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A new attack on Sony’s servers leaves PSN offline
7 Excellent Ideas for a Middle-Aged Harry Potter Books
The LG G Pro series might come to an end as company focuses on G4

A new attack on Sony’s servers leaves PSN offline

Posted: 09 Dec 2014 08:00 AM PST

Sony doesn’t have the best track record with hackers and DDoS, and now a new attack has sent PSN down for the count.

PSN is down again after a group of hackers took it down via DDoS attacks. Users who attempted to access the site were greeted with text that read “Page Not Found! It’s not you. It’s the internet’s fault”, while gamers reported issues finding and playing games online. The group claiming responsibility for these attacks goes by “Lizard Squad” and posted “PSN Login #offline #LizardSquad” as their Twitter status. Not that long ago, the company had also been hit at their film division, where a good amount of confidential info (including actor’s salaries) was leaked. Sony themselves reported being aware of the issue, and claim to be working on getting things back in order.

Lizard Squad also claimed attacks on the Xbox network last week, after they took down their services for one day. In their own words, that was just “a small dose” of what is to come over the holiday season. Their motives haven’t been made clear, and not much is known about the group except that they seem to have a Russian-based website.

Via BBC

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7 Excellent Ideas for a Middle-Aged Harry Potter Books

Posted: 09 Dec 2014 06:00 AM PST

Face it: Even if J.K. Rowling starts writing about the boring middle-aged problems of Harry Potter, she’ll rake in billions before the movies come out starring a physically transformed Daniel Radcliffe.

If that day ever happens, here are some excellent ideas for what kind of depressing stories about Potter’s later years she should write about.

The One That’s Worried About Dying

The What If Version

The Creepy Stalking Version

The Tale About Growing Old & Ugly

The Financially Depressing One

And the One With Problems in Bed

Hat Tip: Imgur and EliteDaily

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The LG G Pro series might come to an end as company focuses on G4

Posted: 09 Dec 2014 04:00 AM PST

Smartphone users who were expecting the LG G Pro 3 to jump to the LG ship might have to rethink it, as it may just not come out. It turns out new reports from Korea suggest the company might go all out on the LG G3 instead.

As the series evolve, both G Pro and LG Gx are becoming more and more indistinguishable, with the screen size no longer playing a defining role. The LG G Pro 2 was already 5.9-inches with the LG G2 having a 5.2-inch display, making the differentiation irrelevant. Furthermore, the latest LG G3 sports a 5.5-inch display rendering the differentiation obsolete.

The LG G Pro was met with a lukewarm response in the market, as it couldn’t really compete with Samsung's Galaxy Note line. Rumors suggested LG would strike back with their LG G Pro 3 in 2015, but that no longer seems a possibility after these developments.

Via Geeky Gadgets

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