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Since its debut eight years ago, the face of the encrypted messaging app Signal has been its founder Moxie Marlinspike. In January, Marlinspike said he’d be stepping down as CEO. And while Signal hasn’t found a permanent replacement for its top executive, it’s starting to round out its leadership bench. On Monday, the…Read more...

Was TikTok hacked? According to the company itself, the answer to that question is: definitely not. And security researchers who have looked into the matter seem to agree.

Apple’s iPhone 14 event is less than a day away. The “Far Out” event, as the company is calling it, will take place on Sept. 7 at 10 A.M. PT / 1 P.M. ET. in person at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters. Apple will live stream it online for anyone who wants to watch it at home.Read more...

If you’ve read Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda’s award-winning, New York Times-bestselling fantasy comic Monstress, you know two things. First, it’s an incredibly rich world as epic as Game of Thrones but even more imaginative, and second, it is gorgeous. Now Liu and Takeda have combined their immense talents again for a…Read more...

YouTube was on the precipice of cutting all of its most profitable ads amid fallout from Elsagate, the most bizarre scandal in the history of the biggest video-sharing site on the internet. It’s a silly name, but it hearkens to a time when thousands of disturbing algorithm-driven videos starring popular children’s…Read more...

The Star Trek movies changed the franchise forever, not just catapulting the series onto the big screen and giving a second life to its original heroes, but helping shape its future on the small screen as we gave way to The Next Generation. To celebrate these beloved movies getting a lavish new remastering, let’s take…Read more...

The latest wonder from the Webb Space Telescope is a new look at the Tarantula Nebula, a swirling mass of infantile and yet-to-be conceived stars. What looks like spider silk surrounds a hollowed-out center, where material has been blasted away by radiation, according to a NASA release.Read more...

Netflix is catering to the goths again with Wendell & Wild, its upcoming stop-motion tale directed by Henry Selick (Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline), co-written by Selick and Jordan Peele (Nope), and co-starring Peele and his longtime Key & Peele collaborator Keegan-Michael Key. We’ve been wanting to see more of…Read more...

If you’re lucky enough to find yourself in a position where you can afford a house, you’ll soon find yourself in the unlucky position of having a yard full of grass and weeds demanding constant maintenance. To simplify the task of keeping their lawn from turning into a jungle, one YouTuber went full supervillain and…Read more...

As io9 co-founders Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders acted as Toastmasters during the Hugo awards ceremony at Chicon, the 80th World Science Fiction and Fantasy convention, they were also awarded with some Hugos of their very own!Read more...

A huge oilfield in the Gulf of Mexico, which caused a hellish fire in the ocean last year, has been releasing massive amounts of planet-warming methane. Reuters reported last week on satellite data that shows that the Ku-Maloob-Zaap oilfield leaked 44,064 tons of methane into the atmosphere over the course of 24 days…Read more...

The Brazilian government’s going to battle with Apple over its chargers, or more aptly, its lack of them. On Tuesday, Brazil’s Justice Ministry reportedly hit the smartphone giant for 12.275 million reais (or around $2.38 million) and ordered Apple to cease selling models that don’t ship with a charger. That sudden…Read more...

A merger that would’ve made Donald Trump’s social media venture into a publicly traded company, and provided Truth Social with $1.3 billion in cash investment is crumbling, according to a report from Reuters. Shareholders have rejected a one-year extension to finalize the acquisition, “people familiar with the matter”…Read more...

A heat wave scorched states out West during the Labor Day weekend, sparking heat warnings for tens of millions of people. As of Tuesday, the ongoing heat is fueling wildfires and threatening California’s electrical grid, with officials urging residents to reduce their power use in order to head off blackouts.Read more...

Ireland is not fucking around with Meta. The Irish Data Protection Commission has fined the social media platform Instagram €405 million over its alleged mishandling of data from business accounts run by 13 to 17 year olds.

The next chapter in the Mobile Suit Gundam saga finally has a solid release date, and our latest look at it yet gives a look at its real premise—and perhaps not quite so many giant robot fights as you might first expect.

