[Phytrix]

Contests
Firstly, the MOTM competition was launched a few weeks ago. The competition is nearing its end, although there is still time to vote if you haven't already. There are 5 members nominated, 3 of which are tied on 4 votes at the time of writing this, one on 1 vote, and one on 0 votes. This is still anyone's competition, so be sure to make your vote count! This week's lottery also ended a few days ago, which was won by The Anarchist (again!). The pot was 3,700 AP. Good luck to everyone who enters the current lottery. The referral contest was also completed since the last edition and was won by Phytrix with no contenders for second and third place.

Database Rollback
Earlier this week, due to an internal issue, the AF database was rolled back a little over half a day. Although a decent amount of posts were lost and a few threads, this rollback prevented us losing more posts and threads, hence making it the best for the forum. The issue has been dealt with, and in result a fix has been implemented. The fix prevents users (excluding Staff) from deleting posts that are older than a week. Luckily the backup wasn't too far behind, although the issue still resulted in a few members losing AP, accounts being deleted (recent registrations), posts and threads.

Nerdchat
Earlier this week, The Anarchist purchased Nerdchat for a currently undisclosed(?) amount of money. AF will be attempting to transfer a decent amount of the current Nerdchat members to AF, as well as promoting the site as is (advertising) before we merge Nerdchat into AF. The merging may still take a few weeks, as AF is disallowed the purchase of stickies on HF while Nerdchat isn't, hence allowing maximum advertising, although the merge should bring AF a lot of new members plus Nerdchat's database (all their posts and threads), which is currently being sorted into appropriate sections and grammar/spelling edited.

BreShiE - Rate This Design!
JackDaniels - How To Hack Administrator Account On A School Or Job Network
Magic - Beginner Hacking Help Desk [Questions And Answers]
3SidedSquare - [Release] LighteningScrapper - Proxy Checker & Web Traffic
Corrupt - [Tutorial] How To Be "Unresolvable" On Skype

Interview - INST1NCT

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Phoenix Hello INST1NCT and welcome to the Anarchy Forums third edition of the news. Would you like to make any shout outs or anything?
INST1NCT: Yeah I'd like to give an shoutout out to The Anarchist for making this great community and by being an friend for a long time.

Phoenix Glad to see you are friends with The Anarchist, he is a nice guy. I assume he is what brought you to the forum then?
INST1NCT: Yep, I've been on all his previous forums too. I kinda vanished and I wanted to contact him again and he told me about Anarchy Forums.

Phoenix I was not aware that he had other forums before Anarchy Forums. What do you think of the site so far?
INST1NCT: I think that the site's great, Anarchy Forums is growing and growing. I love the community! I know a lot of people and I enjoy talking to them, it feels like we're all friends. Like close friends.

Phoenix Yes, and it's great right now because the community is still small. What are some things you prefer on this site than on others? What are the main strongpoints you see in Anarchy Forums I mean, besides the community itself?
INST1NCT: High quality mostly, I've never seen an low quality post on Anarchy Forums this is because of the staff team, I like how they're keeping everything organised. I also love the AP currency which I have never seen on any forums before and I think it's really useful. I like it how Anarchy Forums use it as an currency to pay things that you have to pay normally real money for.

Phoenix I really like that as well, I have seen forums that have credits but inflation is horrible and they are worthless. If you could make one suggestion involving the marketplace, or the currency what would you suggest for Anarchy Forums?
INST1NCT: I think The Anarchist has already made an improvement by implementing the lottery system which everyone loves because who doesn't want to win a big prize of AP? But to add an suggestion is adding more things to the shop. Like not only seasonal awards and Elite.

Phoenix Such as more PM space and perhaps username color changes and such? Yes I agree with this. Speaking of Elite, you are Elite. How do you like it compared to being a normal member?
INST1NCT: Currently it's not a big difference except we have a acces to the Giveaways & Freebies section and the 'Advanced Hacking, Elite Lounge' sections. It's still a bit empty but The Anarchist asked for improvements in the Elite Lounge. I've seen some really good suggestions and I'm sure the Elite users will really enjoy them and I think it's going to be awesome and a neat benefit for all the Elite users.

