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If you’re a Minecrafter who likes to check out the latest apps, beware when checking the Google Play store. Reports are coming in of a number of scareware apps disguised as legitimate apps are hiding in the store to try and fool the unwary.
The apps themselves promise access to a number of cheats for the popular blocky game. In reality the apps will scare the user into downloading malicious programs mascarading as anti-virus software using banner advertising. The malware will then charge the victim €4.80 by SMS per weekly if they activate the “anti-virus program”.
Currently its estimated that over 30 of the apps are in the Store, and all seem to have been made by the same person due to similarities shared between them all. They all seem to have somehow bypassed Google’s Bouncer screener program and have therefore been downloaded by unsuspecting Minecraft fans an estimated 660,000 and 2.8 million times over the past nine months.
As always, be careful what you’re downloading people. This just proves that even stringent security processes won’t end up catching everything.
One of the most popular and well-known torrent distribution sites in the world, EZTV, has closed down. Surprisingly, it had nothing to do with the cops, or lawyers.
As TorrentFreak report, the site—which has served up TV show downloads for a decade—has been brought down by scammers, who took over EZTV’s domain name in what’s being calling a “hostile takeover”.
The scammers are still trying to operate EZTV, but given the nature of their takeover—company names were impersonated, and even the personal domains of EZTV’s founder Novaking have been seized—many other major torrent sites like KickassTorrents have banned EZTV uploads, and everyone’s being urged to avoid the site like the plague.
EZTV rose to prominence over the years due to its simple design and clear goal: to host episodes of every major (Western) TV show on the air. By only linking trusted and quality torrents, it developed a reputation as the place to go to get hold of a TV show.
As sad as it is for the site to get hit like this, maybe it’s a good time to go out. Ten years ago getting hold of TV shows in a timely manner was a pain in the ass! These days, between Apple, Google, Amazon and cable streaming services there’s really not many excuses left for not being able to pay for a show.
After revealing the system requirements they recommend to be able to use the second version of their Oculus Rift headset, Oculus have made a further blog post to inform users that they’ve taken the decision t0 puase development on the OS X and Linux versions of the hardware in order to focus more on developing a high-end Windows model.
The blog posted, written by chief architect and technical director Atman Binstock explained the reasoning on Oculus’ end. Basically they want to be sure they can deliver a high-end experience to the majority of users before they expand into making the headset work on more operating systems.
“Our development for OS X and Linux has been paused in order to focus on delivering a high quality consumer-level VR experience at launch across hardware, software, and content on Windows.” stated Binstock. “We want to get back to development for OS X and Linux but we don’t have a timeline.”
Oculus have been building the second version of their popular Oculus Rift VR headset for a while now, with devkits having already been sold and distributed around the world. In some cases they’ve had to stop distributing to some parts because of resellers.
Now Oculus have announced the system requirements they recommend to get the “full Rift experience” on a computer. They’re quite high but not so high that they’d only work on the toppest end of computers.
Here’s the list in case you’re interested:
NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD 290 equivalent or greater
Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater
8GB+ RAM
Compatible HDMI 1.3 video output
2x USB 3.0 ports
Windows 7 SP1 or newer
“The goal is for all Rift games and applications to deliver a great experience on this configuration,” reads the Oculus blog post. “Ultimately, we believe this will be fundamental to VR’s success, as developers can optimize and tune their game for a known specification, consistently achieving presence and simplifying development.”
Oculus hope to hold this configuration throughout the device’s lifetime and will eventually drop in price as time goes on.
Nintendo dropped a ton of new information about Splatoon today. Digmbot has it all rounded up for you in less than three minutes. Get educated!
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