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    Gamer Tries to Build Nuclear Reactor in Home, Feds Not Happy

    A Texas man, described in television reports as a gamer and out-of-work computer whiz who redesigns video games, received an early morning call from the FBI and Nuclear Regulatory Commission after word got out that he was trying to build a small nuclear reactor in his house.

    The feds were alerted after the man blogged that he had some uranium and that the background radiation in his home had doubled.
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    8:00 AM on Thu Jan 10 2008
    By Brian Crecente
    24,550 views, 150 comments

    Latest by jmb8504: @segamanxero: Haha, oh how I miss the early 90's Sega megastructure of add ons. My favorite was putting the more »

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    GayGamer Target of Hate Crime

    A hacker has knocked GayGamer.net, the only news gathering gay-gaming site, offline with a series of denial of service attacks after flooding the site with threatening emails and hate speech, the site's owner said Sunday.

    Flynn De Marco, the site's owner and Kotaku weekend editor, said small waves of denial of service attacks started Wednesday morning, causing occasional timeouts on the site. By Friday the site, working with their host, was able to block the IPs where the DOS attacks seemed to be coming from. Then Friday evening someone began flooding the site's forums and chat room with hate speech, including some death threats, and over-sized images meant to bog down the site, De Marco said. The flood of messages and images all originated from the same IP in Philidelphia, he added.

    The site deleted the offensive messages, but the continued DOS attacks lead to the site's host taking GayGamer down until the attacks could be permanently blocked. De Marco hopes to get the site operational by Monday, but is having problems getting a straight answer from their host, GoDaddy.Com.

    According to the Federal Bureau of Investigations a hate crime, also known as a bias crime, is a criminal offense committed against a person, property, or society that is motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/national origin.

    Its sad to see that even in the virtual worlds of gaming and game coverage people decide that the only way they can express themselves is by attacking others. Hit the jump to read GayGamer's official statement on the outage.
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    11:32 AM on Sun Aug 5 2007
    By Brian Crecente
    38,139 views, 347 comments

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    Thompson Calls for FBI Investigation of Kotaku

    Apparently we've unhinged Jack. More »
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    Xbox Live Leads to School Lockdown

    An Ohio school was locked down yesterday after a middle school student told a California teen over Xbox Live that he was planning to bring a 9mm pistol to school, according to the Pickaway County Sheriff's department. More »

    7:30 AM on Thu Jan 25 2007
    By Brian Crecente
    453 views, 59 comments

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    FBI Raids Lineage II Pirates

    The FBI conducted multiple raids across the country today, closing down Lineage II pirating site L2Extreme, NCsoft said. More »

    11:10 AM on Mon Nov 20 2006
    By Brian Crecente
    2,000 views, 9 comments

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    FBI to Police Second Life?

    Terra Nova says that the FBI is being called into Linden Labs' Second Life to help purge the griefers from the game. It's been a rough week to be a griefer. First WoW bans a modest town's worth of people, now Second Life has the FBI sniffing out griefers. More »

    2:40 PM on Thu Dec 22 2005
    By lsmith
    2,399 views, 3 comments

    Latest by AJ: Is it actually the FBI though? I've heard it was "the relevant authorities" or something like that (of course, more »

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