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Tim Cook responds to EU tax ruling, thinks it’ll be reversed

Earlier this morning, we learned that the European Union had wrapped up its three-year long investigation into Apple's tax payment strategy in Ireland, concluding that Apple should still pay around 13 billion euros in taxes for earnings made between 2003 and 2014. This is obviously quite big news and it didn't …

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Microsoft quietly cancels Halo Online on PC

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Back in March of last year, Microsoft revealed that it had hired a Russian developer to re-create Halo multiplayer on the PC using a modified version of the Halo 3 engine. There was a catch though, the game was free to play and strictly limited to Russia. Obviously, it didn't …

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Apple pushes urgent iOS update to fix security flaw

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This week, a serious vulnerability was discovered in iOS, which could allow a link sent through a text message to jailbreak your iPhone or iPad and inject it with malware that would log messages, could activate the microphone or essentially track someone's movements. Fortunately, Apple is already on the ball …

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The Epic Games forum has been hacked again

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In mid-July last year the Epic Games forum had been hacked, leaving thousands of users compromised. Now, just over a year later, history has repeated itself, this time though, over 800,000 logins have been stolen. Records of private messages, email addresses and more were also taken in the attack according …

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PlayStation accounts finally have two-step verification

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The PlayStation network has historically not been the most secure. It has suffered at least one major breach over the last several years, during which millions of accounts were compromised. Now, it looks like Sony is beginning to step its game up, as the company has now made two-step verification …

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CloudFlare faces lawsuit for helping protect piracy sites

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CloudFlare is well-known for its anti-DDOS and website security services. The company has done business with plenty of legitimate sites but it also provides its services to some piracy sites, something it has been criticised over before. Now, CloudFlare is facing a lawsuit, as it continues to provide CDN and …

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Apple rumoured to launch curved iPhone in 2017

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From what we have seen and heard so far, 2016 is going to be a fairly unexciting year for the iPhone. However, 2017 is shaping up to be the year to upgrade with reports of big design changes, OLED screens and now, the rumour mill is claiming that Apple will …

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HBM3 to double bandwidth and pave way for 64GB GPUs

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We might still be waiting to see widespread use of HBM 2 in graphics cards but that isn't slowing down news on the future of High Bandwidth Memory as this week, reports began popping up going over HBM3 and the improvements it should bring, including improved density, efficiency and more. …

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