A new video claiming to show a dummy iPhone SE 4 unit contradicts recent rumors saying that it will have a Dynamic Island rather than the older-style notch.The video isn't clear, but the top of this dummy unit does seem to show a notch-style position for the front cameraIt's regularly been claimed that the forthcoming iPhone SE 4 will be based on the iPhone 14, which featured a notch. The most recent rumor, however, was that the iPhone SE 4 would instead feature a Dynamic Island.Leaker Majin Bu has shown off what he or she claims are dummy iPhone SE 4 units, and done so with a series of photos and one video. As it's a dummy unit, the iPhone is not working and so the screen is completely blank, but it still appears to show the old-style notch. Rumor Score: Possible Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Following our previous visit toBunch Design, we are keeping ourMeet Your Next Employer seriesin Los Angeles this week to explore the work ofORA (Oonagh Ryan Architects).Founded by Oonagh Ryan, and based in the citys Arts District, the firm has amassed a portfolio spanning residential, commercial, hospitality, and institutional projects. Our work draws on expertise cultivated from years of working in various communities across Los Angeles, the firm says about their approach, tapping into neighborhood cultures, regulatory agencies, local talented designers, contractors and craftsmen who are vital to its success. In 2023, the firms work was honored at the AIA Small Projects Awards while in 2022 the firm was featured as part of our ongoing Studio Snapshot series.Over on Archinect Jobs, the firm iscurrently hiringfor a Job Captain/Mid-Level Designer to join their Los Angeles team. For candidates interested in applying for a position or anybody interested in learning more ab...

Stardew Valley developer Eric ConcernedApe Barone has revealed that he is open to working on the game for even longer, bringing in more content. Speaking to NPR, Barone spoke about being open to keep working on Stardew Valley for 50 more years.Barone spoke about keeping an eye on criticisms of Stardew Valley that players might have, and how this often tends to inform his future plans for the game. With the belief that he owes players for his success, he refers to the continuous support of the game as his way of giving back to the community.I do take in a lot of what the fans are saying, said Barone to NPR. I pay attention to what their thoughts are, what their criticisms are. And the players are very important to me. I mean, I will never forget that its because of the players that Im in this position, that the game was able to be popular, that my dreams as a game developer have come true.Barone also took time to discuss the idea that a game can have too much content, and how it can often get overwhelming for him to work on new features or bug fixes for the game. He also mentioned that he does ultimately want to make more than one game in his life.I think a game can have too much content, continued Barone. And I ultimately want Stardew Valley to be the best game it can be. So if I feel like its starting to become kind of overwhelmed with content to the point where its detrimental to the games entertainment factor, I would stop at that point.Another thing is, I do want to make more than one game in my life. Including the development time, Ive been working on Stardew Valley for over 12 years now.Barone capped things off by talking about how he will likely keep getting new ideas to add things, and potentially even add new content or bug fixes to Stardew Valley 50 years from now.I dont want to definitively say that the book is ever closed, because I think I will always have a desire to come back and maybe add a thing or two. You know, maybe even 50 years from now, I might add something.I like creating things. I dont think Im ever going to retire. I think it would be funny to release an update when Im, like, 90 years old if I live that long. Lets hope.Since its 2016 release, Stardew Valley has been immensely successful, with Barone revealing earlier this month that the farming sim had crossed 30 million in sales. He has also previously stated that he would never charge players for new content, tasking players with to shame him if he ever breaks the oath.Currently, Barone is working on a new title, Haunted Chocolatier, which doesnt yet have a release date. Stardew Valley, on the other hand, got a major update last year.

Sega has been on a revival kick lately, bringing back major IPs like Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Streets of Rage, and Virtua Fighter. But what about Skies of Arcadia, the beloved turn-based RPG from the Dreamcast era?Fans may get their wish sooner rather than later as the company has trademarked Skies of Arcadia and Eternal Arcadia (its Japanese name) on January 16th. The listings recently went public, as discovered by Gematsu.Released in October 2000, Skies of Arcadia garnered extensive critical acclaim. It would receive a Nintendo GameCube port, Skies of Arcadia Legends, in 2002 with additional content, and while a sequel was considered, it ultimately never happened. Theres also never been a remaster or port for current-gen platforms.Whether the listings mean plans to pursue a new project, a remaster, a sequel or an imminent announcement for something else remains to be seen, but its a positive sign. Stay tuned for more updates in the coming months.

