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The Polish Railway's radio system was hacked on Friday and Saturday, bringing 20 freight and passenger trains to an unprecedented standstill. The hack, believed to be carried out by Russia, took advantage of a critical flaw in the railway's radio security system, with the issue reportedly restored within hours.Read more...

Ahsoka drops a few new posters for its droid heroes. Get a first look at Our Flag Means Death season 2, and Wolf Like Me's return. Plus, another mysterious teaser for American Horror Story: Delicate. Spoilers now!

With all the hubbub surrounding the upcoming iPhone 15 this year and talk of next year's MacBook Pros, what's missing from the picture is any mention of the long-suffering iPad, specifically the iPad Pro. However, next year the tablet could finally receive upgrades that would put it in line with current iPhones and...Read more...

Next week, the live-action adaptation of One Piece finally sets sail, and it wouldn't be wrong to say it has a lot to live up to. Eiichiro Oda's shonen series has grown in popularity (and length) over the years, and this show is coming off the back of a recent theatrical movie and some substantial events that have...Read more...

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse introduced audiences to a whole plethora of Spider-heroes they may not have otherwise heard of, and one of the most prominent of the bunch was Hobie Brown, aka Spider-Punk. Voiced by Daniel Kaluuya, the Black Brit spider quickly became a fan favorite due to his stylized look and...Read more...

Earlier in the week, Zack Snyder released the first trailer for his sci-fi epic, Rebel Moon. Like with his time at DC and his other Netflix movie Army of the Dead, the director's got plans in store for Rebel Moon that go beyond the two-part movie hitting later this year and in 2024. And perhaps unsurprisingly, that...Read more...

Arleen Sorkin, the actor who first voiced Batman mainstay Harley Quinn, passed away at 67 years old.

Jujutsu Kaisen's second seasonhas been airing since July, and its first batch of episodes focused on then-young Jujutsu Sorcerers Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto. Those flashback episodes highlighted how close the pair were and the mission that ultimately drove them apart to being on opposite sides as seen throughout the...Read more...

If you're behind on what's happening with the robot uprising, have no fear. Here's a quick look at some of the weirdest and wildest artificial intelligence news from the past week. Also, don't forget to check out our weekly AI write-up, which will go into more detail on this same topic.Read more...

Years ago, Disney secured the rights to adapt various kids book series for television, such as Percy Jackson and Eragon. Also included in that mix was The Spiderwick Chronicles, a series of mid-2000s kids books created by Holly Black (who would later go on to create the Curse Workers books) and Tony DiTerlizzi (The...Read more...

During the months-long Hollywood strikes, both the WGA and SAG-AFTRA have managed to win the court of public opinion fairly easily. Studio heads like David Zaslav and Bob Iger made headlines for sticking their feet in their mouths pretty early on, and studios at large have made moves that don't paint them in the best...Read more...

The live-action remake of One Piece is releasing next week, after what's been a fairly consistent stream of trailers and previews for the show. Beyond adapting one of the hottest shonen stories out right now, a big draw for the remake is that it's bringing in the anime's Japanese cast to do the Japanese dub for the...Read more...

In the early days of macOS Mojave in 2018, Apple hadn't offered users a way to automatically switch to dark and light mode at different times of the day. As usual, there were third-party developers eager to pick up the slack. One of the more well-regarded night mode apps to fix this issue was NightOwl, first released...Read more...

Monkey D. Luffy's casting is the key to what will make Netflix's One Piece work, and we're excited to see more of the boundless energy and optimism that Inaki Godoy exudes as Luffy in the trailer alone. Netflix's live-action adaptation of Eiichiro Oda's long-running, much-loved anime series about a misfit found family...Read more...

Before cinematic horrors ascended in the haunt world, original terrors inspired by classic lore sprung up at Knott's Scary Farm. The haunted house event in Buena Park, CA was the first theme park on the West Coast to bring harvest and horror fun to the state, later inspiring its neighbor parks to follow suit.Read more...

Thousands of penguin chicks in four emperor penguin colonies likely died after Antarctic ice broke up earlier than usual last year, creating a catastrophic breeding failure."Read more...