One of the many reasons to switch to a mechanical keyboard—besides the mustache-twirling joy in shattering the silence of a quiet office—is being able to easily customize your keyboard’s appearance: a selling point the creators of the MelGeek Pixel are heavily leaning on with what they claim is the world’s first…Read more...

In a few weeks’ time, stablecoin holders on Binance will find their crypto doesn’t carry the same name, or the same price, as it had previously. The exchange effectively told its users it’ll be digging its long, thin fingers into each of their wallets, taking out their old crypto, and replacing it with their own,…Read more...

The Spy Kids reboot has finished filming. Get another look at Disney’s rapidly-incoming Pinocchio remake. Terry Silver wants you to be a winner in a new Cobra Kai teaser. Plus, what’s coming on House of the Dragon, and Rick and Morty gets its shill on ahead of the new season. Spoilers now!

He might not have as recognizable a name as corporate executives from companies like Apple and Microsoft, but next month, Sony will be saying goodbye to Masayasu Ito, who led the hardware development on the PS4, the PS5, and some of the company’s other notable gaming devices.Read more...

Will Sloan, a movie podcast host in Canada, first posted an old family photo online in 2016, asking if anyone knew what cartoon was playing on the TV in the background. Oddly, nobody on the internet could figure it out. But someone finally cracked the case on Monday after six long years.

Ah, I believe it was that wise old philosopher Garfield the cat who called Labor Day the time we “celebrate work by playing all day.” So let us celebrate twerk as well, and take a moment to enjoy these utterly delightful photos of Tatiana Maslany, pre-CG, twerking with Megan Thee Stallion on last week’s episode of …Read more...

HBO Max’s Harley Quinn series is popular enough to not only survive the streaming service’s recent bloodbath, but manage to score a fourth season. If you watched the recent episode where the reformed family man Joker runs for Gotham’s mayor, you likely know why. But as good as Harley Quinn has been, I was shocked to…Read more...

Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty kicked off its sixth season last night—and while you’re waiting for the next episode, why not whip up some snacks inspired by the animated sensation? io9 has a first look at Rick and Morty: The Official Cookbook, releasing October 4, including two exclusive pages.Read more...

Even though Arrival was released almost six years ago, going by the rules of the movie, it might as well have been yesterday. Directed by Denis Villeneuve and based on the Hugo-nominated short story Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang, Arrival stars Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner in a story of alien spaceships that come to…Read more...

HBO hasn’t been shy about trying to take the heat away from Amazon’s very popular Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power premiere, including a literal and figurative scorcher of a battle scene in last night’s episode. But it turns out House of the Dragon’s third episode, “Second of His Name,” has an arguably more…Read more...

While kids are still slowly finding their way back into the classroom this month, teachers are likely also remembering how disruptive leading a room full of kids can be—and yes, I’m lumping in college-aged kids, too, because I know when I started university, I was constantly finding ways to hold on to childhood (and,…Read more...

Fans of international horror already know that Shudder is the top streamer when it comes to recent genre films from other countries, and its Indonesian selection is particularly robust. One realm that could use more entries, though, is horror from Africa, with the new release Saloum making a powerful case for the…Read more...

It’s all happening at Twitter: Not only is the bird app testing an edit button for paid users, but it’s also rolled out Twitter Circles, a way of limiting post visibility that’s reminiscent of something Google Plus tried to do all those years ago. Unlike the edit option, Circles isn’t exclusive to Twitter Blue…Read more...

Let me put it bluntly: A lot of Targaryens feel sorry for themselves in tonight’s episode of House of the Dragon. But what starts out as a pity party becomes a thrilling reminder of why the Targaryens are in charge of Westeros, and it’s not just because of their dragons.Read more...

2021 saw the debut of Arcane on Netflix, and proceeded to grab everyone’s attention. Whether you were a fan of League of Legends or going in completely blind, the CG series became a critical and fan darling that continued Netflix’s pretty good streak of video game adaptations. But if that weren’t enough, the show now …Read more...

Dungeons & Dragons recently released its new boxed set, Spelljammmer: Adventures in Space, a revamp of the original 1989 setting which allowed players to have campaigns in the stars rather than on the ground. Like previous playbooks, Spelljammer’s Astral Adventurer’s Guide has introduced six new playable races, and…Read more...

