Across U.S. politics, its become fashionable to blame nearly all the internets ills on one law I co-wrote: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Everyone from President Donald Trump to some of my Democratic colleagues argue that Section 230 has let major tech platforms moderate too much or too little. Trumps Federal Communications Commission chairman, Brendan Carr, has already written about his plans to reinterpret the law himself.Many of these claims give Section 230 too much credit. While its a cornerstone of internet speech, its a lesser support compared to the First Amendment, as well as Americans own choices in what they want to see online. But Im convinced the law is just as necessary today as when I co-wrote it with Rep. Chris Cox in 1996.Trump attacked Section 230 in his first stint as president. In his second, his administration is already using its power to pressure TV stations, newspapers, and social media companies to bow to his will. Major tech platforms with deep-pocketed legal teams seem happy to accommodate Trump and other government censors, as long as theyre allowed to keep raking in billions by selling targeted ads and scooping up Americans private information. And without Section 230, potential competitors will stand little chance of getting off the ground.Just look at Bluesky, which has gained millions of users in only a few months as people flee X. Without Section 230, anyone aggrieved by a decision from Blueskys nascent moderation team could initiate a devastating lawsuit on any number of claims, smothering it in legal fees even if it won. The next upstart may never launch at all leaving users with no alternatives to the government-favored Big Tech cartel.Critics of Section 230 often charge that the internet has fundamentally changed in the past three decades. Yet the bills 26 key words were written to address the same challenges we face today: keeping kids safe online, leveling the playing field between entrenched corporate interests and small innovators, and ensuring that individuals not the government control what we see online.Heres how they came to be. In 1995, Chris Cox and I had a standing weekly lunch in a small space near the official House dining room. Nobody batted an eye at a conservative House member from Orange County, California and a liberal Congressman from Portland, Oregon hashing out ideas back then except, maybe, when someone wandered by and heard us talking about the internet. Its hard to overemphasize how strange the Internet was in 1995. Only about 20 million people in the U.S. had access to it. There were only some 100,000 websites (today, there are more than 2 billion) and todays most popular Internet destinations did not exist.To both of us, the internet looked like a lifeline for our districts. Oregons economy was booming with a vital forest products sector, but I knew my state needed to attract new industries. Chriss district had been a center of the aerospace industry for decades, but the end of the Cold War had battered the sectory. The Internet was one of the hottest new markets to develop in years, according to Morgan Stanley a line that hastened the heartbeats of two young Congressmen who wanted good, new jobs in their districts.Congress was in the midst of a much-needed overhaul to the Communications Act of 1934, which regulated the telephone industry and broadcast spectrum. Most legislators embraced this as an opportunity to eliminate stifling regulatory constraints. But where Chris and I sawBut where some of us saw economic growth in the internet, others saw something else: pornography.As the new communications law was being debated in 1995, a censorious senior member of the U.S. Senate, James Exon from Nebraska, read a prayer into the Congressional Record that asked Almighty God for the wisdom to create regulations aimed at controlling the pollution of computer communications. Exon proposed a separate bill to ban obscene, indecent, and destructive content from the Internet. Called the Communications Decency Act, it intended to prevent anyone under the age of 18 from encountering any comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image or other communication that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs. Not only would the writers and producers and posters of such indecencies face fines or jail, so would websites and internet service providers that allowed access.The CDA would have strangled the internet in its cradle. Exon figured if the government had used FCC licensing and the so-called fairness doctrine to regulate broadcast speech for decades, regulating internet speech should work as well. But there were some 15,000 radio stations and 1,700 TV stations in the U.S. at the time, and only a handful of national networks. On the internet, as Chris wrote in a later retrospective, the number of content creatorseach a broadcaster, as it werewas the same as the number of users. It would soon expand from hundreds of millions to billions.Even back then, Chris and I both understood that it was physically impossible for the government, the service providers, or the platforms to pre-screen the avalanche of internet content for anything indecent. Exons proposal was a recipe for vast, new, intrusive, and ultimately ineffective government bureaucracies. Whats more, a pair of recent legal decisions had created a worrying precedent. They effectively punished internet portals the closest thing to Facebook or TikTok for trying to remove the exact kind of indecent content Exon and other lawmakers feared.That didnt matter to the U.S. Senate, where fewer than half the Senators then had email. Exons bill passed 8416. Our colleagues in the House werent much betterbarely a quarter had email - and we were pretty sure they were going to support the proposal. Who wanted to appear weak on porn?We needed an idea that threaded a lot of needles. It needed to be big, but simple. It needed to appeal not just to both political