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There’s No New ‘Friday the 13th’ Movie to Announce… Yet

If you had high hopes that the Jason Universe panel at San Diego Comic-Con would address “the elephant in the room,” as Horror Inc. executive Rob Barsamian called it—well, it did indeed do that. But as of now, there’s no concrete news to report about a new Friday the 13th film. Yet. “After 45 years, we wanted another 45 years,” Barsamian said from the stage, referencing the fact that the original Friday the 13th was released in 1980. “And we hear you loud and clear. We’re doing everything we ca

The Most Amazing Cosplay of San Diego Comic-Con 2025, Day 2

Friday at San Diego Comic-Con 2025 brought more cosplay out to the annual week-long geek party. Here’s our assortment of the best looks we saw on Day 2. With things kicking off at Crunchyroll’s Anime Fan Fest, the con-goers had more places to meet up with their fellow fans, but the main thoroughfare remained on the convention show floor. Without further ado we herald Galactus—and more fan favorites from One Piece to Gremlins to DC Comics and even Team America: World Police. For day one, click

Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event

This is the second year I brought my Dad (a now-retired radio engineer and co-host of Geerling Engineering) to Open Sauce, a Bay Area maker faire-like event, dreamed up by William Osman and featuring hundreds of exhibits ranging from mad science, to vintage electronics, to games, to world-record-breaking Rubik's Cube solvers: Sprawling over the grounds of the San Mateo County Event Center, I met people of all ages who were building all sorts of zany contraptions. Sometimes practical, sometimes

Apple dodges new Dutch ruling on dating app fees (for now)

In June, a Dutch court upheld a prior antitrust ruling against Apple, in a case involving dating apps and the App Store commission. Today, the case was put on pause, as the country’s watchdog awaits the outcome of Apple’s DMA negotiations with the European Commission. A bit of context This case was originally brought by the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM), accusing Apple of “unreasonable conditions in its App Store”, as it collected its 30% IAP fee, while not allowing for exter

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 26 #510

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle features some pretty long answers, and they didn't all come immediately to mind, even when I learned the theme. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 26, #776

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Are you traveling this summer? Today's NYT Connections puzzle has two travel-related categories, blue and purple. The purple one requires you to think about places you might travel to, while the blue one is more about how you get around. Need help? Read on for clues and to

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 26, #306

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition includes some Olympics-connected sports. The yellow and green categories should be simple, but read on for hints and the answers if you get stuck. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign t

Celebrating 20 Years of MDN

What would a birthday celebration be without cake? Well in the web world, cakes have a very special place. There's a long-standing tradition among browser makers of sending cakes to each other to mark major milestones. A good cake matters a lot to keep a spirit of collaboration alive between teams who compete at times, but ultimately build towards one open web that everybody can enjoy. Microsoft sent Mozilla cakes for Firefox 2, 3, and 4, and we also sent them one for IE10: And what better way

Can Amazon finally make AI wearables happen? This buzzy new device could be its best bet

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET If you have ever used an AI transcription service for meetings, calls, lectures, or more, you know how good the technology is at capturing every detail of a conversation and converting it into text. Now, imagine a world where you could access an AI-generated transcription of every real-world interaction you have. Enter the Bee AI wearable. On Wednesday, Bee CEO Maria de Lourdes announced via LinkedIn that Bee is joining Amazon. The concept behind Bee is simple: a $49 wristb

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 25, #1497

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle is a pretty tough one. I honestly don't think of it as an actual dictionary-approved word, but rather a slang term. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 25, #775

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle features that very rare thing -- an easy purple category! Or maybe my fascination with the royal family helped me out there. Need help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 25 #509

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a mix of easy words to find and unscramble and one whopping long one. But if you know the theme, that word is easy to decipher. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 25, #305

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition tested my breadth of sports knowledge. The blue category pays tribute to one of the greatest players of all time. See if you can figure it out. We've got hints and the answers in case you get stuck. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its

Commerce Sec. Lutnick says TikTok will go dark if China won't agree to U.S. control of the social media app

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Thursday that TikTok will go dark for Americans unless China agrees to give the U.S. more control over the popular short-form video app. "We've made the decision. You can't have Chinese control and have something on 100 million American phones," Lutnick told CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" on Thursday. TikTok's future in the U.S. has been uncertain since 2024, when Congress passed a bill that would ban the platform unless its Chinese owner, ByteDance, dives