Our monthly question about the things you watched, read, or played continues with the final month of the summer before school stars and the holiday season gets ready to rear its head.

The second episode of Marvel’s What If? starred the late Chadwick Boseman in as an animated version of T’Challa, albeit as one who became Star-Lord instead of Peter Quill. Boseman voiced different iterations of T’Challa in future episodes before returning to Star Lord T’Challa again for the finale, making the show his…Read more...

After so many trailers featuring sweeping vistas and talks about what it would be in relation to the Peter Jackson films, Amazon’s Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power series finally dropped before the weekend started. You can read our review of the show right here, but it’s no secret that this show has been the talk of…Read more...

A serious and unmanageable hydrogen leak prevented NASA from launching its SLS rocket on Saturday. Teams continue to evaluate the reason for the second failed launch attempt, but NASA says the rocket will have to return to the Vehicle Assembly Building to undergo safety checks.Read more...

Next month, My Hero Academia will begin airing season six, and it’s shaping up to be a big one. Deku and the rest of the 1-A kids are part of a larger effort by Japan’s heroes to finally put an end to the League of Villains and their leader Tomura Shigaraki. But as is the case with trying to bring down Overhaul in…Read more...

Back in 2020, as everyone was optimistic that the COVID-19 pandemic would last a handful of months, Warner Bros. decided to host a streaming event called DC Fandome. For all intents and purposes, it was the DC equivalent to a Nintendo Direct, with first looks at then-upcoming films like The Suicide Squad and The…Read more...

Indiana Jones 5 was always fated to be a big deal, both for being the potential swan song to Harrison Ford’s adventurer, and for featuring the final film score by composer John Williams. (He’ll continue to compose independent orchestras and symphony pieces.) Williams turned 90 back in February, and has done the music…Read more...

In 2007 at Austin, TX’s then-annual film festival Butt-Numb-a-Thon, director Mike Dougherty (Godzilla: King of the Monsters) screened his horror film, Trick ‘r Treat. The film would later get delayed for the next two years, and even when it did come out in December 2009, it was only through limited screenings. But it…Read more...

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Update: 11:23 a.m. ET: Today’s launch has been scrubbed on account of the hydrogen leak. Launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson formally agreed to the scrub at 11:19 a.m ET. The rocket, which remains in a safe configuration, will now be drained of the ultra-cold propellants. We now await word on whether NASA will…Read more...

Considering how much pain and havoc the rise of TikTok has caused for Meta, owner of Facebook and Instagram, finding out that TikTok.com makes up some of the most viewed links and domains on Facebook is just adding salt to the wound. Ouch.Read more...

Angelic Anderson crouched down and ran her fingertips across a large white mound that rose several inches from the surface of the bone-dry lakebed. As a park ranger at the Great Salt Lake State Park in northern Utah, she’s accustomed to seeing the massive lake’s waterline recede, especially during dry months when…Read more...

It happens to the best of us: you meant to send an email to one or two people and, whoops, now you’ve accidentally blitzed your entire company or your school. For the sender, the “reply all” incident (also known as an “email storm” or a “Replyallcalypse”) is a thing of dread and humiliation; for the recipients, it’s…Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest toy news on the internet. This week, Star Wars heads to the battlefront with figures from Hasbro and Hot Toys, the Amazing Spider-Man gets his own new Figuarts release, and NECA’s Gargoyles line gets snacky. Check it out!Read more...

Few upcoming Marvel Studios projects hit that nostalgic sweet spot quite like X-Men ‘97. Inspired by the unforgettable X-Men: The Animated Series that ran during the 1990s, the show “explores new stories in the iconic ’90s timeline of the original series” and is coming to Disney+ in fall 2023. Which, as exciting as…Read more...

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If anime loves a child soldier, there’s few franchises that love them more than Gundam. From Amuro Ray to incoming hero Suletta Mercury, the series is defined by putting youths into walking weapons of war. But its latest series is kicking off with bringing that idea to its most extreme.

The war between Russia and Ukraine has extended operations at Norway’s last functioning coal mine in the Arctic.Read more...