Staggering New Botnet, ‘Hajime’ Discovered
A team of security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have detected something a bit peculiar. A virulent worm has compromised hundreds of thousands of routers, cameras, and other Internet-of-Things (or IoT)...
View ArticlePrivacy Advocates are Losing Because Convenience is Nice
Much as I hate to say it, privacy, as we once knew it, has been all but eradicated. Think about it. How often do you actually clean out your cookies? What groups and […] The post Privacy Advocates are...
View ArticleDNA Could Power the Hard Drives of the Future
So we all know DNA stores the code that makes us… well… possible, right? Those Gs, Ts, Cs and As might not seem like much, but they’re effectively the same as computer code. […] The post DNA Could...
View ArticleThe Poisoned Chalice of Stephen King’s It: From Book to TV Series to Film
When It came out in 1986, it was the longest book Stephen King had ever written. (It has since been surpassed by The Stand which runs 1,153 pages to It’s 1,138.) There are […] The post The Poisoned...
View ArticleEurope’s Been Hit by Another Huge Ransomware Attack
Last month Europe was practically brought to its knees by one of the worst ransomware attacks in history. Tens of thousands of systems were affected by the “Wanna Cry” attack. And now it […] The post...
View ArticlePirate Bay Co-founder: We’ve Lost the Internet to Capitalists
In an interview with The Next Web, Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde got really pessimistic about the future of the World Wide Web. Sunde says that we’ve taken power from those who should […] The post...
View ArticleGoogle Drive is Dying, Kinda
Google, long known for their perplexing software decisions (yes, I’m still salty about the death of Google Reader), has decided it will no longer support the Google Drive app for PC and Mac […] The...
View ArticleMovieBob Reviews: IT (2017)
Is IT good? Is what good? The movie. Which movie? IT. It what? The movie. Which movie? IT! It what? The movie. IT. The movie it… what? Stop that. Sorry. Yes, IT is […] The post MovieBob Reviews: IT...
View ArticleBatman Fights Pennywise, Bi Representation in Wonder Woman and More from DC...
Fan films and mashups are always some of the coolest things to come out of comics and comic book movies. If there’s any proof that superhero stories are the modern version of mythology, […] The post...
View ArticleIBM Bans Removable Storage Devices for Workers
Corporate espionage and cybersecurity are two critical issues these days for basically any company, but the risks have grown great enough now, that some, like IBM, are beginning to take more drastic...
View ArticleWhat Castle Rock Gets Right, and Not As Right, About Adapting Stephen King
The first three episodes of Hulu’s Castle Rock hit the streaming service on Wednesday. Rather than adapt one or even a few Stephen King novels, it’s an original story set in the world of King’s […] The...
View ArticleToy Tuesday: The Scariest Movie Monster Toys
Halloween draws near, and if you’re looking to beef up your toy shelf on payday you might want to think “seasonally appropriate.” It’s pretty wild that horror movies — usually the domain of […] The...
View ArticleMovieBob’s 15 Most Anticipated Movies of 2019
The year is 2019. The world is on fire. Long held assumptions about the stability of cherished institutions are being shaken to their core. Entire populations of citizenry are set against one another...
View Article‘Pennywise: The Story of IT’ Explores Stephen King’s Chilling Clown Tale
IT, Stephen King’s horrifying story about a killer clown, still gives people the creeps. Now, fans can get a behind-the-scenes look at King’s eerie 1990 miniseries in the new documentary Pennywise: The...
View Article‘IT’-Themed ‘Clue’ and ‘Monopoly’ Are Coming for Creepy Game Nights
Pennywise is coming to terrorize your game night: IT-themed Clue and Monopoly board games will be available later this year. USAopoly, a major board game company, recently announced that the horror...
View ArticleKamala Harris Wants to Give States Millions to Update Tech
Elizabeth Warren isn’t the only one fighting to break up big tech. U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) this week introduced legislation that would earmark millions of dollars for governments to “update and...
View ArticleSDCC 2019: ‘It Chapter Two’ Final Trailer Is a Frightening Trip to...
The final trailer for 'It Chapter Two' freaked out fans at SDCC 2019. (Photo Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures) Pennywise is not giving up on the Losers Club, and this time, he is haunting the group as...
View Article10 Movies That Would Have Been Better Split in Half
'IT Chapter 2' hits theaters on Sept. 6. (Photo Credit: Warner Bros.) IT Chapter Two hits theaters Friday, Sept. 6, finishing up the Stephen King horror adaptation. The structure of It lends itself...
View ArticleWatch These Movies Before ‘IT Chapter Two’
Two years ago, a clown in a sewer ate a little boy and ate his way into our hearts in IT. Based on the massive Stephen King novel, the filmmakers decided the only way they could do the story justice...
View ArticlePennywise Mod Makes ‘Resident Evil 2’ More Terrifying
Usually when someone mods a new character into an existing game on PC it’s as a joke. There are almost too many examples to list. Think Kylo Ren in Devil May Cry 5 or Henry Cavill in The Witcher 3 or...
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