Google Will Pay Fine, as French Court Upholds Ruling
Google will have to pay a fine of 50 million Euros for violating user privacy and improperly obtaining permission to display personalized ads. The ruling concerns a case from January, last year.
video games
Bart Swiatek
June 22, 2020
Russians Outraged After a Game Shows Hitler's Victory Parade in Kremlin
At the end of May, the WWII strategy game Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg was released. On this occasion, a short trailer was published, which shows Hitler celebrating in the Kremlin. As it turns out, this did not appeal to the Russian government, which demanded that the sale of the game be stopped in the country.
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Agnes Adamus
June 19, 2020
Chrome Extensions Stole User Data
More than 70 different extensions and add-ons have been found spying on and sending sensitive data of Google Chrome users, according to Reuters UK.
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Mikolaj Laszkiewicz
June 19, 2020
Australia Under Massive Cyber Attack From Another State
The Australian Prime Minister reported that his country was attacked by hackers. The perpetrators were most likely acting in the service of another, unspecified country. The cyber attack affected many entities in a variety of sectors - from government, through basic services and services, industry, to important infrastructure.
Tech
Bart Swiatek
June 19, 2020
Former Google CEO: Huawei is a Threat to Security
Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, currently serving as chairman of the Pentagon's security innovation committee, believes that Huawei is a threat to global security.
Tech
Bart Swiatek
June 19, 2020
Valve Remains Silent on Black Lives Matter; Devs Withdraw Games From Steam
Statements from developers began to appear on the web, as some of them decided to remove their games from Steam. Will Valve suffer from its silence?
video games
Mateusz Popielak
June 17, 2020
Red Dead Online Cracks Down on Ku Klux Klan
Rockstar Games has introduced changes to Red Dead Online that prevent cheaters and modders from summoning character models belonging to the Ku Klux Klan.
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Adrian Werner
June 17, 2020
Activision Blizzard - CEO's Bonus Sparks Controversy
Activision Blizzard shareholders made an appeal in connection with the proposal of another bonus for Bobby Kotik. Their case is that the CEO's bonus is much too high for his achievements and in the context of mass layoffs in 2019.
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Jacob Blazewicz
June 5, 2020
Breaking Bezos - Elon Musk Criticizes Amazon's Monopoly
Elon Musk thinks it's time to end the empire created by Jeff Bezos and break his monopolistic position.
Tech
Mikolaj Laszkiewicz
June 5, 2020
The Last of Us 2 - Naughty Dog Accused of Illegal Use of Music
In a Twitter post, singer Lotte Kestner accused Naughty Dog of illegally using her version of True Faith in the trailer of The Last of Us: Part II. The cover contains fragments that are not in the original song.
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Bart Swiatek
June 5, 2020
Call of Duty Not for Racists; More Bans Inbound
Infinity Ward announced that the fight against racism in Call of Duty games has been stepped up. This includes more frequent account bans (including permabans) and more restrictions on nicknames.
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Jacob Blazewicz
June 4, 2020
Schreier: Take-Two's Foul Play Killed Devs of Kerbal Space Program 2
Jason Schreier from Bloomberg revealed the story behind Kerbal Space Program 2 switching developers. Original devs from Star Theory Games were to learn about it at the last minute, and Take-Two encouraged studio employees to leave the company. This ultimately led to the dissolution of the team working on the second KSP until last December.
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Jacob Blazewicz
June 3, 2020
Google May Pay a Fine for Tracking Users
Google has been sued for $5 billion for violating the privacy of users using „incognito” mode in their web browser.
Tech
Mikolaj Laszkiewicz
June 3, 2020
Revolt of Facebook Employees
In response to Mark Zuckerberg's assurance that he would not moderate Donald Trump's entries, Facebook employees organized a virtual protest.
Tech
Mikolaj Laszkiewicz
June 2, 2020
Trump Suggests He May Help Shut Down Twitter
Is there going to be a war between social media and politics? Twitter has marked Donald Trump's entries as „misleading”, Mark Zuckerberg criticizes the website's actions, and the president himself threatens to shut down „social networks that try to silence conservatives”. Things are getting interesting.
Tech
May 28, 2020
YouTube Automatically Censored Phrases Inconvenient for Chinese Government
Some comments that were critical of the Chinese government began to disappear from YouTube. This is all the more surprising because the service is not available in China anyway.
Tech
Mikolaj Laszkiewicz
May 27, 2020
GTA 5 Online - Player Wins Car in Casino, Loses it Due to Bug
One GTA Online player won a car in the casino, only to lose his prize after the game kicked him off the server. Rockstar Games refused to grant him the car, despite video proof.
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Bart Swiatek
May 26, 2020
Football Manager Sued For Using the Name of Manchester United
Sega and Sports Interactive were sued by Manchester United. The reason was the last installment of the Football Manager series, more specifically its use of the name and the failure to use the European team's coat of arms.
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Jacob Blazewicz
May 25, 2020
Serious Sam 4 - Harpy Boobs Scandal
Croteam confirmed that the 3D model of harpies in Serious Sam 4 will have its breasts covered, which caused a storm on Steam's forum. In topic of over 600 comments, fans accuse the developer of censoring the game.
video games
May 23, 2020
G2A Will Pay Compensation to Devs of Factorio
The sales platform G2A has pledged to compensate Factorio's developers, paying almost $40,000 for illegally obtained game keys. This is a result of actions taken by G2A and Wube Software almost a year ago.
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Damian Strozek
May 21, 2020