Elon Musk’s Comments on Houston Flood Tunnels Are Misleading, Experts Say
Musk said his proposal to address Houston’s chronic flooding woes would work. Experts say his plan has key technical and logistical challenges.
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Time is running out to get half off a year of Paramount Plus
It’s September, and many among us are dealing with back to school, and anticipating the colder weather that’s on its way (at least, if you live in the northern climes). This, plus a somewhat fraught political atmosphere, means that you might be looking for reliable, affordable ways to escape the doldrums. You don’t need us […]
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FAA Proposes $3.1 Million Fine Against Boeing Over Door-Plug Horror
It may seem like just a slap on the wrist, but the FAA says it’s the best it can do.
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Spotify Lossless is an inconvenient improvement
If you listen to music the way a lot of people do these days – with a pair of wireless earbuds, from a Bluetooth speaker, or just blaring directly out of your phone – you will never notice a difference between Spotify’s high-quality 320Kbps streams and its lossless audio. But, if you usually listen with […]
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Charlie Kaufman Holds Hollywood Responsible for Today’s ‘Terrible’ World
The writer of ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ and ‘Being John Malkovich’ thinks we need to learn to be human again.
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Exit 8’s director was inspired by watching people play the game
Few video game adaptations understand their source material quite like the Exit 8 film. It takes the rules and structure of the game – which strands players inside of a looping hallway in a Tokyo subway station – and then builds on them with actual characters and a story. And according to director Genki Kawamura, […]
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Adult Swim’s new stop-motion series is a celebration of Latin American culture
Imagine if George Cukor’s The Women was a modern, Spanish-language telenovela set in Ecuador rather than a 1939 dramedy about the lives of wealthy Manhattanites. Now imagine if the series was directed by Pedro Almodóvar and its characters were brought to life with stop-motion animation instead of being portrayed by Hollywood heavyweights like Joan Crawford […]
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Evidence of Ancient Asteroid Impact and Tsunami Found in North Carolina
An asteroid that struck Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago left a long trail of destruction in its wake, new research suggests.
HybridPetya ransomware bypasses UEFI Secure Boot echoing Petya/NotPetya
HybridPetya ransomware bypasses UEFI Secure Boot to infect EFI partitions, echoing the infamous Petya/NotPetya attacks of 2016–2017. ESET researchers discovered a new ransomware called HybridPetya on the platform VirusTotal. The malware echoes the infamous Petya/NotPetya malware, supporting additional capabilities, such as compromising UEFI-based systems and exploiting CVE‑2024‑7344 to bypass UEFI Secure Boot on outdated systems. “Interestingly, the […]
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Tether Taps Trump’s Former Crypto Advisor to Lead US Operations
Sweet gig if you can get it.