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A shady private surveillance company sold access to nearly half a dozen powerful security flaws in Chrome and Android last year to government-affiliated hackers, Google revealed Monday.

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While it’s not slated to work with the iPhone or iOS devices, this next bit of Google Pixel Watch news is interesting if you’re hoping for a quality build akin to the Apple Watch.

Last week some of the biggest financial institutions in the world came together to talk ethics and socially conscious investment at the Financial Times’ Moral Money Summit. And it went great, no notes. You guys, banks are going to fix it. The free market is gonna solve climate change.

GameStop has officially thrown itself headlong into the web3 vipers nest with a new app release, though it’s hard to say whether its proposed population of gamers and game developers will take up the company on its belated, head-first jump into the crypto sphere.Read more...

Whether you’re venturing out to visit the amusement parks for the season or are an enthusiast who holds passes for multiple themed destinations, here’s essential gear to show your love for places that provide escapes to other worlds. Check out the latest in streetwear style for a day out at Six Flags, Universal StudiosRead more...

The Steam Deck is a sturdy piece of kit, but it’s always nice to have peace of mind that should something stop functioning—be it the screen, joysticks, or buttons—it can be easily replaced. Early adopters of this handheld console now have that reassurance, as iFixit has officially started to sell official replacement…Read more...

In a major win for social media companies, a court of appeals upheld an order to block a Florida law that would’ve allowed politicians to sue online platforms if they were to get banned or have their content moderated.Read more...

Meta unveiled their new AI platform, called MyoSuite, in a press release today. The software is aimed at modeling complex human movement to help develop prosthetics and, potentially, metaverse avatars.Read more...

In this day and age of TV and movies, nothing stays dead for long, especially if it’s a superhero show. Late last week, it was reported that Charlie Cox’s Daredevil was due to receive a brand new show for Disney+, this time set in the actual MCU and following the character’s brief cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home.…Read more...

After 15 years of selling coffee and baked goods in Russia, Starbucks has announced that it has suspended all business activity in Russia. Following the steps of McDonalds, which announced last week that they would begin “de-arching,” or removing all its brand elements from Russia. McDonalds had more than 800…Read more...

The week is finally upon us. After two years of delays, Star Wars fans are ready to celebrate yet again. The official Star Wars convention, Star Wars Celebration Anaheim, is happening this week, and with it comes four days of non-stop Star Wars news, merchandise, stories, and all manner of general excitement.

Tech’s most chaotic CEO saw about $10.6 billion of his personal wealth evaporate last Friday following a report on a settlement over alleged sexual misconduct, according to estimates from the Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index. Musk’s drop in wealth, spotted by Insider, was mainly due to the tanking of Tesla shares in the…Read more...

From smartphone parts to baby formula, the supply chain shortage affects industries in every corner of the world—including inside Apple’s walled garden. A recent report from a Korean trade paper indicates Apple is facing some challenges in securing a supplier for the iPhone 14’s front-facing camera, leading it to opt…Read more...

Corsair is best known for its premium desktops and accessories, specifically gaming headsets, keyboards, and monitors, but now the hardware maker is getting into laptops, and it’s setting itself apart by opting for a gaming touch bar.

After finding box office success, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 arrives on digital May 24, and io9 has an exclusive clip from the special features to share. James Marsden, Tika Sumpter, and other stars discuss the production process for the sequel—with high praise especially for director Jeff Fowler.Read more...

A team of anthropologists studying Salorno, a stretch of scorched earth in northern Italy, say the site is a Late Bronze Age cremation platform where the remains of at least 172 individuals may have been burned. What’s more, the researchers believe the remains were simply left on the ground for the last 3,000 years.Read more...

Since 2019, Prime Video’s superhero series The Boys—based on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s comics published by Wildstorm and Dynamite—has been a bloody, anarchic romp that’s built up its own passionate fanbase and critical acclaim. Season three looks to be as bloody and absurd as ever, and adding to the chaos of…Read more...

Washington, DC Attorney General Karl Racine evidently believes that if you can’t snare enough slimy, data-profiting fish with one net, then you should just cast more nets.Read more...

How would you like to spend three months with Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor? Later this year, you’ll get that chance. A new interview confirms that his upcoming Star Wars show, Andor, is 12 episodes long. That’s double the length of this week’s Obi-Wan Kenobi show, five episodes longer than The Book of Boba Fett, and…Read more...

If you’ve ever laid awake at night wondering about how bad wildfires, droughts, storms, and floods could get in the future, then climate change has already been robbing you of sleep.

After what feels like an eternity, Stranger Things 4 is finally going to come out this weekend. (Or rather, the first part of it.) If all the various teases and posters in recent months haven’t gotten you excited for it, then maybe one final, action-packed trailer will do the job for you.

TikTok user “lonestarcjaye” looks defiantly into the camera and shares a recipe for baby formula that “our parents in the sixties drank” in a 50 second video that got over one million views with the hashtag #bidensamerica. “You mix that all up and you give it to your babies, and they’re going to be just fine,” she…Read more...

Cherry blossoms in Kyoto, Japan are blooming earlier according to a new study from the Met Office in the United Kingdom.

“We call it ‘Humpjack,’” Sarah Stogner told me with a laugh.Read more...

Twenty-five years ago this week, I had a very specific, very disappointing thought: “I can’t believe he didn’t use the music more.” It was my first thought as I walked out of a screening of The Lost World: Jurassic Park, the highly anticipated sequel to the 1993 smash Jurassic Park. Four years later, director Steven…Read more...

