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Sticky Prices Reduced
Three sections have had their weekly prices reduced down to $20. Those sections are Ebook Bazaar, Counter Strike, and Non-Free Accounts. The monthly price has also been reduced to $75. If you wish to purchase one, check the availability here (6 Stickies Max except SST), then proceed by PMing Omniscient with thread link and forum section.

By Hash G.

Site Statistics

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  • Posts: 50,952,332 ( +0.23% )
    
  • Threads: 3,562,810 ( +0.29% )
    
  • Members: 3,140,308 ( +0.36% )

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  • Daily Posts: 13903.49 ( -0.05% )
    
  • Daily Threads: 972.19 ( +0.02% )
    
  • Daily New Members: 856.9 ( +0.08% )
    
  • Posts Per Member: 16.23 ( -0.12% )
    
  • Replies Per Thread: 13.3 ( -0.08% )

Ban Statistics

• Last Weeks Bans (Click to View)
  • Staff Bans: 143
    • ... Change from Last Edition: +16
  • Vacation Bans: 22
    • ... Change from Last Edition: +8
  • Combined Bans: 165
    • ... Change from Last Edition: +24

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    • Lounge Posts: 7,393,338 ( +0.2% )
      
    • RANF Threads: 65,392 ( +0.41% )
      
    • RANF Posts: 1,051,503 ( +0.23% )
  • Common
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    • Posts: 10,461,005 ( -8.91% )
  • Hack
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    • Posts: 5,729,548 ( +0.22% )
  • Tech
    • Threads: 200,688 ( +0.17% )
      
    • Posts: 1,692,054 ( +0.15% )
  • Code
    • Threads: 1,633,5​4 ( NaN% )
      
    • Posts: 1,568,658 ( +11.74% )
  • Game
    • Threads: 434,659 ( +0.16% )
      
    • Posts: 4,457,942 ( +0.15% )
  • Groups
    • Threads: 6,978 ( +0.39% )
      
    • Posts: 305,446 ( +0.44% )
  • Web
    • Threads: 79,843 ( +0.21% )
      
    • Posts: 578,158 ( +0.21% )
  • GFX
    • Threads: 130,832 ( +0.11% )
      
    • Posts: 977,592 ( +0.1% )
  • Market
    • Threads: 934,786 ( +0.3% )
      
    • Posts: 8,479,693 ( +0.29% )
  • Money
    • Threads: 1,​34,806 ( NaN% )
      
    • Posts: 1,779,121 ( +0.12% )

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  • Echo
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  • Fusion
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  • The Order
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  • Riptide
    • 23 Members ( +2 )
    
    
  • Eternal
    • 14 Members ( -27 )
    
    
  • Minecrafters
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  • Royalty
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  • Legends
    • 35 Members ( +1 )
  • Apex
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By Ariana

Group Changes

• Divined rebranded Squad into SheepGang
  

Leadership Changes

• Billie Joe is now a leader of Echo.
  

Site Group Recruitment

• Hack Forums News // Recruitment
  

Current Open Group Recruitments

• [Official Group] Apex - General Recruitment
  
• [Official Group] Apex - CS:GO Team Recruitment (North America)
  
• [OFFICIAL] Dawn Computing Course Recruitment
  
• Dawn - Writing Sector Recruitment.
  
• Echo | Lounge Recruitment
  
• Enigma | Official Recruitment #3
  
• [Official Group] Eternal Content Creators Recruitment
  
• [OFFICIAL] Fusion Recruitment
  
• Nightmare - General Recruitment
  
• Riptide ~ Recruitment
  
• Riptide | Music Recruitment
  
• [Recruiting] Royalty [Official Group]
  
• [Official Group] SheepGang Recruitment
  
• The Brotherhood | Gaming Sector | Recruitment | [OFFICIAL]
  
• The Brotherhood Innuendo & Emotional Support Team Recruitment
  
• The Brotherhood | Business Sector | Recruitment | [OFFICIAL]
  
• The Brotherhood | Coders/Freelancers | Recruitment
  
• [OFFICIAL] The Brotherhood | Review Sector Recruitment
  
• [OFFICIAL] The Brotherhood | Windows Sector Recruitment
  
• [Official Group] The Order | General Recruitment
  

Group Related Buy-ins & Informational Threads

• [Official Group] Apex - Information
  
• Enigma | General Information
  
• [For Sale] Enigma Leadership
  
• [Official Group] - >> Eternal << - Information - Members - Contributions -
  
• [OFFICIAL] Fusion Official Information
  
• Minecrafters | Official Group
  
• Riptide ~ General Information
  
• [Official Group] SheepGang
  
• The Brotherhood | Official Group | General Information / Question Thread
  
• The Order // Official Group
  

Group and Crew General Discussions Spotlight Threads

• Make Groups Great Again Brothers......
  