Phoenix Well I am sure he will do a great job, the forum looks amazing and has been well constructed from what I can see. What do you think of the groups of Anarchy Forums? I noticed you were in the Goons.
INST1NCT: I think that the groups are great and will definitely help you in what you want to acquire for Goons hacking as an example. The only that I have been noticing is that we're getting a little inactive the same for Syndicate. But I'm sure that Goons will get more active soon.
About the news team: I think it's a great group and I really enjoyed the 2 news articles! I'm sure that when we're a bigger community that The News group will even become a more important source for Anarchy Forums.

Phoenix We enjoyed writing them! Well I hope to see the groups become more active, as well as the community as a whole. What do you think we members as a community could do to bring in more active members?
INST1NCT: Refer members to Anarchy Forums of course. As well just stay active so you will get known on the forum for the new members as it will all be a bit new for them but once they get to know the forum members I'm sure they'll like it!

Phoenix Perhaps we should encourage more referrals. Now, tell me about yourself and what you do, and why you continue to be an active and respected member of AF.
INST1NCT: I'm into web hacking and hacking in general in my spare time. Why I continue to be an active member is because I simply love the community and want to help Anarchy Forums grow!

Phoenix Well to conclude the interview could you give new and current members advice on how to be an outstanding member? You seem to be one of the best in my book for AF. Any other final words you want to say can be said as well.
INST1NCT: Stay active and keep contributing, make decent tutorials etc! Talk to the people on the forum meet friends and socialize, be one with the community.

How do you think the AF News could be improved?

Magic - I think that having the whole AF News read out by voice and uploaded as a video would largely benefit it as a whole.

The End - In my opinion, AF News needs more people that are willing to apply and stay active. I was surprised to see how lightly the due dates were handled. I personally handed my work 2 hours late, fearing for my brand new membership in the AF News. You can imagine my face when there was work still pending days later. However, the high quality of the articles surprised me as well.

Club Fire Leaves Hundreds Dead
233 people (and possibly counting) have died in a nightclub fire in southern Brazil yesterday, police officials report. After a band set off fireworks at the Kiss club in Santa Maria, it was reported that a fire began and swept through the club. In the rush many were crushed from stampedes, many killed by the fire itself and many also killed from the toxic fumes. On top of this, many more were seriously injured. All names have been released except for 3 unidentified bodies. Most of the victims were between 16 and 20. The death toll was originally 245, also was revised later on. It's believed that there may be bodies near-by, although it's still unsure whether there are more bodies to be found.

Thousands Of Wild Crocodiles
15,000 crocodiles have been released in South Africa's floods. The owner was forced to open the gates, releasing all of the crocodiles, amid heavy rain and flash flooding. So far, it's believed that more than half have been recaptured, although this means that there are still thousands on the loose. Among the flooding, where many people are trapped in their flooded homes, it's only imaginable how much of an extra strain this many crocodiles would add to the already dramatic event. Some of the crocs have been found over a hundred kilometres away.

Rick Ross Targeted By Drive-By Shooting
Rick Ross was target on a shooting in Florida during the morning of January 28th (around 5am), the day of his birthday, after leaving a nearby restaurant. The shooter(s), on another vehicle, fortunately missed all of the shots, which sum up around 20. The bullets hit the shops and commerce behind Rick Ross’ car. Nobody was killed or injured, due to the unusual time of the shooting. Rick Ross, whilst being shot at, tried to get away and crashed his Rolls Royce into a building. No one inside the car was injured, but Rick Ross received a crimson wakeup call on his mortality.

Chris Brown And Frank Ocean Brawl
Chris Brown and Frank Ocean, two rather famous (infamous in Chris' case) R&B artists, were involved in a brawl last week, and Frank plans on pressing charges. It reportedly initiated in a parking lot outside of a recording studio where Frank made a comment about it being his studio (sentimentally). It's believed that Chris Brown initiated the brawl after Frank Ocean refused his handshake which was offered to try to ease the situation. It was originally thought that no charges would be pressed, although apparently that's changed. Chris had left by the time the police arrived and Frank gave an official statement on the matter. An official investigation has also been launched.

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EA Launches Origin Mac Alpha Client
EA have announced that they plan to launch Origin for Mac "soon" and has started accepting testers to try it out. The alpha will only be available to a few thousand users, and as an incentive, EA is offering participants a free copy of PopCap game Bookworm. Except from the lack of a store tab (Which shall be implimented upon full release) and the ability to stream live to Twitch.tv the client should behave exactly as the PC version does. Users will require a Mac running OS X 10.6.8 or newer with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor or better to download the client.