parties, but to conservative and liberal factions within each party. The idea I offered to Chris was to create a liability shield that blended conservative and liberal concepts. From Republican orthodoxy, we would write a law that sidestepped Big Government and be 100 percent tilted in favor of parental control over childrens Internet consumption. From the liberal Democrat side, our law would block Government censorship of speech and be uncompromisingly pro-user privacy.We captured these elements in the name we attached to our bill: the Internet Freedom and Family Empowerment Act.Some critics of Section 230 claim its granted special rights to internet platforms. Yet at its heart our proposal simply applied four long-standing principles and rights to the internet.First, a distributor is not a publisher. My wife Nancy Bass Wyden is the third-generation owner of the fabled New York bookstore the Strand. The Strand offers 2.5 million book titles over 18 miles of shelves, but it isnt the publisher of a single one of them. Chris and I wanted to clarify that the same relationship existed between websites and individual creators who posted there.Second, distribution of content is as protected as the creation of content. Governments not only have no authority to ban a publisher from printing a book, they have no authority to prevent a bookstore from carrying it. Chris Cox and I considered that a perfect analogy to the peril facing online sites that accepted user postings, and we wanted to make it clear that Internet content creators and their distributors had the same protections as people working in print or radio or film.Third, distributors have the right to determine what content they will carry or not carry, as well as the conditions in which they carry or promote content, and that those decisions do not make them publishers. Fourth, only the actual speaker, writer, or publisher of content is accountable for that content. Can people be libeled or defamed on the Internet? Absolutely. Can innocent parties be injured by misinformation, disinformation, or careless errors? No question. Can the legal system provide recourse? You bet: the same recourse available to people who claim harm from content in other media.Chris Coxs and my main goal was to give the Internet the same underlying principles of both freedom and responsibility that other media had. Best of all (we thought then, and I still think it now) we rendered these principles in the simplest way we couldwith 26 carefully chosen words:No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by an information content provider.Internet pornographers who illegally targeted kids, or people who defamed and harassed others, were still subject to every hammer the law could bring down on them. But that hammer wouldnt pound the Internet platforms and service providers.We made it very clear to members of the House that they faced a choice: They could empower parents to filter the content that their kids could access, or they could set up a Big Brotherstyle censorship program with thousands of Government employees using hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to screen and approve every piece of content before it made its way onto the World Wide Web.Our bills fate was an anti-climax but a welcome one. It passed the House 4204. A few months later, the Supreme Court unanimously declared most of Exons Communications Decency Act unconstitutional. Only our 26-word provision, still called CDA Section 230, survived.What Chris Cox and I saw in a nation without Section 230 was a media and tech world that would continue to be dominated by the giant gatekeepers who had ruled their industries for the better part of the 20th centurya world where hosting a website would require a legion of lawyers that would become the new barrier to entry that kept the media in the hands of the few. The law Cox and I wrote was an affirmation of the right to publish free speech in this technology-enabled world. We were well aware of the old A. J. Liebling adage, Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. We wanted to continue to guarantee that freedom in the new world where everyone owns a press that they carry in their pocket.Adapted from It Takes Chutzpah. Copyright 2025 Ron Wyden. Published by Grand Central Publishing, a Hachette Book Group company. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.See More:

Godot 4.4 Gets Jiggle Physics / News, Tutorials / March 10, 2025 / Godot, TutorialGodot 4.4 was just released, a release I referred to as my favorite release yet. Among the many new features of Godot 4.4 is the addition of what is known colloquially as jiggle physics. In practical terms its the ability to take a chain of bones in a Skeleton3D and make them wiggle. This is implemented using the new SpringBoneSimulator3D node.To create jiggle physics in Godot 4.4, first you need a 3D object with a Skeleton3D applied with several bones. Then add a SpringBoneSimulator3D node as a child of the Skeleton3D node like so:With the SpringBoneSimulator3D node selected, in the Inspector click add element.Now expand out the Settings and select the Root Bone and End Bone from the skeleton. These two values represent the start and end point of the bone chain that will be wiggled.And presto jiggle physics. There are of course several settings you can use to control the way the bones wiggle controlling aspects such as gravity, drag, radius and stiffness. You can also keyframe all of the values over time as part of your animation. You can additionally apply multiple SpringBoneSimulator3D nodes to a single skeleton.Key LinksGodot 4.4 ReleaseSpringBoneSimulator GItHub Project PageGodot POLYGON BundleGodot Supernova Bundle (Use Code SN80 for MASSIVE savings)Best of Synty #4 Humble BundleYou can learn more about jiggle physics in Godot 4.4 using the SpringBoneSimulator3D node in the video below. Using other links on this page helps support GFS (and thanks so much if you do!).

