Google has disabled its Android earthquake detection feature in Brazil after many smartphone users in So Paulo and Rio de Janeiro received false emergency alerts on Friday morning, Android Police reports. The alerts of a nonexistent 5.5 magnitude earthquake were sent to devices around 2AM this morning, and pinpointed earthquakes in the countrys Ubatuba and Baixada Santista regions. Google launched the earthquake detection network that uses accelerometers in Android devices as a seismometer in California in 2020, and over the years, it has expanded to other countries. According to CNN Brasil, the Civil Defense of So Paulo, which manages an early warning system for disaster risk, said it did not issue any alert and that there is no record of any occurrence related to the possible earthquake in the state.In an email to The Verge, Google spokesperson Ed Fernandez writes:TheAndroid Earthquake Alerts Systemis a supplemental service that uses Android phones to quickly estimate earthquake shaking and provide early warnings to users. Its not designed to replace any official or other public warning systems. On February 14th, our system detected signals from devices near the coast of So Paulo and triggered an earthquake alert to users in the region. We promptly disabled the alerting system in Brazil and are currently investigating what happened. We apologize to our users for the inconvenience and remain committed to improving our tools.

An hour agoNathan EdwardsThe surprisingly deep history of a ubiquitous font.Marcin Wichary, the author of Shift Happens an exhaustively researched, beautifully designed and photographed history of the keyboard is back with a deep dive into Gorton, a font found on keyboards, intercoms, camera lenses, and engraved signs across the world, with a special focus on Manhattan. The article is classic Wichary: it goes very deep and is full of beautiful photographs and interactive elements. Its a real delight after the week weve had.The hardest working font in Manhattan[aresluna.org]Feb 7Ash ParrishWarner Bros. Games suffered $300 million in losses last year.Thats according to a report from Jason Schreier in Bloomberg that highlights the struggles WBs games division has had trying to turn out another hit. Though the company had success with Hogwarts Legacy in 2023, its since suffered multiple failures with the twin flops of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and Multiversus, while its forthcoming Wonder Woman game struggles to coalesce.Warner Bros. Video-Game Division Faces Thin Slate, Leadership Uncertainty and Wonder Woman Issues[bloomberg.com]Jan 3Jay PetersThe Supreme Court case that could eliminate longstanding free speech protections for sexual content.Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton will be heard on January 15th. Vox explains whats at stake in this battle over a Texas law requiring age verification to access sites with pornographyThe huge stakes in a new Supreme Court case about pornography[Vox]Dec 31, 2024Elizabeth LopattoFrom the means of production to a meme in production: Its one kind of American dream.If the phrase Hawk Tuah girl means nothing to you, I urge you to continue in blissful ignorance. If Hawk Tuah shitcoin scam resonates, youll enjoy Katie Bakers rundown of what, exactly, happened.One Kind of American Dream: The Year in Hawk Tuah and Crypto Memecoin[www.theringer.com]Nov 30, 2024Mia SatoAn 1891 recording is country music history.A recently discovered performance of Thompsons Old Gray Mule is now the oldest country recording in existence. The performer is Louis Vasnier, a Black artist from New Orleans.The recording highlights how Black musicians have shaped the genre, despite the erasure of their contributions:Black artists by and large, who were the ones who performed and recorded, get wiped out of the picture because they say, Well, its not really country, Martin says. So ours is partly a project of reclamation.The earliest known country recording has been found. The singer? A Black man.