• Best current group user bar?
  
• What are the groups you think are doing it right?
  

Group Sales Threads

• [Official Group] Eternal For Sale
  
• Null - On Sale - Official Group of Hack Forums
  

By illuminati▲

User News

• #Programmer has reached 5,000 posts.
  
• Aerial has reached 5,000 posts.
  
• Minimalist has reached 10,000 posts.
  
• Tɦɛ Gʀiɱ has reached 10,000 posts.
  
• Roytoy has reached 10,000 posts.
  
• Regulus has reached 24,000 posts.
  
• - Sam - had their Ub3r taken away.
  
• Walt Disney™ is no longer a Staff Member.
  
  
  

Bans*

• No notable bans were reported.
  
  

Vacations*

• Froggy has taken a vacation.
  
• Roger Waters has taken a vacation.
  
• dopepizza has taken a vacation.
  
• Sakuto has taken a vacation.
  
• Thornzzz has taken a vacation.
  
  

Closures

• haydrazs was closed.
  
  

Rep Kills

• haydrazs was Rep Killed.
  
• DRAΚE was Rep Killed.
  
  

Awards

• Froggy has received the Jokester for this thread.
  
• Regulus has received the 24k award.
  
• Minimalist has received the The Protector award.
  
• Leroy Jethro Gibbs has received the White Hat Helper award.
  
• Divined has received the Silver Medal award.
  
• Vyrеz has received the The Alien award.
  
  

* - As of the Friday prior to release.

By King Cin

Announcement Threads

---Sticky Prices Reduced - Omniscient
---Supreme leader of Hack Forums, Omniscient, has decided to lower the price of purchasable sections in some sections. If you wish to know more about which sections and want more specific information, click on the hyperlink and read Omni's thread.

Informational Threads

---30 Tips on Building Confidence. - Scymo
--- If you want some simple tips to build core confidence over a certain duration of time, this thread is the one for you. Scymo will give you some quick and simple tips that'll improve your life immediately if you apply them the right way. Always strive and prosper!

Entertaining Threads

---Back from Greece! - Krave
---The member Krave went on a vacation for a week and has returned home. He vacation banned himself as well so he has a lot to catch up on after 7 days of inactivity. Let him know you care about him or ask him questions on this thread! Also tell him to read the news so he can follow what was going on on Hack Forums these last days.

---SheepGang vs Apex vs Minecrafters - Divined
---It seems like several official usergroups are planning something. Read this thread from Divined if you're interested in some friendly competition between Apex, SheepGang and Minecrafters. It should pique your interest.

Contests and Giveaways

---[Eternal] Never Ending Giveaway | Open to all | Bitcoin | Awards - Errors
---Starting May 20th, Errors will be giving away at least two prizes each month in the name of Eternal. If you want free stuff or are in dire need of financial aid, check this thread out.

---LuminosityLink Contest | Win BTC or a Copy of LuminosityLink | All Members Eligible! - KFC Watermelon
---KFC Watermelon is giving away a copy of his LuminosityLink RAT or some Bitcoin for free. The only requirement is that you wear the signature provided in the original thread. Check this out if it sounds interesting to you or if you need more information about KFC Watermelon's contest.

Member Feedback Threads

---Minimalist's 10000 Post Confession & Feedback - Minimalist
---Minimalist provides us with a feedback thread and reveals that he is actually not Minimalist, but Young Minimalist. Read this thread if you want to know how a feedback thread looks and are planning to make your own or if you're interested in Young Minimalist's opinion.

---Untitled - King Cin
---High quality member King Cin has created a short feedback thread in which he provides you with his current view on some of the forum sections, groups and marketplace. Make sure to read it if you're interested in my opinion.

Miscellaneous

---In Oven Now - Omniscient
---Omniscient has created a thread where you can post a picture of food you're currently cooking in your oven. It's just a fun interactive thread that could use some more activity. Let Omni know what you're cooking by replying to his thread.

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Sorry if that title was cringeworthy but all the good ones Argon. 🤣😏🤣 Spotlight and Trends are cool and all but there are more sections to be added. Next up is Science News which will go live next week. It's pretty self explanatory but basically it will discuss topics related to the universe, our health, research, and other scientific topics in general.

If You Hate Me, Know That I Love You
And those who love me, I love you too! <3 Have a great week and see you soon!

