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Google targets cybercriminals behind massive Android malware scheme

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is suing the creators of BadBox 2.0, a botnet that infected 10 million off-brand Android devices. The malware often came pre-installed on cheap streaming boxes, tablets, and projectors, mostly made in China. Infected devices were used for ad fraud and to hide other cybercriminals’ activity behind your home network. Before they even turned it on, the device was already infected. That’s the reality for millions who unknowingly bought Android-powe

Netflix is already using generative AI in its original shows

Netflix admitted during its earnings call on Thursday that it used generative AI to create VFX in The Eternaut, a Netflix original from Argentina that was released in April 2025. The company's co-CEO Ted Sarandos said that generative AI was specifically used for a VFX shot in the post-apocalyptic drama, but the move is one of several ways Netflix is embracing AI. According to Sarandos, the creators of The Eternaut wanted to include a shot of building collapsing in Buenos Aires, and rather than

Netflix admits it used generative AI in a big sci-fi hit to cut costs

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. Netflix used generative AI to create a scene in the sci-fi series The Eternaut — a first for one of the streamer’s original shows or films. During an earnings call on Thursday, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said the use of AI was faster than using traditional visual effects tools and helped cut costs. “That VFX sequence was completed 10 times faster

When Will You See AI-Generated Content on Netflix? It's Possible You Already Have

How soon will it be before Netflix subscribers begin to see movies and TV show that were made with generative AI technology? According to CEO Ted Sarandos, it's already happened. In a video conference call after Netflix's earnings were announced on July 17, Sarandos took questions, one of which was focused on when and how the streaming company will generate content with artificial intelligence tools. Surprisingly, Sarandos said the company already did it, on an Argentinian sci-fi show called E

Netflix just revealed its biggest shows and movies coming this year and next

Netflix reported its quarterly earnings yesterday, and alongside revealing viewership data from the first half of 2025, Co-CEO Ted Sarandos name-dropped a bunch of the streamer’s biggest TV shows and movies that are coming throughout the rest of 2025 and into 2026. Netflix’s back half of 2025 has ‘most anticipated slate of new movies’ ever Ted Sarandos, who made his acting debut in Apple TV+ hit The Studio this year, also happens to be Netflix’s Co-CEO, was asked yesterday whether Netflix can

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 19 #503

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. Is it hot where you are? Today's NYT Strands puzzle highlights words for summery weather. 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

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 18, #502

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 has a fun theme that made me laugh -- until I started unscrambling the answers, some of which are tough. 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, Conne

Google may be removing its iconic ‘G’ logo from Messages (APK teardown)

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TL;DR The Google Messages app could be getting a branding tweak that removes the famous “G” logo. It seems that the company plans to use the full “Google” wordmark in the app’s header going forward. The new Google Messages branding seems to be consistent with other Google apps, such as Photos, Calendar, Drive, and more. Google is constantly making subtle changes to the look and feel of its core apps, and we’ve discovered that Google Messages may be in line f

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 18 #502

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 has a fun theme that made me laugh -- until I started unscrambling the answers, some of which are tough. 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, Conne

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 17 #501

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 has some short and some long answers. Once you get the theme, though, you should be able to unscramble even the incredibly long answer. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're lo

Tin Can – The landline, reinvented for kids

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 16 #500

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 fun one -- it reminds me of all the techie items that were recently being touted everywhere on Prime Day. (No, this is not an ad for Amazon.) Once you get the puzzle theme, the words are pretty easy -- except for one that stumped me. If you nee

The rights to Fyre Festival sold on eBay for $245K

Billy McFarland, the fraudster who brought you Fyre Festival, has sold the rights to the brand on eBay for $245,300. We do not yet know who the buyer is or what they plan to do with such cursed IP. Fyre Festival was a downright disaster. What was supposed to be a luxury music festival ended up stranding guests on an island in the Bahamas. Instead of lavish villas and gourmet meals, the festival’s clientele, which included wealthy millennial influencers, got flimsy tents and famously unappetizin

