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Teachers Claim Children Overly Affected by Video Games
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012 by

Teachers Claim Children Overly Affected by Video Games

During the Association of Teachers and Lecturers annual conferance, a group of educators has requested for improved legislation over video games, saying that their effects on children are far reaching. They describe how many come in exhausted from playing games ...

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EA Games in Semifinals for Worst US Company 2012
Friday, March 30th, 2012 by

EA Games in Semifinals for Worst US Company 2012

In a vote that considered 32 of some of the most complained about businesses, Electronic Arts has made it to the semifinals, set to face off against  US phone giant AT&T. On the opposite side of the semifinal showdown, Walmart ...

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Notch says Piracy is a minor thing
Thursday, March 8th, 2012 by

Notch says Piracy is a minor thing

Whether he was making a pun relating to his hit game Minecraft is anyone’s guess, but the creator of the sandbox, block building title and founder of Mojang studios has in an interview said that if even a trillion copies ...

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Anonymous bring the Lulzstorm to Pandasecurity
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 by

Anonymous bring the Lulzstorm to Pandasecurity

Anonymous has been in hot water for the past 48 hours, with the head of Lulzsec – Sabu – reportedly having acted as an FBI informant for over a year; leading to the arrest of several high ranking members of ...

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TeaMp0isoN encouraging Nigeria to rise up
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 by

TeaMp0isoN encouraging Nigeria to rise up

Hacktivist organisation TeaMp0isoN has now begun encouraging Nigerians to rise up against the current regime as part of what is being called #OpNigeria Rampage.  As part of the operation, the TeaMp0isoN Twitter posted a pastebin link that included download URLs ...

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Anonymous hacked an FBI conference call
Friday, February 3rd, 2012 by

Anonymous hacked an FBI conference call

The hacktivist organisation Anonymous has pulled off perhaps it’s biggest coup as of yet, hacking an FBI conference call with Scotland yard and recording the entire thing. Posted online earlier today, the hacked call makes references to several well known ...

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Megaupload users could lose data in 2 weeks
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 by

Megaupload users could lose data in 2 weeks

In the wake of the MegaUpload founders being arrested and having their funds frozen, data servers can no longer be paid for meaning it won’t be long before user data begins to be wiped. The companies that MegaUpload used for ...

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Mutiny on the Lulzship
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 by

Mutiny on the Lulzship

Apparently the anonymous collective isn’t as shored up as many would have believed. With one of the leading members – wait, I thought there were no leaders? – set to roll over on the others, there’s been a mutiny and ...

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