Another Resident Evil film reboot is in the worksBarbarian director Zach Cregger reportedly attached to project, produced by Constantin Film and PlayStation ProductionsImage credit: Capcom News by Sophie McEvoy Staff Writer Published on Jan. 27, 2025 A movie reboot of Resident Evil is in the works, with four studios reportedly bidding for the film including Warner Bros. and Netflix.This is according to The Hollywood Reporter, which reports that Zach Cregger is attached to direct following the success of his 2022 directorial debut Barbarian, a horror film that he also wrote.Constantin Film is reportedly producing the film alongside PlayStation Productions. Constantin Film has held the film rights to the Capcom franchise since the late 1990s, having produced the original film series starring Milla Jovovich.According to sources, Cregger's reboot will be "a revamp that will take the title to its horror roots and be more faithful to the initial games, which date back to 1996."The original Resident Evil film series started in 2002, with Jovovich playing Alice a character made specifically for the movie franchise.There were six films in total, followed by the 2021 reboot Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. Cregger's upcoming adaptation seems to be a separate entity to this project.

Phil Spencer on multiplatform strategy: "There's no reason to put a ring fence around any game"Microsoft also planning to support Switch 2 with ports of Xbox games News by Sophie McEvoy Staff Writer Published on Jan. 27, 2025 Microsoft's Phil Spencer revealed further details of Xbox's changing brand identity, intending to make its first-party titles available across multiple platforms.In an interview with independent games journalist Destin Legarie (via Eurogamer), Spencer said that Xbox is moving away from first-party titles like Starfield and Indiana Jones having an "exclusivity window"."There's no reason for me to put a ring fence around any game and say this game will not go to a place where it would find players, where it would have business success for us," Spencer said. "Our strategy is to allow our games to be available.""Game Pass is an important component of playing the games on our platform, but to keep games off other platforms? That's not a path for us; that doesn't work for us."He explained that Microsoft wants Xbox to be the platform that enables "the world's biggest games" to be available in "multiple places.""We think that's what makes us unique," he said. "Most of the other platforms out there are single platforms on a single device, whether that's on PC, mobile, or console. And we want Xbox to be a platform that enables creators across any screen that people want to play on."When asked whether this would cause Xbox's brand identity to evolve, Spencer said it is forever changing and adapting to the industry."This is all about making sure that your library of games that you own on Xbox are playable in multiple places, so I'd say it's an evolution of our identity. But I believe it's an identity that the industry needs."When you think about where this industry is now and you see the challenges, the business challenges that are out there for many companies, I think making games more accessible to more people has got to be front and centre for us as an industry."In another interview with Gamertag Radio, Spencer also confirmed Microsoft is planning to support the Nintendo Switch 2 with ports of Xbox games."I'm really looking forward to supporting [Nintendo] with games that we have," he said. "They're a really important part of this industry."Last February, Microsoft announced it would be bringing four games to other consoles as a step in its multiplatform strategy."We don't damage Xbox and we can grow our business using what other platforms have to help us with that," Spencer said. "Looking forward, I think there is an interesting story for us introducing Xbox franchises to players on other platforms to get them more interested in Xbox. We think there's a good brand value for Xbox there."

We might have just gotten our best look yet at Apples next affordable iPhone SE, shown in both video and photographs of whats either a real phone or a convincing dummy unit. Despite some reports that the next SE would adopt recent iPhones Dynamic Island design, this model appears to stick with the older notch.Leaker Majin Bu shared a short video over the weekend that shows the new phone in bright daylight, following it up a day later with photos of both white and black versions. Like previous iPhone SE models theres only a single rear camera, though this appears to be the first in the line to feature a USB-C port now a requirement for the phone to be sold in the EU.The biggest surprise is that the phone features Apples older notched display, rather than the Dynamic Island design that leaker Evan Blass had tipped it to include. This is hard to make out clearly in the video, but the selfie cameras position just left of centre matches the iPhone 14s notched setup and besides, the leaker himself has confirmed in replies to the post that theres a notch.This isnt our first look at the new SE, though it is our clearest. Sonny Dickson shared two photos of similar looking SE 4 dummy units two weeks ago that he then put on sale.The SE 4 is rumored to switch to an OLED display, and is expected to include enough RAM to support Apple Intelligence features. Rumors point to a launch around March or April, which makes sense the SE 3 launched in March 2022.

