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After hacking the Minneapolis public school system in March, a ransomware gang proceeded this week to leak students’ personal information to the web. Included in the tranche were the usual deluge of personal data points—including students’ birthdays and social security numbers. But NBC, which reviewed the leaks, now…Read more...

Fresh off their trilogy re-imagining the Halloween franchise, producer Jason Blum and director David Gordon Green are doing it again. They’re prepping three Exorcist films to hit theaters in the coming years and at CinemaCon 2023, we saw the first footage from the first of those films. It’s now officially called The…Read more...

It doesn’t happen every year, but one of the coolest things that can occur at CinemaCon is a new discovery—when a studio plays footage from a movie that you knew nothing about and you instantly can’t wait to see it. That happened in 2016 when Paramount screened footage from a movie called Story of Your Life which was…Read more...

As a fan of Hugh Howey’s books, I am quite excited to watch Apple TV+’s live-action adaptation of the hit sci-fi series Silo, about the remnants of humanity who have been living in an underground bunker for so long they’ve forgotten why they’re there. But Apple has just revealed the opening credits for the adaptation,…Read more...

Things rarely go well in the grimdark universe of Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000 setting. It’s kind of there in the grimdark moniker: things either start bad and get worse, or every victory is wrenched from the jaws of defeat, sometimes literally, at great cost. As the game gears up for a major relaunch, that’s not…Read more...

A U.S. Air Force veteran was sentenced to four and a half years in prison on Wednesday for carrying out a fraudulent GoFundMe scheme claiming he was raising money to fund former President Donald Trump’s border wall. Brian Kolfage, who previously worked as an associate to Trump’s former advisor and White House…Read more...

The mustache is back for another mystery—this time, a supernatural one!—in Kenneth Branagh’s next Agatha Christie adaptation, A Haunting in Venice, once again starring the director as the gifted detective. The movie is based on Christie’s novel Hallowe’en Party and has just shared its first teaser trailer:

Editor’s Note 4/26/23, 5:10 pm: This article has been updated to include new information on the case, including expanded statements from Wizards of the Coast. It is a developing story and will continue to be updated.Read more...

Meta has had a lot to prove about its future ambitions. First it was all about the “metaverse,” but now it’s AI. Before, the company could sit back and let the ad revenue roll in, until regulators, along with Amazon and Apple, said it couldn’t. Fortunately for Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the company managed to…Read more...

For iPhone users stuck between Apple and Microsoft’s worlds, there’s good news that will help make jumping from one to the other a little easier. Microsoft has announced that it will roll out support for iMessages through the Phone Link app starting today. The update is available for Windows 11 users and allows you to…Read more...

After the acclaimed debut of Star Wars: Visions volume one in 2021, a new collection of animated shorts is about to drop on Disney+. io9 recently spoke to Lucasfilm’s executive producers on the series—James Waugh, Jacqui Lopez, and Josh Rimes—about putting together the upcoming anthologyRead more...

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A new two-factor authentication tool from Google isn’t end-to-end encrypted, which could expose users to significant security risks, a test by security researchers found.Read more...

A wayward rocket has caused a rift between two Scandinavian nations after accidentally falling on the wrong side of the border.Read more...

The weather may be getting warmer, but there’s a spooky chill emanating from the pages of Brynmore—an IDW horror comic coming soon from writer Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) and artist Damien Worm, who also worked together on October Faction. io9 got a chance to interview Niles over email, and we also have Brynmore …Read more...

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It may not reach the level of Clarence Thomas being buddies with a guy who owns a garden full of dictator statues, but there are plenty of other scandals to be had on the Supreme Court. Politico reported this week that Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch has found himself in a small ethics conundrum—one tied to the oil…Read more...

Tech bros are always chasing the next big thing, so much so that some developers are already trying to imply that chatbots like ChatGPT are old hat. The real big AI innovation, they say, is language model-powered AI “agents” able to carry out multiple tasks in a row.

When are three shots from a single movie more exciting than a whole trailer? When those three shots are from George Miller’s Furiosa, of course. That film was one of several teased in a sizzle reel at the Warner Bros. panel during CinemaCon, which also included extended looks at Wonka, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,…Read more...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ fight with Disney continues after the company filed a lawsuit claiming DeSantis “orchestrated at every step” a campaign to punish Disney in ways that now threaten the company’s business.Read more...

Paizo announced today that it is working on updating and re-issuing four Pathfinder core books over the course of a year. The Second Edition Remaster Project will see new editions of Pathfinder Player Core and Pathfinder GM Core, release in November 2023. The other two books will release in 2024, and include …Read more...

Google’s cloud business has turned a profit for the first time in more than three years, the company announced in a Q1 earnings report Tuesday. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, Inc., reported the cloud division saw a $706 million loss in its first quarter in 2022, according to CNBC, but a year later its earnings…Read more...

If there was one moment in Avengers: Infinity War that rankled fans, it’s when Peter Quill murdered half the universe.

Following Tuesday’s failed attempt to land on the surface of the Moon, Japan’s ispace said its lunar lander may have unexpectedly accelerated on its way down before crashing on the lunar surface.Read more...

Apple’s 2023 14 and 16 inch MacBook Pros are here, and they look mostly the same as the 2021 models. The insides, though, are anything but. This generation of Apple powerhouses introduces the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, finally giving professionals an M2 MacBook Pro that is both performant and not using a design from…Read more...