[The Washington Post]Nov 15, 2024Victoria SongPedometers tracked philandering spouses and sleepy employees back in the 1800s.If you thought step counting and activity tracking was a new-ish thing, apparently not! This excerpt from Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media goes into how wealthy people in the 1800s used pedometers as a form of surveillance tracking naughty spouses, and checking to see if soldiers were properly patrolling... or just taking a nap during the night shift.Surveillance and the Secret History of 19th-Century Wearable Tech[The MIT Press Reader]Nov 13, 2024Victoria SongAmazon just axed a secret fertility tracker project.The goal was a product that could predict a users fertility by collecting saliva. Users wouldve then been able to log period symptoms, sexual activity, and other fertility data via a mobile app. CNBC says Amazon has laid off the entire team behind the project. Initially, it was set to launch later this year before technical issues resulted in delays.Amazon shuts down secret project to develop fertility tracker[CNBC]Nov 1, 2024Mia SatoThe whitewashing of the National Archives.Top US archivist Colleen Shogan has quietly been changing educational material and exhibits at the Archives museum including removing references to dark periods in US history, The Wall Street Journal reports.Current and former staff say Shogan engaged in censorship by removing mention of events like Japanese American incarceration, displacement of indigenous peoples, and the Civil Rights Movement.Exclusive | Americas Top Archivist Puts a Rosy Spin on U.S. HistoryPruning the Thorny Parts[WSJ]Oct 25, 2024Sean HollisterGo read how the US governments big bet on Intel is in jeopardy.Intel stands to receive $8.5 billion in CHIPS Act funding, ostensibly to make America lead in silicon again, but Intels not looking like much of a leader right now. Among other things, Anna Swanson and Tripp Mickle at The New York Times found out Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has asked Big Tech to order chips from Intel fabs and most of them said no.The White House Bet Big on Intel. Will It Backfire?[The New York Times]Oct 24, 2024Sarah JeongHow many people are donating to Trump in your neighborhood?Or Harris, for that matter. Its not easy to make campaign finance data interesting, but The Washington Post has created this very cool interactive map showing the number of donors and total amount raised for either candidate by zip code.See how your neighborhood is giving to Trump and Harris[Washington Post]Oct 17, 2024Alex HeathSnapchat to the Trump campaign: Well take your money but not your posts.An interesting look at how Snap has diverted from other platforms in its handling of former President Trump:Unlike other major tech platforms, Snap has not lifted the ban on Mr. Trumps personal account, which has drawn angry pushback from his campaign. Despite not allowing Mr. Trump to post personally, the company has said it would sell his campaign political advertisements, which must all go through an internal fact-check.Trump Wants Young Voters, but Hes Nowhere to Be Seen on Snapchat[The New York Times]Oct 15, 2024Emma RothThe problem with custom AI chatbots.While it might be fun to interact with Character.AIs user-created chatbots, a report from Wired shows the challenges of taking down chatbots that impersonate people without their consent, including a teen who was murdered in 2006:Given that Character.AI can sometimes take a week to investigate and remove a persona that violates the platforms terms, a bot can still operate for long enough to upset someone whose likeness is being used. But it might not be enough for a person to claim real harm from a legal perspective, experts say.Anyone Can Turn You Into an AI Chatbot. There's Little You Can Do to Stop Them[WIRED]Oct 11, 2024Kylie RobisonAnthropics CEO has many, many, many thoughts about AGI.In a long blog post, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei considers the upside of artificial general intelligence (AGI, or as he prefers to call it, powerful AI). He pushed back on the idea that hes a pessimist or doomer by outlining some grandiose claims for the future of AI:I think that most people are underestimating just how radical the upside of AI could be, just as I think most people are underestimating how bad the risks could be.Id like to point out that the company is reportedly in talks to raise money at a $40 billion valuation.Machines of Loving Grace[Dario Amodei]Oct 11, 2024Mia SatoUber and Lyft blocked drivers from working to save money.Ride share drivers in New York are guaranteed a minimum wage but Uber and Lyft gamed the law by locking drivers out of the app, making it impossible for them to earn more, a Bloomberg investigation found.Bloomberg collected more than 7,000 screenshots of lockouts and estimated how much the companies could save using the lockout tactic.How Uber and Lyft Used a Loophole to Deny NYC Drivers Millions in Pay[Bloomberg]Sep 27, 2024Jay PetersHeres the scoop on