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Why Microsoft is finally pushing for cross-platform online gaming

Xbox Live gamers may soon have a new reason to rejoice.

With this year's Game Developer's Conference barely started, Microsoft has already rolled out a major announcement that has the potential to significantly change the console gaming landscape. By allowing for cross-network play on Xbox Live, Microsoft has signaled it's willing to open the doors...

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Sony finally sends PSN hacking victims their free games

This is probably our last chance to ever reuse this image.

Nearly five years after the PlayStation Network was subject to a massive breach that exposed the personal data of tens of millions of users, Sony is finally sending downloadable game codes for PS3 and PSP games to those affected, as required by an earlier...

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Microsoft finally has a proper way to opt out of Windows 7/8 to Windows 10 upgrades

Microsoft has announced its intent to make the Windows 10 upgrade for existing Windows 7 and 8.1 users more widely available. In tandem with this, the company has also, at last, offered a good way of rejecting the upgrade and making the notifications about it go away forever.

The free upgrade is available to anyone not running an Enterprise version of Windows 7 or 8.1....

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Chicago police must finally produce stingray records, judge orders

(credit: Tripp)

A local activist has won an important intermediary step in his legal quest to force the Chicago Police Department (CPD) to produce documents that fully explain the department's use of cell-site simulators, also known as IMSI catchers.

In a Monday opinion in Martinez v. Chicago Police Department, Cook County Circuit Judge Kathleen Kennedy denied the city’s...

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Kim Dotcom to be finally extradited to the US, New Zealand judge rules

This week, Kim Dotcom tweeted this photo, with the tagline: "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!" (credit: Kim Dotcom)

On Tuesday afternoon (Wednesday, Auckland time) a New Zealand judge ordered that founder Kim Dotcom and his co-defendants are eligible to be extradited to the United States to face criminal charges over alleged massive copyright infringement on...

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