By Wires

President Enrique Peña Nieto to Combat Same-Sex Marriage
President Enrique Peña Nieto has recently fought against discrimination on homophobia and will be eventually pushing out a nationwide legalisation on same-sex marriage. President Nieto strongly opposes discrimination against homophobia which can be seen all of his Twitter here. At this point in time, only three of Mexico's 31 states only allow same-sex marriage. In recent years controversy regarding same-sex marriage has caused havoc among judges and governors. Quintana Roo’s secretary of state made it clear that their state did not forbid same-sex marriage by overturning a governor's decision to annul a marriage.

North Korea Ready to Discuss With South Korea With An "Open Mind"
After North Korea's recent success with their nuclear weapons programme, Pyongyang are now ready to commence talks with South Korea with an "open mind". North Korea are now willing to consider South Korea's suggestions (if any) in regards to their unification policy. While North Korea utter criticism towards South Korea, the South Korean government has issued a statement which mentioned the importance of North Korea stopping their provocations in order to commence any sort of talks between the two governments. In response to South Korea's statement, Pyongyang issued a statement shortly which read "In fact, our possession of nuclear weapons has nothing to do with inter-Korean relations and it is South Korea who will be cornered if the matter (of nuclear weapons) takes a greater role in future relations.”

An Article About an Article - Guardian News Compares Donald Trump to North Korea
The relationship between North Korea and Donald Trump are far from amusing nor good. Earlier this month, the world saw Donald Trump and North Korea officials go head-to-head after Trump suggested that South Korea should arm themselves instead of relying on the US. A North Korea official hit back at Trump's comments by suggesting they were "totally absurd and illogical". Whilst the rest of the world watched a presidential candidate and North Korea go head-to-head, The Guardian News took the chance to throw up an amusing poll up on their site which allows you to guess whether Donald Trump or North Korea said the statement mentioned. Go ahead and take part in the poll here.

Coming Soon!

By Wires

Oracle vs Google on Google's Fair Use
This is not the first time Oracle and Google have been in the court room. Back in 2010, Oracle took the chance to sue Google and made them cough up $9 billion. This time round, Oracle is now back in the court room accusing Google's coding of not being under fair use. Whilst Oracle clamp down on Google and open source software in general, they also want to be seen as the defenders of free and open source software. It seems that Google's Android Team has used Java's APIs (within a closed source software) which Oracle don't seem to happy about. The Chief Executive of Oracle, Catz, claimed that to preserve Java's motto “write once, run anywhere”, it would have to protect the language against companies such as Google.

Assaults Increased Since Police Cams
Generally, making Police wear body cameras are looked upon as a good idea. A recent study from Cambridge and RAND Europe, saw that at least 15% (on average) of assaults on Police officers have increased since officers have been wearing body cameras. Whether suspects assault officers due to the fact that they do not like being recorded or cameras make officers less assertive is still unknown. The studies has been shown to be “Puzzling and disturbing”. A further study shows that officers tend to use the cameras at their own discretion which make be the cause of the escalation in assault. Many questions are still being asked in regards to body cameras and a conclusion can not be drawn to as of yet.

EyeSight Create a Virtual Reality
In the recent years, the world has seen EyeSight implement gesture controls into smartphones and other devices, which have proven to be useful. Recently, EyeSight has now also announced that they will be bringing out a new virtual reality, which will be able to utilize existing smartphones in order to later bring motion control to a phone-based virtual reality. You can view the EyeSight demonstration here. EyeSight are also willing to open up the SDK to developers in the future. As to when and how, is still unknown. EyeSight hope to allow more people to engage with virtual realities with finger movements "that are natural and intuitive to the user".

By Wires

Battlefield 4 - Grab It for Free While You Can
Electronic Arts (EA) has announced the free release of Battlefield 4's Final Stand DLC and has been put into affect immediately on Xbox One and Xbox 360. A little while later, Origin and Playstation Network updated their stores to accommodate the free download. Set in the winter, Battlefield 4's Final Stand includes four maps (Hanger 21, Operation Whiteout, Giants of Karelia and Hammerhead) and future generation weapons and gadgets. This may not be the last free give-away by EA. The "Road to Battlefield 1" campaign is far from over! As of May 24, the give-away will be finished.

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 Trailer
The entertainment company Bandai Namco have now officially announced Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 on Xbox One, Playstation 4 and PC. You can watch the trailer for the upcoming game here. Whilst a trailer has been released, Bandai Namco are still holding the public in suspense as to when the game will be released on all platforms. The original developer of the Dragon Ball series, Dimps, is a Japanese based video game development company which have now also opted back into the sequel. Xenoverse 2 will not be released on Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.

