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Review Intel Core i5-9600K Review

Intel tweaks its six-core K-series CPU, but can the Core i5-9600K do any better than the lacklustre Core i5-8600K?

16-11-18 // 5:00p.m.

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Review Hitman 2 Review

Assassin freed.

16-11-18 // 12:30p.m.

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Nvidia misses revenue targets, stock slides

Joins AMD in the doldrums.

16-11-18 // 11:14a.m.

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Windows 10 October 2018 Update hit by more bug reports

Network drive failures, audio issues abound.

16-11-18 // 10:59a.m.

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Facebook fined £500k over Cambridge Analytica scandal

Would have been higher under GDPR.

25-10-18 // 10:50a.m.

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Facebook downgrades data breach to 30m accounts

Confirms data stolen.

15-10-18 // 11:30a.m.

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Google+ to close following security flaw publication

Google accused of hiding the issue.

9-10-18 // 10:54a.m.

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50m Facebook users hit by account breach flaw

Exposes Facebook to massive GDPR fine potential.

1-10-18 // 11:05a.m.

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ICO hits Facebook with £500k fine promise

Found to have broken the law.

11-7-18 // 10:43a.m.

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Twitter warns of plain-text password gaffe

Change 'em now.

4-5-18 // 10:46a.m.

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Facebook begins custom silicon dev process

Seeks an engineer to lead the efforts.

19-4-18 // 10:54a.m.

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Facebook launches data abuse bounty programme

As Zuckerberg faces Congressional grilling.

11-4-18 // 10:06a.m.

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Facebook under fire over Cambridge Analytica data abuse

Data-snarfing company snarfs data: film at 11.

19-3-18 // 10:41a.m.

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Imgur warns of 1.7 million account data breach

Emails and hashed passwords snagged in 2014.

27-11-17 // 10:27a.m.

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NeoGAF shuttered following sexual assault allegation

'Scheduled maintenance,' officially.

23-10-17 // 12:00p.m.

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Facebook apologises for mass account 'killings'

Reports of their deaths exaggerated.

14-11-16 // 10:39a.m.

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UK proposes harsher sentences for internet abuse

Chris Grayling suggests 2-year penalty.

20-10-14 // 11:53a.m.

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Lords reject calls for social networking laws

No Twitter statutes any time soon.

30-7-14 // 11:46a.m.

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Facebook hit by privacy furore over emotion experiment

Negative emotions supressed.

30-6-14 // 9:45a.m.

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AMD, Raptr partner on Gaming Evolved software

Looks to take on Nvidia's GeForce Experience.

11-10-13 // 8:55a.m.

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Crytek boss opens GFACE social networking beta

Crytek head Cevat Yerli has opened his gamer-centric social networking service GFACE for beta test.

3-2-12 // 1:55p.m.

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Facebook and Spotify reportedly linking up

Link-up will see free music streaming available to all Facebook users.

26-5-11 // 3:25p.m.

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LinkedIn valued at nearly $9billion

LinkedIn share prices rise by 171 per cent in first day on the stock market.

20-5-11 // 4:08p.m.

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Study links number of Facebook friends to stress levels

Those with the most contacts are more likely to be stressed.

16-2-11 // 11:14a.m.

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Facebook competitor Diaspora opens

Diaspora, which aims to address privacy concerns surrounding Facebook, is asking for users.

24-11-10 // 3:04p.m.

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Facebook builds massive data centre

Facebook is joining the likes of Twitter and Apple in building its own large-scale data centre.

4-8-10 // 10:20a.m.

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Google Me to take on Facebook?

The rumour mill is grinding that Google is setting up a Facebook killer. Maybe.

1-7-10 // 10:25a.m.

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Google Social Search goes beta

Google's Social Search features - which pulls in content from users' social networking contacts - has official entered the mainstream, albeit in beta form.

29-1-10 // 11:57a.m.

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Bill Gates joins Twitter

Joins up to promote his charitable foundation, and to chat with Ashton Kutcher

20-1-10 // 11:33a.m.

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Microsoft coughs to Plurk theft

Microsoft has come clean regarding theft of layout and code from microblogging site Plurk for its new MSN China social networking service, blaming a contracted third party.

17-12-09 // 10:00a.m.

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MySpace slashes 30 percent of jobs

MySpace is cutting headcount in its US offices by a whopping 30 percent - although senior management is allegedly dodging the axe for now.

17-6-09 // 10:40a.m.

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Facebook Terms of Use furore

Facebook has reverted its Terms of Use back to an earlier version following public outcry over a clause which gave it perpetual rights over hosted content.

19-2-09 // 8:43a.m.

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Facebook sues StudiVZ

Social networking site Facebook has filed suit against rival German site SudiVZ, accusing the latter of being nothing but a Facebook ripoff with a red colourscheme.

21-7-08 // 10:31a.m.

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MySpace to launch developer platform

MySpace has announced plans for a development platform allowing programmers the chance to develop new ways to drive people to MySpace. Oh, and you get some ad revenue, too.

31-1-08 // 7:29a.m.

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