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July 13 - July 16, 2020
Russian spies 'target coronavirus vaccine' bbc.com
No Man's Sky's next update is Desolation and it sounds a bit scary vg247.com
Tech firms like Facebook must restrict data sent from EU to US, court rules theguardian.com
Twitter reveals that its own employee tools contributed to unprecedented hack theverge.com
Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Apple, and others hacked in unprecedented Twitter attack theverge.com
Hackers Take Over Apple, Uber, Prominent Crypto Twitter Accounts in Simultaneous Attack - CoinDesk coindesk.com
Hackers Convinced Twitter Employee to Help Them Hijack Accounts vice.com
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Reggie Fils-Aimé is now a strategic adviser for indie publisher Rogue Games gamasutra.com
Crypto scammers hack Elon Musk, Biden, Obama, and Kanye on Twitter engadget.com
Apple Wins Major Tax Battle Against EU wsj.com
Mozilla Puts Its Trusted Stamp on VPN – The Mozilla Blog blog.mozilla.org
Google was just slapped with a lawsuit that claims it tracks people on hundreds of thousands of apps even when they opt out businessinsider.com
Apple has €13bn Irish tax bill overturned bbc.com
Sony doubles PS5 production to 10 million by the end of the year - report - VG247 vg247.com
Tom Holland shares first picture from the set of the Uncharted movie - VG247 vg247.com
RuPaul's Drag Race (TV Series 2009– ) - IMDb imdb.com
Netflix Announces Dragon’s Dogma Original Anime Series allgamesdelta.net
iPhone 12 Could Ship With New Braided USB-C to Lightning Cable macrumors.com
Snapchat tests TikTok-style navigation for exploring public content – TechCrunch techcrunch.com
U.S. Backs Down in Fight With Harvard, MIT Over Student Visas bloomberg.com
Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027 bbc.com
Poland puts computer game "This War of Mine" on school reading list notesfrompoland.com
Christophe Derennes is the new Ubisoft Montreal director - VG247 vg247.com
Ghost of Tsushima review roundup - all the scores - VG247 vg247.com
Swery65 apologizes for poor trans representation in Deadly Premonition 2 - VG247 vg247.com
BGT Actors Models & Talent bizarre casting call for Lord of the Rings television series nzherald.co.nz
Grant Imahara, host of MythBusters, dies at 49 sfchronicle.com
Everything Is Cake Now, Including Dragon Ball Z Characters kotaku.com
IBM job ad calls for 12 years’ experience with Kubernetes – which is six years old theregister.com
Ubisoft is rebooting open-world pirate game Skull and Bones - VG247 vg247.com
Ubisoft Reworked A Famous Holocaust Quote To Promote Watch Dogs: Legion, And Nooope kotaku.com
You can swap between male and female Eivor at any time in Assassin's Creed Valhalla - VG247 vg247.com
Linux team approves new terminology, bans terms like 'blacklist' and 'slave' | ZDNet zdnet.com
"I'm not a prophet, but if I was I probably would have created a game that would sell more," says Kojima - VG247 vg247.com
Japan Sinks: 2020 (TV Series 2020– ) - IMDb imdb.com
July 7 - July 12, 2020
Ubisoft’s “most powerful creative force” resigns in wake of sweeping allegations arstechnica.com
Google has ticked off IBM, Oracle, and many in the open-source community by launching an odd new open-source organization businessinsider.com
Everything Ubisoft Announced Today During Its Not-E3 Event kotaku.com
Top Ubisoft Executives Out Amid Allegations Of Company-Wide Misconduct kotaku.com
Devolver Digital’s self-indulgent showcase was welcome spectacle in a long and slow notE3 rockpapershotgun.com
Amazon bans TikTok on employee phones, then calls it a mistake [Updated] arstechnica.com
Google Play Music to shut down; how to transfer tunes to YouTube Music eu.usatoday.com
LinkedIn sued over allegation it secretly reads Apple users' clipboard content reuters.com
Don't close your MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro with a cover over the camera support.apple.com
Valve Failed To Make A Lot of Half-Life Games Before Alyx kotaku.com
Amazon’s MMO New World is delayed to spring 2021 rockpapershotgun.com
