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    Tech error let people with empty bank accounts withdraw hundreds in cash

    Any chance for a bit of craic 😄 But yeah there is no such thing as free money. It’s all traceable to the card, unless the user cancels the card after the withdrawal and pretends it was stolen to evade suspicion…
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    Elizabeth Holmes appeals conviction, 11-year sentence despite bleak outlook

    Not to defend the indefensible, considering the early years that this would potentially inflict on the 2 children… but she’s also 38 and could simply be trying to bear children while her body clock allows it. But again, cynical me thinks this is rather suspicious timing on her part.
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    Google’s video chat merger begins: Now there are two “Google Meet” apps

    Isn’t that what recently happened with Pay/Wallet ? The VP makes a big decision about merging/changing/unifying and then walks out of the job, leaving the staff to deal with the aftermath of said decision. Yet more u-turns down the road ? No wonder this comes across as an especially poor change...
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    Netflix loses 970,000 subscribers, says ads and new fees are key to recovery

    I was just remarking how Netflix was behaving like Google with a lot of its content. For children’s content, there are dozens of new shows appearing every months, all replicas of similar formulas. They last one season, maybe two and then never get any attention ever again. Netflix exclusives and...
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    A brief history of (unintentionally) unbeatable games

    Nitro, a 1990 racing game by Psygnosis, was impossible to beat and I can’t tell if it was intentional or not. After beating the game 32 races, it would start again from race 1 and your opponents would gain extra speed at various points. It is possible to keep up for the 2nd round of 32 races if...
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    After ruining Android messaging, Google says iMessage is too powerful

    To be fair, WhatsApp was a great messaging platform before it got acquired by the Zuckerborg and many people still reluctantly use it because its feature set and compatibility across Platform is hard to beat. Signal is great but it has to fight against the Meta behemoth for attention and it...
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    Diablo II Resurrected tops BlizzCon announcement flurry

    I was a late comer to Diablo 2: LOD and played it offline exclusively for years.I was lucky enough to play Warcraft 3 offline recently on my PC too, when a mate parted ways with his CD rom collection. Both were really immersive games with a good pace and excellent replay ability. I also played...
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    Diablo 3: Rise of the Necromancer Review — Roll them bones

    They're expensive lattes around your area... I see your point but I'll side with GenocideOwl on this one. Prices at launch (unless I'm mistaken) The original game was 4 acts + 5 classes = $ 60 The 1st expansion brought 1 act + 1 new class = $ 30 This expansion (is that even one ?) brings just...
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    Diablo 3: Rise of the Necromancer Review — Roll them bones

    The Ugly: Necromancers just, like, carry around beating human hearts as an off-hand weapon. It's kinda gross... ? Well, considering Diablo 3 Act 2 involves chasing a death cult that litters the screen with bloody corpses on its gory path, I would say that the type of off-hand weapon carried...
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    Ars spends too much time trying to work in Haiku, the BeOS successor

    I built my first PC with components all tagged as compatible with BeOS to run it as my main OS back in late 2000... only to find out that the recommended ATI graphic card used a different chipset than the shipped BeOS driver could handle. That was when Be Inc was still around and when the latest...
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    Don’t turn off Windows Update—it makes you no better than an anti-vaxxer

    I would definitely liken the backdated telemetry with rabies, yes. They're unwanted, unnecessary, data slurping and bandwith wasting rubbish that I specifically didn't ask to be installed. My computer has also been running fine without them. They aren't "updates" nor "features" yet have been...
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    Don’t turn off Windows Update—it makes you no better than an anti-vaxxer

    If your doctor was trying to innoculate you with rabies while pretending to vaccinate you, you would probably think twice about automatically accepting his/her service. In Windows 7, I chose "warn me when updates are available but let me decide when to install". It used to be set to automatic...
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    Hands on with the Surface Laptop: well, it’s a laptop

    So it runs a locked down version of an OS just like ChromeOS but is priced like a premium product such as the MacBookAir running a fully fledged MacOS ? Sorry I'm not seeing either the value for money here or the hardware/software pairing to justify the inflated price. It looks like style over...
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    Booby-trapped Word documents in the wild exploit critical Microsoft 0day

    Just because it has become a widespread standard in every MS Office installation since it was originally introduced doesn't mean that people should somehow learn to tolerate it. Have you tried customising it ? I have and it's bloody nightmare. I wish I could delete all the damn tabs...
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    UK to trigger Brexit on March 29

    The caption clearly mentions the origin of the picture and the float illustrates probably how Brexit is perceived in some places in the rest of Europe. I would argue that outside of the UK even right leaning or conservative voters see the current political carnival about Brexit as well as...
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    UK to trigger Brexit on March 29

    There was probably no need for such a gamble if your interest was strictly statistical: you could have simply looked at the history of the Republic of Ireland if you just wanted to get some useful data... However in terms of the population affected, I agree that this increases the sample size by...
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    Microsoft set to kill off Lumia in favour of rumoured Surface Phone

    Not sure if it is a sign of things to come but my Moto G4+ got patched to the July 2016 Android update only a few days ago. It was stuck on the stock May update until then.
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    Theresa May, the UK’s spy queen and new prime minister

    Or the proximity with spy agencies. Nah... Probably the food
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    UK votes to leave the European Union

    That would be dismissing about 50% of the population of NI who since the partition have always wanted to remain anchored to the "mainland". Hence the history of conflicts, etc. I wonder how the Loyalists would feel about your excellent plan. Both parts of the island of Ireland will be...
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    UK votes to leave the European Union

    Only time will tell if these opportunities you mention come to fruition. There will be incredible pressure on whatever government will run the country to achieve all the great promises of Brexit. Considering the current lot have failed to actually make meaningful reforms domestically for the...