why the Annapurna Interactive staff resigned.Bloombergs Jason Schreier, who broke the original story, just published a detailed account of what went down. Settle in with some popcorn its pretty wild.Sep 17, 2024Jennifer Pattison TuohyKitchenAids new walnut stand mixer is indeed as impractical as it is beautiful.The $700 Evergreen edition of the iconic kitchen appliance is apparently not recommended for whipping eggs, as Ellen Cushing discovered in this delightful takedown of the gadget where she compares it to an engagement ring:Both are expensive status symbols generally acquired in the spring of ones life; both are of limited use and enduring popularity; both are signifiers of domestic attainment; both are things people excitedly post to Instagram.The new KitchenAid adds a gorgeous wooden bowl to the classic appliance, cementing its role as more status symbol than stand mixer. Image: KitchenAidSep 15, 2024Wes DavisA reminder about marketing.Before you buy something like Ankers new MagGo SD card reader to take advantage of that high-fps video capture on the iPhone 16 Pro, go read PetaPixels warning about product marketing and the limits of SD cards.PetaPixel today confirmed that the iPhone can technically shoot 4K at 30 frames per second (FPS) in ProRes Log to a UHS-II SD card, but attempting to choose a higher frame rate would guarantee dropped frames.Before You Use an SD Card as an External Drive for iPhone, Know the Limitations[PetaPixel]Sep 13, 2024Justine CalmaMicrosoft pitches generative AI to oil and gas companies.Fossil fuel giants have used AI for years to increase production. Now, Microsoft sees the generative AI boom as an opportunity to boost profits for itself and oil and gas companies it wants to strike deals with, Karen Hao reports for The Atlantic. Microsofts own greenhouse gas emissions are growing with its focus on AI, taking the company further away from its climate goals.Microsofts Hypocrisy on AI[The Atlantic]Sep 9, 2024Kevin NguyenThe extraordinary Prince documentary we might never see.Ezra Edelman, who directed the Oscar-winning masterpiece O.J.: Made in America, has been working on an expansive nine-hour film about Prince. But as the New York Times Magazine reports, the artists estate is attempting to block its release, which they worry will tarnish the reputation of Paisley Park.We might not have a doc to watch, but in the meantime, Sasha Weisss story has many details from the film and incredible material about Edelmans editing process.The Prince We Never Knew[The New York Times Magazine]Sep 9, 2024Mia SatoThe battle of the Bobs.The New York Times meticulously pieced together the bitter power struggle inside Disney between CEO Bob Iger and his successor, Bob Chapek, who was fired in 2022. The piece, which follows up a 2023 report from CNBC, chronicles Chapeks rise and fall, and Igers quest to return to power.The Palace Coup at the Magic Kingdom[The New York Times]Sep 5, 2024David PierceWhy is comedy TikTok seemingly all crowd work clips?Ive always wondered, and Lucas Zelnik has a shockingly simple and good answer:I think the biggest thing is to stay in front of peoples faces. You just have to put out so much content. Jokes take so long to write. I will put out chunks of material but very selectively, and, frankly, I probably wont put out any more material until Im ready to release an hourlong special, which I think I want to give that a few more years.Comedian Lucas Zelnick Is Huge on TikTokBut Dont Hold That Against Him[GQ]Aug 31, 2024Wes DavisAI search shouldnt be this easy to manipulate.Kevin Roose, whose New York Times story about horny Bing chats went viral last year, writes that chatbots are at times very negative about him since, having seemingly picked up on criticism of his piece.Now, he writes about how he used techniques that could be considered an AI-focused version of SEO to influence how they respond when asked about him and what that portends.Aug 28, 2024Sarah JeongThe Titanic was an insurance scam is my new favorite conspiracy theory.The claim that the Titanic was swapped with a sister ship and intentionally sunk for an insurance payout is, according to Reuters, a long-running and meritless rumor.But its entirely new to me! And extremely hilarious! You should treat this (and anything else on that cursed site) with the gravity and weight of fanfiction, but lets be real, fanfiction is fun.Titanic Conspiracy: The Ship that Never Sank[The Unredacted]Aug 27, 2024David PierceThe people who worry about killer AI are still worried about