Valve’s list of cancelled games includes a Dark Souls-like RPG, a new Left 4 Dead, and Half-Life 3 rockpapershotgun.com
Half-Life 3 was a procedurally generated rogue-lite at one point - VG247 vg247.com
The Final Hours Of Half-Life Alyx lets you concoct bespoke alien screams rockpapershotgun.com
Board Game Designer Eric Lang Suspended From Twitter kotaku.com
Over 50 Sexual Misconduct Allegations Have The Super Smash Bros. Community In Turmoil kotaku.com
Valve secrets spill over—including Half-Life 3—in new Steam documentary app arstechnica.com
Okay Hand Gesture adl.org
Book sequel to Ready Player One coming in November polygon.com
Sexual Harassment Remover is a Morrowind mod that replaces the game's sexual abuse references eurogamer.net
Half-Life 3 & Left 4 Dead 3 Were Officially In Development 80.lv
Half-Life Alyx developers would like to make a Half-Life game for traditional platforms vg247.com
Sony Invests $250M In Epic Games 80.lv
CERN: physicists report the discovery of unique new particle theconversation.com
World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands is killing its gender transition fee rockpapershotgun.com
Kickstarter Creator Resources kickstarter.com
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Infinity Ward has removed the controversial 'OK' gesture from Modern Warfare gamasutra.com
"OK" Hand Gesture Removed From Call Of Duty kotaku.com
Rowling, Rushdie and Atwood warn against ‘intolerance’ in open letter theguardian.com
Pokemon Go Raised $3.6 Billion Since Its Launch 80.lv
An American Pickle | Official Trailer | HBO Max youtube.com
Uber Buys Postmates for $2.65 Billion nytimes.com
Mike Pompeo Said The US Is Considering Banning TikTok buzzfeednews.com
Facebook is out of control. If it were a country it would be North Korea theguardian.com
Xbox Series X Games Showcase Set For July 23 80.lv
"Change starts today," says Ubisoft CEO about allegations made against employees - VG247 vg247.com
Naughty Dog "condemns" any harassment towards its team and cast - VG247 vg247.com
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Twitter Engineering on Twitter: "We’re starting with a set of words we want to move away from using in favor of more inclusive language, such as: https://t.co/6SMGd9celn" / Twitter mobile.twitter.com
LinkedIn says iOS clipboard snooping after every key press is a bug, will fix | ZDNet zdnet.com
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Ubisoft exec Maxime Beland has resigned after harassment and assault allegations gamasutra.com
Reddit and Linkedin apps also caught copying and pasting clipboard contents privateinternetaccess.com
Twitter is dropping coding terms like 'master' and 'slave' after 2 engineers led an internal effort to press for change businessinsider.com
Google-backed groups criticize Apple's new warnings on user tracking uk.reuters.com
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Last Of Us 2 Developer Condemns Online Harassment Of People Who Worked On The Game kotaku.com
Microsoft is interested in acquiring Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment - VG247 vg247.com
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Report: Microsoft eyeing purchase of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment gamasutra.com
Ennio Morricone, Prolific Italian Composer for the Movies, Dies at 91 hollywoodreporter.com
Apple launches an online portal for Apple Card account holders – TechCrunch techcrunch.com
Ubisoft Employees Have 'Grave Concerns' Over Toronto Studio's Misconduct Allegations kotaku.com
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Neil Druckmann on Twitter: "You can love or hate the game and share your thoughts about it. Unfortunately too many of the messages I've been getting are vile, hateful, & violent. Here are just a handful of them (feel it's important to expose.) Trigger Warning: transphobic, homophobic, anti-Semitic, etc. https://t.co/uR9vpGgYQa" / Twitter twitter.com
Is this the most accessible game ever? bbc.com
June 29 - July 3, 2020
Court Rules Facebook Widgets Can Be Considered Wiretaps gizmodo.com
