August 9, 2023 Disney’s Bob Iger Joins the Camp of Wanting the Strikes to End ‘Quickly’ After 100 days of the writers’ strike, and nearly a month of the actors’ strike, Disney has realized it needs writers and actors to…
August 9, 2023 ***** signs executive order restricting investment in Chinese tech companies President Joe ***** signed an executive order that puts new limits on American investment in certain types of Chinese tech firms. The order is…
August 9, 2023 How an unpatched Microsoft Exchange 0-day likely caused one of the UK’s biggest hacks ever Enlarge / Building with Microsoft logo. (credit: Getty Images) It’s looking more and more likely that a critical zero-day vulnerability that went unfixed for…
August 9, 2023 Pirate Borg Is a Grimdark Undead Nightmare Fueled by Sea Shanties It’s an incredibly busy day at Gen Con—the annual tabletop gaming convention held in Indianapolis—and the Pirate Borg table is full of books, dice, and,…
August 9, 2023 Massive Maui Wildfires Fueled by Hurricane Dora Cut Power and 911 Service for Thousands Update August 9 at 5:20 p.m. EST:Devastating wildfires that have been fueled by hurricane winds have killed several on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Emergency…
August 9, 2023 Gen Con Heist: Retailer Confirms Magic Cards Stolen in $300K Haul Magic: The Gathering cards worth an estimated $300,000 were stolen from Pastimes, an Indiana gaming company, last week during Gen Con in Indianapolis—one of…
August 9, 2023 Threads now lets you share posts directly to Instagram DMs As Elon Musk awaits his doctor’s permission to fight Mark Zuckerberg in an on-again / off-again cage match, the two billionaires’ companies continue to…
August 9, 2023 “Downfall” bug affects years of Intel CPUs, can leak encryption keys and more Enlarge / An 8th-generation Intel Core desktop CPU, one of several CPU generations affected by the Downfall bug. (credit: Mark Walton) It’s a big…
August 9, 2023 Yes, Marvel Really Is Revisiting the Spider-Man Story About Radioactive Semen The House of Ideas’ latest is something that indeed could diplomatically be described as an “idea:” Marvel has confirmed after a brief period of…