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Coming of Consciousness: Tyler Taormina on Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
Across the three features he’s made to date, Tyler Taormina has emerged as a true American independent, with an inquisitive eye and extraordinary depth of feeling for adolescent rites of passage that unfold — poignantly, mysteriously, with a sense of romantic possibility — amid the suburbs’ lonely, nocturnal stretches. His subliminally menacing feature debut, “Ham…
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Apple TV’s “Silo” Returns for Daring Second Season
Apple TV loves to spend oodles of money on prestigious sci-fi projects like “Dark Matter” and “Foundation,” but their best in this subgenre by some stretch is Graham Yost’s riveting “Silo.” The first season of this adaptation of the books by Hugh Howey played like a timely riff on philosophical sci-fi noirs like “Blade Runner,”…
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VEEAM exploit seen used again with a new ransomware: “Frag”
Last month, Sophos X-Ops reported several MDR cases where threat actors exploited a vulnerability in Veeam backup servers. We continue to track the activities of this threat cluster, which recently included deployment of a new ransomware. The vulnerability, CVE-2024-40711, was used as part of a threat activity cluster we named STAC 5881. Attacks leveraged compromised…
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This Elephant Uses a Hose to Give Herself a Shower Every Day
In the Berlin Zoo, Mary demonstrated another example of clever elephantine tool use while another animal exhibited a form of mischief with a hose that resembled a prank.
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Church in Egyptian Desert Reveals Early Christian Burial Practices
A basilica from the 4th century held a surprising number of tombs with women and children, researchers found.
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Last N.I.H. Chimps to Move Out of New Mexico Facility
The retired research chimpanzees, which had previously been deemed too frail to move, will be relocated to a Louisiana sanctuary.
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After the Election, Interest in Digital Nomad Visas and Moving Abroad Is Rising
Google searches for “best countries to move to” peaked immediately after the election. Here’s what you need to know about digital nomad visas.
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In Finland, Building One of the World’s Largest Cruise Ships
In a Finnish shipyard, the 250,800-ton sister of Icon of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship, is in the final stages of construction. We got an inside look.
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Zita Cobb on Community Tourism and Her Newfoundland Inn
The innkeeper at this luxury hotel on Newfoundland’s Fogo Island hopes other places might draw inspiration from an economic model in which tourism is in service to the community, and not the other way around.
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What a Second Trump Term Could Mean for Your Money
Here’s what the president-elect has said he might do with your taxes, student loans, Social Security and more.