Wednesday, July 9, 2025

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Son of Stuxnet?

Photo: Getty Images (Getty Images)It certainly looks like Israel just cyber attacked Iran again. Authorities with the Islamic Republic are claiming that a blackout at one of the nation’s top nuclear facilities is the result of Israeli sabotage, and an Israeli media outlet has similarly claimed that the attack may have been the work of…

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Former CDC Director Under Trump Now Promoting Unproven Virus-Killing Tech for ‘Big Ass Fans’

Photo: Tasos Katopodis (Getty Images)The former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under Donald Trump, Dr. Robert Redfield, has landed a sweet gig at…Big Ass Fans.Per Kaiser Health News (KHN), Redfield is now a strategic health and safety adviser for the company, effectively lending his scientific reputation to Big Ass Fans and…

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Watch NASA Mission Control as They Attempt First Helicopter Flight on Mars

The Ingenuity helicopter standing on the surface of Mars, imaged by Perseverance rover.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASUUpdate: NASA says its first flight attempt will happen no earlier than Wednesday, April 14. Original article appears below. NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter will attempt to take flight on the Red Planet early Monday morning, and you’ll be able to watch live as…

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Microsoft Is Reportedly in Talks to Scoop Up AI Firm Nuance Communications for $16 Billion

Photo: Jeenah Moon (Getty Images)Microsoft is in advanced talks to acquire Nuance Communications, an artificial intelligence firm whose speech recognition tech helped develop Apple’s Siri virtual assistant, for as much as $16 billion, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. The deal price being negotiated could value Nuance at around $56 per share, the…

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Google Used a Secret Program Called ‘Project Bernanke’ to Benefit Clients Using Its Ad-Buying System

Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)Google used a secret program called “Project Bernanke” for years to increase its clients’ chances of winning bids for competitive ad space, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing court documents filed in the Texas-led antitrust suit against Google. The state argues that the program gave Google an unfair competitive…

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Acer Reportedly Hit With $50M Ransomware Attack, Says Companies Like It ‘Are Constantly Under Attack’

Acer has reportedly been hit with a $50 million ransomware attack, the largest attempted ransom to date.Photo: Sam YEH / AFP (Getty Images)Acer has purportedly become the victim of a massive ransomware attack, in which hackers are asking for $50 million to release the company’s stolen data, Bleeping Computer reported on Friday. Nonetheless, the company…

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Broadcast Signal Intrusion Follows Grief Down a Freaky, Tech-Generated Rabbit Hole

James (Harry Shum Jr.) becomes obsessed with his quest in Broadcast Signal Intrusion.Image: Courtesy Queensbury Picturesio9 ReviewsReviews and critical analyses of fan-favorite movies, TV shows, comics, books, and more.In 1999, a Chicago man named James (Harry Shum Jr.), still acutely grieving the loss of his wife three years prior, toils at a job that suits…

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Saturday’s Best Deals: Samsung 70″ 4K TV, Asus Gaming Monitor, Cutlery Brushes, 2L Hydration Bladder, Grepro Jump Starter, and More

Graphic: Elizabeth LanierA Samsung 70-inch smart 4K tv and a Grepro jump starter lead Saturday’s best deals.Jump to: Tech | Gaming | Home | Lifestyle | MediaPromoted Deal: Ergonomic Chair | $299 | BranchG/O Media may get a commissionAs torn up as I am that this is my last week at The Inventory, I recently accepted…

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First-Ever Observations From Under Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Are Bad News

Ran, the unscrewed submarine that the scientists used, heading down into the depths under the Thwaites GlacierPhoto: Filip Stedt (Getty Images)Glaciers all over Antarctica are in trouble as ice there rapidly melts. There’s no Antarctic glacier whose fate is more consequential for our future than the Thwaites Glacier, and new research shows that things aren’t looking…

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Monday’s Best Deals: HP Omen 25L Gaming Desktop, Buy 2 Get 1 Free Video Games, Tacklife Circular Saw, Unicorn Jerky CBD, Paramount+ Free Trial, and More

HP’s Omen 25L and a Buy 2 Get 1 Free games sale lead Monday’s best deals.Jump to: Tech | Gaming | Home | Lifestyle | MediaPromoted Deal: Unicorn Jerky CBD Candy | $19 | Sunday Scaries | Promo Code CHILLOUTI’ve been taking Sunday Scaries CBD on the reg for several months now, and I have to…