March 10 is a big day for Nintendo. That's because it's MAR10 Day! Clever, right? In celebration of Mario, there's a variety of deals and drops on games and items related to the jumping plumber for Nintendo fans to check out. This ranges from LEGO sets to toys to games and so much more. We've included just a few of our favorite discounts from the sales below, but they only scratch the surface of what's out there right now.Retailers including Best Buy, GameStop, Target, Walmart, and of course, the Nintendo eShop are all participating in MAR10 Day with different deals. Have a look through the sales below to see what catches your eye before the discounts disappear.MAR10 Day 2025 Deals on Nintendo Switch GamesBest Buy MAR10 Day DealsSee it at Best BuyIf there are any Nintendo Switch games you've been meaning to pick up lately, now's a good time. Lots of Switch games (in both physical and digital formats) are on sale right now for MAR10 Day, including, of course, plenty of Mario games. Click on your retailer of choice to see what's discounted. Notably, Amazon must be feuding with Nintendo these days, because it usually doesn't carry first-party Switch games anymore.MAR10 Day 2025: Preorder the LEGO Mario Kart SetOut May 15LEGO Mario Kart Mario & Standard KartSee it at LEGO StoreOne of the best MAR10 Day treats today is this Mario Kart LEGO set, which is up for preorder and priced at $169.99,Mario LEGO Sets on Sale for MAR10 DayLEGO - Super Mario Piranha Plant Building Set for Adults 71426LEGO - Super Mario Goombas Playground, Super Mario Toys and Playset 71433LEGO - Super Mario Adventures with Interactive Peach Princess Toy 71441LEGO - Super Mario Bowsers Muscle Car Expansion Set 71431LEGO - Super Mario Soda Jungle Maker Set, Wiggler Toy and Mario Playset 71434LEGO - Super Mario Adventures with Interactive Luigi Toy, Nintendo Gift 71440LEGO - Super Mario Battle with Roy at Peachs Castle Playset and Mario Toy 71435Outside of the preorder above for the brand new Mario Kart LEGO set, there are plenty more great Mario LEGO set deals happening today. We've included some of the best options from Best Buy's sale above, including the LEGO Piranha Plant and Bowsers Muscle Car Expansion Set.Mario Plush Toys on Sale for MAR10 DayClub Mocchi- Mocchi- Nintendo Super Mario Plush - Mushroom PlushieClub Mocchi Mocchi Mario Kart Plushies - Spiny Shell PlushieTomy Nuiguru Knit Kirby Plush - Sleeping Kirby PlushieClub Mocchi- Mocchi- Nintendo Super Mario Plush - 1Up Mushroom PlushieThere's also an adorable selection of plush toys discounted for MAR10 Day, including a red mushroom plushie and a ridiculously cute knit Kirby plushie. If you've been looking to pick up sweet stuffed toys for your collectible collection, or to snuggle, these are absolutely worth a look today.If you're on the hunt for more Switch deals, it's worth checking out our dedicated roundup of the best Nintendo Switch deals. This features some exciting discounts on everything from games to hardware to accessories so you can save on a variety of items for your preferred platform. Or, if you'd like to see what deals are happening on other consoles, check out our breakdowns of the best PlayStation deals and the best Xbox deals.Hannah Hoolihan is a freelancer who writes with the guides and commerce teams here at IGN.