Sony Fined £250k
Sony has been fined a total of £250,000 after 77 million accounts were affected in April 2011.The Information Commissioner's Office said the attack was preventable, and that there was "no disguising that Sony is a business that should have known better". Sony will have the right to appeal this decision and they intend to reverse the ruling. Sony has stated that it "strongly disagrees" with the decision. The company added: "PlayStation Europe notes that the ICO recognises Sony was the victim of 'a focused and determined criminal attack' and that 'there is no evidence that encrypted payment card details were accessed', and that 'personal data is unlikely to have been used for fraudulent purposes'." The corporation's chief executive, Kaz Hirai apologised for the breach one month after the attack brought the whole network down.

Red and Blue PS3s to be released in UK
Sony has revealed that there will be a release of two new colours of Playstation and will be available from February 15th in the United Kingdom. The consoles will come with a built in 500GB hard drive and will be supplied with two controllers in a matching colour. North American customers can instead pick up the white edition of the Playstation 3 which will come with one controller and a year-long PlayStation Plus subscription. "This year, PlayStation 3 continues to grow from strength to strength with a huge line up of exclusive AAA titles and brand new franchises including The Last of Us, Beyond and Puppeteer," PlayStation Europe said in their statement on the matter.

The Brand New HTC 8x Windows Phone
This brand new mobile is 132.35 x 66.2 x 10.12 mm and has a 4.3 inch touch screen, equipped with the infamous Gorilla Glass. No need to say that it is running Windows Phone 8. Unfortunately, it has a mere 1.5 GHz, but its camera is bound to stun the audience. The main camera is nothing more than an 8 megapixel camera with auto focus, LED flash, and a BSI sensor, for capturing photos in low light. The main camera also features 1080p video recording and Dedicated HTC ImageChip for clearer and sharper images and a faster focus. The 2.1 ultra-wide-angle camera has, just like the main camera, 1080p video recording and Dedicated HTC ImageChip.

Vine – The Twitter Video Sharing Service
Twitter announced their new project called Vine, which will allow users to share videos up to six seconds to other users. Vine will co-act with Twitter and Facebook, as it will deliver these small videos to both. The videos will be like a GIF with sound. Vine, is like a Video-Instagram, which over all, isn't a very visionary idea at all. However, unlike Instagram, with Vine, the sharing process is a lot more debilitated. With Instagram, you can take a picture of basically anything, and then digitally save it from being just another low-quality image (Yes I am talking about Instagram Filters) while videos can’t be edited so easily on a mobile.

Local Manufacturing
Tim Cook, Apple CEO announced that they will be spending 100 million to bring production of the Mac Computers back to the United States, manufacturing its own products locally for a change. Tim Cook says that Apple had been planning to do so for a long time, and 2013 is the year. In fact many of the new Mac computers have written “Assembled in USA”. Tim Cook explains that he wanted to do something more substantial, rather than just assembly, which would be easier for them. Seems like there will be many job offers in the USA! “We could have quickly maybe done just assembly, but it’s broader because we wanted to do something more substantial. So we’ll literally invest over $100 million. This doesn't mean that Apple will do it ourselves, but we’ll be working with people, and we’ll be investing our money.”

AF News Team

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    • Headlines
      
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    • Music News (half)
      
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[Charon]

Nice, as always I enjoyed reading it and I had a fun time being interviewed by Phoenix!

[Kinanizer]

Nice job Phytrix, keep up the good work.

[Fury]

Nice job, man. Good to see such an active community.


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[WuhTehFuh]

Great news this week!
Well done to everyone involved!

[Dismas]

Nice job. Have no idea how I didn't see this. The interview with INST1NCT definitely made me smile.

[3SidedSquare]

Just beautiful, I'm surprised at the quality, this being a small community and all. Great work



*yay* I get a notable thread

[twelve]

Nice job y'all, although no news about Super Bowl .

[The High Roller]

UPDATE: According to sources and a little digging around, this video may have just been confirmed fake. Next time we’ll do a little research before we post something that is submitted to us. Sorry about that. This video might still be a clip of the brawl that occurred, but it’s definitely not Frank Ocean in the clip. It could still be a member of his entourage.

[Phytrix]

UPDATE: According to sources and a little digging around, this video may have just been confirmed fake. Next time we’ll do a little research before we post something that is submitted to us. Sorry about that. This video might still be a clip of the brawl that occurred, but it’s definitely not Frank Ocean in the clip. It could still be a member of his entourage.

What...? We didn't use a video and it did all happen.