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• Coranavirus Death Rate - Prepper
  The Coronavirus is a very serious issue for almost everyone. The rate people are dying is still somewhat unknown but Prepper has been trying to work an estimated number for how many people who have it and how many people who have sadly died from it.
  
  
• USA Rapper Pop Smoke [20] Murdered In Home Invasion - tina300
  The rapper known as Pop Smoke has been murdered from a home invasion, many people are outraged for the young rapper since his work was unique and unheard of.
  

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• Never. Fly. With. Ryanair. - SIM-3205632
  Flying with cheap companies is not always the best but with Ryanair, you may think you are getting a very good deal for a very nice service. But you would be wrong. Ace has come forward and stated they are never going to be flying with Ryanair ever again since they found the flight very poorly organized and just outright rude.
  
  
• Some Hackuman's are really strong! What about yours?! - LoremIpsum
  If you have been living under a rock, you may not know about the brand-new Hackuman trend going around Hack Forums, but if you haven't then you would know everywhere you go you will find someone talking about the new game. What you might not know about the game is that if you get one of the rarer eggs (Sapphire egg or Golden egg) you can hatch a Hackuman with very high stats and once the battles are released we are sure they will have a huge advantage.
  
  
• Would you rather have $50k or find your soulmate? - GodHyperus
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  Stephen is giving away four different prizes to four lucky members who enter his giveaway, first prize is 3,000 bytes, second prize is 2,000 bytes, third prize is $10 BTC & the fourth prize is $10 BTC. Make sure you get your chance to enter before the 3rd of March.
  

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Larry Tessler – Cut, Copy & Paste
Larry Tessler, the computer scientist behind cut, copy and paste, died at the age of 74. Tessler emerged in Silicon Valley in the 1960s, when computers were not a common item floating around, but rather a treat. He was born in 1945 in Bronx, New York, and studied at Stanford. He began working at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Parc) shortly after graduation, followed by Apple for 17 years, and went on to work for Amazon and Yahoo, too. “The inventor of cut/copy & paste, find & replace, and more, was former Xerox researcher Larry Tesler. Your workday is easier thanks to his revolutionary idea’s.” Xerox tweeted. Cut and paste was based “on the old method of editing in which people would physically cut portions of printed text and glue them elsewhere.” In 1983, the command was implemented on the Lisa computer, one-year shy of the Macintosh being released.

“There’s almost a rite of passage – after you’ve made some money, you don’t just retire, you spend your time funding other companies.” – Larry Tessler
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Gretel
Ex-NSA, AWS, and Google engineers came up with an idea to launch a website like GitHub, but for data. Gretel can carry confidential sample data for developers to use when it comes to improving new features or data to work with a new project. Alex Watson, one of the co-founders said, “There’s all these really cool use cases that people have to do with data. But there’s no GitHub equivalent for data.” Machine learning will be used to categorize the artificial data that will be available for developers on Gretel. $3.5 million has been secured in funding to start the process of building Gretel, with more commitment to developers coming in the coming weeks. >>Source

Another Cyber Attack in The Books
DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency), which is responsible for cybersecurity for the military, communications in combat zones, and monitoring calls for the US President, has been hit by a cyber-attack. Some of the computer systems that control the agency were attacked during the summer of 2019, with the attacker receiving personal information about 200,000 people. The agency began to send letters to those affected, Andy Piazza, a veteran, and cyber threat analysis said that he was not concerned with the data that had been collected but was more concerned that he had received more of these letters from different firms and organizations recently about data breaches. >>Source

Plaintiffs in class action suit against Riot aren't settling for $10 million anymore
Before the start of the new year, Riot Games was supposed to pay a settlement of $10 million to female employees starting from back in 2014. News has begun to circulate that the Plaintiffs are not satisfied with the payout that they were awarded from the trial and court proceedings. Riot's legal team has commented on the matter with this, "These brave women spoke out against gender inequality and sexism, and I want to make sure they are fairly compensated," Harrison said in a statement. "Our well-qualified statisticians are already analyzing pay data. We intend to recover the compensation due to the women of Riot Games and achieve institutional reform, (comma is not required) in order to level the playing field for women." >>Source

Valve bans more than 40,000 Dota 2 accounts
As gamer's, we've all run into cheaters. They come in all shapes and forms, but at the end of the day, a cheater is a cheater. One company that clearly doesn't put up with anything like that is Valve. Over the past week alone, their team has managed to ban over 40,000 accounts that were found to have violated their terms of service. "We are making our smurf detection system more sensitive in this update," Valve says. "This change will much more proactively target potential smurf accounts, but may on rare occasion give a normal player extra MMR." >>Source

Call of Duty movie director wants to make a soldier film
The popular action shooter franchise was scheduled to have a movie created based around either specific soldiers or specific missions in 2019. This all recently came to a close when parties involved were worried about the direction in which the movie was going in. There were struggles of power on both sides and figuring out where to shoot and how to shoot were the main questions that continue to be up in the air. The Italian director was ready, but according to him, the project is now in "limbo." >>Source

