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Rust servers destroyed in huge blaze, large amount of game data lost forever

By Darryn Bonthuys
March 11, 2021
in :  Gaming
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In big “uh-oh spaghetti-Os!” news, some Rust players are in for a bad time as all their progress has been wiped from existence thanks to the purifying power of fire. Rust developer Facepunch Studios confirmed that a large amount of save data had been lost after a fire broke out at one of its datacentres, eventually claiming tan entire building at the OVH Datacentre in Strasbourg, France.

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How much data do games like Fortnite and League of Legends use? Not that much

By Darryn Bonthuys
August 17, 2020
in :  Gaming
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If you’re on a fixed bandwidth budget, it’s handy to have an estimation of just how many megabytes you’ll be spending in a game at any given time. Telecommunications site whistleout measured the approximate hourly download figures (give or take, depending on certain factors of course) for the 22 most popular games on the planet currently.

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Huge Nintendo legacy console leak reveals a treasure trove of information

By Darryn Bonthuys
May 5, 2020
in :  Gaming
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Nobody keeps a secret like Nintendo, as the Japanese company is notorious for having a grip so tight on the inner workings of their company that they could use it to squeeze juice from a rock. What does rock juice taste like? That’s another secret that only Nintendo knows the dark and horrible answer to. Said grip must have loosened slightly lately, as data miners struck gold with a thick vein of Nintendo secrets that were thrown up on 4Chan.

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Technology

Facebook is starting to share its location data to help fight COVID-19

By Craig Risi
April 7, 2020
in :  Technology
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Facebook is trying to use its massive amounts of data for good to help in tracking the spread of Covid-19.

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BangBros bought a porn doxxing website just so that they could literally kill it with fire

By Darryn Bonthuys
August 30, 2019
in :  Lifestyle
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PornWikiLeaks has been home to a hive of scum who’ve made it their life mission to dox adult industry performers for kicks. One of the biggest names in pornography, BangBros, had clearly had enough of this and so the minds behind the brand hatched a plan to purchase PornWikiLeaks according to AVN. And then they burnt it to the ground. Literally.

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Technology

Facebook to allow users to take control of the data they share – just not in South Africa

By Craig Risi
August 22, 2019
in :  Technology
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After years and years of misappropriating user data, it appears as if Facebook will finally be providing users with the ability to control what information the company shares with other sites. As part of an initiative first announced at a developer conference last year, Facebook has announced the launch of its “Off-Facebook Activity” tool, which for the first time provides …

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Technology

A Google News bug is eating up gigabytes of data

By Geoffrey Tim
October 23, 2018
in :  Technology
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Multiple reports on the Google News Forums suggest there’s a relatively widespread issue where the app is eating through data in the background – often to the tune of multiple gigabytes

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Technology

Reddit suffers security breach thanks to dodgy SMS-based authentication

By Geoffrey Tim
August 2, 2018
in :  Technology
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Reddit is one of the biggest sites on the internet, attracting hundreds of millions of users every month. Commonly called the front page of the internet, Reddit disclosed yesterday that it suffered a security breach.

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