killer AI.And theyre worried that everybody else got really worried for a minute, too, and then just kind of moved on. And so maybe the worriers missed their only chance:There was almost a dog-that-caught-the-car effect, she said. This community had been trying so long to get people to take these ideas seriously, and suddenly people took them seriously, and it was like, Okay, now what?AI Doomers Had Their Big Moment[The Atlantic]Aug 22, 2024David PierceWhistleblowin from 9 to 5.Im gonna go out on a limb and say US whistleblower laws werent intended to be used by people like Richard Overum, who has turned himself into a super spy one whistleblower reward at a time. But hes making it work! And hes recruiting.I cant decide if this is a Robin Hood story or kind of scammy or both, but I cant get enough.How To Make Millions As a Professional Whistleblower[GQ]

Yellowjackets is back, just in time for Valentine's Day. What's more romantic than cannibalism and betrayal? With looming threats in both timelines, Season 3 might finally offer some answers about the Man With No Eyes and certain people's accountability for their actions. The new season also introduces even more cast members, so get ready to take notes on who's who. Before you dive into Season 3, Id recommend a solid rewatch, or at least checking out a recap of the Yellowjackets story so far. If youre wondering where to stream Yellowjackets online, we've collected everything we know about the new season below. Where to Stream Yellowjackets Season 3Yellowjackets Season 3First two episodes out now!See it at Paramount+ with SHOWTIMEYellowjackets Season 3 is available to stream with a Paramount+ and Showtime subscription. The streaming bundle (Showtime isn't available as a standalone subscription) starts at $12.99/month. You can also subscribe to Paramount+ and Showtime channels through Prime Video or Hulu. Season 1 of Yellowjackets ended up on US Netflix about two years after it aired, so theres a chance Seasons 2 and 3 make it there some day. If you're sticking to cable, episodes of Season 3 will also air live on Showtime every Sunday.Yellowjackets Season 3 Episode Release ScheduleThe first two episodes of Yellowjackets Season 3 premiered on February 14. One episode will be released weekly for the rest of the season, for a total run of 10 episodes. Heres the full episode release schedule for Yellowjackets Season 3: Episode 1: "It Girl" - February 14Episode 2: "Dislocation" - February 14Episode 3: "Thems the Breaks" - February 21Episode 4: "12 Angry Girls and 1 Drunk Travis" - February 28Episode 5: TBA - March 7Episode 6: TBA - March 14Episode 7: TBA - March 21Episode 8: TBA - March 28Episode 9: TBA - April 4 Episode 10: TBA - April 11What Is Yellowjackets About? Yellowjackets is about an elite all-girls soccer team who survive a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness. The show follows two separate timelines: one as the teenage girls work together (and against each other) to survive, and the other 25 years later, as the now-adult women reckon with their past. While Yellowjackets itself isn't a true story, the show takes inspiration from a number of real events, particularly the 1972 Andes mountain plane crash (which Netflix released an Oscar-nominated movie about called Society of the Snow last year). Where to Stream Previous Seasons of YellowjacketsParamount+ with SHOWTIMEStarting at $12.99/monthSee it at Paramount+Previous seasons of Yellowjackets are all available to stream on Paramount+ with Showtime, while the first season is additionally available on US Netflix. Both seasons of the show are also available as physical releases. Yellowjackets Season 1Stream: Netflix or Paramount+ Yellowjackets Season OneSee it at AmazonYellowjackets Season 2 Stream: Paramount+ Yellowjackets Season TwoSee it at AmazonYellowjackets Season 3 CastYellowjackets was created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson and features a pretty large ensemble cast across its two timelines. Here are some of the main actors that star in the show: Melanie Lynskey and Sophie Nlisse as ShaunaTawny Cypress and Jasmin Savoy Brown as TaissaChristina Ricci and Samantha Hanratty as MistySimone Kessell and Courtney Eaton as LottieLauren Ambrose and Liv Hewson as VanSophie Thatcher as NatKevin Alves as TravisSteven Kreuger as BenWarren Kole as JeffSarah Desjardins as CallieElijah Wood as WalterElla Purnell as JackieIt's also been reported by Rolling Stone that Hilary Swank and Joel McHale will be joining the cast of Season 3.

