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Clown protests take Read Dead Online by storm

Clown protests take Read Dead Online by storm

It’s been close to a year since Rockstar meaningfully expanded Red Dead Redemption 2, and players have started populating entire servers with clowns in protest. All is not well in the digital wild west. It’s been seven months since Red Dead Online’s ‘Moonshiners’ expansion dropped, and players are growing frustrated...

Chinese face-tracking tech bans foreigners from live streaming

Chinese face-tracking tech bans foreigners from live streaming

A global inquest into TikTok has done little to deter China from pushing stricter censorship on its own soil. Official documents from TikTok’s parent company ByteDance have confirmed rumours that the viral video app is constantly running facial recognition technology to monitor and censor content on Douyin – China’s version of the platform. Douyin may appear innocuous on the surface, but Chinese streamers are subject to an intrusive regime of automated...

By London, UK
Russian hacking group attack vaccine researchers

Russian hacking group attack vaccine researchers

According to British authorities, Russia is sponsoring hacking group APT29 who’re attacking British, US, and Canadian medical organisations. The UK’s National Cyber Security has publicly stated that drug companies and research groups focusing on a Covid-19 vaccine have been targeted by a hacker group called APT29. Known in hacking circles as the Duke or Cozy Bears, APT29 are sponsored by the Russian state and are considered a particularly troublesome collective...

By Bristol, UK
Publishers to raise gaming prices for next gen

Publishers to raise gaming prices for next gen

2K announced last week that NBA 2K21 will cost $70 USD on next-gen, setting a precedent for other publishers to increase prices - but it should come with a reduction in microtransactions. The regular pricing for video games could be seeing an increase as we move into the next generation of consoles, as 2K has announced it will be raising the price of NBA 2K21 by 10$ USD for...

By Bristol, UK
Reddit must persist with alt-right purge despite ‘free speech’ concerns

Reddit must persist with alt-right purge despite ‘free speech’ concerns

Media efforts to combat hate is pressuring user-based platforms like Reddit and MeWe to follow suit, and rightly so.  Since the 18th century we have used boycotting as a political weapon for good. In 1791 some 300,000 people abstained from buying any goods produced by slaves in the West Indies, demonstrating for the first time the undeniable influence of consumer action in bringing about tangible change. Today, with social media being...

By London, UK