Eyebrows have been raised across the Harry Potter fanbase after the news that Hermione Granger is to be portrayed by a black actress in the new official Potter theatrical production, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The production, which follows Harry
Video game journalist and notorious social justice warrior Jim Sterling, has forced an independent games developer to publicly apologise and abandon a promotional campaign after they advertised a game called “Tranny Gladiator”. https://twitter.com/JimSterling/status/678460568227983360 https://twitter.com/JimSterling/status/678462432252198912 https://twitter.com/JimSterling/status/678467949972336641 The game, described by developer
YouTube suspended the investigative reporting channel Full Measure News, pulling down the entire account and all of its videos last night without specific reason.
Hzone, an online dating service for the HIV-positive, threatened to infect a writer and their family with HIV after learning that the DataBreaches admin would be writing a story about major data leaks from Hzone’s systems in November. The database leaks,
The two largest social networks, Facebook and Twitter, and the world’s largest search engine, Google, have teamed up with German law enforcement to delete “hate speech” within 24 hours in what is being seen as a last-ditch effort to silence
The world’s most notorious white black man, Shaun King, has faced ridicule, abandonment and humiliation over the past few days thanks to a variety of monumental fuck-ups. As if it couldn’t get any worse for the Black Lives Matter activist, his Twitter
US officials are using an 18th century law to request tech companies to unlock customer’s mobile phones for law enforcement access.
Silicon Valley billionaires, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Reid Hoffman announced on Friday that they are planning to help commit $1 billion to an Artificial Intelligence centre in San Francisco. OpenAI, the official name of the project, is said to
Hacktivist collective Anonymous has declared war on Donald Trump after his public statements against Muslim immigration this month. The vigilante group, which has no organisation or hierarchy, is comprised of multiple independent sub-sects, and have been in the spotlight recently for their
Users have found that a Google image search for Donald Trump’s new book, Crippled America, displays Adolf Hitler’s infamous manifesto Mein Kampf as a suggested search above it.
Just two days are left on Kickstarter to pre-order the next big thing for cute and tacky long-distance relationships: Pillow Talk, a set of wristbands and speakers that you can place under the pillow on your nights alone, in order to listen
University of Washington researchers have developed a system that can scour the web for more than 200 pictures of a celebrity, assemble the images together as a reference, and then animate the celebrity into an advanced 3D face, even capturing significant facial motions and lip movement.
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered and revealed a variety of major security flaws in the new Wi-Fi enabled Hello Barbie, according to a security report. The technologically advanced doll allows children to speak to the toy, sending their recorded speech over
Police officers in France have called for a variety of authoritarian powers regarding digital restriction to be added to a new proposed law after the Paris terrorist attacks last month.
A woman in Florida has been jailed after setting up a fake profile on the dating website Plenty of Fish, featuring another woman’s details and requesting men to come over to her house and rape her as part of a fantasy.
Stolen Netflix accounts with guaranteed lifetime access are being sold for less than $1.00 by hackers on the deep web, according to a recent report by McAfee Labs.
British communications regulator Ofcom warns that your Wi-Fi may be slowed down by Christmas lights this year, following the release of its new app that checks home broadband strengths and weaknesses.
A “remix” of John Cage’s famous and completely silent composition 4’33”, has been removed from SoundCloud for copyright infringement. The composition, which consists of four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence, was remixed by an artist known as D.J. Detweiler and
Notorious torrent index, The Pirate Bay, will not be blocked in Sweden after Stockholm District Court rejected a lawsuit made by a group of the biggest media publishers in the world on Friday. The lawsuit, which was also made against
CNN decided to go ahead with airing the controversial and factually questionable documentary about campus rape, The Hunting Ground, last night.
The FAA released a series of rcommended drone regulations on Monday, just in time for Christmas. The documents list requirements and safety rules for drone pilots, a set of proposed guidelines that after a variety of drone-related accidents and problems have been
Yahoo is blocking users out of their own Yahoo Mail accounts until they disable any ad-blocking software being used.
A new study conducted by Pew Research came out on Friday, revealing the depressingly sorry state of today’s youth and the respect that they have for the 1st Amendment and freedom of speech in general.
Popular YouTube comedian and lets-player, Steven Williams, better known to the internet as Boogie2988, claimed Friday that Gawker‘s gaming and technology vertical Kotaku had blacklisted him because he refused to publicly disavow consumer press ethics movement GamerGate. After Kotaku spoke out against game publishers
Tumblr, the digital hiding place for fifteen-year-old girls and their teenage angst, is commonly associated with social justice, third-wave feminism and fluorescent-dyed hair. It is a place regularly mocked by other online communities for its politically-correct stances and oversensitive reactions to anything
PC gamers are better at sex than console peasants, says a new study conducted by MyVoucherCodes – with just 3 per cent of Playstation owners rated “excellent” in bed by their partners. The study, which asked a variety of questions to
Feminist Frequency, the popular charitable organisation known for its Tropes vs Women in Video Games series, has finally filed an IRS 990 form for 2014. It raised a few eyebrows in the Breitbart Tech offices. The 990 form is an annual submission that tax-exempt organisations are
Media outlets have been fooled by a joke photo long in circulation into believing that a Photoshopped picture of notorious anti-GamerGate critic Veerender Jubbal was one of the suspects responsible for the recent Paris terrorist attacks that occurred on Friday.
Amazon has received threats of boycott from customers for selling infamous Canadian serial killer and rapist Paul Bernado’s book on the Amazon Kindle store.
Google Maps, the popular GPS navigation and online worldwide map service, has launched an offline mode for Android devices, with iOS capabilities to be released soon.
The full text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was released on Thursday to criticism and confusion. The TPP is the world’s largest trade agreement, written during years of secret negotiations between the US and 11 Pacific Rim countries representing 40 per cent of the world’s economy.
Three British girls from Berkshire have fallen for a 4chan hoax after “free-bleeding” outside of Parliament on Friday to protest the so-called “tampon tax.” 22-year-old Charlie Edge and two friends wore white trousers, held signs of protest, and displayed visible blood stains
Three white male Twitter board members, Peter Fenton, Peter Chernin, and Peter Currie, are reported to be leaving the social network company over the next two years amid changes by the new CEO, Jack Dorsey, in order to diversify the board.
Quake Live, the popular free-to-play multiplayer arena game, has been changed and repriced to $9.99 after five years of being free, causing outrage from fans of the classic shooter series. The reprice comes after iD Software, developers of Quake, were
Online retailer Amazon opened its first physical book store in Seattle Tuesday. The new book store will act as a normal brick and mortar store for physical books, but will feature added bonuses including matched low prices with Amazon’s online store, customer reviews on book displays, and a shop layout and inventory based upon what’s popular at their digital storefront.
Hilton Worldwide Holdings, the umbrella company for Hilton Hotels, has been ordered to pay a $25,000 fine by the Federal Communications Commission.