It might seem strange to say that Conclave, a movie nominated for eight Oscars including Best Picture and Best Actor, is becoming something of a Best Picture long shot but conventional wisdom suggests Conclave is now something of a Best Picture long shot. While the Vatican thriller received a host of nominations, including a Best Adapted Screenplay nod for Peter Straughan and Best Film Editing for Nick Emerson, the films absence was conspicuously noted in the Best Director race where James Mangold got in for A Complete Unknown over Edward Berger. It was also snubbed in Best Cinematography where, to more than a few folks surprise, Emilia Prez was nominated instead.The ascent of Emilia Prez has indeed frightened some corners of social media, which has lashed back hard at the new frontrunner status applied to the Jacques Audiard film. As the horse race narrative emerges, folks are already leaning one way or the other on if they think this will finally be Netflixs year thanks to Emilia Prez, or if the critical esteem previously accumulated by Brady Corbet and A24s The Brutalistwhich received 10 nominations, including for Directing and Cinematographywill carry it through. Meanwhile Conclave falls further into the rearview.And yetyet, dear readerwhile its good to take all this with some healthy skepticism, there is still a path forward for Bergers movie about a papal conclave where progressives and conservatives come to blows, but then in the end do the right thing and elect a forward-looking new leader (you know: wish fulfillment). After all, underdogs have done it before.In the last 25 years, there have been exactly three Best Picture winners that earned that most coveted of Oscar golds without being nominated for Director and/or Cinematography: Argo (2012), Green Book (2018), and CODA (2021). And its the last one that is of special interest to me.Three years ago marked the first awards season after quarantine restrictions were lifted. Nonetheless, it was still an odd and somewhat muted Oscar season due to productions freezing in Hollywood the year before. As a consequence, the Oscar field seemed strangely muted in January 2022 with the initial frontrunner being a critical favorite that was awarded Best Picture by prestigious critics groups like the New York Film Critics Circle, as well as a Netflix release: Jane Campions The Power of the Dog. The critical and media narrative was that it had to win. Campion was the clear frontrunner for Best Director, and what could beat it for Picture? (Personally, we far preferred Steven Spielbergs West Side Story, but that musical flopped, so it was a nonstarter with the Academy).Come Oscar night, the Academy again found a way to deny Netflix a Best Picture Oscar, but only in lieu of giving the top award to another streaming film, Apple and Sian Heders feel-good and easily accessible CODA. It was also a film nominated for only two other awards, Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay. It won both.While CODA has arguably gone down as one of the slighter Best Picture winners in recent memory, it also was the antithesis of The Power of the Dog: hopeful, earnest, and ultimately reassuring in a dark moment that things were going to be alright. It also was not a Netflix movie, and while Apple is in the streaming business, only Netflix has seen leadership state more than once that they do not consider theatrical their business model.Cut back to 2025. We again are in a bit of a slow-down year after film production dried up in 2023 due to the writer and actor strikes. The mood is also once more mournful in much of the country, especially California. The general sense in the industry and media is that 2024 was a weaker year for cinema than the past several, and one of the frontrunners which is again a critical darling and NYFCC Best Picture winner is a dark, cynical, and ultimately dispiriting auteur piece: The Brutalist. Furthermore, according to Variety, a not-insignificant number of Academy members are refusing to watch the 3.5-hour epic. Yes, there is another frontrunner which has a more hopeful and optimistic message, the lightning rod musical Emilia Prez, but that film is still a Netflix release. And this one comes with a lot of online controversy and baggage.Admittedly, online backlash didnt thwart Green Books chances in early 2019. However, its biggest competitor was, guess what, another Netflix film in Alfonso Cuarns lyrical Roma. Also it seems online sentiment did play a role in La La Lands stumble two years earlier, a film so securely seen as the frontrunner that when it was incorrectly named Best Picture at the 2017 Academy Awards, no one at home or in the audience