Imagine youre on your way to dinner, walking down a decently busy street during the day. Youre using your new iPhone 16 Pro for directions before, out of nowhere, a masked individual on an e-bike whips around to your side and snatches youre Desert Titanium baby and zooms off. All in seconds. This sounds like a one-off insane situation, but this is precisely what happened to Dimitar Stanimiroff last week in London, England. And hes not aloneMost recent statistics say a phone is stolen on average every 6 minutes in London, or about 64,000 annually. Its so common that the City of London Police deployed special task forces to snuff out these gangs and even had to publish a blog post explaining how to protect your mobile device in public better.Over the years, Apple has made impressive strides in implementing anti-theft measures like Activation Lock and inadvertent parts pairing rules. These features and others are meant to deter thieves and minimize situations like Stanimiroffs. Is it enough?9to5Mac Security Bite is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle,the only Apple Unified Platform. Making Apple devices work-ready and enterprise-safe is all we do. Our unique integrated approach to management and security combines state-of-the-art Apple-specific security solutions for fully automated Hardening & Compliance, Next Generation EDR, AI-powered Zero Trust, and exclusive Privilege Management with the most powerful and modern Apple MDM on the market. The result is a totally automated Apple Unified Platform currently trusted by over 45,000 organizations to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost. Request your EXTENDED TRIAL today and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with Apple. Stanimiroff took to LinkedIn to share his story. Despite the traumatic experience and the apparent loss of his expensive phone, the Met officer he reported the situation to said he got lucky! She explained to Stanimiroff that these criminals often attempt to run people over to snatch their phones, and many victims arent quick enough to dodge an e-bike traveling at speeds of up to 70 mph!Stanimiroff could track the iPhone 16 Pro at a few different locations using Find My before it went dark. Unfortunately, when he shared the location details with the officer, she told him that because these crimes occur so frequently, they dont have the resources to investigate them and usually close the cases the same day theyre received.With the introduction of iOS 7 in 2013, Apple introduced Activation Lock, which prevents anyone from wiping data from an iPhone without the original owners Apple ID and password. Overnight, this made Apple devices significantly less appealing to thieves. They could no longer sell full-functioning devices to local pawn shops, eBay, Craigslist, etc., for serious profit, so they pivoted to the less fruitful parts market.For years, the black market trade of iPhone parts got by unscathed. This was until around 2018 when Apple started digitally pairing the serial number of iPhone Xs battery to the serial number of the device itself, known as parts pairing. Unauthorized repair shops started noticing service warnings if the battery wasnt replaced by Apple. With the iPhone 12, this expanded to more components like the screen, cameras, and Face ID sensors.This led to significant controversy around DIY repairs. Despite Apples best efforts to fight and lobby legislation, Oregon and Colorado passed a Right to Repair bill that bans parts pairing completely. This went into effect on January 1, 2025. However, it is still allowed in the UK today.Its impossible to know what happens to every device thats snatched from its owner. But thanks to recent police raids, we know that most dont stay in London, and many end up overseas in Shenzhen, China, according to The Timesthe same place many of them are made. If criminals cant bypass any of the iPhones security features to wipe them clean, they are scrapped for parts and sold off to resellers and/or recycling plants.Apples control over iPhone repairs has created a paradox of sorts. With new Right to Repair laws popping up in places like Oregon and Colorado, Apples parts pairing policy is looking a little shaky. 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The smartphone-ification of cars continues to unleash new horrors of tech-inflected capitalism.Just ask Jeep drivers, who are suffering through an extremely intrusive way the automaker is pestering them to buy an extended warranty: pop-up ads that take up the entire infotainment screen of their vehicles, our sister site .In a post on the r/assholedesign subreddit last week, the owner of a 2022 Grand Cherokee complained about the intrusion, claiming the ads returned every time they came to a stop, "even if you hit ok." So, stop sign? Ad. Red light? Ad. Get cut off and hit the brakes? Hey, here's that warranty you didn't want!"Purchase Peace of Mind," the ad for Jeep's "Flexcare Extended Care Premium" plan reads, very much hogging all of the center console panel's real estate. How about some peace and quiet?Well, if it can connect to the internet, it can be an advertisement delivery system. And you bet that companies are going to take advantage of that. Maybe, just maybe, making every car dependent on a touch screen was a mistake.According to The Drive's sleuthing, it's not a new issue, with the earliest complaints cropping up two years ago. But here's the most baffling part: the owner claims they had already reached 36,000 miles driven in their Jeep the maximum limit the