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Police Called On Kid Looking For Work, Police Gets Him A PS5
At some point in our childhood, some of us have gone door to door or thought about it, looking for some work to get some cash for the newest video game. Now I don’t think any of us have had the police called on us for that and I also…
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Ubisoft To Team up With UK Police To Tackle Toxic Gamers
We’ve all encountered a toxic gamer here and there usually our mothers have as well, though following a report from the BBC, it seems as though Ubisoft is looking to take tackling the issue of toxic gamers to a whole new level. Ubisoft has signed a “first-of-its-kind” deal with the…
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UK Police Announce Major Crackdown on Illegal Sports Streams
Piracy is a crime, streaming dodgily obtained movies is illegal, etc. etc. – We all know it, and for those of you who do engage in it, don’t expect any judgment from me here. While the online variety of this was once more predominantly focused on music and software downloads,…
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UK Police Trial AI System Designed to Report Drivers Using Their Phones!
Driving while using your phone is not just a really stupid idea, but it’s also a crime. And following the closure of a prior loophole earlier this year that could potentially allow people to get away with it, police in the UK are now clearly keen to really start clamping…
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Club Penguin Fan Remake Shutdown with UK Police Currently Holding Website!
I never once visited the official Club Penguin website. And even if I wanted to at this point, I’d have a hard time considering that following their purchase of it in 2007, Disney shut it down in 2017 (with a largely unsuccessful attempt to move people onto a mobile version).…
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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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Thieves Jailed After Using Game Boy-Like Cloning Device to Steal Cars
As we move more and more towards an age where cars have keyless entry and ignition, in many respects, stealing a vehicle has largely moved away from the remit of the casual thief and more into the hands of high-tech criminal organisations. As you may be aware, such groups often…
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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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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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Ubisoft ‘Hostage’ Situation Was a Fake Bomb Ransom Attempt
Yesterday evening, we reported on a rather alarming situation that was occurring at Ubisoft’s Montreal HQ. Although details were somewhat vague at the time, it seemed that some kind of hostage situation was happening at the office building with around (or at least) 30 staff members being held on the…
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Hostage Situation at Ubisoft Montreal HQ!
Following various reports on Twitter, a significant portion of the staff at Ubisoft’s Montreal headquarters are confirmed as being held hostage by person/s yet unknown. With armed police currently on the scene, this is still a developing situation and in terms of the who or why we don’t yet have…
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Man Caught Playing Pokemon Go on 8 Phones While in His Car
Since its release over 3 years ago, it’s pretty clear that some people out there take their Pokemon Go gaming very seriously. For example, there was a case of a 69-year old man who had 11 phones attached to his bike all in the effort to ‘catch ’em all’. One…
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John McAfee Is Alive, Well, and Released!
Yesterday, we reported how the official Twitter account for John McAfee had said that the cryptocurrency advocate (and former anti-virus maker) had vanished. Specifically, missing, presumed captured by the CIA. As such, various threats were being made that if he didn’t check-in soon his ‘insurance policy’ of a supposed 31…
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Osaka Police Use CAPCOM’s Street Fighter in Recruitment Drive
Characters Used as Mascot with CAPCOM’s Blessing CAPCOM, the Japanese video game publisher, has been working with Osaka Prefecture Police since 2013 to implement crime prevention awareness campaigns. This year however, Osaka Prefectural Police has requested the use of CAPCOM’s Street Fighter characters for their cyber crime investigator recruitment drive.…
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Indian Police Confirm PUGB Mobile Players Are Being Arrested
PUGB Mobile Players Being Arrested A little over a week ago, it was revealed that 4 major cities in India had ban people from playing PUBG mobile. At the time, although we did hear about it, we treated it as a nonsensical law that was likely just to gain attention…
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