Narcos: Mexico (TV Series 2018– ) - IMDb imdb.com
Sexism and harassment in the games industry isn't just about big names: the entire culture must change eurogamer.net
PlayStation Indies Initiative 80.lv
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COVID-19 and pivot towards game development lead to layoffs at Kongregate gamasutra.com
Amanita’s Creaks is finally coming this month rockpapershotgun.com
Free games hub Kongregate is no longer accepting new submissions rockpapershotgun.com
Twitch Streamer Byron 'Reckful' Bernstein Dies At 31 kotaku.com
Fallout live-action series in the works from Westworld creators vg247.com
Zuckerberg: Advertisers will be back 'soon enough' bbc.com
Conan Exiles has been exiled from its free launch on the Epic Games Store rockpapershotgun.com
Microsoft is forcing Edge on Windows users with a spyware-like install theverge.com
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Fallout TV series from Westworld creators and Amazon Studios announced allgamesdelta.net
Westworld Showrunners to Create a Fallout Show 80.lv
Community Tributes to Byron 'Reckful' Bernstein wowhead.com
Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked bbc.com
Uber CEO Wants to Shift More Engineering Jobs to India, Sparking Internal Debate theinformation.com
Jeff Bezos’s Wealth Soars to $171.6 Billion to Top Pre-Divorce Record bloomberg.com
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UK government urged to 'immediately' classify loot boxes as gambling gamasutra.com
Apple might not include a charger with the iPhone 12. Good theverge.com
PlayStation Indies initiative launches by spotlighting 9 games coming to PS4 and PS5 | VGC videogameschronicle.com
Apple Cancels Some Arcade Games in Strategy Shift To Keep Subscribers bloomberg.com
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Report: Apple scraps deals with some Apple Arcade devs in pursuit of stronger engagement gamasutra.com
Prices of the Playstation 5 and its accessories get listed: digital edition would cost € 399 guru3d.com
Our focus on helpful devices: Google acquires North blog.google
TikTok App to Stop Accessing User Clipboards After Being Caught in the Act by iOS 14 macrumors.com
Fortnite Is Finally Out Of Early Access kotaku.com
Nintendo president apologizes for Switch Joy-Con drift issues vg247.com
YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99 theverge.com
Yann LeCun Quits Twitter Amid Acrimonious Exchanges on AI Bias syncedreview.com
California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on Indian employee's caste reuters.com
Cards Against Humanity's Workers Are Unionizing kotaku.com
No - Safari 14 Does Not Block Google Analytics simoahava.com
Warning—Apple Suddenly Catches TikTok Secretly Spying On Millions Of iPhone Users forbes.com
Reddit closes long-running forum supporting President Trump after years of policy violations washingtonpost.com
India bans TikTok, dozens of other Chinese apps – TechCrunch techcrunch.com
YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer, and more for hate speech theverge.com
Facebook Boycott Grows: Ford Joins Coca-Cola, Starbucks And Other Brands npr.org
Twitch Suspends Donald Trump For Hateful Conduct kotaku.com
Report: Harry Potter Game Devs Distressed Over J.K. Rowling’s Rampant Transphobia kotaku.com
The unannounced Hogwarts RPG is still on track for 2021, say insiders rockpapershotgun.com
Multiple People Accuse Skullgirls Developer Of Making Inappropriate Sexual Comments kotaku.com
Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals The Scary Things He Learned, Advises People To Stay Away From It boredpanda.com
The New York Times Pulls Out of Apple News nytimes.com
Reddit, Acting Against Hate Speech, Bans ‘The_Donald’ Subreddit nytimes.com
Newsonomics: The New York Times is opting out of Apple News niemanlab.org
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Report: Latest Xbox Lockhart rumors point towards an August announce gamasutra.com
Trump suspended from Twitch, as Reddit bans the ‘The_Donald’ and additional subreddits – TechCrunch techcrunch.com
