Tag: xbox
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#MorningMonarchy: August 28, 2018
Grim video games, outer space gospel and North America’s first sex doll brothel + this day in history w/the Ramstein air show disaster and our song of the day by Poppy + Diplo on your Morning Monarchy for August 28, 2018.
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Xbox One ‘Spy Camera’ Questioned by Australian and German Officials
from StratRisks.com: The Australian and German officials are concerned with the “always on” camera and privacy policies of Xbox One. Software giant Microsoft revealed in the unveiling of Xbox One is the console’s always ‘on’ Kinect camera is being questioned by activities concerned with privacy. While Microsoft maintains that the company has “very, very good…
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#DataDump: Macs, Hacks, Sachs and more
Spam Invades a Last Refuge, the Cellphone: Text Message Spam, Difficult to Stop, Is a Growing Menace // Widespread Virus Proves Macs No Longer Safe From Hackers // FAA Grounds $75,000 Surveillance Drone Due to Crowded Skies // Bomb Sniffing Dog Humps Bomb Defusing Robot
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hacker hijacks xbox, sends swat to home
from kprc: It looked like the scene out of a video game; and indeed an Xbox was behind a SWAT team invading a suburban Florida home. The SWAT invasion turned out to be a hoax, but police aren’t laughing. The family at the butt of the joke, on the other hand, can’t tell their tale…
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2010: the year the internet went to war
from threat level: It was a year without parallel. Threat Level’s bread-and-butter themes of censorship, hacking, security, privacy, copyright and cyberwar were all represented in tug-of-war struggles with unprecedented outcomes. Google defeated China’s censors, but caved to corporate censorship in the United States. The largest computer-crime case ever prosecuted ended in the nation’s longest prison…
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12/2 Defcon: Fingerprints, Arsenic & Oxygen
Feds warrantlessly tracking credit cards in real time // Google admits Street View trespassing, hit with crippling $1 fine // Most popular Yahoo search in 2010 was ‘BP oil spill’; First time for a news story