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Thursday’s Best Deals: RAVPower Portable Power Station, VPN Unlimited + PlayStation Plus, LEGO Star Wars X-Wing, Bella Air Fryer, Ella Paradis Spring Cleaning Sale, and More

Jump to: Tech | Gaming | Home | Lifestyle | MediaPromoted Deal: Ergonomic Chair | $299 | BranchAs torn up as I am that this is my last week at The Inventory, I recently accepted a new job that’ll have me working from home indefinitely … unless I move to LA, which I won’t. So if…

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How to Ensure Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Is Accessible to Everyone

Photo: David Zalubowski (AP)As the Biden administration puts the federal government’s muscle behind widespread electrification, one fact has becoming increasingly clear: The electric vehicle revolution is coming. But states have a lot of catching up to do if they want to make sure everyone is included, a new report shows.The report, released Wednesday by the…

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ViacomCBS Is Selling $3 Billion in Stock to Fund Paramount+, a Service Some People Evidently Don’t Know Exists

Photo: Catie Keck/GizmodoThe parent company behind Paramount+ has announced it’s looking to raise $3 billion to help fund operations, including for its new streaming service—that some consumers evidently have no idea exists.ViacomCBS said Monday it will offer $2 billion in Class B common stock and $1 billion in Series A Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock. J.P.…

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Clubhouse Is Partnering With Stripe To Offer Direct Payments, and Creators Will Get 100% of the Profits

Photo: ODD ANDERSEN / Contributor (Getty Images)The invite-only audio chat app Clubhouse is sweetening the deal for creators by offering a direct payment option that would allow them to reap 100% of the rewards.In a Monday blog post, Clubhouse announced that it would partner with the payment processing startup Stripe to offer direct payments on…

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Where Are All the Aliens? Maybe Trapped in Underground Oceans

Saturn’s moon Enceladus.Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science InstituteA planetary scientist says subterranean water worlds are likely common in the galaxy and probably even better for life than Earth-like environments. Should an intelligent species arise beneath the frozen crust, however, they’d find themselves in perpetual isolation, in what is a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox.Several moons in…

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Extinct Kangaroo Could Climb Trees With Its Huge Claws

Skulls of the newly described extinct kangaroo.Image: N. Warburton, Murdoch UniversityA new study describes a “semiarboreal kangaroo” that lived 40,000 years ago in Australia. Apparently, even hopping can get boring.According to the study, published this week in Royal Society Open Science, the discovery came from fossils excavated decades ago from Western Australia’s Mammoth Cave and…

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Spotify’s Voice-Controlled ‘Car Thing’ Device Surfaces Once Again

Photo: Martin Bureau/AFP (Getty Images)Spotify’s long-rumored Car Thing device has emerged once again—this time in some iOS code.Spotify first announced that it was testing a “voice-controlled music and podcast device” called Car Thing back in 2019. Spotify was pretty specific at the time that its “focus remains on becoming the world’s number one audio platform—not…

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Multiple Tornadoes Tear Through Alabama, Shutting Down Amazon Warehouse

Lightning storms over the Southeast on Thursday.Gif: NOAA/CIRAAuthorities reported several injuries and fatalities in Alabama as tornadoes tore through the Birmingham metro area on Thursday. The storms, which come on the heels of roughly 50 tornadoes that hit the region last week, left flattened homes and extensive property damage in their wake.The National Weather Service…

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Photo: Eric Kayne (SumOfUS) (AP)Midway through a congressional hearing Thursday in which U.S. lawmakers spent hours interrogating the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook, and Google for their role in America’s disinformation crisis, Jack Dorsey seemed fed up.The hearing, which was held via video conference and led by Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, saw…

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Donald Trump and Mike Lindell Should Cage Fight Over Whose New Social Media Site Is Actually Real

Mike Lindell, CEO and founder of MyPillow, and a possibly entirely fictional social media site named Frank.Photo: Stephen Maturen (Getty Images)HellfeedHellfeedHellfeed is your bimonthly resource for news on the current heading of the social media garbage barge.We’re jumping the gun on Hellfeed’s normally bi-weekly schedule—because dear lord, the last five days were something else. This…

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Movies on Your Favorite Streaming Services Could Be Headed for Peacock Instead

Photo: Catie Keck/GizmodoThe battle between streaming services for your binge-watching hours continues.Citing sources familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported Wednesday that Peacock parent NBCUniversal has been mulling pulling its movies from services like Netflix and HBO Max to boost its own content offering. The outlet additionally reported that contracts that HBO Max and Netflix have…