KV for the Weeks of Feb 10 - 16
The following anime has released a KV or Key Visual the past few weeks: My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Season 3, second season of 5-toubun no Hanayome, Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III, Sword Art Online: Alicization season 2, Violet Evergarden movie & Fruits Basket Season 2. >>Source

Demon Slayer Takes Home Anime of the Year at Crunchyroll's Anime Awards
Demon Slayer was definitely one of the most popular anime last season. It has won multiple awards not only for the anime but the manga too. Most importantly, Demon Slayer was able to win the grand award of Anime of the Year. Following that, the awards additionally won was "Best Boy" being the main character Kamado Tanjiro and "Best Fight Scene." It is not so much a surprise that this anime won AOTY. Nowadays, award shows are nothing special. You are able to tell immediately who is going to win, but do not let that negative statement get to you. The honor of being able to win an award is a great accomplishment and those who worked on the anime worked super hard to produce something great. >>Source

'Tokyo 7th Sisters' Idol Game Gets Anime Adaptation
The mobile game that is popular in Japan, Tokyo 7th Sisters, will be getting a 70-minute animation coming to theatres in the summer of 2020. Those with access to the game outside of Japan, usually use an emulator or have access to the Japanese iTunes or Google Play store. Of course, Japan will be getting the screening first, and certain locations around the world will have delayed screenings for those who are outside of Japan, as per usual. Despite the name, the group of twelve girls will work together to revive the group, 777, and show that the idol industry is not dead. The anime was announced on the smartphone game during the celebration of their sixth anniversary. Previously, an announcement was made where the game was going to be getting a series, but that eventually was canceled. Multiple mobile rhythm games in the next year or two have also announced that they will be having anime adaptions. >>Source

Multiple Cancelations Due to Coronavirus
Multiple anime episodes and anime-related events taking place in Japan have been canceled due to the outbreak of the coronavirus. To ensure everyone's safety, multiple companies have simultaneously delayed episodes anywhere between one week from the airing date, all the way to two months. Of course, everyone's health comes first, but this is a big disappointment for those watching the anime included in this article.

Starting first, we have A3! This anime has been mentioned in our past two editions and the producers over at Liber Entertainment have been delaying the anime for over three weeks now. The anime was scheduled to make its return on Feb 23, but instead, it will be, once again, delaying the broadcast of its latest episode. Liber Entertainment says that the screening of the newest episode, episode four, is said to air on April 27. This, of course, does not help the reputation of the anime, which already at the current state is not doing so well in terms of ratings. Certain TV broadcasting services, such as Tokyo MX, Sun TV, KBS Kyoto, and BS11 will be airing the show again, but from the beginning.

Next, A Certain Scientific Railgun T's seventh episode did not air on Feb 21 and was also unavailable for those streaming the anime. Instead, for those living in Japan, the sixth episode was rebroadcasted. At the moment, no announcement has been made on a set date on when the anime will continue.

Additionally, the anime Infinite Dendrogram is also delaying its newest episode, episode seven, due to the coronavirus. Just like A Certain Scientific Railgun T, there has been no release date on when it will make its return.

Lastly, Bushiroad, the popular Japanese entertainment company, mostly known for their gacha games, or games that specialize in getting their players to spend money in order to obtain in-game items, have canceled all their sponsored events until late March. For those who purchased tickets, those interested are allowed to receive a refund if they do not wish to attend anymore or simply cannot. For Bushiroad, the coronavirus has forced the postponing of mobile game releases, media production such as music and videos, and even new card collections in Bushiroad's card company, Weiß Schwarz. >>Source

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(Feb 27, 2020 08:03 PM)Kit Wrote:  What happened to Zeus? Anyone enlighten me?

Great work on the news! Loved the comics lmao

(Feb 27, 2020 08:14 PM)Dorrance Wrote:  Advertising sales in mass form in private message and caught a 3-month ban.

(Feb 27, 2020 07:11 PM)Blogger Wrote:  Another good edition. Vitani's and passCODE's contests should have been listed. I think they're the biggest ones right now.

(Feb 27, 2020 07:00 PM)Lrrr Wrote:  RIP Zeus....

Another great edition thanks! Any word on bringing back user interviews?

(Feb 27, 2020 10:24 PM)passCODE Wrote:  Okay, so I have one concern about your news. How do you choose what giveaway will be featured?
Why does some $20 giveaway get features and mine not? Do you just pick a random one or? Obviously I want exposure and it's a normal thing, why not? If I'm already doing something good for the community then I want to be noticed. Wouldn't featuring a bigger giveaway be a greater benefit to members?

(Feb 27, 2020 10:56 PM)Hydra Wrote:  Report your threads in the Weekly Reports thread: https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=5997436

That goes to everyone, I get a lot of PMs and such about that. Report it if you want exposure.

(Feb 27, 2020 11:01 PM)passCODE Wrote:  None of these two giveaways were posted in that thread, which means you picked them personally. Does it mean you just visited the giveaways forum and picked 2 random threads? I will definitely post next time.