guessed anything was amiss.Lastly, one other major factor to remember is that Best Picture, unlike all other categories at the Oscars, are voted on by way of preferential ballot. This means that instead of just picking their favorite, each voter ranks the nominees in order from their most desirous to their least for taking home the top prize. And it seems likely while Emilia Prez will receive a lot of number one votes, it could end up either number nine or 10 on plenty of other ballots too.Meanwhile that same preferential system could mean a movie that ends up as a lot of folks number two choiceand with a decent amount of number onescould still seize the day and win Best Picture. This brings us back to Conclave, a political thriller that plays exceedingly well with older audiences who remember when such performance and narrative-heavy entertainments were part and parcel of any Oscar season. In fact, the AARP nominated Conclave more than any other film in its annual Movies for Grownups Awards. Another way to put this is that Boomers really like a movie where the cast is uniformly north of 50 and doing exciting things. And while the demographics of current Academy membership is a bit hard to pick out since inclusion initiatives in the late 2010s roughly doubled membership numbers, at least in 2012 the median age of Academy members was 62.Join our mailing listGet the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox!This is a long way to say that Conclave is a real crowdpleaser for a large portion of Oscar voters, and unlike The Brutalist or even Emilia Prez, it leaves an audience feeling energized instead of wistful or pensive. It could become a consensus pick for a lot of voters who put Brutalist or Prez, or Anora as their number one, but an assortment of the other frontrunners near the bottom.In this vein, well point to one other relatively recent Oscar year. In January 2016, there was once again no clear frontrunner. Many critics groups were lining up behind the artful and reserved Todd Haynes film Carol, but Haynes has always been an acquired taste that the Academy rarely sips from.Other groups were championing Mad Max: Fury Road, a tour de force in action cinema that remains one of the best chase movies ever conceived. It also was a franchise blockbuster and a sequel. Unsurprisingly, it virtually swept the technical categories that year at the Oscars, but was rudely ignored for Picture and Director. Finally, there was a faction lining up behind The Revenant, including the Golden Globes. The Revenant also was another high-concept auteur piece from Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu, this time a Western after he won Best Picture and Director the previous year for Birdman.In the end, Gonzlez triumphed once more in Best Director, but to manys surprise it was neither The Revenant, nor Mad Max, nor Carol that took home the greatest bauble. It was Spotlight, an ensemble piece with excellent performances, a propulsive pacing reflecting our real world, and an unfussy narrative that left grownup audiences satisfied. And it likely got there with a lot of number two and three votes.It could happen again.

Making his Doctor Who debut will be British-Nigerian poet and playwright Inua Ellams MBE (Barber Shop Chronicles, Candy Coated Unicorns & Converse All Stars) , whose Doctor Who fandom goes back to the age of 10. Not underselling the importance of joining the TV shows writers, Ellams described the experience as like touching God.Also making their Doctor Who TV debut is Manchester-based screenwriter Sharma Angel-Walfall, whose television credits include recent releases from Netflix, Disney+, Sky and the BBC, from Supacell to The Ballad of Renegade Nell to Dreamland (coincidentally starring former Doctor Who companion Freema Agyeman). Angel-Walfall won the very first Channel 4 New Writing Award, and is a massive Russell T Davies fan.Finally, novelist and screenwriter Juno Dawson (Her Majestys Royal Coven, This Book is Gay) has made the move from Doctor Who podcasts and books to the main TV show. A familiar name to Who fans, Dawson wrote 2018s 13th-era novel The Good Doctor, created the first official Doctor Who scripted podcast in Doctor Who: Redacted, wrote for the Torchwood and New Series Adventures podcasts, and was a co-presenter on The Official Doctor Who podcast for the shows three 60th anniversary specials.Expect many more Who announcements to arrive over the next few months as the BBC and Disney+ start to hype what Davies is describing as the most wild and exciting season of Doctor Who yet. Well, hed know. Heres the teaser:Doctor Who series 15 is expected to air on BBC One and Disney+ in spring 2025.

