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Tweet Some of Nintendo’s upcoming gaming titles for the Switch will force users to rely on microSD storage expansion cards from the get go. That’s because the console only has 32GB of internal storage. Read more… Neowin

Tweet It comes as no surprise that Nintendo’s first proper iOS game, Super Mario Run, is a smash hit. Today, the firm announced that the title has been downloaded 40 million times and is topping charts. Read more… Neowin

Tweet A ransomware variant called Karma has been discovered packaging itself with free software downloads. It disguises itself as a program called Windows-Tuneup, which pretends to speed up a computer. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Microsoft marketing head Tami Reller said this week there’s been over 2 million downloads of Windows 8.1 so far, but it’s not clear if that’s just of the preview version or if it includes the RTM bits Read more…      Neowin

Tweet Within three days of its launch, infamous torrent website the Pirate Bay’s new censor-free browser has already been downloaded more than 100,000 times, and the official torrent is currently being shared by more than 5,000 people. A modification of Mozilla’s Firefox 23 bundled with a Tor client and advanced proxy settings to speed up webpages, the PirateBrowser is designed to bypass censored pages. Available for Windows (with Mac and Linux…