Tesla shares drop 8% after auto sales plunge again

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT watch now Tesla shares fell 8% Thursday after the company reported a second straight quarter of declining auto sales. Elon Musk's electric vehicle maker reported a top and bottom line miss on second-quarter results, noting that automotive revenue fell 16% year-on-year to $16.7 billion. On an earnings call, Musk said Tesla "probably could have a few rough quarters" ahead as a result of the expiration of federal electric vehicl

Apple shows off new store in Osaka, Japan – with Apple Intelligence workshop

We learned earlier this month that a new Apple store was coming to Osaka, Japan, and the company has today shared photos ahead of Saturday’s official opening. Accessibility is cited a key factor in the store design. Apple says that the Today at Apple workshops offered there will include one on taking advantage of Apple Intelligence features … We’ve already seen some funky wallpaper to celebrate the new store. It’s now traditional for Apple to create fun, customized versions of its logo with fe

Tesla shares drop 6% in premarket trading after auto sales plunge again

Elon Musk, during a news conference with President Donald Trump, inside the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on May 30, 2025. Tesla shares fell 6% in premarket trading on Thursday after the company reported a second straight quarter of declining automotive sales. Elon Musk's electric carmaker reported a top and bottom line miss on second-quarter results, noting that automotive revenue fell 16% year-on-year to $16.7 billion. On an earnings call, Musk said Tesla "probably could have

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 24 #508

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle isn't too tough, but there sure are a lot of words to find. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can vi

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 24, #774

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle has one of those purple categories that asks for sound-alike words that all have something in common. It's a toughie. Need help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle.

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 24, #304

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Nice one, New York Times. That purple category for today's Connections: Sports Edition is pretty tricky. I'll admit, I didn't solve this one correctly! Stuck like me? Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb.

Tim Burton and Jenna Ortega Claim No Knowledge of ‘Beetlejuice 3’

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice—the decades-awaited sequel to Tim Burton’s spooky-season classic—was a box-office hit, meaning that even if it didn’t make quite the same cultural impact as its inspiration, talk of a threequel is already in the air. But even if Hollywood has its hopes up, Burton and star Jenna Ortega aren’t making any promises. In fact, in a new interview with the Hollywood Reporter, the Wednesday duo sounded downright skeptical about Beetlejuice 3. “Really? Nobody told me. Maybe I’ve

US nuclear weapons agency hacked in Microsoft SharePoint attacks

Unknown threat actors have breached the National Nuclear Security Administration's network in attacks exploiting a recently patched Microsoft SharePoint zero-day vulnerability chain. NNSA is a semi-autonomous U.S. government agency part of the Energy Department that maintains the country's nuclear weapons stockpile and is also tasked with responding to nuclear and radiological emergencies within the United States and abroad. A Department of Energy spokesperson confirmed in a statement that hac

Deals: M4 Pro MacBook Pro 512GB $240 off or 1TB $330 off, Nomad Titanium band 49% off, MagSafe stand $44, more

Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break deals are headlined by the MacBook Pro. Amazon is now offering some notable discounts across the lineup, including the base M4 at $200 off the list price alongside an upgraded 1TB 14-inch variant at $330 off and the most affordable M4 Pro model at $240 off. Those deals join the ongoing $180 discount we are tracking on this 24GB MacBook Air as well as $119 off Jet Black Apple Watch Series 10 and some notable accessory deals – Twelve South’s latest 15W HiRise 2 Deluxe

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US nuclear weapons agency reportedly hacked in SharePoint attacks

Unknown threat actors have reportedly breached the National Nuclear Security Administration's network in attacks exploiting a recently patched Microsoft SharePoint zero-day vulnerability chain. NNSA is a semi-autonomous U.S. government agency part of the Energy Department that maintains the country's nuclear weapons stockpile and is also tasked with responding to nuclear and radiological emergencies within the United States and abroad. A Department of Energy spokesperson confirmed in a stateme

Sonos names Tom Conrad permanent CEO

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Sonos has officially appointed Tom Conrad as CEO, the company announced on Wednesday. Conrad took over as interim chief executive in January following the company’s disastrous app launch in May 2024, which led to the resignation of former CEO Patrick Spence. Conrad has served on Sonos’ board of directors since 2017 and was also the chief product of

Google just released a convenient way to clean up Call Notes on your Pixel

Google TL;DR Google has started rolling out an auto-delete feature to Call Notes on Pixel 9 phones. This feature lets you automatically delete Call Notes after a specified period of time. The news comes a few months after we first discovered evidence of this option. Google revealed a Call Notes feature alongside the Pixel 9 series last year. This feature records, transcribes, and summarizes phone calls. We’ve seen evidence that Google could bring an auto-delete feature to Call Notes, and it’