advertised warranty would cover. In other words, they were getting hounded for nothing. "I hit 36,000 miles last week," the owner said in a reply. "It started coming up yesterday."According to the Stellantis-owned automaker, the frequency of the ads wasn't intentional."This was an in-vehicle message designed to inform Jeep customers about Mopar extended vehicle care options," a Jeep spokesperson told The Drive in a statement. "A temporary software glitch affected the ability to instantly opt out in a few isolated cases, though instant opt-out is the standard for all our in-vehicle messages.""Our team had already identified and corrected the error, and we are following up directly with the customer to ensure the matter is fully resolved," the spokesperson added.Mistake or not, no one should be happy with the idea of their $40,000 vehicle asking you to spend even more money. But at this point, the genie is already out of the bottle. Competitors like Mercedes, for example, demand that you pay a pricy subscription to unlock their electric cars' full speed something that requires no physical modifications and only takes changing a setting somewhere in the vehicle's software.There is a way to permanently disable the ads. And no, it's not intuitive at all it's not even through the car. Nope: owners have to go the Jeep Connect website, The Drive found, make an account, link your car to the account, and explore a bunch of menus to finally reach the option to disable "in-vehicle notifications." Good luck explaining that to grandpa.More on dumb tech in cars: Europe Tells Automakers That Buttons and Knobs Are Safer Than TouchscreensShare This Article

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Marvel's Captain America: Brave New World marks the big-screen jump for Anthony Mackie's Sam Wilson taking center stage with the shield. The Falcon and the Winter Soldierlaid the foundation for the new film, and the last time we saw the hero he'd uncovered a plot about a super serum, made nice with bestie Bucky Barnes and fought off a group called the Flag Smashers.Brave New World introduces Harrison Ford as President Thaddeus Ross and sees Sam caught up in a foreign relations debacle while investigating a deeper, more sinister scheme with devastating effects. We know you've seen the trailer and at this point, may have already seen or plan to see the film. Marvel is known to drop scenes after the credits start rolling, and, to answer the question, yes, there is a single post-credits scene in Brave New World, and you must wait until all the credits are over to see it, and you can expect some teases with this vibranium-clad Captain America, too.If you haven't seen the movie, pause here.Spoilers ahead.Read more:The Hottest Movie Releases Coming in 2025 Marvel StudiosCaptain America: Brave New World post-credits sceneUnlike many Marvel movies, Brave New World has no mid-credit scenes; there's only one post-credits scene, and you have to wait until the absolute end to see it. So, what happens?After the brainiac villain Samuel Sterns turns himself in to ignite President Ross's inner Red Hulk, we don't see him for the rest of the film. Sam has a short conversation with Sterns in which he confidently tells him he will foil his plot. Then, Sam struts off as armed guards surround Sterns. The scientist is arrested and carted off to a cell in parts unknown while Sam suits up to fight Red Hulk Ross.In the minute-long post-credits scene, Sam walks up to a cell and says, "Told you you were gonna lose that bet," and we see Sterns sitting inside. They trade barbs, and then Sterns points out that they "share the same world, don't we? This world you would die to save." He ominously warns Sam, "It's coming. I've seen it in the probabilities."Sterns goes on to say that superheroes who are protecting this world think they're the only ones -- and believe this is the only world. With more menacing snark, he says you'll see what happens when you need to protect everyone from "the others." Marvel StudiosWhat could it mean?One thing to keep in mind here: We are still in the middle of Marvel's Multiverse Saga. That likely won't wrap up until Avengers: Secret Wars hits screens in 2027, so that means more Avengers, more timeline dizziness and more comic book storylines that involve interdimensional and intergalactic beings. Now, I could get into Thunderbolts stuff here because that movie is next in line, but I want to talk about the Avengers.Sterns' gamma-powered superintelligence allows him to see things with high levels of intuition, statistical probability and knowledge. With Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars in the pipeline, he may be hinting at the future appearance of beings called the Beyonders. I don't know this for sure, but in the comics, they sit on the fringes of the Multiverse outside of its scope.Like the Eternals, the Beyonders were created by the Celestials, and they have an appetite for destroying things. Think of Thanos' attitude of, "Let me wipe out the whole wack universe," but on a multiverse level. Not only is their story deeply connected to Doctor Doom, but they also have comic book ties to the High Evolutionary, Guardians of the Galaxy and the Fantastic Four's Reed Richards.If this is the group of "others" Sterns is alluding to (and perhaps the Molecule Men), fans should expect the next set of Marvel's Avengers movies to be a war for the survival of the multiverse -- and all the Avengers.Captain America: Brave New World is in theaters now, and the credits also let us know that he'll be back.

