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$10 Quake shareware CD locked copies of all id Software games behind a flawed encryption scheme — pay-over-the-phone system only held up for 39 days after 1996

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And that’s exactly what the GNOMON hackers did in a little over a month. The hacking group did not reveal how it built the cracker, and the inner workings of the crack were only revealed in 2018 through reverse-engineeri…

Alibaba is selling its gaming studio for at least $1.5 billion to help fund AI buildout, mirroring Micron’s exit from consumer business — dumps entire stake in

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“Alibaba is handing Lingxi to Trustar due to better focus on its strategic priorities,” Zhou wrote in the memo, as quoted by Bloomberg . Zhou and his management team will stay on to run the studio under its new owner. Th…

Judge clears Nine PBS to retrieve 70 years of archival TV data — court rules station owns 50TB of data in Iron Mountain servers after host went under

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Secret tracking device placed in rare book ends up in Amazon processing facility — destroying books to train AI models is ‘all’ the Vegas warehouse does

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Scanning books en masse is nothing new. In 2005, Google spearheaded Google Books by scanning out-of-copyright titles from an on-campus library using specialized scanners . The books were then returned. Presumably, Google…

You can now buy a delidded Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition for $1,403 — stripped dual-cache offering is $500 more expensive than regular version

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Of course, before you decide if the extra $500 over MSRP for a delidded Dual Edition is worth it, you need to figure out why you’d want a Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 in the first place. Our own coverage of AMD’s dual-CCD X3D proces…