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Man Charged Over Swatting Death Allegedly Calls Self ‘eGod’, Tweets Swat Threat From Gaol
16Tyler Barris is being held by US police on charges of involuntary manslaughter after he allegedly placed a phony emergency call that resulted in the death of another man. But Barris reportedly managed to get access to the internet and proceeded to hop on Twitter, threatening to “swat” again and proclaiming himself an “eGod”.
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A Mod For Civilization Makes Rogue AI More Dangerous Than Gandhi’s Nukes
The University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk does serious research on preventing the end of the world. For its latest project, the Centre wanted to highlight the risk that unrestrained artificial intelligence poses to civilisation. To do that, it’s released a free mod that turns the video game Civilization V into…
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Study Estimates That Pokemon GO Has Caused More Than 100,000 Traffic Accidents
The Pokemon GO phenomenon has mostly faded, but the destruction left in its wake could be far larger than anyone imagined. Two professors from Perdue University have attempted to get an idea of the game’s effect on traffic accidents by studying data from one county in Indiana. The results don’t reflect well on Pikachu and…
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The CCleaner Attack Was Worse Than We Knew
When Avast announced that 2.27 million people had downloaded a malware-riddled copy of its performance optimisation software CCleaner, it was initially believed that a second payload — that can control a system — was never delivered to victims. It’s now clear that wasn’t the case, and it appears the attackers may have been targeting tech…