Prime Video has a lot to offer horror fans, from classic movies like American Psycho to more recent releases like Abigail. Ads are now a part of the streaming service, but if you'd prefer to watch your spooky content without commercial interruptions, you can pay an additional fee to remove them.Here are some highly rated horror films to satisfy your cravings. Dim the lights, grab the popcorn and enjoy your creepy feature. Universal Pictures Abigail (2024) Wild, gruesome and a lot of fun, this horror movie follows a group of kidnappers -- including a woman played by Melissa Barrera -- who discover a little too late their young captor is far from helpless. Paramount Pictures A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) Aliens that kill based on sound populated the worlds of the post-apocalyptic horror films A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place Part II. This spin-off prequel written and directed by Michael Sarnoski (John Krasinski helmed the originals) shows the creatures invading New York and stars Lupita Nyong'o and Joseph Quinn. Lionsgate American Psycho (2000) In case you haven't yet been introduced to well-groomed investment banker Patrick Bateman, it's time to pull out your business card and get acquainted. Elements of dark comedy, thriller and horror are on display in this film, a satire of late '80s excess that stars Christian Bale as a wealthy young professional with murderous hobbies. Totally Killer (2023) Want to revisit the '80s? Kiernan Shipka time travels to the decade and takes on a killer in this new Prime Video slasher comedy. Randall Park and Julie Bowen also make appearances. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre/YouTube The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Five friends cross paths with cannibalistic monsters -- including the chain saw-wielding Leatherface -- in this 1974 film directed by Tobe Hooper. The influential horror movie will thrill and disturb you. Amazon Studios Nanny (2022) Nanny is an increasingly unnerving movie about a mother working in the US and separated from her son in Senegal, whom she hopes will soon join her. The powerful, chillingfilm -- led by a captivating Anna Diop -- takes viewers through her difficult, haunting wait. Universal Candyman (2021) Jordan Peele and Nia DaCosta are at the helm of this gripping slasher. A sequel to the 1992 film of the same name, Candyman tackles issues such as gentrification and police brutality. Prepare for blood, swarming bees and people making the unfortunate decision to recite Candyman's name in front of a mirror. Candyman is available to watch for free with ads. Amazon Suspiria (2018) If you like your horror films interspersed with a bit of contemporary dance (and who wouldn't!), then Suspiria is definitely the one for you. It tells the story of a supernatural dance academy run by a coven of witches and features themes like motherhood, guilt and abuse of power. An homage to the original 1977 film, Suspiria stars Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton. Amazon Prime Coherence (2014) Coherence is a huge favorite here at CNETand it's a terrifying watch. Not necessarily in the traditional, gory, horrific sense but more in terms of the concepts. It's a multiverse movie released before multiverses were cool and is not what you expect. Coherence is the kind of movie you'll finish and immediately rewatch to try to rewire your brain. It's a fantastic achievement and amust watch. Related stories

DOGEs Genius Coders Launch Website So Full Of Holes, Anyone Can Write To Itfrom the this-would-get-an-intern-at-a-coffee-shop-fired deptFri, Feb 14th 2025 09:25am - Mike MasnickIf you want to write something on the U.S. governments official DOGE website, apparently you can just do that. Not in the usual way of submitting comments through a form, mind you, but by directly injecting content into their database. This seems suboptimal.The story here is that DOGE Elon Musks collection of supposed coding geniuses brought in to disrupt government inefficiency finally launched their official website. And what they delivered is a masterclass in how not to build government infrastructure. One possibility is that theyre brilliant disruptors breaking all the rules to make things better. Another possibility is that they have no idea what theyre doing.The latter seems a lot more likely.Last week, it was reported that the proud racist 25-year-old Marko Elez had been given admin access and was pushing untested code to the US governments $6 trillion/year payment system. While the Treasury Department initially claimed (including in court filings!) that Elez had read-only access, others reported he had write access. After those reports came out, the Treasury Dept. corrected itself and said Elez had been accidentally given write privileges for the payments database, but only for the data, not the code. Still, they admitted that while they had put in place some security protections, its possible that Elez did copy some private data which may have occasionally included screenshots of payment systems data or records.Yikes?Now, you might think that having a racist twenty-something with admin access to trillion-dollar payment systems would concern people. But Musks defenders had a compelling counterargument: he must be a genius! Because well, because Musk hired him, and Musk only hires geniuses. Or so were told.The DOGE teams actual coding prowess is turning out to be quite something. First, they decided that government transparency meant hiding everything from FOIA requests. When questioned about this interesting interpretation of transparency, Musk explained that actually DOGE was being super transparent by putting everything on their website and ExTwitter