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Spain fines Google for privacy law breach

Google has been hit by a near million euro fine for breaching Spanish privacy laws by combining different information on users from its multiple services without letting consumers in on it, and not giving them access to the data that's held on them. This is all about a move in …

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FACT is blackmailing a Dutch ISP with money laundering

British arm of the Motion Picture Association of America, FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft), has taken a step beyond lobbying to have sites blocked and sending out legal threats to consumers, now it's trying to blackmail a Dutch ISP into shutting down a torrent website by threatening it with a …

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Porn filters block sex education, charity websites

At the behest of the government and through their own initiative, British ISPs have begun firing up their own pornography filters, but as expected, on top of not being the all encompassing blockers that they were designed to be, they've done what we all knew they would do and started …

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Win a STEAM game this weekend!

This week we are running a little competition on our Facebook page – to win a STEAM game of your choice. All you have to do is join our funny Facebook comment thread and place a funny/entertaining caption to this image from Star Wars. It means you can put all …

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This man’s working lego car took 500,000 bricks

That's a little bigger than the pirate kit I had as a kid and it's certainly more than most people would ever play with, but the results of what one Australian and his Romanian pal have achieved with just some Lego is incredibly impressive. The little yellow, kit-car looking machine …

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Netflix will start streaming 4K in February

Yesterday we reported that Amazon was going to begin filming all future projects in 4K, in that same article we talked a bit about Netflix filming season one of its original series ‘House of Cards' in ultra high definition as well as testing 4K streams. Netflix has now confirmed that …

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Check out the first AMD Mantle gameplay demo

The graphics card wars are heating up again folks, but not just with performance, with features too. Nvidia is gunning for its GSync technology which fixes screen tearing without the need for the performance drop associated with Vsync, but AMD has something potentially more exciting. AMD has Mantle, its DirectX …

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Guess who has the most bitcoins in the world?

In terms of total bitcoins? It's rumoured to be the currency's creator, who no one has ever identified. His supposed name is Satoshi Nakamoto, but really it could be anything as nobody knows anything about the man (if it is even is a man or a single person at at …

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It’s official- EA is being sued

Last week we reported that legal firm Holzer Holzer and Fistel, was investigating EA's public statements about Battlefield 4's progress. This probably would have led to a lawsuit eventually but for now, another firm has beat it to the punch as Robins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, has launched a class action …

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Pirate Bay hop skips back to Swedish domain

The Pirate Bay has been playing a game of hopscotch for the past week as it changed domains multiple times, moving initially when its .SX domain was shutdown/seized, heading to Ascension Island's .AC, then to Peru and Guyana now back to Sweden with the .SE domain it used back in …

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Britain’s internet archive is now officially offline

Don't worry your internet hasn't crapped out and somehow I'm telling you this through a loaded webpage, but the British internet as we know it is now officially offline. Or at least, it's accessible from an offline facility. This is all part of the British Library's attempt to store the …

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Warhammer Online rides off into Sigmar’s sunset

“Shutting down now, thanks for all the Waaaaaghs!” read the message to gamers logged in a the time of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning's shut down. While there might have been a reasonable number of players still willing to slaughter one another across the Old World, with the licensing deal …

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Well this Zelda game is a bit different

Nintendo has a lot of well loved franchises and bankable characters – even if they haven't been selling systems for it. There's Mario and all of his side characters, Kerby, Samus, Donkey Kong , Link and more, and all of them tend to star in games that are somewhat similar …

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be quiet! Advent competition enters third week

The third week of our joint competition with be quiet!t has begun in earnest and there's a third question to answer, giving y0u the chance to win one of three great prize packs. The focus this week is CPU coolers, so if you need a new high powered heatsink-fan combo …

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Obsidian planning to unveil Kickstarter project

Obsidian Entertainment is said to be bringing a new licensed project to Kickstarter in 2014, CEO, Feargus Urquhart has confirmed. While speaking to Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Urquhart suggested that it might use the same engine as the studio's recent Kickstarter success, Pillars of Eternity. how to increase penis length The CEO …

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Swedish uploader fined $652,000 for one movie torrent

An Ex- Admin of the now defunct bittorrent site, ‘Swebits', has been fined $652,000 for uploading one pre-release movie a few years ago. Along with the crippling fine, he will have to serve 160 hours of community service and has a suspended Jail sentence hanging over his head for helping …

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BT’s new porn filter to block proxies too

If you ever needed an incentive to vote with your wallet on censorship, now's the time to do it. BT has one of those filters that David Cameron loves to much and it's live now, so if you're an existing BT customer, your internet experience is set to be censored …

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IE 6 targeting Aurora exploit is still kicking around

Despite it being over two years since the original Internet Explorer 6 Aurora exploit was discovered, Microsoft notified and patches issued, new exploits using the very same vulnerability are being discovered, which of course isn't Microsoft's fault, it's the fault of all those IT managers that haven't updated their company's …

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Bitcoin tumbles following increased Chinese regulation

The most recent bitcoin boom was driven by Chinese investment, with people from the country buying up more of it than the rest of the world put together just a few weeks ago. Today though, that situation is very different, as following increased regulations by the Chinese government making trading …

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Most and least expensive consoles ever charted

Did you think the Xbox One was expensive at launch? Well, it was and is, but it's far from the worst culprit on the chart this Redditor put together, listing all of the consoles from the past near four decades and adjusting their prices for inflation. Without scrolling down, take …

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DayZ standalone sells 173k in 24 hours

The standalone version of DayZ launched yesterday, with its creator, Dean “Rocket,” Hall suggesting that only the hardcore fans should drop £20 on it, as it is in a very early alpha stage and is therefore not fully featured or even that polished at the moment, but it is at …

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GeForce Experience 1.8.1 is out now

The eagerly anticipated GeForce Experience 1.8.1 has just been released, bringing live Twitch Streaming to Shadowplay, meaning you can now broadcast your gameplay and commentary live to gamers worldwide without the need for any additional game capture hardware or software. As far as frame rates go, there will still be minimal …

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