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What to read this week: The Light Eaters, Paranoid Gardens and I Was a Teenage Slasher
20 Jul

What to read this week: The Light Eaters, Paranoid Gardens and I Was a Teenage Slasher

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Recent releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham JonesStephen Graham Jones is something of an expert on slashers. The author has tackled the genre in a slew of his novels (most notably in the Indian Lake Trilogy, with its slasher-movie-obsessed main character) and has an ongoing column in Fangoria dedicated to its impact, so it’s not really a surprise to see he’s churned out another entry for the canon. But this time around, we’re getting a different perspective: the slasher’s point of view.I Was a Teenage Slasher is the fictional memoir…
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Another ‘missing link’ black hole discovered near the center of the galaxy
20 Jul

Another ‘missing link’ black hole discovered near the center of the galaxy

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A group of international researchers at the in Germany recently discovered one of the rarest types of black holes in the universe. The researchers were observing a cluster of stars in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole named Sagittarius A (Sgr A) at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. They then discovered signs of an intermediate-mass black hole, a type of black hole that’s sometimes referred to as the “missing link” of black holes, according to .Black holes range in size from supermassive to primordial and the intermediate sits above primordial in size. They are believed to have…
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X is working on a way to block links in replies
20 Jul

X is working on a way to block links in replies

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X is developing a new feature that could help address spam posts on its website. According to Nima Owji, an independent app researcher who's unearthed several unreleased X features in the past, the platform formerly known as Twitter is working on the ability to disable links in replies. Based on the image Owji posted, users will be able to tick a box for the option if they don't want people to be able to respond with a link to their posts.Christopher Stanley, the Senior Director for Security Engineering at X, confirmed the feature's existence in a response to a post…
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Twitch restores former President Trump’s Twitch account
20 Jul

Twitch restores former President Trump’s Twitch account

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Twitch has confirmed that former president and current Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s three-year ban on the gaming stream platform has been reversed. A statement from Twitch confirmed the news about the status of Trump’s ban from the platform.“We reinstated former President Trump’s Twitch channel,” the statement read. “We believe there is value in hearing from Presidential nominees directly, when possible. Trump is now the official Republican nominee for US President.”The Amazon-owned platform first issued on President Trump's account in 2020 for violating its hateful conduct and harassment policies and two weeks later. Twitch following the Jan. 6 riot on…
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Police arrest a teenage boy in connection with the MGM Resorts ransomware attack
20 Jul

Police arrest a teenage boy in connection with the MGM Resorts ransomware attack

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A teenage boy may be responsible for a ransomware attack that in Las Vegas last year. in England confirmed that they arrested an unidentified 17-year-old on Thursday from the town of Walsall who allegedly shut down the resort and casino on the Las Vegas strip last year.The teenager was arrested on suspicion of blackmail and violating the UK’s Computer Misuse Act. He was released on bail, according to a statement from the police department.Police officials tracked the teenage suspect as part of a joint investigation with the UK’s National Crime Agency and the FBI. The police department said they recovered…
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Samsung is freezing Galaxy Buds 3 Pro shipments amid quality control issues
19 Jul

Samsung is freezing Galaxy Buds 3 Pro shipments amid quality control issues

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Samsung has temporarily shut down Galaxy Buds 3 Pro shipments. With memories of its flaming hot (and not in a good way) Galaxy Note fiasco eight years ago, the company is halting the earbuds’ launch while “urgently assessing and enhancing” the product’s quality control, according to Android Authority, which first published the news.Some users who received the Galaxy Buds 3 Pro before their July 24 launch reported that their ear tips tore easily. Considering how often they may need to remove and replace tips to find their ideal fit, material prone to ripping could have led to atrocious PR and…
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Why an ‘unexciting’ galaxy could provide clues about the universe’s evolution
19 Jul

Why an ‘unexciting’ galaxy could provide clues about the universe’s evolution

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NASA and the European Space Agency have released an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope of a dwarf irregular galaxy that they admit looked "unexciting" at first glance. However, there's more going on than might initially meet the eye. The agencies say that a great deal of research is going into the "complicated structure" of NGC 5238, which is 14.5 million light-years away in the Canes Venatici constellation. In fact, astronomers believe the distribution of stars in NGC 5238 may have been distorted after it swallowed up another galaxy.They reckon that due to NGC 5238's star population (which Hubble…
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Google is turning off its goo.gl shortener links next year
19 Jul

Google is turning off its goo.gl shortener links next year

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Starting on August 23 this year, when someone clicks on a goo.gl link, it could first take them to a page with a warning that says the link "will no longer work in the near future" before taking them to the website they want to visit. Google shut down its goo.gl URL shortening service way back in 2018 and stopped users from being able to create new links. Now, the company has announced that it will stop supporting all existing goo.gl links altogether: The URLs will return a "404 page not found" result by August 25, 2025.Google is giving developers…
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Faulty cybersecurity update takes out banks, airlines and other major companies worldwide
19 Jul

Faulty cybersecurity update takes out banks, airlines and other major companies worldwide

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A massive Microsoft Windows BSOD (blue screen of death) outage has impacted multiple companies worldwide including airlines, broadcasters and others. The problem was a caused by a faulty update from security giant CrowdStrike that forced PCs and servers into an unrecoverable boot loop. The change has since been rolled back, but many machines are still affected."We have widespread reports of BSODs on windows hosts, occurring on multiple sensor versions," CrowdStrike wrote in a pinned Reddit post. "[We have] identified a content deployment related to this issue and reverted those changes." The company went on to describe a workaround, which involves…
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Google confirms the Pixel 9 Pro Fold with a teaser video
19 Jul

Google confirms the Pixel 9 Pro Fold with a teaser video

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Google has confirmed in a teaser video that its upcoming line of smartphones includes a new foldable model. The company called the Pixel 9 Pro Fold a "foldable phone built for the Gemini era" in its promo tweet, and it even focused on its gen AI chatbot in the video. Similar to the non-foldable Pixel 9 Pro, this model also has a prominent camera bump. Its lenses are arranged vertically near one side of the phone, so the camera bump is mostly there and doesn't take up the whole width of the folded device.While Google has yet to formally unveil…
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