Andrew Tate Is No Longer Under Romanian House Arrest

Internet “alpha” and extreme misogynist Andrew Tate and his brother are reportedly free from house arrest following an arrest in December. The brothers and two conspirators are now awaiting trial on charges of human trafficking and sexual assault.

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The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won.

The last major holdouts in the massive protest against Reddit’s controversial API pricing have relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the beloved TV host in certain dissident subreddits. It marks the end of months of fighting, which included site-wide blackouts. Now…

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WHOA: This Pitch Looks Like Something Out Of A Video Game

The Dodgers pitcher threw an absolutely filthy “slurve” that no human batter should have to face.

'Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde' Plead Guilty to Billion Dollar Crypto Laundering Scheme

On Thursday, Heather Morgan, a.k.a. Razzlekhan, and her husband pleaded guilty to orchestrating a massive money laundering scheme. Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein became known as the modern-day “Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde” after they were linked to the 2016 theft of $4.5 billion in crypto from the Hong Kong-based exchange

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New Ahsoka Footage Gives Us Some Very Ready Rebels

Dark rises, and light to meet it—so when Ahsoka Tano finds out these god damn Imperials won’t stay gone, it’s a good job she’s got plenty of friends on her Rebels rolodex to call in some favors.

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Call of Duty is publicly shaming cheaters in the kill feed

Call of Duty cheaters are now being named and shamed in real-time when they’re kicked out of a game. The latest season of CoD: Modern Warfare II and CoD: Warzone season five went live this week, and the update includes an addition to the Ricochet anti-cheat system.

When Ricochet detects and removes a “problem player,” the game will notify everyone in the match of such an occurrence right in the kill feed. That will let all players know for sure that they’ve been dealing with a cheater and also that Activision’s systems were able to spot that person and boot them from the game.

It’s not super novel for a game to tell players that someone has been kicked out for cheating. I recently played some BattleBit Remastered — a fun, low-poly riff on the Battlefield series — and the game notified me whenever a cheater was banned.

Still, this is a welcome update from Team Ricochet, which has been trying all kinds of tactics to mess with cheaters and to try and catch suspected hackers out. Over the last couple of years, Call of Duty has made cheaters unable to see enemies and taken their guns away. More recently, Team Ricochet has been deploying clones of real players against detected and suspected cheaters. If a potential hacker interacts with one of these clones, they’ll make it obvious that they’re cheating.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/call-of-duty-is-publicly-shaming-cheaters-in-the-kill-feed-154544553.html?src=rss

Call of Duty is publicly shaming cheaters in the kill feed

Call of Duty cheaters are now being named and shamed in real-time when they’re kicked out of a game. The latest season of CoD: Modern Warfare II and CoD: Warzone season five went live this week, and the update includes an addition to the Ricochet anti-cheat system.

When Ricochet detects and removes a “problem player,” the game will notify everyone in the match of such an occurrence right in the kill feed. That will let all players know for sure that they’ve been dealing with a cheater and also that Activision’s systems were able to spot that person and boot them from the game.

It’s not super novel for a game to tell players that someone has been kicked out for cheating. I recently played some BattleBit Remastered — a fun, low-poly riff on the Battlefield series — and the game notified me whenever a cheater was banned.

Still, this is a welcome update from Team Ricochet, which has been trying all kinds of tactics to mess with cheaters and to try and catch suspected hackers out. Over the last couple of years, Call of Duty has made cheaters unable to see enemies and taken their guns away. More recently, Team Ricochet has been deploying clones of real players against detected and suspected cheaters. If a potential hacker interacts with one of these clones, they’ll make it obvious that they’re cheating.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/call-of-duty-is-publicly-shaming-cheaters-in-the-kill-feed-154544553.html?src=rss

Trump Calls On The Supreme Court He Stacked To Interfere In His Criminal Cases

A day after pleading not guilty in the Jan. 6 case, the former president complained his legal woes are draining his campaign coffers.

It's Time For Even More Casting Rumors for Fantastic Four

Final Destination’s Jeffrey Reddick says the sixth film is ready to enter production—as soon as the SAG-AFTRA strike comes to an end. Dracula strikes in even more footage from Last Voyage of the Demeter. Plus, you’re not ready for the first details about Riverdale’s final episode. To me, my spoilers!

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Threads Has Lost More Than 80% of Its Daily Active Users

We’re only a month out since Meta released its Instagram-tied Twitter-killer app Threads. Since then, the time users spent on the app has tanked. Now, two separate data analysis firms say that the number of users logging in each day on the app has similarly flatlined just a month after its release.

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