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Canadian Telecom Rogers Is Down And The Reason Why Is A Mystery

B. Simmons July 8, 2022

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ If you live in Canada, there are some good odds that you probably can’t even read this article. Because the largest telecom in the country, Rogers, is currently suffering wide-scale outages. This has...

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Random Access Tech

Woman Who Hired Fake Hitman To Kill Ex-Husband Pleads Guilty

B. Simmons November 16, 2021

Should’ve checked his assassin ranking. A woman from Rockwood, Michigan has pled guilty to attempting to hire a hitman to do away with her ex-husband. Said hitman, as it turned out, was a fake....

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Comcast To Implement 1.2 GB Data Cap On Customers

B. Simmons November 24, 2020 1 Comment

Those poor Stadia fans, tut tut. Well, it’s been a rough year, eh? Just never forget that it can get worse, my friend. Because if you get your internet through Comcast, it’s about to....

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Comcast Offers 60 Days of Free Internet for Low-Income Families Over Coronavirus

J. Luis March 13, 2020

Comcast is not a good company but even a bad egg can do something good every now and then. Come to think of it, this does seem like a great PR move. Look, I...

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UK To Start Age Checks For Users To Watch Online Porn

B. Simmons April 21, 2019

Big Brother is watching you (jerk off). Last year, British lawmakers passed a bill meant to keep persons under the age of 18 from accessing porn online. Going into effect July 15th, the Digital...

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EU Officially Passes Controversial Copyright Law

B. Simmons April 15, 2019

Things are about to get super screwy. You know that copyright bill the EU’s been trying to get afloat? Well, it just passed. A total of 19 EU council members passed the directive, including...

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Tumblr Traffic Nosedives Post Porn Ban

B. Simmons March 19, 2019

Wow, they cleaned out a sizeable chunk of users. Keep it up, Tumblr! Last December, Tumblr announced a ban on all porn on their platform. Pretty much everyone told them it was a bad...

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California Bans Default Passwords For Internet And Bluetooth Devices

B. Simmons October 7, 2018

Swordfish. In just two years, every internet-connected device produced or sold in California will have to come with a unique password. The Information Privacy: Connected Devices bill, in essence, bans the use of hard-coded...

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Video Games

EmuParadise No Longer Offers ROMs Due to Legal Concerns

B. Simmons August 9, 2018

Another one bites the dust. In the wake of Nintendo’s legal action against ROM sites, another site is rolling up the carpet and packing it in. EmuParadise, a nearly 20-year-old site and one of...

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Tech

EU Votes On Copyright Law That Will Ruin The internet

B. Simmons June 22, 2018

All the bacon in the world, couldn’t save you now. The European Union just passed an initial vote in favor of the Copyright Directive. Thankfully, that doesn’t mean it’s gone through, yet; it still...

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How Ajit Pai Stole The Internet

J. Luis December 14, 2017

The will of the people be damned. This Christmas the Grinch (Ajit Pai) got his way with the repeal of the open and free internet. Today the FCC voted right down party lines with...