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Squid Game’s second season is officially Netflix’s biggest TV debut
31 Dec

Squid Game’s second season is officially Netflix’s biggest TV debut

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Squid Game has set a new high for Netflix's television programming. reported that the second season of the Korean show drew in 68 million views over its first four days. That's the biggest debut for a TV show on the streaming platform, besting the 50.1 million set by Wednesday in 2022. The first season of Squid Game also held the crown as the top-watched Netflix series for a while; households had watched it as of October 2021. The third and final season could deliver a hat trick of record results for the company when it airs .While the show offers…
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Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon will face securities fraud charges in the US
31 Dec

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon will face securities fraud charges in the US

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Terraforms Labs CEO Do Kwon spent the last day of 2024 getting extradited to the US, Reuters reports. Kwon faces charges in the US for "orchestrating a multi-billion dollar crypto asset securities fraud involving an algorithmic stablecoin and other crypto asset securities." The Terraforms co-founder has been held in Montenegro since March 2023, when he tried to board a flight with a forged passport — six months after Interpol put out a "red notice" warrant for his arrest.South Korean-based Terraforms Labs wiped out $40 billion from the crypto market when its TerraUSD and Luna stable coins turned out to not…
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Bluesky and Threads showed us very different visions for a post-X future
31 Dec

Bluesky and Threads showed us very different visions for a post-X future

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There’s no longer any question that Threads and Bluesky have created the most viable alternatives to the platform once known as Twitter. But while the two services may share some of the same goals, they’ve shown very different visions for how text-based social networks should operate.Threads, of course, is controlled by Meta, which is controlled by Mark Zuckerberg. And though the company has claimed to embrace “public conversation,” it has also consistently put its thumb on the scale to encourage certain types of speech over others. The company throttled “political” content in an election year, forcing users to tweak their…
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Dang, 2024 was a great year for horror game fans
31 Dec

Dang, 2024 was a great year for horror game fans

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When it comes to new horror games, there are times of feast and famine, and this past year we gorged until our bellies bulged and our mouths dripped with gruesome grease. In 2024, we received a rich spread of dark experiences from solo creators, indie teams, AA developers and AAA studios in a vast array of genres and visual styles. There was a fantastic Silent Hill 2 remake and beefy updates to contemporary classics like Phasmophobia, Alan Wake 2 and The Outlast Trials, and there was also a steady cadence of brand-new horror franchises expanding the genre in unexpected ways.First,…
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Russia is trying to make its own game consoles in a bid for technological independence
31 Dec

Russia is trying to make its own game consoles in a bid for technological independence

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It’s no secret that Russia has been slowly working towards eschewing as much Western technology as it can and developing its own, and its latest effort seems to be related to video games. On December 25, Anton Gorelkin, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, some information on a domestic video game console being developed by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, as reported by . The theoretical console will have an Elbrus processor and be powered by either Aurora or Alt Linux, both Russian forks of the popular Linux operating system.According to TechSpot, the Elbrus processor…
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LG updates its Gram laptop line ahead of CES 2025
31 Dec

LG updates its Gram laptop line ahead of CES 2025

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LG’s Gram laptops are back for another round of updates ahead of CES 2025. A decade into the thin and light lineup’s existence in LG’s portfolio, the latest models load up on AI (surprise!) and boost performance while maintaining their trademark portability.Four new models are launching at CES: two variants of the Gram Pro, a new Gram Pro 2-in-1 and the entry-level Gram Book. The first version of the Gram Pro has an Intel Core H-series (Arrow Lake) processor under the hood for more traditional laptop tasks (including some gaming). A second model uses an Intel Core Ultra V-series (Lunar…
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The US Treasury Department says it was hacked in a China-linked cyberattack
30 Dec

The US Treasury Department says it was hacked in a China-linked cyberattack

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Documents and workstations at the US Treasury Department were accessed during a cyberattack, The New York Times reports. The attack was linked to a "China state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat actor" and has been characterized as "a major cybersecurity incident."According to a letter the Treasury Department shared with lawmakers (via TechCrunch), US officials were made aware of the issue on December 8, when BeyondTrust, a third-party software company, shared that a security key used to provide technical support was used to access workstations and unclassified documents.The Treasury Department said that it has worked with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and…
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You can stream Apple TV+ for free this weekend
30 Dec

You can stream Apple TV+ for free this weekend

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You'll be able to stream as much of The Morning Show as your body can physically handle this weekend, thanks to a new Apple TV+ promotion. After teasing some kind of Apple TV+ news on social media, Apple has confirmed that from January 3 to 5 you'll be able to watch the company's original shows and movies without a paid subscription, provided you have an Apple ID.Apple calls out shows like Silo, which is in the back half of its current season, and Severance, which will premiere its long-awaited second season on Jan 17 (you can watch the first eight…
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Huge Volkswagen data leak exposed the locations of 460,000 EV drivers
30 Dec

Huge Volkswagen data leak exposed the locations of 460,000 EV drivers

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A Volkswagen software subsidiary called Cariad experienced a massive data leak that left 800,000 EV owners exposed, according to reporting by the German publication Spiegel Netzwelt. The leak allowed personal information to be left online for months, including movement data and contact information.This included precise location data for 460,000 vehicles made by VW, Seat and Audi. According to reports, the information was accessible via the Amazon cloud storage platform. There’s a silver lining here. Cariad says that, despite being available, no bad actors accessed the exposed data. The good-faith hacking association Chaos Computer Club (CCC) spotted the leak on November…
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The Apple Watch Series 10 is back down to its Black Friday price
30 Dec

The Apple Watch Series 10 is back down to its Black Friday price

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The Apple Watch Series 10 is down to its Black Friday price. You can , which is a discount of $70 and nearly 20 percent off. Even better? This deal is available for multiple band colors, including jet black, rose gold and more.This is the company’s latest and greatest smartwatch and it easily topped . It’s thinner and lighter than the Series 9, which is something that we were impressed by . We also appreciated the larger wide-angle OLED display, which makes some things easier to read. This is particularly useful when trying to navigate via Maps.AppleThere’s a brand-new depth…
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