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China enjoys anti-corruption game

Gaming is increasingly popular among China’s youth
An online game in China that allows players to eradicate corrupt officials has proved so popular its website has crashed, state media reports.
Since its launch eight days ago, the game, “Incorruptible Fighter”, is reported to h

Dateline “exposes” iPod thieves via hidden camera – Engadget:
There’s probably nothing quite as embarrassing as being ambushed on national television by Chris Hansen for stealing a measly iPod. Of course, NBC’s crack team of journalists are just trying to expose the growing trend of iPod theft in the world… or kick up their ratings. In a bizarre and somewhat convoluted “hidden camera” scheme, Dateline nabs thieves at their own game by allowing them to steal new iPods bundled with a “special” install disc which secretly hands over the user’s information to the news program. The venus-fly-trap-like plot unfolds as the crew leaves “unattended” iPods in high traffic areas, and is then shocked to see people walking off with them. With all d

UltraNewb: A beginner’s guide to BitTorrent:

Despite the fact that BitTorrent has been around for a good 6 years now, the lightning fast file sharing protocol hasn’t completely taken off in the mainstream. Since we post a decent amount about BitTorrent around here, we figured it was just time we put out a beginner’s guide to BitTorrent. This is the guide you can send to your friend next time he gets that glassy look in his eyes when you mention BitTorrent and how quick and easy it makes downloading albums educational, public domain videos and other large files.
Without going into too much detail, here’s a crash course in the file sharing protocol that is BitTorrent (feel free to skip to the How to find and download a file with BitTorrent section if you’re not all that interested in the details).

In Brief: The sly bastards over at The Pirate Bay are …:
The sly bastards over at The Pirate Bay are resurrecting the original big fish torrent site, Suprnova.org, complete with the classic look, in a couple of days. [TorrentFreak]