The United Kingdom has had it with creepy facial recognition firm Clearview AI. Under a new enforcement rule from the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s office, Clearview must cease the collection and use of publicly available U.K. data and delete all data of U.K. residents from their database. The order, which will…Read more...

When AMD’s 5-nanometer Ryzen 7000 desktop chips arrive this fall, they will be competing against Intel with “significantly above” 5GHz speeds, DDR5 memory, and PCIe 5.0 controllers.Read more...

Samsung and Google have now officially put the Google Assistant on the Galaxy Watch 4. You should receive a Wear OS update with the ability to enable it on your Samsung smartwatch beginning today. The update also applies to Watch 4 Classic users.

Colin Cantwell, the concept artist behind many Star Wars designs, passed away Saturday at his Colorado home. His work included the X-Wing Starfighter, TIE Fighter, Star Destroyer, and the Death Star, but he had an incredible career even before his collaboration with George Lucas on his films, having worked in a jet…Read more...

YouTube claimed Sunday that more than 9,000 channels alongside over 70,000 videos were removed from the platform since February in what it’s called a push to curtail Russian disinformation over the ongoing war in Ukraine.Read more...

If you were on Twitter over the weekend, you may have seen a rip of the trailer for Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning. Intended to release alongside this week’s hot release of Top Gun: Maverick, Paramount’s gone and officially released the trailer for Tom Cruise’s next big action flick, and it looks even more…Read more...

As we head into the week, we’ve already got a lot to look forward to, considering that both Obi-Wan Kenobi and Stranger Things are releasing their first episodes this Friday, May 27. In the meantime, we have updates from across the universe, from the MCU’s Ms. Marvel to Star Trek. Onward, fans and comrades!Read more...

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Congress passed a pair of bills last week to help alleviate the baby formula shortage in the U.S., while President Joe Biden initiated Operation Fly Formula, which tasked the military with flying thousands of pounds of formula from Europe. And while every decent person supports giving families easier access to…Read more...

Throughout this wretched pandemic, I’ve been finding myself latching on more and more to the fandoms of my youth. When times are tough and days are cloudy, there’s nothing like a little digital light shining from a Pikachu’s tail.

As the weekend winds down, news has come out from The Wrap that Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, directed by Sam Raimi, has earned over 800 million dollars officially passing The Batman’s theatrical runs, the last big superhero flick to hit the theaters. Doctor Strange 2 is still a decent chunk of change…Read more...

As the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America awards deserving writers with Nebulas this weekend, I was reminded of the incredible variety and vibrancy of short fiction magazines. We are in, right now, an unprecedented age of access when it comes to short stories. You can visit the sites of industry stalwarts…Read more...

I like Stranger Things as much as the next nerd, but this new release schedule feels, well... a little weird. Here are the details; the fourth and pentultimate season of Stranger Things will consist of nine episodes split up into two ‘Volumes’ with a month’s wait in between. According to the Netflix press release,…Read more...

Earlier this week, Bleeding Cool revealed some art for the newest Power Ranger comic, an untitled series following a new Omega Ranger, currently only known as the Death Ranger. For comics fans, this news was enough to get them excited for the newest installment in the Power Rangers universe, exploring the current…Read more...

Twisted Metal, the live-action television series based on the popular car chase/vehicle combat video franchise from PlayStation, has been getting a lot of big names attached to it, drawing stars like Anthony Mackie and Stephanie Beatriz. Now, Neve Campbell has been announced as a recurring guest star, named Raven, io9…Read more...

The streets of San Fransokyo are vulnerable—and lurking around every corner, searching for pain, is Baymax! The lovable, inflatable help companion AI from Disney’s 2014 hit Big Hero 6 returns in his own show, focused on his adventures in being a first responder to anyone who may need him, and the first trailer has…Read more...

A new report claims that a subcontractor working for Russia’s intelligence service has a botnet capable of manipulating trends on social media platforms on a “massive scale.” The report, published Thursday by the cybersecurity firm Nisos, alleges that the Moscow-based firm 0day Technologies can spread disinformation…Read more...

Joining The Batman’s Robert Pattinson in Mickey7, the upcoming sci-fi film from auteur Bong Joon Ho, are Naomi Ackie (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker), Toni Collette (Nightmare Alley), and Mark Ruffalo (The Adam Project, She-Hulk). It’s been a while since the director’s multi-Oscar haul for Parasite and we couldn’t…Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's weekly roundup of the best bare-chested toys and collectibles on the internet. This week all other toy news is irrelevant as, just like life, Mattel Creations has found a way to bring us more Jeff Goldblum than we deserve. Hold onto your butts as you check it out!Read more...

Amazon’s head of devices took a swipe at Meta on Thursday, saying the company is working on enhancing a virtual world that will entice people to neglect the real world.

Law enforcement agencies are finding new and flawed ways to try to arrest more people all the time. And police have been using posts on sites like Facebook and Instagram to track down and charge protestors suspected of property destruction for years. Now, newly released documents show that Chicago cops can catfish as…Read more...

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For most people, Christmas comes at the end of December. For Hallmark collectors, it comes much earlier than that—on the day Hallmark announces all of its ornaments for the coming year. Hundreds and hundreds of ornaments for every single occasion, aimed at fans of basically anything and everything.Read more...

It was a picture perfect launch of a ULA rocket Thursday evening at Cape Canaveral in Florida. The payload, a Boeing Starliner spacecraft, is now en route to the International Space Station, despite a bumpy orbital insertion burn. The capsule will attempt to dock at the orbital outpost at 7:10 p.m. EDT today, and you …Read more...