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News Image The Best New Movies and TV Streaming in October 2024, and Where to Watch Them

The best horror, sci-fi, and genre titles coming to Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Disney+, and beyond, including Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Trap.

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News Image The 30 Best Movies on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now (October 2024)

Civil War, Furiosa, and Beetlejuice are just a few of the movies you should be watching on Max this month.

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News Image Sleep Number’s newest smart bed aims to tackle night sweats

Sleep Number’s newest smart bed is designed to keep you cool at night. The ClimateCool smart bed, starting at $5,499, is the latest product from the company famous for its adjustable mattress firmness. In a press release, the company says the new mattress can keep your body at the optimal temperature with its “scientifically backed” cooling programs that could be of particular interest to people dealing with symptoms of menopause. This is Sleep Number’s second smart bed that offers individual temperature control on either side of the bed. The Climate360, which launched in 2020, similarly actively draws heat away from your body to help you stay cool, but unlike the ClimateCool, it can also warm you up if you’re too chilly at night. But...

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Lift mechanic mistakenly throws out modern art at Lisse museum, thinking it was trash

A lift mechanic accidentally threw away artwork at the LAM museum in Lisse, mistaking it for left-behind trash.

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News Image T-Mobile pays $16 million fine for three years’ worth of data breaches

Enlarge ." Four breaches occurring over three years exposed personal information, including customer names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, the features customers subscribed to, and the number of lines on their accounts.

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T-Mobile pays $16 million fine for three years’ worth of data breaches

T-Mobile has agreed to pay a $15.75 million fine and improve its security in a settlement over a series of data breaches over three years that affected tens of millions of customers. "T-Mobile suffered data breaches in 2021, 2022, and 2023," the Federal Communications Commission Enforcement Bureau said in an order approving a consent decree yesterday. "Combined, these breaches affected millions of current, former, or prospective T-Mobile customers and millions of end-user customers of T-Mobile wireless service resellers, which operate on T-Mobile's network infrastructure and are known as mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs)." Four breaches occurring over three years exposed personal information, including customer names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, the features customers subscribed to, and the number of lines on their accounts. Read full article

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Toxic chemicals from Ohio train derailment lingered in buildings for months

On February 3, 2023, a train carrying chemicals jumped the tracks in East Palestine, Ohio, rupturing railcars filled with hazardous materials and fueling chemical fires at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. The disaster drew global attention as the governors of Ohio and Pennsylvania urged evacuations for a mile around the site. Flames and smoke billowed from burning chemicals, and an acrid odor radiated from the derailment area as chemicals entered the air and spilled into a nearby creek. Three days later, at the urging of the rail company Norfolk Southern, about 1 million pounds of vinyl chloride, a chemical that can be toxic to humans at high doses, was released from the damaged train cars and set aflame. Read full article

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News Image Toxic chemicals from Ohio train derailment lingered in buildings for months

This video screenshot released by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) shows the site of a derailed freight train in East Palestine, Ohio. On February 3, 2023, a train carrying chemicals jumped the tracks in East Palestine, Ohio, rupturing railcars filled with hazardous materials and fueling chemical fires at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. The disaster drew global attention as the governors of Ohio and Pennsylvania urged evacuations for a mile around the site. Flames and smoke billowed from burning chemicals, and an acrid odor radiated from the derailment area as chemicals entered the air and spilled into a nearby creek. Three days later, at the urging of the rail company Norfolk Southern, about 1 million pounds of vinyl chloride, a chemical that can be toxic to humans at high doses, was released from the damaged train cars and set aflame.

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Threads users can now see who follows them from other fediverse servers

Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Tuesday that users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse, also known as the open social web, can now see who follows them and likes their posts from other fediverse servers, such as Mastodon and Pixelfed.  The company said users will now have up to 15 minutes to make […]

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News Image Tesla wins again as lawsuit challenging Autopilot claims is dismissed

Tesla and CEO Elon Musk scored another win Tuesday when a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing them of defrauding shareholders over the safety and effectiveness of the company’s driver-assist technology. US District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin said that plaintiffs failed to prove that Musk acted with “deliberate recklessness” when he claimed that Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving technology could drive safer than humans. Many of Musk’s claims about self-driving capabilities amount to “corporate puffery,” or exaggerations about future products, the judge determined. Other claims could be categorized as “forward-looking statements,” in that they addressed future expectations for the technology. The case was dismissed...

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News Image “Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says

Enlarge across approximately 8,600 servers running on VMware. Broadcom, which has stopped selling VMware perpetual licenses, has said that AT&T missed its opportunity to renew support and that the contract between VMware and AT&T has an "End of Availability" provision allowing VMware to retire products and services. Legal filings from September 27 and spotted by The Register today show an email [PDF] that AT&T EVP and GM of wireline transformation and global supply chain Susan A. Johnson apparently sent to Broadcom CEO Hock Tan pointing to "an impasse" over VMware.

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“Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says

Broadcom quoted AT&T a 1,050 percent price hike for VMware offerings, AT&T has claimed in legal documents. AT&T sued Broadcom on August 29, accusing Broadcom of unlawfully denying it the second of three one-year renewals for support services that AT&T thinks it's entitled to. AT&T cites a contract signed before Broadcom bought VMware. The telecommunications firm says it has 75,000 virtual machines (VMs) across approximately 8,600 servers running on VMware. Broadcom, which has stopped selling VMware perpetual licenses, has said that AT&T missed its opportunity to renew support and that the contract between VMware and AT&T has an "End of Availability" provision allowing VMware to retire products and services. Legal filings from September 27 and spotted by The Register today show an email [PDF] that AT&T EVP and GM of wireline transformation and global supply chain Susan A. Johnson apparently sent to Broadcom CEO Hock Tan pointing to "an impasse" over VMware. Read full article

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News Image Wall Street in Your Pocket: The Tykr Stock Screener App Will Teach You to Earn Back the Money You Spent on Its Lifetime Plan

Save 83% and an additional $30 when you sign up for the Tykr Stock Screener premium plan lifetime subscription with this code.

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News Image ICE Signs $2 Million Contract With Spyware Maker Paragon Solutions

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s one-year contract with Paragon’s US subsidiary comes amid the Biden administration’s years-long crackdown on commercial spyware vendors.

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News Image Scream 7 Finally Has a Release Date, But It’s a Long Wait

Development on the film was controversial, but now we'll see Neve Campbell and Ghostface back in 2026.

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News Image Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K Max has hit a new low price ahead of Prime Day

We’ve officially turned the calendar to October, meaning spooky season is in full effect. That also means we’re a week away from Prime Big Deal Days, which starts on October 8th. There were already plenty of early Prime Day deals to consider, but now we’re seeing steep discounts on Amazon’s stick-style streaming devices. Right now, for instance, the latest Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K is going for just $24.99 ($25 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Target, while the speedier Fire TV Stick 4K Max is down to $34.99 ($25 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Target. If you can spare another $10 in your budget, we’d recommend stepping up to the Fire TV Stick 4K Max. It’s a fair bit snappier than the base model thanks to an upgraded processor and support for...

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Housing corp. did not protect Jewish couple sufficiently after discrmination: ruling

Housing corporation Rhenam Wonen did not sufficiently protect a Jewish couple from discrimination by neighbors, the College for Human Rights

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Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma

Durk Kingma, one of the lesser-known co-founders of OpenAI, today announced that he’ll be joining Anthropic. In a series of posts on X, Kingma revealed that he’ll be working mostly remotely, from the Netherlands (where he’s based), but didn’t say which Anthropic org he’ll be joining — or leading. Reached for comment, an Anthropic spokesperson […]

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