All Things Internet: The Big Players & The Issues
The world has grown increasingly connected over the past few decades and a huge chunk of our lives are online. We cover the companies you care about: YouTube, Google, Amazon, and the issues you care about: NBN, IoT, social media, privacy and security.
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To All a Goodnight Is Maybe the Most Under-the-Radar Christmas Slasher
These days there’s no shortage of Christmas-themed horror movies, especially ones that feature a killer dressed as Santa Claus. But in the slasher genre’s earliest days, that hadn’t yet become a trope — 1972’s Tales From the Crypt gave us a red-suited maniac, to name maybe the most notable early example, and 1980’s To All…
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Marvel Announces Planet of the Apes Comics Team, Reprint of Old Apes Comics
The Planet of the Apes franchise has been on ice since the reboot films wrapped up with 2017’s War for the Planet of the Apes. Fox is preparing to start the films up again in 2024, meaning we’ll see what the series is like now that Disney has a hold of it. And with Disney…
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Yikes! Hackers Had Access to LastPass Users’ Password Vaults
A major hack affecting password manager giant LastPass appears much worse than first thought. In an update announcement two days before Christmas, LastPass CEO Karim Toubba admitted the attackers were able to successfully copy a backup of customer vault data. With that data in hand, the attackers can potentially access users’ entire collection of passwords…
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How the Three Major Self-Driving Systems Stack Up
It seems every car maker is experimenting with advanced driver safety assistance systems — the long proper term for self-driving car features. Journalist Michael Wayland at CNBC took a ride around Detroit in the three big names in the space — General Motors, Ford and Tesla — to find out who is ahead of the…