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Three months after arresting its administrator, U.S. federal authorities have seized the domain of notorious hacking site BreachForums. For a time, the forum was the go-to community for English-speaking cybercriminals, who would share, advertise and sell personal data stolen from a variety of websites and companies. In March, the FBI arrested Conor Brian Fitzpatrick in New York, accusing him of being the man behind the nickname “Pompompurin,” the administrator of BreachForums. Shortly after, the site’s new…

On Thursday, the developer of the popular Apollo app for Mac, which is a third-party interface for Reddit, announced that the app would be closing. The app will remain live until June 30. The developer announced the change in a Reddit post, saying “Eight years ago, I posted in the Apple subreddit about a Reddit app I was looking for beta testers for, and my life completely changed that day… Today’s a much sadder post than that initial one eight years ago.” The developer originally went to the social media platform to…

An apartment project is in the works for a shuttered auto repair property in Lincoln Park. Motive Investment Partners, led by Jim Cauley, is preparing to build a five-story, 123-unit complex at 607 and 621 8th Ave. The latter parcel has a building on it that was previously home to Perry & Terry Collision Center, which closed in early 2021. The other lot, located across the alley, is undeveloped and was used to store vehicles. The site is down the road from the Denver Health campus, and a block from West High School.…

For the second time in less than one month, a Colorado public library branch has temporarily closed because of methamphetamine contamination, as first reported by The Associated Press. Englewood Public Library shuttered on January 11, after testing results revealed levels of methamphetamine residues “exceeding state thresholds” in the bathrooms and other areas of the library and attached civic center, the City of Englewood wrote in a news release. Before the library can fully re-open, the city will have to pay for…

Danville’s only movie theater has become the latest casualty in Blackhawk Plaza, once an affluent go-to hangout spot. The decision to close Century Blackhawk Plaza theater was sudden, Austin Jeha, assistant manager of the theater told this news organization. After weeks of back-and-forth lease renewal negotiations with the property owners, the popular theater had its last day of operation on Dec. 3, ending more than three decades of showing movies. “They were trying to raise our lease price pretty significantly,” Jeha…

The Mile High City’s 16th Street Mall is caught in an awkward rebirth. Plans for a structural revamping are attracting newcomers to the corridor, but the number of businesses forced to shutter by the pandemic-induced slowdown are a reminder that, in these uncertain economic times, even once-successful retail operations can fail. Two and a half years after the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Michael B. Hancock called the 16th Street Mall Project “a key part of downtown’s comeback.” It kicked off in April, with…

The Ice Age franchise expanded this week — on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar — with the shorts series Ice Age: Scrat Tales, but it's the swansong for its creator and animation outfit Blue Sky Studios. Less than two years under its new owner Disney as part of its acquisition of 21st Century Fox, Blue Sky was shuttered last April with Disney citing effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. With Ice Age: Scrat Tales, Blue Sky delivers its final piece in the Ice Age mythology: a series of six shorts starring hapless…