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Activision has cracked down on PC fan project X Labs, a popular Call of Duty modding client that’s been around for years.

X Labs announced that it had received a cease and desist from Activision on Twitter, informing its fans that it would comply with the order. X Labs runs dedicated servers for modified versions of older famous Call of Duty games like Modern Warfare 2, Black Ops 3, and Advanced Warfare.

X Labs doesn’t offer these games, only mod packs, so you must already own the Call of Duty you want to play. For those who miss the old days of Call of Duty, this will be a big hit. Whatever your opinion of the project, it’s clear that Activision’s legal department has no intention of keeping it going.Last week, the publisher struck again at SM², an unreleased project slated…

This article was update to clarify that Amazon is ending the original Alexa service, known as Alexa Internet.

Alexa.com doesn’t land you on Amazon’s infamous Alexa voice recognition ecosystem. Instead, it goes to a little-known service (albeit one still owned by Amazon) that, for a long time, was the go-to resource for everyone involved with search engine optimization (SEO), the art of trying to get your site to rank on search engines, first the likes of Yahoo!, then Altavista/Hotbot/Lycos/AskJeeves, then ultimately on Google.