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Either DatPiff’s website and/or app are shutting down, or reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. As tributes were taking flight on Twitter on Monday evening, the official DatPiff account wrote, “Despite the rumors, we are happy to report that we will still be supplying you with all the mixtapes you love. We’re working through […]
Indigo, Canada’s largest bookstore chain, faced a cybersecurity breach earlier this week leading to the shutdown of its website and payment systems. The company, which also owns Coles and Chapters, said that no customer credit card or debit card information had been compromised in the hack. They also confirmed that customers’ in-store credits, known as […]
“Bad Bitches have bad days too,” Megan Thee Stallion raps on “Anxiety,” a track off her latest album Traumazine. As of this weekend, the line has inspired a new website from the Houston rapper. Megan recently launched Bad Girls Have Bad Days Too to provide her fans with mental health resources. The site doubles as a collection of links […]
A woman pleaded guilty last week to charges or solicitation of murder and using a computer to commit a crime after trying to hire a hitman to kill her ex-husband from a fake website, MLive.com reports. Michigan State Police were contacted by the owners of a website called “Rent-A-Hitman.com” after someone filled out a “service request form” seeking consultation […]
A number of high-traffic sites were briefly unreachable early Tuesday due to a cloud service outage. As your Twitter timeline has surely already informed you, the number of sites affected by the reported issue at cloud service company Fastly—per the Associated Press—is extensive: Reddit, CNN, several Amazon services, Twitch, and several others were cited as […]
Yahoo Answers is coming to an end. Nearly 16 years after its inception, the amusing and often frustrating Q&A platform will permanently shut down on May 4. Yahoo announced the move in a note to users this week, laying out a timeline for the upcoming changes. “While we could not have been prouder of what we accomplished […]
Seth Rogen’s cannabis lifestyle website Houseplant was an immediate hit in the US—so much so that the actor/entrepreneur was forced to shut down due to high traffic. “Well… we have underestimated you once again,” Rogen tweeted. “Due to insane traffic we took the Houseplant site down temporarily while I learn to write code. I’m very sorry if […]
Donald Trump‘s campaign website appeared to be temporarily overrun by hackers Tuesday. “This site was seized,” a message read across the top of the donaldjtrump.com “About” page. “The world has had enough of the fake news spreaded daily by President Donald J Trump. It is time to allow the world to know the truth.” The hackers accuse “trump-gov” of being involved with the […]
Rashiq Zahid has shared a web app today indicating which McDonald’s locations in the United States have a working ice cream machine. Zahid, a 24-year-old software engineer, was able to do this by reverse-engineering McDonald’s ordering API. The app, which is titled McBroken, is dependent on each location actively updating the status of their ice cream machine. […]
As anticipated in the thick of a tumultuous humanitarian crisis, activist hacker group Anonymous is rearing its head during the current uprisings. On Saturday, the internet discovered that the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) website was taken offline. Although the group didn’t take direct responsibility for the act, an account associated with Anonymous revealed that the site was disabled. The […]
