October 16, 2019

Microsoft lets Xbox users censor what messages they see

Xbox gamers: fed up with seeing profanity in messages from other gamers? Microsoft has you covered.

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September 18, 2019

Teenage gamer jailed over lethal swatting

Casey Viner got into a spat over a $1.50 wager in a Call of Duty World War II game that led to the fatal shooting of an innocent man.

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April 15, 2019

Is there a link between videogaming and cybercrime? Police think so

UK police are planning to issue online warnings to young gamers hoping to deter them from a life of cybercrime, they revealed last week.

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November 09, 2018

DerpTrolling game server DDoS attacker pleads guilty

Austin Thompson pleaded guilty on November 6 in a San Diego Federal court to knowingly causing damage to third-party computers.

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October 30, 2018

Alleged SWATter will plead guilty to dozens of serious new federal charges

The long list of charges includes bank fraud, involuntary manslaughter, cyberstalking and wire fraud.

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April 12, 2018

Death SWAT suspect tweets threats from jail using buggy inmate kiosk

He apparently got online when a jail kiosk software upgrade glitched. Alternatively, as his account explained it, because "I'm an eGod."

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February 15, 2018

Coinmining frenzy is making it hard for us to find aliens

As cryptocurrency values have soared, so too has the cost of the hardware needed to mine them - if you can even buy the GPUs, given the shortages.

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January 16, 2018

Man charged over fatal “Call of Duty” SWATting

Gamer Tyler Barriss allegedly made the hoax emergency call, that ended with the death of an innocent man, over a $1.50 video game wager.

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May 09, 2016

Windows 10 auto-updating ruins gamer’s livestream

Professional gamer Erik Flom was live-streaming on Twitch when his screen suddenly went blank, then blue as Windows 10 began to auto-update.

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