While Resident Evil may have started as a video game franchise with some of the best zombie games, Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich helped bring the series to the big screen with a film series that spanned seven movies. The films feature characters and villains from the games, but they tell their own separate stories and star Jovovich as a newcomer to Resident Evil lore. It's one of the best zombie movie franchises out there.With a new Resident Evil movie reboot in the works, you might want to check out where the video game adaptations started off. If you want to watch all the Resident Evil movies in chronological order from the beginning, we have some very good news for you. All the films serve as sequels to their previous entries, meaning there is no difference between watching them in release order vs. chronological order. With all that being said, here's a (mostly) spoiler-free look at how you can watch the Resident Evil movies in chronological order.Jump to:The Resident Evil Movies in (Chronological) OrderHow Many Resident Evil Movies Are There?There are a total of seven live-action Resident Evil movies, but only the first six are part of the original timeline. There are also four feature-length animated films Resident Evil: Degeneration, Damnation, Vendetta, and Death Island though we have not included those in the list below. Over the last two years, Netflix has taken a stab at Resident Evil as both a live-action and animated TV series. The live-action Resident Evil show was canceled after one season, while the animated series, Infinite Darkness, failed to make a splash.4K UHD + Blu-RayResident Evil: 6-Film CollectionSee it at AmazonHow Long to Watch all of the Resident Evil Movies?If you're looking to watch all 6 of the original Resident Evil movies, it will take over 9 and a half hour to finish the series. If you include Welcome to Raccoon City, that ads a an additional 107 minutes to your movie marathon.Where Does Resident Evil: Death Island Fit on the Timeline?The most recent film in the Resident Evil franchise is Resident Evil: Death Island - a computer animated film that released in 2023 - and you may be wondering where it fits on the timeline. Well, it's a sequel to Resident Evil: Vendetta (which took place in 2014) and is set in 2015, which places it between Resident Evil 6 (set in 2013) and Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (set in 2017).Read our review of Resident Evil: Death IslandThe Resident Evil Movies in Chronological Order1. Resident Evil (2002)2002s Resident Evil introduced the world to Alice (Jovovich), an original character created for the films who awakens with amnesia before remembering she is a private security operative for the Umbrella Corporation. This first film shows how the genetically engineered T-virus, which causes dead people to return as zombies, was released in a lab called The Hive. It also reveals how the labs AI security system, the Red Queen, killed every living thing inside the lab to try to contain the virus. The plan didnt work and the zombies escaped the lab. Alice and her team have to try to contain the outbreak by finding an anti-virus that is thought to still be in the Hive. This first film included several references to the first two Resident Evil games, not the least of which was the first tease of the iconic Resident Evil 3 villain, the terrifying, rocket-wielding Nemesis. Read our review of Resident Evil.Where to WatchPowered by2. Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)Resident Evil: Apocalypse is a direct sequel to the original film and brings back Jovovichs Alice to once again take the fight to the undead. Resident Evil director Paul W.S. Anderson did not return to direct this new film due to other commitments, but he did stay on as a producer while Alexander Witt took the helm. Apocalypse sees Alice attempting to escape Raccoon City before it is attacked by a nuclear missile that is attempting to stop the spreading T-virus plague. Nemesis is also a big part of this second film and hes seen terrorizing the survivors throughout it, but that is hardly the only nod to the games. There are many influences pulled into Apocalypse, including characters Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory) and Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr) and certain shots that were recreated for live-action, including a shootout at police department in the beginning that is reminiscent of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis and a scene in a cemetery that very much harkens back to Resident Evil CODE: Veronica.Read our review of Resident Evil: Apocalypse.Resident Evil: ApocalypseScreen GemsSep 10, 2004RWhere to WatchPowered by3. Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)2007s Resident Evil: Extinction reveals that the T-virus has spread across the world. In addition to the return of Alice, the storyline also follows several attempts by the Umbrella Corporation to clone her, in hopes of replicating her powers. As the story progresses, the primary Alice and other survivors are working their way toward Alaska in an attempt to outrun the ever-expanding zombie apocalypse.Extinction continues to bring in more aspects and characters of the games, including Claire Redfield (Ali Larter) and Albert Wesker (Jason OMara). Read our review of Resident Evil: Extinction.Resident Evil: ExtinctionImpact PicturesSep 21, 2007Where to WatchPowered by4. Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)Resident Evil: Afterlife is the first film after the original to see Anderson back in the directors chair, where he stays for the rest of the series. Set one year after the events of Extinction, Alice and her clones work together to assault Umbrella Headquarters HQ and Albert Wesker. Unfortunately, all doesnt go as planned and Alice finds herself without the powers that have assisted her so well in this zombie apocalypse.Afterlife continues the streak of bringing in characters from the games, and this time it's Chris Redfield (Wentworth Miller) that gets the invitation. Read our review of Resident Evil: Afterlife.Resident Evil: AfterlifeScreen GemsSep 10, 2010Where to WatchPowered by5. Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)2011s Resident Evil: Retribution picks up after the events of Afterlife. Alongside introducing such game characters as Leon S. Kennedy (Johann Urb), Ada Wong (Bingbing Li), and Barry Burton (Kevin Durand), Retribution also sees Alice teaming up with Wesker in an attempt to stop the reactivated Red Queen AI from the first film, who now controls Umbrella and wants to eliminate all life on earth. Read our review of Resident Evil: Retribution.Resident Evil: RetributionImpact PicturesSep 14, 2012Where to WatchPowered by6. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2017)The aptly named Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is the last feature film in the series to involve husband-and-wife team Anderson and Jovovich. It follows Alice as she returns to Raccoon City and the Hive in order to stop the Red Queen and Albert Wesker, but also reveals more of the origin of the T-virus and who is really behind all the chaos that has been building since the first film.Read our review of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter.Resident Evil: The Final ChapterImpact PicturesJan 27, 2017Where to WatchPowered byBonus: Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)Directed by Johannes Roberts,Read our review of Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.Where to WatchPowered byResident Evil Movies in Order of ReleaseResident Evil (2002)Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)Resident Evil: Death Island (2023)The Future of Resident Evil MoviesPlayAlthough Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City wasn't received particularly well by audiences, rumors have been swirling for years about another movie. Those rumors were finally confirmed in January, with Barbarian director Zach Cregger set to direct the newest instalment. Instead of carrying on the existing movie timeline, the currently untitled movie will reboot the Resident Evil movie franchise. Deadline reports that Sony has also set a release date for the film: September 18, 2026. More Movie Watch Lists:Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

When rumors about the iPhone 17 Air started circulating, it sounded a lot like an Ultra model. But as new details emerged, the Air name made more sense. Recent rumors about a different iPhone model, however, have me thinking we could get an iPhone 17 Ultra this year after allbut in a different way than expected.Three rumors indicate the iPhone 17 Pro Max may not be what we expectThe more rumors weve seen emerge about the iPhone 17 Pro Max, the more Ive started to think Apple is preparing for an Ultra rebrand.Most years, the iPhone Pro and Pro Max models are largely identical apart from screen size. The Pro Max always has a slight battery advantage too, but thats intrinsic to its size.Occasionally, the Pro Max will get a camera feature a year ahead of its smaller Pro sibling, but thats hit or miss. For example, the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max have no feature differences at all.But more rumors keep emerging about the iPhone 17 Pro Max being differentiated from the 17 Pro.For example, the 17 Pro Max has long been predicted to come with a narrowed Dynamic Island. This is due to a special metalens technology which could help shrink the necessary Face ID components.iPhone 17 Pro Max may also exclusively feature a vapor chamber cooling system plus graphite sheet.These two rumors alone did little to make me think an Ultra rebrand was coming. But the most recent one very much did.According to leaker Ice Universe, Apple will make its iPhone 17 Pro Max substantially thicker than its predecessor. Per the leak, that means the following dimensions:iPhone 17 Pro Max: 8.725mmiPhone 16 Pro Max: 8.25mmThis change is reportedly being made to accommodate a larger battery inside the new model.And its this rumored change that inspired me to consider the likelihood of an iPhone 17 Ultra name change.iPhone 17 Pro Max could actually be the first iPhone UltraOn the surface, making the iPhone 17 Pro Max thickerwhich naturally will make it heavier tooseems especially strange in a year the iPhone 17 Air will launch.When your Pro line is facing competition from an ultra-thin new iPhone, why would you then make those Pro models even thicker?Only if you want to further differentiate the Pro line.Except per this rumor, the standard 17 Pro will not get these same changes. Its expected to stay the same size as before, same weight, same battery life, and so on.The 17 Pro Max, however, is leaning hard in the opposite direction.It will be differentiated not only from the 17 Air, but also more than ever from the 17 Pro.Which made me think of the Apple Watch Ultra, and how much it contrasts with the Apple Watch Series 10.Apple Watch Series 10 is significantly thinner than before, has a beautiful large display, and a lot of other features going for itwhereas the Apple Watch Ultra is purposely thicker, heavier, more rugged, and boasts significantly better battery life.This playbook