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Titanfall 2 video game allegedly hacked via “simple exploit”

Enlarge / Knifin’ around. Cutcutcutcutcutcutcutcut. Popular first-person shooter video game Titanfall 2 has been rumored to have a severe security vulnerability that has been exploited. The reports of the game having been hacked started circulating on Twitter after Titanfall 2 community members, including Leon Benkovic, were seen urging players to uninstall the game: Several members of the […]

“Melting face, ” “pregnant person, ” and 35 other emoji approved for Unicode 14. 0

Enlarge / This is the full slate of proposed new emoji for Unicode 14. 0. (credit: Emojipedia) The Unicode Consortium has finalized Unicode 14. 0 , adding a total of 838 new characters to the standard, which dictates how text and other written characters are handled in most of the world’s software. Most notably for […]

LinkedIn can’t use anti-hacking law to block web scraping, judges rule

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) In a case involving LinkedIn, a federal appeals court reaffirmed Monday that web scraping likely doesn’t violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit drew a distinction between data that is password-protected and data that is publicly available. That […]