Ever since Ahsoka Tano stepped out of the mists of Corvus and into live-action Star Wars history on The Mandalorian, I've had complicated feelings about the direction of one of my favorite Star Wars characters in contemporary canon. Those feelings haven't changed much in the opening episodes of her new titular series...Read more...

Actor-writer Iman Vellani's enthusiasm jumps off the screen during her latest interview on Marvel.com. She's the co-writer of the newest Ms. Marvel run of comics alongside Sabir Pirzada, and her first venture into comic writing is on an international scale. She is, as you might remember, the actor who was tapped to...Read more...

The union push of the 2020s is gaining more momentum, this time from the National Labor Relations Board. New guidelines from the NLRB say that if a company opts to bust a union, that company will be forced by the Board to recognize the union.Read more...

Earlier this year at Star Wars Celebration, looking ahead to a new slate of Star Wars movies, Lucasfilm officially unveiled a new chronological look at continuity, breaking down thousands of years in the galaxy far, far away into nine distinct periods. Now, the official website has gone a little deeper-and teased some...Read more...

Across seven seasons of Riverdale a lot of bonkers shit went down. Archie sleeping with his teacher in the premiere would ultimately be one of the most normal things to happen on a show that turned Cheryl Blossom into a comet-stopping witch, did time travel and super powers, flung multiple teachers out the same...Read more...

If you've already had your iris scanned for Worldcoin's crypto-based free money" promise, your biometric investment has been cut in half since launch.Read more...

A team of researchers scrutinizing the Extended Groth Strip, a region of space between the constellations Ursa Major and Bootes, saw fewer growing supermassive black holes and less dust than they expected.

There are plenty of urban legends that live rent-free in our minds, but few as notorious as the Loch Ness Monster. This weekend, a group of cryptozoologists will be taking to the namesake body of water to hunt for the mythological creature with a suite of technology in the biggest manhunt-or monster-hunt"-in over...Read more...

It's a Barbie world-and you, me, and Luigi are just living in it. Greta Gerwig's subversive comedy starring Margot Robbie as a toy that breaks free from her plastic world was already a $1 billion hit, and already Warner Bros.' highest-grossing movie of all time domestically after passing The Dark Knight. Now, it's...Read more...

On Thursday, Cherry, the OGs of the mechanical keys, announced a redesign of its signature Cherry MX mechanical switches. The switch-maker is releasing the next-generation Cherry MX2A, which is promised to feel smoother and quieter. The first mechanical keyboard to feature the new switches will be the XTRFY K5V2.

One of the year's most maligned movies, The Flash, hits the Max streaming service today. And, since the film was basically a box office disaster, grossing only $108 million domestic against a production budget well over $200 million, this will probably be how most people see the movie.Read more...

Titan Books-publishers of the recent behind-the-scenes exploration of Conan the Barbarian-have another essential release for fans of classic genre film on the way. From authors John Tenuto and Maria Jose Tenuto, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - The Making of the Classic Film reveals rare and previously unpublished...Read more...

Maui County filed a lawsuit againstHawaiian Electric Company this week over the fires that destroyed thousands of structures and killed over 100 people this month. Officials said that the utility company did not shut off power during the dangerous combination of high winds and dry conditions that helped spark and...Read more...

GuliKit is offering modern handheld gamers a way to feel safe and snug in a piece of retro gaming history. The company's new docking station is an all-in-one kit for supporting the Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck, Asus ROG Ally, and more, and it's all packaged in something that looks very similar to the old Super Nintendo...Read more...

The Wheel of Time's first season wrapped up on Prime Video in December 2021, so it's understandable if you might have forgotten how things ended. The short answer: things are bleak for the characters on the Robert Jordan-adapted fantasy series. How did they get there, and what lies ahead? Read on for our reminder,...Read more...

I'm pleased with my decision to wait a generation and upgrade from the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 to the Galaxy Watch 6. Samsung's newest smartwatch launched alongside its foldables, the Z Fold 5 and Z Flip 5. It brings a slightly larger display, a new processor, and improved wellness tracking. It's also backward...Read more...

