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    ESA doxxes 2000 Journalists and Attendants of E3.

    Ooopsie! FTA: I've also seen evidence that the other lists included last years attendees as well as from 2004 and 2005. An unencrypted file on a section of the site that had no protections whatsoever... Just LOL
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    Signs you're not as young as you think you are...

    Realising your musical taste is only now played on classic radio stations. Realising the people you work with are young enough that you could have fathered them. And having one of them try to set you up on a date with their mother who was born 5 months before you were.. Also grey hairs...
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    Wargaming grand finals on now.

    Live on twitch.tv A nice break from the nastiness of the news of late I hope.
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    Toshiba conglomerate: Can we keep going? We don't know

    Read more here. This is pretty serious. As in tech bubble bursting levels of serious - Toshiba supply many markets with their tech, if they go, we will all feel it. God only knows what it'll do to Japan's economy.
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    In an eerily familiar situation to the various Amiga rebirths, the Vega+ handheld hits the rocks..

    For those unfamiliar, there was an Indiegogo effort to produce a purpose built Spectrum handheld console as a followup to the original handheld called Vega. This was to be called "Vega+", it used an off the shelf hardware platform and software emulation. It featured a case developed by the...
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    Ridiculous Election Responses

    I figured that the more outlandish responses to Trump's victory deserved it's own thread, here is my find to kick it off: As Donald Trump's shock election victory reverberated around Silicon Valley late on Tuesday night, some high-profile technologists were already calling for California to...
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    A Retro Portable done right - The ZX Spectrum Vega+

    ZX Spectrum Vega+ hands-on review The past is the future, and we've seen it, and it's flipping gorgeous. Read on..
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    Nvidia Shield Tablet review

    Extremely capable stock, but when you throw in a 128Gb sd card, it becomes the monster it always promised it could be. The one downside to it, is that there is precious little in the app store that can really push the hardware to the limits as yet.
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    Meet Linux’s little brother: Zephyr, a tiny open-source IoT RTOS

    Full story here.
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    Why ISIS has the potential to be a world altering revolution

    Read the full essay here. I'd also highly recommend reading the comments as well, as there is some superb analysis present there too. Caution, this is a very long piece.
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    Favourite meals you've cooked yourself.

    I personally quite enjoyed this one. No photos, only memories!
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    BlackBerry, the return. Now with Android!

    The new BlackBerry Priv. It kinda reminds me of the old Palm Pre with that slide out keyboard. And that is no bad thing imho. A very tasty looking piece of kit, though I suspect somewhat out of my price bracket ;)
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    Dozens of classic films seamlessly edited together into one nightclub scene

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    The year of the cultural colonialist

    Firstly, I hope everyone had a good Christmas! Second, I thought I'd bring something I found that I'm fairly certain that every single person on this site could get behind: Courtesy of Spiked Online. Finally, I just noticed that it's just started snowing outside... Yay?! Typical British...
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    Pensioner who hid medals and absconded from care home found at D-Day celebrations in France

    Linky! Ok, who here read this and immediately started hearing The Great Escape music in their heads? Top man!
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    The Book of Ludicrous

    For stories that leave you with the distinct tang of dafuq?! For your viewing pleasure and as a start of things to come: Woman bites car in argument... Your mission (should you choose to accept it) is to top this, with the eventual goal of creating the ludicrous singularity... Begin!
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    One for Red - A Media Acknowledgement of Black on White Hate Crime

    A mob attack on a motorist in Detroit. Red baiting aside (sorry, but it was something I remember him commenting on a number of times as never happening), the most worrying thing for me in the story was this: Hit and runs are a major problem and now, potentially, there is a defence against...
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    How academia traded freedom for justice

    Full article here.
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    FBI no longer considers SPLcenter as authority on hate groups

    Read more.
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    A British Storm? Hardly anything to write home abo... Oh..

    Just a bit of wind, surely? Porthleven, Cornwall Sennen Cove in Cornwall Of course, it wasn't just Cornwall that copped it, Dawlish in Devon had a bit of trouble as well... To be clear, that stretch of track is one I've traveled on many times going down to Plymouth, in calmer...
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