looks a lot like what Apple is planning for the new Pro Max model, as compared to the 17 Air and even the 17 Pro.In other words, it sounds a lot like we might be getting the first ever iPhone Ultra this year.iPhone 17 Ultra would streamline lineupIf Apple rebrands its iPhone 17 Pro Max as the iPhone 17 Ultra, we could see the following streamlined lineup this fall:iPhone 17iPhone 17 AiriPhone 17 ProiPhone 17 UltraiPhone 17 would be the standard entry model. It would have the latest features at the lowest price.iPhone 17 Air would sacrifice extra cameras, power, and battery life for a slimmer, ultra-thin design.iPhone 17 Pro would boast the more powerful A19 Pro chip, three rear cameras, and other Pro features.And finally the iPhone 17 Ultra would offer by far the best battery life in the lineup, and the best display thanks to a smaller Dynamic Island. It would be a hefty model for users who just want the most possible iPhone.To me, this lineup makes a ton of sense. It also sounds like the most compelling new iPhone lineup in years. The 17 Air will be exciting for a variety of reasons, but so too would the high-end Ultra model. And all of this would make it easy for Apple to raise prices, as I expect it to do.Do you think Apple will use the iPhone 17 Ultra name? Why or why not? Let us know in the comments.Best iPhone accessoriesAdd 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

This mornings best Apple deals are marked by the return of Amazon all-time low pricing on the latest AirPods 4 that dropped back to $100 this past weekend alongside the ANC set at $149 and the ongoing deal on AirPods Pro 2 down at $170. Next we move over to the MacBook Air we have already detailed how to score up to $650 off the new M4 model with a trade-in, but Amazon is now delivering clearance pricing on 16GB and 24GB M3 models at up to $600 off the original price. Those offers join straight up cash deals with no trade needed on the brand-new iPad (A16) and the return of all-time low pricing on the official navy Apple Alpine Loop.All of that and more awaits below in todays 9to5Toys Lunch Break. more

In a series of strange remarks, president Donald Trump posited that the stranded Starliner astronauts, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, may have fallen in love during their extended stay on the International Space Station."Theyve been left up there I hope they like each other, maybe they love each other, I dont know," Trump told reporters during an Oval Office press conference. "But theyve been left up there. Think of it."Along with blaming former president Joe Biden and saying his predecessor was "embarrassed" that the Boeing Starliner mission went awry and ended up stranding the two NASA astronauts, Trump also made some bizarre quips about Williams' looks."And I see the woman with the wild hair, good, solid hair shes got," the president riffed. "Theres no kidding, theres no games with her hair."Unfortunately, this is not the first time Williams' appearance has been the subject of public scrutiny. Back in November, she was forced to hit back against armchair physicians suggesting she had lost an unhealthy amount of weight in space and appeared "gaunt," as she pointed out that zero-gravity environments makes the fluid in one's body shift."I'm the same weight that I was when I got up here," Williams said from the Space Station.Thus far, the record-setting female astronaut hasn't yet responded to Trump's weird rejoinders about her looks but Wilmore, her fellow stranded ISS-er, replied to unelected official Elon Musk's claim that the pair could have been brought home sooner.A few days ahead of the president's Oval Office comments, Musk reiterated during an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan his oft-insisted claim that he had offered to bring Williams and Wilmore back to Earth "early" and thatthe Biden administration rejected that bid because "there's no way that they're going to make anyone who's supporting Trump look good."While insisting that "politics is not playing into this at all," the astronaut said that he and Williams had been given "no information whatsoever" about the negotiations for their return and suggested that he has no reason to think Musk is lying."Thats information that we simply dont have," Wilmore said, "so I believe him."The takeaway from all this word salad? It's hard to say except that Trump doesn't seem to know the first thing about NASA or space itself.More on astronauts: NASA Astronaut Taunts Elon Musk for CowardiceShare This Article

The Space Force's top-secret X-37B spaceplane has landed after spending well over a year orbiting the Earth.The enigmatic space plane launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in December 2023. What exactly it did while circling the planet without a crew on board for the next 434 days, its seventh flight to date, remains mostly a mystery.In a vaguely-worded statement, the Space Force revealed that "Mission 7 accomplished a range of test and experimentation objectives intended to demonstrate the X-37Bs robust maneuver capability while helping characterize the space domain through the testing of space domain awareness technology experiments."Last month, the Space Force published a photo showing the side of the spacecraft with a distant Earth looming in the background, demonstrating its highly elliptical orbit. In October, the military branch announced X-37B would be performing a series of "aerobraking" maneuvers to slow itself down while clipping through the upper reaches of the atmosphere.Apart from saving fuel, the Space Force said it also managed to