Netflix said it would drop the trailer today for Geeked Week, and it’s here. From the looks of things, it’s got all the hallmarks of a Zack Snyder movie — grandiose shots, very buff warrior types, and super slow-mo.
Rebel Moon starts streaming on December 22nd.
NASA has stopped talking to the Mars robots for two weeks. Engadget pointed to NASA’s blog about solar conjunction, a biennial occurrence where the Sun sits between Mars and Earth.
NASA says coronal gasses can corrupt signals NASA sends to its automated explorers, so the agency is playing it safe. In the meantime, the two rovers and the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will continue collecting data while parked on the surface.
That’s a line from Expedia’s senior executive Barry Diller’s strongly-worded email to Google that Bloomberg reported on last month in the ongoing Google antitrust trial.
Diller complained that Google search ads costs ballooned from “$21M to almost $300M” from 2015 to 2019. But just look at these excerpts, written with the most “I said good day!” energy of anything I’ve read in the last year.
What could possibly justify such increases - it’s not as if you’re selling sugar against a world drought. The only conclusion is that Google has systematically moved every lever in its hegemony over search to disembowel our businesses.
We are not owners of horses begging for automobile manufacturers to keep us alive as technology replaces us. We are vibrant innovative enterprises that deliver value for consumers and I believe you are unfairly using your monopoly power to bleed us dry.
The Captain Marvel sequel has only managed $47 million in its opening weekend at the US box office. That may be respectable for some movies, but as Deadline notes, only two MCU movies have opened under $60 million, let alone $50 million.
The Marvels may get a lot right, as Charles said in his Verge review, but that doesn’t help if viewers don’t trust Marvel anymore.
Reuters writes today that a “serious and ongoing” cybersecurity incident hit port operator DP World Australia, which controls 18 ports in the country. Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil said the company “manages almost 40% of the goods” shipped to and from Australia.
According to Reuters, the country’s cyber security coordinator says the situation could “continue for a number of days.”
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman wrote for Power On newsletter subscribers today that “highly controlled” iOS sideloading is coming “in the first half of next year.”
Europe requires that “gatekeepers” like Apple make such changes by March 2024. It’ll be interesting to see what “highly controlled” means. I wouldn’t be surprised if sideloading is no walk in the park.
Gurman also mentions changes are coming to Messages, but it’s important to keep in mind that Messages the app and iMessage the service are different things. The EU is currently investigating whether iMessage counts as a “core platform service” under the regulation.
Last night, a friend pointed me to Radio Garden. The site (or iOS app) is simple, presenting a swipe-able digital Earth covered in green dots. Some represent collections of local stations, and some, like the lonely, all-shellac-78s Arctic Outpost AM1270, solemnly broadcast into the Earth’s farthest reaches.
James did a good job documenting the unexpectedly simple, nostalgic joy of Radio Garden in his Verge story years ago.
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Cybersecurity blogger Brian Krebs wrote today — a little over a year from his 2022 article describing the same issue — that anyone can usurp someone else’s Experian credit account simply by creating a new account.
He described what happens after you do so, based on his own experience regaining his own stolen Experian account:
After that, your new account is created and you’re directed to the Experian dashboard, which allows you to view your full credit file, and freeze or unfreeze it.
At this point, Experian will send a message to the old email address tied to the account, saying certain aspects of the user profile have changed. But this message isn’t a request seeking verification: It’s just a notification from Experian that the account’s user data has changed, and the original user is offered zero recourse here other than to a click a link to log in at Experian.com.