The literal flexibility of OLED screen technology has allowed us to create everything from tablets that fold in half, to TVs that disappear into furniture. But researchers from Carnegie Mellon University are leveraging the flexibility of OLED panels in another way, and have created touchscreen devices your fingers can…Read more...

The Event Horizon Telescope, a network of radio telescopes around the world, has produced fresh observations of the black hole at the center of galaxy Messier 87.Read more...

The world is stranger and more confusing every day, so it only seems fitting that Black Mirror—Charlie Brooker’s satirical, often eerily prescient sci-fi series—returns sooner than later. And indeed, the long-awaited season six arrives in June! Netflix has just released a slew of details, including images and a teaser.Read more...

Patti LuPone teases a little more about her Agatha: Coven of Chaos role. Get new looks at The Flash and The Witcher season 3. Plus, what’s coming on Fear the Walking Dead, and filming updates for the return of Chucky. Spoilers now!Read more...

Can you truly have an alt account if everyone in the world knows about it? The best answer may come from Twitter CEO Elon Musk, whose second alt account was revealed on Tuesday.

TikTok’s greatest innovation was its ability to capture our attention spans, and the addictive social media platform is trying to innovate yet again. TikTok has begun releasing an AI avatar generator for users on the app.

A team of astrophysicists say quasars, some of the most brilliant phenomena in the universe, are likely caused by collisions between galaxies.Read more...

On Wednesday, UK regulators torpedoed Microsoft’s planned $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, saying the deal wouldn’t help anybody but the companies themselves.Read more...

A comet-like asteroid has been flaunting a tail of material as it approaches the Sun. But unlike its cometary counterparts, a fresh look at asteroid Phaethon reveals, this tail is made of sodium rather than dust, as was previously thought.Read more...

While employer-provided devices aren’t always a perk, sometimes they offer features your tech at home doesn’t. The Lenovo ThinkPhone by Motorola is not a perq-filled smartphone. It is a barebones work phone that’s meant only for pushing paper. And although it has a helpful shortcut button on the side reminiscent of a…Read more...

There are a lot of factors that contribute to a good day on the slopes. Weather, terrain, and ability level are all important, but having the right equipment can mean the difference between having a comfortable, safe, and thrilling day, and tumbling down a mountain while freezing your ass off. Here then, are my picks…Read more...

It’s hard to make the activities of Fox News and its Dominion Voting fiasco seem tame by comparison but another one of Rupert Murdoch’s media companies appears to have done it. How about a news operation that gets its scoops by hacking members of the royal family?Read more...

After what certainly feels like a long wait—with tumultuous times for its star and a regime change for its studio in the meantime—DC’s The Flash, directed by Andy Muschietti (the It series), has finally screened for an audience at CinemaCon. How did Barry Allen’s big-screen solo sojourn (“solo,” but with assists from…Read more...

A new Flash trailer is here, and with it, a better picture of what to expect from this multiversal mashup meant to close out the current phase of the DCEU before its new chapter begins. And what should we expect? A lot of Batman and Kryptonians, apparently. Here’s everything we spotted in the manic new trailer.Read more...

While the world is still basking in the glory of the Barbie trailers that are out in the world, the stars and filmmakers took the stage at CinemaCon 2023 and made things even wilder. Co-writer and director Greta Gerwig was joined by stars Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, and America Ferrara to show new footage from this…Read more...

ChatGPT introduced a new privacy feature on Tuesday to protect users’ information. The new feature will allow users to turn off their chat history and disable its ability to use their data to train and improve the AI models.Read more...

In the second half of Frank Herbert’s Dune, there’s a moment that changes everything: when Paul Atreides, the left-for-dead son of a Duke, finally proves himself to the Fremen, the native people of the planet Arrakis who have been protecting him and his mother.Read more...

If you’re one of the many thousands of customers from bankrupt crypto company Voyager Digital, you’re going to have to wait even longer to see your locked funds as hopes for a Binance.US buyout have been squashed flat.Read more...

From Republican smear campaigns against Biden to a collaboration between The Weeknd and Drake going viral, it feels like AI is coming for every part of our lives. Now, it appears that some products on Amazon are being reviewed with AI chatbots.Read more...

Nima Momeni, the suspect accused of stabbing Cash App founder Bob Lee to death on April 4, will plead not guilty to murder, according to multiple reports. Momeni’s lawyer, Paula Canny, told journalists outside the San Francisco state court on Tuesday that, in the defense’s view, a premeditated murder charge isn’t…Read more...

In case you missed it, conservatives deeply care about whales and the oceans now.Read more...

Right now, meticulous details about your life are for sale on the internet. It can be details about your children, your yearly income, your medical conditions, hopes, fears, exercise habits, race, religion, sexuality—all this and more is available, sometimes for fractions of a cent. Companies called data brokers buy…Read more...

Scientists are making a provocative case in a new paper out this month: Sex in space is going to happen sooner rather than later, and it’s about time people started preparing for it. They contend that space sex could happen even within the next decade. The industry needs to discuss how to handle the issue now, they…Read more...

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Yelp reviewers will finally be able to add videos to their posts, creating a new opportunity to fully share their experience and atmosphere. The company announced the newest feature will be available for the majority of iOS users on Tuesday and will be made available on Android devices in the coming months.Read more...