The rights to Fyre Festival sold on eBay for 245K

Billy McFarland, the fraudster who brought you Fyre Festival, has sold the rights to the brand on eBay for $245,300. We do not yet know who the buyer is or what they plan to do with such cursed IP. Fyre Festival was a downright disaster. What was supposed to be a luxury music festival ended up stranding guests on an island in the Bahamas. Instead of lavish villas and gourmet meals, the festival’s clientele, which included wealthy millennial influencers, got flimsy tents and famously unappetizin

Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions

Campbell's Law (a variant of Goodhart's Law) states that the more a metric is used for social decision-making, the more it will be subject to corruption which distorts and corrupts not only the metric itself, but the very social processes it was meant to measure. Selection criteria for a position of authority are one example of such a metric. When selection criteria are opaque, it is difficult for them to become a target, preserving their utility as measures. For governance positions however, it

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 15, #499

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 reminds me of many happy days spent at the Minnesota State Fair. Pass the cheese curds, please. 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 an

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 15 #499

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 reminds me of many happy days spent at the Minnesota State Fair. Pass the cheese curds, please. 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 an

Why random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions

Campbell's Law (a variant of Goodhart's Law) states that the more a metric is used for social decision-making, the more it will be subject to corruption which distorts and corrupts not only the metric itself, but the very social processes it was meant to measure. Selection criteria for a position of authority are one example of such a metric. When selection criteria are opaque, it is difficult for them to become a target, preserving their utility as measures. For governance positions however, it

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 14 #498

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 theme set me to humming the theme from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. When you find the answers, they're pretty easy, though one is quite long to unscramble. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story.

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 13 #497

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 so tough if you're used to reading the labels in your outfits. 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, y

Faking a JPEG

25th March 2025: Faking a JPEG Click to expand I've been wittering on about Spigot for a while. It's small web application which generates a fake hierarchy of web pages, on the fly, using a Markov Chain to make gibberish content for aggressive web crawlers to ingest. Spigot has been sitting there, doing its thing, for a few months now, serving over a million pages per day. I've not really been keeping track of what it's up to, but every now and then I look at its logs to see what crawlers are

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 12 #496

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. If you love attending baseball games in summer, you'll hit a home run with today's NYT Strands puzzle. 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 ans

dbrand finally has a fix for its Switch 2 Killswitch Joy-Con detachment problem

Oliver Cragg / Android Authority TL;DR dbrand has found a solution for the Joy-Con detachment issue affecting its Switch 2 Killswitch case. Next week, the company plans to share a production schedule that outlines when you can claim your free replacement. The company also plans to send out silicone friction pads, which should make it easier to remove the console from the Dock Adapter with one hand. Earlier this year, reports began popping up about an issue with dbrand’s Killswitch case for t

Dbrand says its new Switch 2 Joy-Con grips fix the detachment issue

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. After recently admitting that it had a “spectacularly terrible response” to Joy-Con grip detachment complaints with its Killswitch Nintendo Switch 2 case, Dbrand has some good news: it says its redesigned Joy-Con grips fix the issue and the company will be able to mass produce them. Dbrand had already promised it would be replacing the grips for everyone, and now we know that

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 11 #495

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 will require you to draw on your memories of literature terms. As an English major, I loved today's topic. 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, Con

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 10 #494

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 bit tricky. There's at least one answer that seems more British than American, so think globally. 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, Connect

HBO Max comes full circle, and this time your apps will auto-update

The HBO streaming video app became HBO Max when the company added Warner Bros movies and Turner TV shows. In the worst rebrand since Twitter became X, the company later dropped the unique and valuable HBO part of the name and kept the generic and worthless Max part. Two years later, the company is fixing that. It today becomes HBO Max once more – and this time around, your apps should automatically update … Musk still holds the dumbest rebrand award thanks to throwing away a global household n

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 9 #493

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 fun topic, but some of the words get a little long to unscramble. 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,

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 8 #492

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 tough one. It was one where I did not have a clue what the theme was even after I finished it, though the spangram finally gave it away. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you

Lightfastness Testing of Colored Pencils

Have you ever spent hours on a piece of artwork, only to watch it fade over time? It’s a frustrating reality for many artists, and it all comes down to something called ‘lightfastness’ – a medium’s resistance to fading over time when exposed to light. If you want your work to last, choosing supplies with good lightfast ratings is essential. But how do we know which art supplies will hold up over time? Some brands advertise their materials as “lightfast,” but do their claims hold up in real-worl