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Turns Out This Sophisticated Hacking Campaign Was Actually the Work of ‘Western Government Operatives’

Photo: Damien Meyer/AFP (Getty Images)A sophisticated hacking campaign that was previously witnessed targeting security flaws in Android, Windows and iOS devices is actually the work of “Western government operatives” conducting a “counterterrorism operation,” according to a new report from MIT Technology Review.The campaign in question, which has garnered more and more attention from media outlets…

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April Is Full of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Add to Your Spring Reading List

Spectrum by Julie E. CzernedaImage: DAWThis month we’ve got teenage telekinetics, magical twins, shapeshifters, supernatural detectives, space adventures, palace intrigue, fantasy epics, monsters, and more—plus the first-ever YA fantasy novel by io9 co-founder Charlie Jane Anders. Read on!Image: Interstellar Flight PressLocal Star by Aimee OgdenThis “polyamorous space opera” encompasses adventure and romance, as main character…

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Parler Says It Warned the FBI of Violent Posts Threatening the Capitol Before Jan. 6 Insurrection

Photo: Olivier Douliery (Getty Images)Parler, the online safe haven for bigots and far-right extremists, claims it repeatedly alerted the Federal Bureau of Investigation about “specific threats of violence being planned at the Capitol” ahead of the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection, the company’s lawyers said in a letter to lawmakers dated Thursday. After seeing record growth…

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Antarctica Got Blasted by a Powerful ‘Airburst’ Event 430,000 Years Ago

Artist’s interpretation of the hot jet of molten particles and hot gas, striking the ancient Antarctic surface. Image: Mark A. GarlickAsteroids that smash directly into Earth’s surface can cause extensive damage, but, as new evidence uncovered in east Antarctica suggests, asteroids that explode on entry can be equally devastating.Super tiny black balls made from igneous…

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EPA Cleans Out Trump-Era Shills on Its Science Advisory Boards

EPA Administrator Michael Regan is straightening up the agency’s advisory boards.Photo: Joshua Roberts (Getty Images)When he wasn’t busy searching for Ritz Carlton lotion, former Environmental Protection Administrator Scott Pruitt also gutted the agency’s science advisory boards. But after forcing out impartial scientists and installing people who literally denied air pollution’s adverse impacts on public health,…

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Banjo-Kazooie and Fable 2 Are Available on Xbox’s Cloud Gaming Service, and I’m Stoked

Photo: Joanna Nelius/GizmodoXbox announced this morning that 16 original Xbox and Xbox 360 games are now available on its cloud gaming service. Anyone with an active Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription can play well-loved classics like Banjo-Kazooie, Fable 2, and Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind as of today.“We’ve listened to the feedback, going all the way…

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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s Commentary on Race Is Too Much, and Not Enough

Rhodey and Sam having a talk one-on-one.Image: Disney+/MarvelBeyond simply continuing Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes’ respective superhero stories in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, Disney+’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has been billed as the studio’s latest foray into social commentary using its larger-than-life characters to reflect some of the real-world challenges actual people face. While…

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Amazon Is Getting Sued for Failing to Give Warehouse Workers Meal and Rest Breaks

This photo shows the Amazon logo at the 855,000-square-foot Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City, on February 5, 2019.Photo: Johannes Eisele / AFP (Getty Images)It’s well documented that some Amazon employees work in grueling, physically taxing, and unsafe conditions. In fact, a former Amazon warehouse employee…

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Week 11, 2021 Launch Roundup: Asus ROG Phone 5, Xiaomi Mi 10S, Find X3 Pro, Moto G30, Moto G10 Power, And More

        | Published: Sunday, March 14, 2021, 4:00 [IST] Last week, week 11 of this year had been a busy one as there were several new announcements from many brands. We witnessed a variety of launches across categories including smartphones, truly wireless earbuds, routers, laptops, smart speakers, and smartwatches. Well, some were…

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Sony Launches Newest Addition to G Master; Full-Frame Lens Series with the Indispensable FE 35mm F1.4 GM

Sony today announced the FE 35mm F1.4 GM (model SEL35F14GM) – the newest addition to its acclaimed G Master full-frame lens series – delivering first-class image quality and beautiful bokeh for broad expressive capability in an extremely compact and lightweight design. The FE 35mm F1.4 GM is a must-have for Sony’s E-mount users, as in…

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