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Apple TV+’s New Weeper Dear Edward Is Hardly Good Grief
Sometimes, it’s nice to have a good cry. And some of the best artists recognize that; Lord knows Jason Katims, who spearheaded thoughtful TV weepies like “Parenthood” and “Friday Night Lights,” does. But his latest for Apple TV+, an adaptation of Ann Napolitano’s acclaimed novel Dear Edward, tips its hand more than a bit too…
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Knock at the Cabin
M. Night Shyamalan should probably just stay away from the apocalypse. Who could forget the baffling events of his global warming horror “The Happening,” aptly represented by a scene in which a character just lays down in front of a moving lawn mower? Or what about “After Earth,” which made a box office bomb out of a…
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The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic
It’s a cheeky title for a serious movie. Teemu Nikki’s “The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic” is about a man in Finland named Jaakko (Petri Poikolainen), a movie fan and wheelchair user dealing with the aches and side effects of multiple sclerosis. Unable to move far without the help of an…
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80 for Brady
Resistance is futile: The ladies of “80 for Brady” have been mesmerizing us with the fascinating, flawed, but always vibrantly human characters they’ve portrayed for a combined more than two centuries, along with many Oscars, Tonys, and Emmys. They bring everything they’ve learned to this irresistible film from director Kyle Marvin, inspired by the true story…
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Godland
On its face, the uneven Icelandic missionary drama “Godland” appears to explore identity in a very lonely place. Set in Iceland in the late 19th century, “Godland” follows Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove), an ambitious but emotionally withdrawn Danish priest, as he tries to establish a Christian church in a characteristically remote part of Iceland. The…
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OpenSSH fixes double-free memory bug that’s pokable over the network
It’s a bug fix for a bug fix. A memory leak was turned into a double-free that has now been turned into correct code…
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Dashlane publishes its source code to GitHub
Password management company Dashlane has made its mobile app code available on GitHub for public perusal, a first step it says in a broader push to make its platform more transparent. Here is the code: https://github.com/Dashlane/android-apps
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Ireland’s Hospitals got hacked in 54 hospitals about 4,000 locations
At first the attack on Ireland’s public-health system fell into a depressingly familiar pattern. In March 2021, hackers duped an employee into clicking on an innocuous-looking spreadsheet, giving them access to its network. On May 14, they rendered most of the 70,000-device system inoperable by encrypting reams of its data. Then they demanded $20 million—which would have…
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Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare in Florida got hacked
A major hospital system in northern Florida said Friday it is diverting some emergency room patients and canceling surgeries after a security problem with information technology. Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare said the issue began effecting its systems late Thursday night and has forced the hospital to shut down its IT network. The hospital said in a…
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Okanagan College in British Columbia got hacked with Ransomware
Data that appears to belong to Okanagan College and its stakeholders has been posted on a dark website belonging to a criminal organization. The site cannot be found using normal search engines and you would need a special type of browser to access the site. We do not recommend that you attempt to find or access…