These Are Your Pokémon Sun and Moon Starters
Nintendo game developers working on the latest games: Pokémon Sun and Moon, have officially announced the new starter Pokémon gamers can choose from. First, introducing Rowlet. Rowlet is a Grass and Flying type Pokemon. Rowlet has the ability to twist his head 180° from front to back so it can see directly behind itself. One of the very first known public abilities that Rowlet can learn is Leafage. Leafage allows Rowlet to attack another Pokémon with leaves. Upon selecting Rowlet, trainers will have the option to use the Leafage ability instantly. Next up, we have Litten the fire cat. Off the bat, Litten will be able to use the Ember ability, lighting is opponents on fire and bringing the heat to the court. Well, in our case the gym. Litten is well known for his flaming hairballs. This fired up cat will not hesitate to light up the enemy with his fur! Fun fact: When Litten grooms itself, all the hair Litten has collected will be used in its fireball attack! Last but not least, we have the magnificent Popplio, the sea lion. Popplio will be the water type choice for trainers to choose from. Popplio can fight on land or in water. It has the ability to break speeds of over 25 MPH in the water and is able to fight on land too. This cute little Pokémon is perfect for various different contests that occur in the game, as Popplio is excellent when it comes to acrobatics. The developers have also announced that the newest games will take place on an island based off of one of the eight islands of Hawaii. The new location for the series will be called "Alola." The game plans to be released on Nov. 18th for the Nintendo 3DS.

Starter Pokémon for Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon Revealed! (Click to View)

By Wires

ISIS Hackers Form a Virtual Army
Telegram have recently been advertising the merging of various ISIS hacking groups to form United Cyber Caliphate (UCC) who have already begun infiltrating sites and posting messages regarding their alliance. UCC is made up of the ISIS groups Cyber Caliphate Army (CCA), KAlacnikov.TN and Sons Caliphate Army. The individual groups have made a name for themselves by hacking into a company named Add Google Online, supposedly Google.com, and a Michigan church. The Michigan church website was left with a brief message by ISIS, "We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses and enslave your women by the permission of Allah, the Exalted." UCC has proven to be a nuisance by also posting Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Defense and Aviation's 18,000 employees.

Making Bucks Makes Enemies
Who would of thought making big bucks on Adsense would make you a target. An unknown group of cyber criminals have caused a havoc by using a piece of malware dubbed Redirector.Paco to infect a million computers. Redirector.Paco is often disguised as Adobe Flash Update and Adobe Flash Scheduler and hijacks a person's search engine results. Infected machines are also subjective to fake popular software installs such as WinRAR and Youtube Downloader. Surprisingly, if you are infected with this type of trojan, surfing over HTTPS will not help you neither. This is done by the trojan implementing a free root certificate. An indication of infection is a loading message in the browser status bar which will state either "Waiting for proxy tunnel" or "Downloading proxy script."

Google Pays Out
The infamous search engine, Google, face an anti-trust violation filed by the European Commission for $3.4 billion. Google have been accused of favouritism by prioritizing their own search results to display their own results linking back to Google first and foremost. Google have also now been banned from redefining their search results entirely, to prevent Google prioritizing their own products. Google are also accused of pre-installing their own applications (such as Google Chrome) on Android devices in another anti-trust violation case. European Commission are due to publicly announce Google's fine in the coming months.

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Kim K and Her Selfies
I have good news, kids! Last night at the Webbys, Kim Kardashian accepted the Break the Internet award and with that came a joyful statement for all the horny bastards. "Nude selfies till I die," promised Kim Kardashian. So, who's ready to see another nude picture of her? Vote here and let's see what Hack Forums thinks of her nude selfies!

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I cannot wait for the Science News category to open! Great work guys!

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A round of applause to Wires for doing 5 sections this week. He is one of writer's best.

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Good job news team! And haydrazs is closed! Wow! Can someone shed some light on what happened?

[Leroy Jethro Gibbs]

I was mentioned. I now feel like I have a huge HF-E-Dick.

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Lovely read, lots of appreciation towards the News team.

[Funtage]

i am applying for the news team

when do i start

[King Cin]

i am applying for the news team

when do i start

Right now brother didn't you get my PM?

[Funtage]

Right now brother didn't you get my PM?

just got it thanks brahma 🤝

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Thank you for the great news edition iHydra & Co.

[zilo]

Why was haydrazs banned? He's not on the bans page for me.