The Last of Us Part 2 has raised the bar for accessibility in games - VG247 vg247.com
Avalanche's Harry Potter RPG still on track for 2021, but devs are concerned about Rowling tweets - VG247 vg247.com
Kojima Productions are teasing their next project rockpapershotgun.com
Epic Games says PS5 is a "masterpiece of systems design" - VG247 vg247.com
First benchmarks surface for Apple's ARM-based Developer Transition Kit - 9to5Mac 9to5mac.com
Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns | ZDNet zdnet.com
Super Nintendo World park opening delayed indefinitely - VG247 vg247.com
Exclusive: Facebook ad boycott campaign to go global, organisers say uk.reuters.com
Starbucks is the latest company to pause advertising across social media platforms cnbc.com
Zuckerberg once wanted to sanction Trump. Then Facebook wrote rules that accommodated him. washingtonpost.com
Kuo: iPhone 12 Models Won't Include Charger in Box, 20W Power Adapter Will Be Sold Separately macrumors.com
Kojima could be hinting at Death Stranding 2 - VG247 vg247.com
Here’s a peek at Netflix’s Cuphead cartoon rockpapershotgun.com
June 27 - June 28, 2020
Deliver Us from Evil (2014) - IMDb imdb.com
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Astronomers detect regular rhythm of radio waves, with origins unknown news.mit.edu
Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals The Scary Things He Learned, Advises People To Stay Away From It boredpanda.com
Ubisoft has suspended two executives following allegations of misconduct - report vg247.com
Greenland | Official Trailer [HD] | Coming Soon to Theaters youtube.com
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Leaker: iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max to Feature Faster 120Hz Displays macrumors.com
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Denny the Villain on Twitter: "Ubisoft Thread: Organized by Studio & Offender. mobile.twitter.com
How to Know You’re Not Insane (And how a Cards Against Humanity Staff Writer was fired.) medium.com
'Black neutron star' discovery changes astronomy bbc.com
Forza Bans Confederate Flags jalopnik.com
Twitch Bans Dr Disrespect kotaku.com
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Report: Ubisoft has suspended two executives accused of sexual and physical abuse gamasutra.com
Microsoft to permanently close all of its retail stores theverge.com
Dark Horse Finally Cuts Ties With Editor Scott Allie After New Sexual Abuse Claims io9.gizmodo.com
Documents Leak Teasing a Cheaper Xbox Series X gizmodo.com
Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing boycott reuters.com
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Sonic the Hedgehog film producer snaps up Disco Elysium screen rights gamasutra.com
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The Last of Us Part II sold over 4 million copies in three days gamasutra.com
Twitch is banning streamers for sexual abuse allegations and misconduct - VG247 vg247.com
r/linux - Craig Federighi confirms Apple Silicon Macs will not support booting other operating systems reddit.com
Tesla gave workers permission to stay home rather than risk getting covid-19. Then it sent termination notices. washingtonpost.com
Google Will Delete Your Data by Default—in 18 Months wired.com
Olympus quits camera business after 84 years bbc.com
Blackballed by PayPal, Scientific-Paper Pirate Takes Bitcoin Donations - CoinDesk coindesk.com
Diablo 4 has Far Cry-style camps you need to liberate - VG247 vg247.com
Cyberpunk 2077 Is Complex And Overwhelming, But It Works kotaku.com
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Twitch addresses sexual abuse allegations with permanent ban pledge gamasutra.com
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Assassin's Creed Valhalla creative director steps down after misconduct allegations gamasutra.com
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Ubisoft to investigate rampant sexual assault and harassment accusations gamasutra.com
New Diablo IV Details 80.lv
Zuckerberg Loses $7 Billion as Firms Boycott Facebook Ads bloomberg.com

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