Ravensburger's much-anticipated new Disney Trading Card Game Lorcana will be released in big box stores on September 1, but ahead of it's global release, Ravensburger has given local game stores an exclusivity window of two weeks. This means that from mid-August through the first of September, local brick-and-mortars...Read more...

A tidal wave of strife plagued Reddit following the popular social media platform's decision to charge exorbitant fees for access to its API. Now, the company wants to reward the free labor of the moderators it once antagonized.Read more...

Dropbox is no longer offering new customers unlimited cloud storage. The company says crypto miners and other dastardly individuals pooled or resold storage space. Now, none of us can have nice things.Read more...

The BBC might have slip just when Ncuti Gatwa's first Doctor Who season will begin. Could there be even more of Ahsoka and The Acolyte on the way? Futurama goes festive in new pictures. Plus, get another look at Invasion's return. To me, my spoilers!Read more...

It's been a busy night in Trumpland. On the same evening that the former President was booked into jail in Georgia-thus spawning an unforgettable mugshot-Trump also returned to Twitter (which is now called X, thanks to Elon Musk). In fact, the first new tweet from Trump is his mugshot. After leaving Georgia, Trump...Read more...

The founder of floundering social media site Truth Social (oh, and, also, the former President of the United States) was booked into jail in Fulton County, Georgia on Thursday night. Donald Trump, who faces RICO charges and is accused of attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election, is now officially a part...Read more...

What happens when a human knocks up a werewolf? Season two of Peacock's Wolf Like Me will explore that uniquely bizarre situation when it returns October 19, dropping all seven episodes of the Isla Fisher-Josh Gad series at once.Read more...

Tony Gilroy addressed the picket line in a fiery speech earlier today that evoked his Star Wars series, Andor. Gilroy was in attendance at the Screenwriter's Solidarity Picket in NYC, and when he was given the mic he didn't hold back from letting the members of both the WGA and SAG-AFTRA know how he really felt about...Read more...

We will not return to Arrakis in 2023. Warner Bros. has confirmed that Denis Villeneuve's sequel to the smash hit Frank Herbert adaptation Dune will now release March 15, 2024, a four-month delay from its original planned November 2023 release.

Watchmaker Citizen's latest attempt at making a traditional-looking but simultaneously tech-heavy smartwatch hasn't gone to plan. The company debuted its CZ Smartwatch at CES this year, proclaiming the device's health features would keep track of all your sleep and physical activity to provide users alertness tests."...Read more...

Few did the timeworn Hollywood plot of hey, guys, let's put on a show!" better than the Muppets, and their ultimate realization of that underdog scenario is probably 1984's Broadway fantasy The Muppets Take Manhattan-the third feature they starred in after The Muppet Movie and The Great Muppet Caper, and the latest...Read more...

NASA is getting ready to launch the next crew of astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) after SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft was declared a go" for launch earlier this week.Read more...

Eight Republican presidential candidates took the stage on Wednesday night for the first GOP debate. Twenty minutes into the show, one of the moderators asked the candidates to raise their hands if they believed that human behavior was causing climate change.Read more...

This week Ahsoka kicked off a new chapter of Star Wars' latest quest for a map to find people-the race between heroes and villains alike to find out just what happened to Ezra Bridger and Grand Admiral Thrawn. But in throwing out a very specific location, the show has kicked off a bevy of speculation about the true...Read more...

The same federal agency that once helped bring down the biggest crypto-based dark web drug marketplace Silk Road got swindled by one of the oldest tricks in the crypto scammer playbook. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration reportedly handed a fraudster a little more than $55,000 in confiscated crypto funds after...Read more...

I haven't seen much of Ahsoka. Not just in the sense that there are only two episodes of her show currently released, but in the sense that I haven't watched much of the animated shows where she shows up. I haven't seen all of Clone Wars, I've got no memory of Tales of the Jedi, and I've dipped into maybe three...Read more...

The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Thursday against SpaceX for allegedly refusing to hire refugees and asylum seekers. The DOJ said the company incorrectly cited federal regulations to justify discriminatory hiring practices.Read more...