use the technique to descend to a low-Earth orbit. Put simply, the space plane appears to have successfully "belly flopped" through the upper reaches of the atmosphere to slow itself down."The successful execution of the aerobraking maneuver underscores the US Space Forces commitment to pushing the bounds of novel space operations in a safe and responsible manner," said chief of space operations Chance Saltzman in a statement.X-37B program director Blaine Stewart called the conclusion of the plane's latest flight an "exciting new chapter in the X-37B program.""Considered together, they mark a significant milestone in the ongoing development of the US Space Forces dynamic mission capability," he added.According to the military branch, the "space domain awareness technology experiments" the plane conducted during its most recent flight were meant to address the issue of an "increasingly congested and contested environment of space."In other words, it's possible the plane was scanning the space around it for errant pieces of space junk and other objects to avoid a collision.Apart from slowing itself down using the Earth's atmosphere, the X-37B has previously tested beaming solar power from space and thermal protection systems, as Space.com reported last month.While 434 days is a considerable amount of time, the X-37B spent more than twice that during its sixth flight between May 2020 and November 2022.More on the space plane: Space Force Releases Photo of Earth Taken by Experimental Space PlaneShare This Article

Mar 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / MalwareCybersecurity researchers have demonstrated a novel technique that allows a malicious web browser extension to impersonate any installed add-on."The polymorphic extensions create a pixel perfect replica of the target's icon, HTML popup, workflows and even temporarily disables the legitimate extension, making it extremely convincing for victims to believe that they are providing credentials to the real extension," SquareX said in a report published last week.The harvested credentials could then be abused by the threat actors to hijack online accounts and gain unauthorized access to sensitive personal and financial information. The attack affects all Chromium-based web browsers, including Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Opera, and others.The approach banks on the fact that users commonly pin extensions to the browser's toolbar. In a hypothetical attack scenario, threat actors could publish a polymorphic extension to the Chrome Web Store (or any extension marketplace) and disguise it as a utility.While the add-on provides the advertised functionality so as to not arouse any suspicion, it activates the malicious features in the background by actively scanning for the presence of web resources that correlate to specific target extensions using a technique called web resource hitting.Once a suitable target extension is identified, the attack moves to the next stage, causing it to morph into a replica of the legitimate extension. This is accomplished by changing the rogue extension's icon to match that of the target and temporarily disabling the actual add-on via the "chrome.management" API, which leads to it being removed from the toolbar."The polymorphic extension attack is extremely powerful as it exploits the human tendency to rely on visual cues as a confirmation," SquareX said. "In this case, the extension icons on a pinned bar are used to inform users of the tools they are interacting with."The findings come a month after the company also disclosed another attack method called Browser Syncjacking that makes it possible to seize control of a victim's device by means of a seemingly innocuous browser extension.Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post.SHARE

Of all theplatitudesabout art, the one Im most skeptical of is they dont make em like they used to.On some level, they dont. Movies used to be silent; they used to be black and white; they used to be recorded and then projected on strips of celluloid film. None of that is true anymore. They dont makeanything like they used to; not cars, not Coca-Cola, and not movies.But when people say they dont make em like they used to, they dont mean technologically. Theyre talking about quality, and insisting in some mythic past that Hollywood produced one hit after another. Thats simply inaccurate. There were great films in past, and there are great films today.Sure, there are more superhero films than ever before, and occasionally the glut of big budget, CGI-drenched blockbusters gets a little tiresome. However, that doesnt mean there arent great movies out there. If anything, there aremore great movies and more places to watch great movies than ever before.To prove it, here is a short list of ten absolute masterpieces released in just the last ten years. There are no qualifications or asterisks necessary for any of these; every single one is a five-star modern classic. Some are made by the studios and major directors who have been working for decades; others are independents and early works by emerging filmmakers who are just getting their start. They show that the movies are alive and well.If they didnt used to make them like this, were actually better for it.The 10 Best Movies of the Last 10 Years (2015-2024)Our film critic picks the ten best films of the last ten years.READ MORE: The Worst Movies That Made $1 BillionGet our free mobile appThe Worst Comedy Movies Ever, According to LetterboxdAccording to the users of the social media movie website Letterboxd, these are the worst comedies ever made.