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News Image Dune: Prophecy‘s New York Comic Con Trailer Teases the Bene Gesserit’s Origins

HBO travels 10,000 years before the events of Dune in its new series, arriving in November.

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News Image Brazilian police arrested the hacker who stole everyone’s SSN

The Federal Police of Brazil announced the arrest of the hacker linked to a breach that leaked 2.9 billion records that included sensitive personal information, including some Social Security numbers. The data from that hack, which came to light in August, was put for sale on the dark web in April by an entity identifying themselves as USDoD. As pointed out by Bleeping Computer, according to a machine translation of the department’s press release, the hacker was linked to “two publications selling” federal police data. The hacker also boasted of disclosing the personal data of 80,000 members of the FBI’s InfraGard program, the department said. Security researchers at Atlas have created a tool to search the leaked records and told P...

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Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers’ cloud products

Missing logs could make it more difficult to identify unauthorized access to the customers' networks during that two-week window.

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Experts say OpenAI’s patent pledge amounts to little more than ‘virtue signaling’

This week, OpenAI quietly published a statement on its website pledging not to use its patents offensively. Asserting its commitment to the principles of “broad access” and “collaboration,” OpenAI said that it would only use its patents in a way that supports innovation. “We pledge to only use our patents defensively, so long as a […]

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News Image Get Up Close With Daredevil: Born Again‘s Devilish New Threads

Marvel brought the sartorial stylings of Wilson Fisk and Matt Murdock to New York Comic Con.

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News Image The 23 Best Movies on Apple TV+ Right Now (October 2024)

Wolfs, Fancy Dance, and The Last of the Sea Women are just a few of the movies you should be watching on Apple TV+ this month.

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News Image Filmmakers Are Worried About AI. Big Tech Wants Them to See ‘What's Possible’

Amazon is hosting AI filmmaking competitions. Meta is letting directors test Movie Gen. As tech companies develop new tools, they need filmmakers to show they can be used responsibly.

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News Image Unity attempts to turn things around with its latest game engine release

Unity hasn’t had the easiest go of things as of late, but as part of its efforts to get back in the good graces of game developers, the company has released Unity 6 globally. In addition to new features like tools that let developers to target mobile web, the game engine maker is also promising that it will dedicate “long-term” resources to “to enhance feature sets and deliver new functionality while maintaining ease of upgrade and continued stability,” according to a press release. Unity is a widely-used game development engine powering games like Among Us, Hollow Knight, and many more, but the release of Unity 6 follows a turbulent period in the company’s history. Unity charges developers on a per-user basis, but in September 2023, the...

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News Image Tom Holland Loves the Latest Draft of Spider-Man 4 but Explains the Struggle to Make It

The Marvel Studios star spoke at length about the great responsibility of making a sequel to Spider-Man: No Way Home.

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News Image The best MagSafe and Qi2 chargers for your iPhone

Thanks to Qi2, there are way more great chargers for your MagSafe phone than ever before.

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News Image Tesla Makes ‘Autonomous’ Robot Look Cooler With Sped-Up Video

The video of Optimus is sped up 2 times, 8 times, and even 10 times faster at various points.

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Marc Benioff warns that AI, while useful, is overhyped and partly blames Microsoft

One of the tech industry’s biggest hype men, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, is psyched about AI, but points out that it hasn't cured cancer.

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Google replaces executive in charge of Search and advertising

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Thursday that Prabhakar Raghavan, the executive in charge of the company’s search engine and ads products, is leaving his role. Longtime Google executive Nick Fox will replace Raghavan, who will now take on the role of chief technologist. “Prabhakar has decided it’s time to make a big leap in […]

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FBI arrest Alabama man suspected of hacking SEC's X account

An Alabama man was arrested today by the FBI for his suspected role in hacking the SEC's X account to make a fake announcement that Bitcoin ETFs were approved....

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Dutch PM defends "serious idea" to send rejected asylum seekers to Uganda

A return hub for failed asylum seekers in Uganda “is a serious idea,” said Prime Minister Dick Schoof before the start of the EU summit with government leaders.

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News Image Cut Ink Costs by Up to 90% with this Record Low Price on Cartridge-Free Epson Color Printer

The ink bottle design allows for you to save up to 90% on replacement ink over cartridge-based printers.

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News Image JD Vance Takes a Hard Stance on Drugs. What Does His Adviser's Past Mean for His Campaign?

Under the username PsychoticMammal, an adviser to JD Vance posted extensively about using drugs on Reddit.

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News Image Bandai Namco Just Revealed Tons of Dragon Ball Daima-Related News

Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero's first wave of DLC will see Daima's Vegeta Mini and Glorio join the anime arena fighter's massive roster.

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Undercover North Korean IT workers now steal data, extort employers

North Korean IT professionals who trick Western companies into hiring them are stealing data from the organization's network and asking for a ransom to not leak it....

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News Image US Treasury Says AI Tools Prevented $1 Billion of Fraud in 2024

The Treasury says it identified or recovered $4 billion in fraudulent payments last fiscal year, a sixfold increase over the previous year.

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News Image Amazon’s Best Seller AeroGarden Harvest 2.0 Is 42% Off for the First Time Ever

you can get this tiny garden for less than $60, and you don't need to leave the house to have a tiny garden at your disposal.

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