Month: June 2020

A Russian computer hacker who facilitated $20 million in credit card fraud and ran a sophisticated clearinghouse for international cybercriminals was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison. Prosecutors say Aleksei Burkov of St. Petersburg, Russia, filled a unique niche in the world of cybercrime, describing his Direct Connection website as “the most exclusive criminal
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These days, there’s much more to Facebook than just poking your friends and sharing photos of your vacation. Facebook has grown to become a thriving and active marketplace. And like any marketplace, there are times when you need to get a refund for something you’ve purchased. Unfortunately, the Facebook payment refund process isn’t always easy
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Nintendo-backed The Pokemon Company on Wednesday announced a cross-platform Pokemon team battling game developed with Tencent’s Timi Studio as the two gaming heavyweights deepen their cooperation with a twist on the Pokemon format. In “Pokemon Unite,” teams of five hunt down Pokemon in a battle area, with the game running on Nintendo’s Switch console and
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More Cyberpunk is here. On Thursday, CD Projekt Red unveiled a new trailer for its upcoming open-world action-adventure role-playing game, Cyberpunk 2077, and announced a new original anime series called Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, which will release in 2022 on Netflix. The new Cyberpunk 2077 trailer further hypes up the futuristic neon-lit world of Night City, and
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French video gaming company Ubisoft said it has launched an investigation into claims of sexual assault and harassment levelled against some of its employees. In a statement issued on its website on Thursday, it said it was “truly sorry” about the allegations. On Wednesday several allegations by former or current Ubisoft staff started to appear
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When Apple confirmed it had acquired Fleetsmith, a mobile device management vendor, on Wednesday, it seemed like a straightforward purchase, but Fleetsmith customers quickly learned a key piece of functionality had stopped working  — and many weren’t happy about it. Apple systems administrators began complaining on social media on the morning of the acquisition announcement
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The Trump administration has determined that top Chinese firms, including telecoms equipment giant Huawei Technologies and video surveillance company Hikvision, are owned or controlled by the Chinese military, laying the groundwork for new US financial sanctions, according to a document seen by Reuters on Wednesday. A US defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed
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Google has announced the Android 11 Developer Preview for Android TV, extending the company’s developer preview programmes beyond Android for smartphones. For now, this is an update only to the framework of the operating system, and nothing has been shown about how the user interface will look on the next iteration of Android TV. The
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Microsoft has been rumoured to launch a more affordable and less powerful Xbox console, codenamed ‘Lockhart’ since last year. Now, a tipster on Twitter has posted a leaked Microsoft document that includes references to this ‘Lockhart’ console and multiple “Project Scarlett consoles.” Meanwhile, another report has added some of the Xbox ‘Lockhart’ specifications that include
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