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I hope the pizzas were tasty. Cryptocurrency has become a force to be reckoned with. From the early days of technical and privacy interest to now being traded on crypto exchanges for vast sums, cryptocurrency has reached the mainstream. Web 3.0 is coming. This new user-controlled and human-led version of the internet holds much promise for privacy and sovereignty. However, with the ying comes yang. Every time a new technology emerges, especially one that carries inherent value, cybercriminals follow....

Few games have managed to capture dread as effectively as Failbetter Games’ Fallen London and Sunless Sea. Both titles were darlings within the independent gaming scene, and brought about a level of creeping fear far beyond some of their AAA peers, telling vibrant yet horrifying stories with ease. Although Cultist Simulator may not be a Failbetter title proper, it does comes from alumni of the studio at two-person developer Weather Factory....

CD Projekt Red is setting a lofty goal for the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 game with the studio aiming to match its quality with Red Dead Redemption 2. CD Projekt Red CEO Adam Kiciński made the statement in a call earlier this week after being asked what the studio had learned from the release of Red Dead Redemption 2. Cyberpunk 2077 is the massive follow-up to CD Projekt Red’s last critically-acclaimed open world RPG, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt....

Tickets for D23 2019 will go on sale next week, as Disney unveils the first official details of the event. The studio holds the convention every two years, shining a spotlight on their upcoming projects. With all the popular subsidiaries under the Mouse House’s umbrella (Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm), there’s always a great amount of interest. Frequently, attendees are treated to exclusive looks at concept art or footage from the films being promoted....

Many things were changed from the original comics when the Phoenix Saga and Dark Phoenix Saga were adapted into the film Dark Phoenix. This is par for the course whenever a classic written work is adapted for a visual medium and even with an extensive X-Men cinematic universe having been established by earlier movies, there was no way to include every aspect of the original storyline in a single film....

X-Men: Dark Phoenix star Alexandra Shipp - better known as Storm - has nothing but positive words for the forthcoming movie’s director Simon Kinberg and believes that the X-Men world will flourish under his guidance. Fox’s X-Men franchise certainly has its hands full at present. Having scored two huge big screen hits with Deadpool and Logan, the studio is hard at work on Deadpool 2. On the small screen, this year’s Legion was well received by fans and critics and The Gifted recently premiered to positive reviews also....

NOTE: This article contains SPOILERS for Darth Maul #1 - In an entertainment franchise or fictional universe, it’s not easy being anyone but the hero. While their future and fan base is all but guaranteed, the surrounding cast faces their own added challenges. If you’re the villain, you’ve got to match the hero just to get the same attention, let alone be remembered separately. Sidekicks must be plucky and lovable, romantic interests must chart their own course, and so on....

Consistency is key, isn’t it? Someone once told me that paying for a gym membership and going once won’t actually help me to reach my fitness goals. Who knew? Well, apparently everyone except me. Consistency isn’t just important for our personal goals, it makes a big difference in the outcome of our efforts in business too. Luckily one of my amazing Instagram-friends happens to be an absolute dynamo when it comes to consistency....

On Monday, the company admitted that 483 users were affected by unauthorized cryptocurrency withdrawals on their accounts, costing a total of “4,836.26 ETH, 443.93 BTC, and approximately US$66,200 in other cryptocurrencies.” At the time of the attack, that amounted to about $31 million. Crypto.com said in a statement that it revoked all customer 2FA tokens and “added additional security hardening measures, which required all customers to re-login and set up their 2FA token to ensure only authorized activity would occur....

There is a list of attacks conducted on Elasticsearch databases in the past few years. The new one raises more tension among security experts due to its complexity and different tactics to evade the security system and carry forward the attack successfully. Elasticsearch is a popular tool that helps companies managing billions of records in the database easily. Its source code is open, and big companies like Netflix, Uber, Dell, and Adobe already use Elasticsearch....