Jan 27, 2025The Hacker NewsApplication Security / API SecurityThe Open Web Application Security Project has recently introduced a new Top 10 project - the Non-Human Identity (NHI) Top 10. For years, OWASP has provided security professionals and developers with essential guidance and actionable frameworks through its Top 10 projects, including the widely used API and Web Application security lists. Non-human identity security represents an emerging interest in the cybersecurity industry, encompassing the risks and lack of oversight associated with API keys, service accounts, OAuth apps, SSH keys, IAM roles, secrets, and other machine credentials and workload identities. Considering that the flagship OWASP Top 10 projects already cover a broad range of security risks developers should focus on, one might ask - do we really need the NHI Top 10? The short answer is - yes. Let's see why, and explore the top 10 NHI risks. Why we need the NHI Top 10While other OWASP projects might touch on related vulnerabilities, such as secrets misconfiguration, NHIs and their associated risks go well beyond that. Security incidents leveraging NHIs don't just revolve around exposed secrets; they extend to excessive permissions, OAuth phishing attacks, IAM roles used for lateral movement, and more. While crucial, the existing OWASP Top 10 lists don't properly address the unique challenges NHIs present. Being the critical connectivity enablers between systems, services, data, and AI agents, NHIs are extremely prevalent across development and runtime environments, and developers interact with them at every stage of the development pipeline. With the growing frequency of attacks targeting NHIs, it became imperative to equip developers with a dedicated guide to the risks they face.Understanding the OWASP Top 10 ranking criteriaBefore we dive into the actual risks, it's important to understand the ranking behind the Top 10 projects. OWASP Top 10 projects follow a standard set of parameters to determine risk severity:Exploitability: Evaluate how easily an attacker can exploit a given vulnerability if the organization lacks sufficient protection.Impact: Considers the potential damage the risk could inflict on business operations and systems.Prevalence: Assesses how common the security issue is across different environments, disregarding existing protective measures.Detectability: Measures the difficulty of spotting the weakness using standard monitoring and detection tools.Breaking down the OWASP NHI Top 10 risksNow to the meat. Let's explore the top risks that earned a spot on the NHI Top 10 list and why they matter:NHI10:2025 - Human Use of NHINHIs are designed to facilitate automated processes, services, and applications without human intervention. However, during the development and maintenance phases, developers or administrators may repurpose NHIs for manual operations that should ideally be conducted using personal human credentials with appropriate privileges. This can cause privilege misuse, and, if this abused key is part of an exploit, it's hard to know who is accountable for it. NHI9:2025 - NHI ReuseNHI reuse occurs when teams repurpose the same service account, for example, across multiple applications. While convenient, this violates the principle of least privilege and can expose multiple services in the case of a compromised NHI - increasing the blast radius. NHI8:2025 - Environment IsolationA lack of strict environment isolation can lead to test NHIs bleeding into production. A real-world example is the Midnight Blizzard attack on Microsoft, where an OAuth app used for testing was found to have high privileges in production, exposing sensitive data.NHI7:2025 - Long-Lived SecretsSecrets that remain valid for extended periods pose a significant risk. A notable incident involved Microsoft AI inadvertently exposing an access token in a public GitHub repository, which remained active for over two years and provided access to 38 terabytes of internal data.NHI6:2025 - Insecure Cloud Deployment ConfigurationsCI/CD pipelines inherently require extensive permissions, making them prime targets for attackers. Misconfigurations, such as hardcoded credentials or overly permissive OIDC configurations, can lead to unauthorized access to critical resources, exposing them to breaches.NHI5:2025 - Overprivileged NHIMany NHIs are granted excessive privileges due to poor provisioning practices. According to a recent CSA report, 37% of NHI-related security incidents were caused by overprivileged identities, highlighting the urgent need for proper access controls and least-privilege practices. NHI4:2025 - Insecure Authentication MethodsMany platforms like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace still support insecure authentication methods like implicit OAuth flows and app passwords, which bypass MFA and are susceptible to attacks. Developers are often unaware of the security risks of these outdated mechanisms, which leads to their widespread use, and potential exploitation. NHI3:2025 - Vulnerable Third-Party NHIMany development pipelines rely on third-party tools and services to expedite development, enhance capabilities, monitor applications, and more. These tools and services integrate directly with IDEs and code repos using NHIs like API keys, OAuth apps, and service accounts. Breaches involving vendors like CircleCI, Okta, and GitHub have forced customers to scramble to rotate credentials, highlighting the importance of tightly monitoring and mapping these externally owned NHIs. NHI2:2025 - Secret LeakageSecret leakage remains a top concern, often serving as the initial access vector for attackers. Research indicates that 37% of organizations have hardcoded secrets within their applications, making them prime targets.NHI1:2025 - Improper OffboardingRanked as the top NHI risk, improper offboarding refers to the prevalent oversight of lingering NHIs that were not removed or decommissioned after an employee left, a service was removed, or a third party was terminated. In fact, over 50% of organizations have no formal processes to offboard NHIs. NHIs that are no longer needed but remain active create a wide array of attack opportunities, especially for insider threats. A standardized framework for NHI securityThe OWASP NHI Top 10 fills a critical gap by shedding light on the unique security challenges posed by NHIs. Security and development teams alike lack a clear, standardized view of the risks these identities pose, and how to go about including them in security programs. As their usage continues to expand across modern applications, projects like the OWASP NHI Top 10 become more crucial than ever. Found this article interesting? This article is a contributed piece from one of our valued partners. Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post.SHARE