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Game Informer Shutting Down After 33 Years
After 33 years, the iconic gaming magazine Game Informer is closing its doors. This closure follows recent layoffs at GameStop, the magazine’s parent company, as the retailer faces financial challenges. Game Informer has been a cornerstone in the gaming community, providing comprehensive reviews, news, and features. The End of an…
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US Department of Energy to Develop World’s Fastest Supercomputer
The United States Department of Energy (DoE) is set to develop the world’s fastest supercomputer, called Discovery. This new machine will surpass the current record-holder, Frontier, by up to five times in computational power. The DoE has issued a request for proposals to create Discovery, aiming for completion by late…
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200+ PC Models Compromised Due to Weak BIOS Passwords
Many PC models from top brands have faced security breaches due to a weak BIOS password. Researchers from Binarly (thanks Ars Technica), a security firm, revealed that the Secure Boot system, which ensures only trusted software boots up a device, was compromised on over 200 models. These models include those…
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Largest Password Leak in History Exposes 10 Billion Passwords
The largest password leak in history has exposed 10 billion passwords in a file named RockYou2024. This massive leak includes passwords from various breaches over the years, making it a significant security threat. Details of the Leak RockYou2024 was posted on a popular hacking forum by a user named “ObamaCare”.…
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Wells Fargo Terminates Employees Over Fake Work Allegations
Wells Fargo & Co has fired more than a dozen employees for allegedly faking work. This decision follows an investigation by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, as reported by Bloomberg (thanks TheGuardian). Allegations of Keyboard Activity Simulation The bank discovered that these employees used devices like mouse movers or mouse…
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Fired Employee Causes Massive Damage by Deleting Test Servers
A former employee’s actions resulted in significant financial losses for his previous employer, NCS, after he deleted all 180 of its test servers. This incident highlights the severe risks posed by disgruntled ex-employees. How the Incident Occurred Kandula Nagaraju, a 39-year-old Indian national, worked at NCS in Singapore. After being…
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Discord To Lay off 170 Staff Pointing The Finger At Growing Too Fast
In recent years, mostly following the pandemic, many companies have faced issues that have led to mass layoffs including many of the big players in the industry such as Microsoft and Intel. There are lots of factors at play including the changing economy, changing tech markets and a large shift…
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Jeff Bezos Says Industry Will Have To Move To Other Planets
Jeff Bezos Predicts That Industry Will Have To Be Taken off Planet Earth Usually the leading figures in the technology and industrial scene predict that killer robots will kill us all. I’m fairly sure that Jezz Bezos might have made that prediction himself. It seems, however, that he now has…
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Blizzard Working on a First-Person Game?
It looks like Blizzard has been working on an as yet unannounced first-person game, as a new job listing points us towards their one of their upcoming projects. While this is just speculation at this point, the fact that they’re looking for an “engineer for an unannounced project in a first-person…
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Gaming Industry Grows 6% Year-Over-Year in October
The gaming industry is already a dominant entertainment medium and attracts a huge following. Gone are the days of some narrow-minded perceptions about gaming being a hobby for adolescents. Not only that, according to the latest NPD report, the gaming industry is growing at a rapid pace thanks to an…
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Michael Pachter Claims “PC Gamers Are Like Racists”
Michael Pachter, everyone’s favourite analyst in the gaming industry (not really) has been behaving in a decent and modest manner as per usual and in an interview with The Daily Star, Pachter made a number of absurd, ignorant slurs against the PC gaming community: “I think PC Gamers are like racists;…
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NASA Wants More Private Use of the ISS
Space is often seen as the biggest adventure left for the human race and when it comes to finding out more about space we often have to use a platform in space to help launch and explore. The International Space Station (ISS) is often used to help study the effects…
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Microsoft to Show “Super Solid Lineup” And New Xbox Hardware During E3
With E3 just around the corner, the rumour mill is in full force with numerous sources making claims about what will be shown. Perhaps the most credible source stems from Shinobi602 who has been known to provide accurate information in the past. According to this very reliable source, Microsoft is going to…
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Do You Own a Startup? The DoD Wants To Know About It!
This is the age of small ideas and big impacts, where any single teen in a room can create multi-million dollar companies and within years be changing everything from the way we talk to one another to the very internet itself. With so many people looking to get into the…
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Apple Revenue Slumps By a Whopping 13 Percent
Apple is the most valuable company in the world with a market cap of $772.65 billion and almost has a cult following among their incredibly loyal customer base. Many consumers purchase Apple products on the basis that they are luxurious and fashionable pieces of technology. Many critics including myself predicted this…
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