Just yesterday we posted a video showing what can occasionally happen when a lithium ion battery receives impact damage, and today the Sydney Morning Herald has a report showing that the same thing can happen with no sledgehammers involved. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said that it was investigating, but that the slimness of modern devices like the iPhone increased the risk of such incidents … A Sydney bicycle rider […] was severely burnt when his Apple iPhone exploded after a minor fall […] Bondi management consultant Gareth Clear, 36, said his iPhone was in his back pocket and ignited after he had a fall from his bike while riding on Sunday afternoon....

After nearly a dozen years without seeing Darth Vader on the big screen, he’s returning to a theater near you very soon in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. We don’t anticipate a huge role from the Dark Lord of the Sith, but we’re on the edge of our seats to see exactly what role he’s going to play. After all, Rogue One will tell the tale of what happens just before A New Hope, and Vader had two key jobs in that original movie: find the stolen Death Star plans and find the Rebels’ hidden base....

A brand new poster has dropped for Creed II, the long-awaited sequel to the critically acclaimed and commercially successful 2015 hit (and continuation of the Rocky franchise), Creed, starring Michael B. Jordan as the titular boxer. Though the original was written and directed by Black Panther’s Ryan Coogler, he will serve merely as an executive producer this time around. Instead, Steven Caple Jr. (The Land) has taken the helm on a script co-written by Luke Cage showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker and Sylvester Stallone....

Warning: The following contains SPOILERS for Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part 3 and Green Arrow: Quiver The Arrowverse event Crisis on Infinite Earths seems to be taking inspiration from Green Arrow: Quiver, which is widely considered to be the best Green Arrow storyline of all time. While not a note-for-note adaptation of the classic comic book miniseries, Crisis seems to share more elements with Quiver than coincidence could account for....

WARNING: Spoilers for Creed 2 below The actor behind Creed 2’s surprise cameo has explained why the scene is so important for the character of Rocky Balboa. Rocky is famously a character who was born out of desperation for Stallone, who was a struggling actor early in his career, and he wrote the first draft in three days after pitching the concept to producers. They liked it so much they wanted to buy it off him and turn it into a vehicle for a bigger star like Burt Reynolds or James Caan, but despite being offered increasingly large sums of money, Stallone insisted he play the title role....

When the end of the world arrives, Apple employees will be swept into space. The idea for Apple’s incredible campus which looks a lot like a spaceship – already dubbed the Mothership – has hit the ground running with officials. Just a day following Steve Jobs’ presentation to Cupertino City Council, Mayor Gilbert Wong has issued a statement and organized a press conference confirming they’re on board. “ “There is no chance we are saying no” to the Mothership, Wong said....

Evan uses machine learning and AI to prevent email-based attacks, such as business email compromise and social engineering, and as you will see, the human mental game is still the strongest game in town. Before this, Evan led teams for Twitter’s advertising business and was working with startups for ten years before co-founding Abnormal Security. How did you first get involved with computers and security? Like many growing up in the late nineties, Evan’s passion was driven by his love for video games....

1. Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless and negligent cybersecurity policies Twitter has major security problems that pose a threat to its own users’ personal information, to company shareholders, to national security, and to democracy, according to an explosive whistleblower disclosure Read more » 2. LastPass suffers data breach, source code stolen Researchers warned that cyberattackers will be probing the code for weaknesses to exploit later. Read more »...

Terminator: Dark Fate continues the franchise tradition of introducing a new Terminator model with each movie, except this one has a weird, unexpected twist: tentacles. The Terminator: Dark Fate panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2019 brought with it a few big reveals, including that Edward Furlong is returning as John Connor, and a new SDCC featurette was also released. It’s in there that the tentacled Terminator is first glimpsed. This has become standard practice for the Terminator franchise ever since 1991’s T2: Judgment Day, which introduced audiences to the T-1000, a more advanced version of the original Terminator that had the ability to shapeshift and form sharp, metallic weapons....

First you’ll need a an 8 GB flash drive. The ISO is larger than 4GB. Then download and install the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. Start the USB / DVD Download Tool and browse to the location of your WHS 2011 ISO file. Click Next. Next for Media Type, click the USB Device button. For the next step choose the flash drive you’re using to install WHS 2011. Click Begin Copying....