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Short Films in Focus: Welcome to the Enclave
Sarah Lasley’s sneaky and unsettling “Welcome to the Enclave” starts out looking like an overly corporate and sterile intro video for a virtual suburban neighborhood one can visit online. The music sounds straight out of an iMovie effects library, and the graphics look like an outdated template for a 3-D Graphic Design For Beginners program…
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I Saw the Sixth Sense Knowing the Big Twist, and Loved It Anyway
“The Sixth Sense” is the movie that made its writer-director M. Night Shyamalan a cultural force, and he’s been one ever since. It’s also the movie that stereotyped him as a filmmaker whose work is dependent on plot twists. If you reading this piece about a 25-year old movie that grossed almost $700 million and has been…
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Turning the screws: The pressure tactics of ransomware gangs
Sophos X-Ops examines the increasingly aggressive tactics ransomware gangs use to coerce their targets
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Scientists Find Arm Bone of Ancient ‘Hobbit’ Human
New fossils from Indonesia, including the smallest humerus ever found from an adult hominin, belonged to the tiny Homo floresiensis species, researchers said.
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Pete Wells Reviewed Restaurants for 12 Years. How Have They Changed?
In his last essay as a restaurant critic, Pete Wells reflects on a dining world of touch screens and reservation apps, where it’s getting hard to find the human touch.
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X, Owned by Elon Musk, Brings Antitrust Suit Accusing Advertisers of a Boycott
The company claimed that members of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media coordinated to dissuade brands from advertising on X.
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Google rolls out patch for serious Android kernel vulnerability
Google has released a new batch of security fixes that close 46 vulnerabilities in Android; the most serious flaw is found in the kernel and has the designation CVE-2024-36971, according to Bleeping Computer. The vulnerability has reportedly been actively exploited by hackers for some time, which makes it especially important to install the security fixes as…
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Who Is Tim Walz, the Minnesota Governor Kamala Harris Picked to Be V.P.?
Mr. Walz captured Democrats’ attention with his “weird” takedown of Republicans. Here’s a look at the new vice-presidential candidate.
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19 Facts About Tim Walz, Harris’s Pick for Vice President
Mr. Walz, the governor of Minnesota, worked as a high school social studies teacher and football coach, served in the Army National Guard and chooses Diet Mountain Dew over alcohol.
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Tim Walz Is Kamala Harris’s Choice for Vice President
The Minnesota governor, a former high school teacher and National Guard member, brings to the ticket Midwestern appeal and a plain-spoken way of taking on Donald Trump.