Month: October 2023
Zelda player awarded with $10,000 gold trophy for completing KFC-sponsored speedrun
Fast food restaurant chain KFC has awarded a speedrunner a gold trophy valued at over $10,000. Inspired by the secret “11 herbs and spices” that constitute the recipe for KFC’s original flavor chicken, the competition required players to complete a bizarre challenge within The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the…
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Exim mail servers left open to zero-day attacks for over a year
A major flaw in Exim’s mail transfer agent (MTA) software has been detected that has gone without a patch for more than a year. Researchers from Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative were tipped off by an anonymous researcher in June last year, about an out-of-bounds write weakness discovered in the…
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“This is not a leak” – Mullvad VPN dismisses alleged accounts breach
One of the most popular VPN services around today has dismissed allegations regarding dozens of its users’ accounts being found on the dark web. Mullvad VPN told TechRadar Pro that the incidient is not a leak, but that the alleged breached VPN accounts were rather given away for free for…
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Final Fantasy 14 player becomes first ever to complete all 2,751 achievements
Someone has finally completed every single Final Fantasy 14 achievement, 10 years after the game launched. As reported by GamesRadar, over on the Final Fantasy 14 subreddit it was announced that a player on the Garuda server in Japan has become the first person ever to unlock all 2,751 achievements in the…
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FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried is on trial for fraud and conspiracy
The scariest thing about prison for Sam Bankman-Fried is the lack of internet. Michael Lewis, interviewed on his time with Sam Bankman-Fried, says: I do think that if he had the internet, he could survive jail forever. Without having a constant stream of information to react to— I think he…
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Team 17’s CEO is out as publisher begins restructuring
Team 17, the British publisher behind some of the finest indie games of recent years, has parted ways with its CEO Michael Pattison, entering into a “period of consultation”. In a comment to VG247, Team 17 confirmed that it had “amicably parted ways with Michael” and that the studio has…
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