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    Nintendo doesn’t have to refund digital preorders, according to European court

    Nintendo fans in Europe got some bad news this week. A new court ruling sided with Nintendo’s ongoing practice to not let users cancel digital preorders (via Nintendo Everything). According to Norwegian gaming site PressFire, the consumer authorities of Norway and Germany sued Nintendo for not letting users cancel digital…

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      Ryzen 7 4800H benchmark leak shows AMD’s laptop CPU beating a 9th-Gen Intel champ

      The AMD Ryzen 7 4800H is going to be the top-of-the-line laptop chip from AMD when it launches with the rest of the Ryzen 4000 series of mobile processors this year. And, now we’re starting to see some leaks that suggest just how fast it will be. AMD had suggested…

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        Google Cloud gets a Secret Manager

        Google Cloud today announced Secret Manager, a new tool that helps its users securely store their API keys, passwords, certificates and other data. With this, Google Cloud is giving its users a single tool to manage this kind of data and a centralized source of truth, something that even sophisticated…

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          Microsoft customer support database exposed online

          Microsoft has disclosed a security breach where an internal customer support database was exposed online last month. The software giant provided further details on the security breach in a blog post in which it said that the database was storing anonymized user analytics and was accidentally exposed online between December…

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            Netflix has been looking for franchises, and The Witcher may be its answer

            Netflix wants people to know The Witcher is just as big, if not bigger, than Disney’s Mandalorian around the world. Franchise plays like The Witcher and movies like 6 Underground are key to Netflix growing internationally, and they could represent a big part of Netflix’s future in a year where…

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              How an experimental story about gender and warfare shook the sci-fi community

              In early January, the influential science fiction and fantasy (SFF) magazine Clarkesworld published a story by an unknown author named Isabel Fall. The story was titled “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter,” which describes the premise: it’s about a woman who becomes a weapon of war. But it’s also…

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