A comet strikes New York City, killing almost everyone in sight. A survivor named Jim Davis, a Black man, searches the rubble for others, eventually finding and rescuing a white woman named Julia. They share their shock and grief, soon realizing they might be two of the only remaining people on Earth. The circumstances force…
DetailsSince the pandemic began, the threat of a second, deadlier wave of coronavirus has captured the public imagination. The fear, which provokes viral Facebook posts and influences government strategy, is that this pandemic will follow a trajectory similar to that of the 1918 Spanish flu. Two-thirds of the 50 million who died would do so…
DetailsI’ll confess. Despite having some serious reservations about the company, I am a fan of Amazon’s cheap, no-frills Fire tablets.Sure, they’re hamstrung by Amazon’s limited Appstore offerings, the slow Silk web browser, and they push Amazon content as if the AOL business model is still viable. But these days Fire tablets are both affordable and…
DetailsIf someone wants to disrupt a website or online service—or take it down altogether—a popular method is to wallop it with a massive flood of junk traffic or bogus requests. These so-called distributed denial of service attacks have for years been a fact of life on the internet. But a recent spate of major campaigns…
DetailsLet’s-a-go! by Liam Doolan 6 hours agoThis year is Mario’s 35th anniversary, and as you might have heard, there’s a rumour that Nintendo is remastering most of his back-catalogue on Switch. Apart from this, LEGO is joining in on the celebration with appropriately-themed sets, and now, Hasbro will be releasing Super Mario Monopoly and Jenga.…
DetailsA hacker allegedly behind a spate of Twitter account hacks on Wednesday gained access to a Twitter “admin” tool on the company’s network that allowed them to hijack high-profile Twitter accounts to spread a cryptocurrency scam, according to a person with direct knowledge of the incident. The account hijacks hit some of the most prominent…
DetailsLife after Nintendo by Liam Doolan 8 hours agoThe former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé really isn’t slowing down. After joining Spin Master’s Board of Directors in May, he’s now signed on with the Los Angeles-based publisher Rogue Games, as a strategic advisor to the board of directors. @Rogue_Co Today we welcome @Reggie, former…
DetailsLong after the rest of my family is in bed, I tear through New England beach romance novels about people with names like Hobby or Cash, who get their hearts broken, eat truffle breadsticks, and dry their whale shorts on clotheslines. Luckily, these books are free—I’ve been downloading one every few days from my local…
DetailsOn Tuesday, Massachusetts became the second state this year to sue ride-hail companies Uber and Lyft for treating their drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. State attorney general Maura Healey told reporters the Covid-19 pandemic motivated her to ask a state court judge to enforce a 2004 labor law to reclassify the drivers.“What the…
DetailsSince WannaCry and NotPetya struck the internet just over three years ago, the security industry has scrutinized every new Windows bug that could be used to create a similar world-shaking worm. Now one potentially “wormable” vulnerability—meaning an attack can spread from one machine to another with no human interaction—has appeared in Microsoft’s implementation of the…
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