account.There was just one small problem with this explanation. At the time he said it, the DOGE website looked like this:That was it. That was the whole website.On Thursday, they finally launched a real website. Sort of. If by real website you mean a collection of already-public information presented in misleading ways by people who dont seem to understand what theyre looking at. But thats not even the interesting part.These supposed technical geniuses managed to build what might be the least secure government website in history. Lets start with something basic: where does the website actually live? According to Wired, the source code actually tells search engines that ExTwitter, not DOGE.gov, is the real home of this government information:A WIRED review of the pages source code shows that the promotion of Musks own platform went deeper than replicating the posts on the homepage. The source code shows that the sites canonical tags direct search engines to x.com rather than DOGE.gov.A canonical tag is a snippet of code that tells search engines what the authoritative version of a website is. It is typically used by sites with multiple pages as a search engine optimization tactic, to avoid their search ranking being diluted.In DOGEs case, however, the code is informing search engines that when people search for content found on DOGE.gov, they should not show those pages in search results, but should instead display the posts on X.It is promoting the X account as the main source, with the website secondary, Declan Chidlow, a web developer, tells WIRED. This isnt usually how things are handled, and it indicates that the X account is taking priority over the actual website itself.If youre not a web developer, heres what that means: When you build a website, you can tell search engines hey, if you find copies of this content elsewhere, this version here is the real one. Its like telling Google if someone copied my site, mine is the original.But DOGE did the opposite. They told search engines actually, ExTwitter has the real version of this government information. Our government website is just a copy. Which is an interesting choice for a federal agency? Its a bit like the Treasury Department saying dont look at our official reports, just check Elons tweets.You might think that a government agency directing people away from its official website and toward the private company of its leader would raise some conflict-of-interest concerns. And youd be right!But wait, it gets better. Or worse. Actually, yeah, its worse.Who built this government website? Through some sloppy coding, security researcher Sam Curry figured out it was DOGE employee Kyle Shutt. The same Kyle Shutt who, according to Drop Site News, has admin access to the FEMA payments system. The same Kyle Shutt who used the exact same Cloudflare ID to build Musks America PAC Trump campaign website. Because why maintain separate secure credentials for government systems and political campaigns when you can just not do that?But the real cherry on top came Thursday when people discovered something amazing about the DOGE site database: anyone can write to it. Not anyone with proper credentials. Not anyone who passes security checks. Just anyone. As 404 Media reported, if you know basic database operations, you too can be a government website administrator:The doge.gov website that was spun up to track Elon Musks cuts to the federal government is insecure and pulls from a database that can be edited by anyone, according to two separate people who found the vulnerability and shared it with 404 Media. One coder added at least two database entries that are visible on the live site and say this is a joke of a .gov site and THESE EXPERTS LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN -roro.While I imagine those will be taken down shortly, for now, the insertions are absolutely visible:Look, theres a reason we called this whole thing a cyberattack. When someone takes over your computer systems and leaves them wide open to anyone who wants to mess with them, we usually dont call that disruption or innovation. We call it a cybersecurity breach.Feels like it was completely slapped together, they added. Tons of errors and details leaked in the page source code.Both sources said that the way the site is set up suggests that it is not running on government servers.Basically, doge.gov has its codebase, probably through GitHub or something, the other developer who noticed the insecurity said. Theyre deploying the website on Cloudflare Pages from their codebase, and doge.gov is a custom domain that their pages.dev URL is set to. So rather than having a physical server or even something like Amazon Web Services, theyre deploying using Cloudflare Pages which supports custom domains.Heres the thing about government computer systems: Theyre under constant attack from foreign adversaries. Yes, they can be inefficient. Yes, they can be bloated. But you know what else they usually are? Not completely exposed to the entire internet. It turns out that some of that inefficient bureaucracy involves basic things like security and not letting random people write whatever they want in federal databases.This isnt some startup where move fast and break things is a viable strategy. This is the United States government. And its been handed over to people whose main qualification appears to be posts spicy memes on 4chan. The implications go far beyond embarrassing database injections this level of technical negligence in federal systems creates genuine national security concerns. When your disruption involves ignoring decades of hard-learned lessons about government systems security, youre not innovating youre inviting disaster.Companies: twitter, x