FBI Investigating XBL, PSN Attacks
You know, if history is any indicator, these guys are all going to be arrested in no time. It seems like every time a hacker pokes his head out to brag, he ends up in jail within days.
A member of the Lizard Squad hacking group, who goes by the alias "ryanc" or Ryan, allegedly garnered the attention of a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation after speaking with the media about Lizard Squad's Christmas-day attacks on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network (PSN).
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Dumbest. Scalper. Ever
This is what you get for trying to scalp tickets to The Interview. And yes, the guy looks exactly like you are picturing him in your head. Thanks to everyone that sent this one in.
"I saw all the hype about 'The Interview' on the 23rd and thought, 'hey, folks are selling these tickets in other cities and it seems like that's the thing to do right now so why not give it a shot so see how it goes,'" said Best, adding that he planned to use one ticket for himself.
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Hollywood: Google Fiber Leads To More Piracy
That's right folks, the geniuses that run Hollywood actually said this.
Even though any decent broadband connection will suffice for illegally sharing copyrighted movies and TV shows, at least two movie studios believe that the faster speeds offered by Google Fiber will result in billions of additional lost dollars for the entertainment industry.
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Xbox Live Founder Leaves Microsoft
Boyd Multerer, one of the founders of Xbox Live, announced today via Twitter that he has left Microsoft.
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Pirating This Game Traps You In An Elevator
I love it when developers use tactics like this to deter pirates. We posted this earlier in our gaming news round-up but I gave it a post of its own so you guys could express your opinion on the matter.
It seems that the first person to stumble in to Croteam's anti-piracy measures for their latest game The Talos Principle has surfaced today, as complaints of getting stuck and not being able to progress have come in. If you pirate the game you'll get trapped in an elevator during one of the game's key progression points and not be able to continue. You'll just be stuck. In an elevator. With nowhere to go.
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Large Hadron Collider Now Has Twice The Power
Great news everyone! The Large Hadron Collider is coming back online with twice the explosive power.
CERN's Large Hadron Collider is set to be switched back on in March — hoping that a £97 million upgrade could push it to even greater discoveries, after it found the "God particle" in 2012. The second three year run of the huge atom smasher will begin in March 2015. The Large Hadron Collider has been switched off since its last run finished in 2012.
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Windows 10 Coming With A New Web Browser?
According to ZDNet, Windows 10 will ship with a new web browser codenamed "Spartan."
Microsoft is planning to roll out a new browser when it debuts Windows 10, according to sources. But IE isn't going completely away. It turns out that what's actually happening is Microsoft is building a new browser, codenamed Spartan, which is not IE 12 -- at least according to a couple of sources of mine.
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2014: Online Console Games Soiled Themselves In Public
This article talks about the huge downside of games that require an internet connection to play or are "online only" games.
There are many reasons as a consumer to be angry about all of this but it boils down to one thing: that game you've paid $60 for doesn't work. This isn't a case of not liking the game you bought, or feeling let down with the end content. It's not even about failing to live up to hype or having a ridiculous sense of entitlement as a consumer. This is about the game not working in the first place. Actually not working.
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Sony Talks PSN Outage, Doesn't Name Attackers
Sony won't call them by name and federal prosecutors "don't really know what to do with underage felons?" No wonder script-kiddies repeatedly attack Sony.
"While most of the group's acolytes are known to U.S. enforcement investigators, many are minors, and the sad truth is that federal prosecutors don't really know what to do with underage felons except to turn them into informants".
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ASUS GTX 980 STRIX DC II OC Video Card Review
If you have an older video card that needs upgrading, make sure you read our evaluation of the ASUS GTX 980 STRIX DC II OC today. This could definitely be the card you are looking for.
Today we delve into the ASUS GTX 980 STRIX DC II OC, which features custom cooling, 0dB fans and high overclocking potential. We'll experiment with this Maxwell GPU by overclocking it to the extreme. It will perform head to head against the ASUS ROG R9 290X MATRIX-P in today's most demanding games, including Far Cry 4.
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Inside The NSA's War On Internet Security
At this point, nothing the NSA does should surprise us anymore.
US and British intelligence agencies undertake every effort imaginable to crack all types of encrypted Internet communication. The cloud, it seems, is full of holes. The good news: New Snowden documents show that some forms of encryption still cause problems for the NSA.
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Steam Sets New Concurrent User Record
I'm not saying the PC is the best platform ever but, while the consoles were getting DDoS'd to death over the holidays, Steam was busy setting records. Just sayin'.
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