caught in China With 256 CPUs Strapped to His Body!
In their continuing fight against illegal Cryptocurrency operations, it’s not exactly a secret that China has been hugely cracking down on not only mining operations looking to set themselves up in the country but also those who have been attempting to smuggle PC hardware into the country. While, to date,…
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Illegal Mining Farm Raid Finds 3,800 PS4 Systems!
Ever since the cryptocurrency mining craze started to boom again last Summer, there have been literally masses of new industrial-scale operations popping up all over the world. Given the high cost of electricity in most countries, however, a lot of them, in order to turn a bigger profit, have relied…
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UK Police Drugs Sting Accidentally Discovers Illegal Mining Operation
Earlier this week, West Midlands police conducted a raid on a warehouse in Birmingham (UK) where it was suspected that the occupants were running a cannabis farm. Following a report via The Sun, however, (and yes, admittedly not my proudest source), it turns out that while something illegal was definitely…
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New York Looks To Make Elon Musk’s Flamethrowers Illegal
Boring Company Flamethrower You may recall, in one of the many adventures of Elon Musk, that last year he began taking pre-orders for a flamethrower created by his ‘Boring Company’. The product (following the release of a few videos) proved to be hugely popular with all 20,000 units being purchased.…
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Game of Thrones Season 8 Has Been Pirated 58 Million Times
Game of Thrones It feels like it took an eternity, but last Sunday marked the return of Game of Thrones to our TV sets and the first episode of the final series did not disappoint. Earlier this month, however, some pretty strong warnings were put out to those who did…
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Planning To Pirate Game Of Thrones? – Do So At Your Own Risk!
Game Of Thrones With us being less than 2 weeks away from the launch of the final series of Game of Thrones, you might be tempted to have a bit of a catch-up binge watch to remember exactly where everything left off. Some of the more unscrupulous amongst you might…
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New Steam Game Listing Sparks Fresh Censorship Debate
New Steam Game Reignited Censorship Issue After seemingly wringing their hands for several years as to what to do regarding the matter of ‘adult gaming’ Valve finally decided that Steam would have a ‘within reasons’ everything goes policy. The decision took the company several years to make any firm stance…
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Autopilot Tesla Drove 7 Miles With Drunk Driver Asleep
Autopilot Tesla Drove 7 Miles With Drunk Driver Asleep In terms of automated self-driving cars, Tesla is one of the companies at the forefront of the technology. Having been given the authorisation for use of their vehicles (in limited locations) in America, so far it’s pretty fair to say that…
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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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Bupa Fined After Employee Sold Customer Data On Dark Web
Bupa Fined After Employee Sold Customer Data On Dark Web Bupa is, if not the largest, then certainly one of the best-known private healthcare companies in the world. For those of us who are fortunate enough to be able to afford it, it can provide a much more expedient (and…
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EU Tells Internet Giants To Remove Bad Content Inside An Hour
EU Tells Internet Giants To Remove Bad Content Inside An Hour A major factor that social media and internet companies have had to deal with in recent years is hateful or illegal content people posted on their sites. It has gotten to the point that many companies have to specifically…
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