Independence Day producer Dean Devlin has weighed in on the controversy over Game of Thrones’ dark cinematography. After over a year-long hiatus, HBO’s fantasy drama has returned for its final season, and already fans have been treated to an epic helping of action, plot twists, major character deaths and long awaited hookups. Sunday night’s third episode, “The Long Night,” provided the vast majority of the season’s action as it depicted the Night King and his army of the dead descending upon Winterfell and its plucky band of defenders (and two dragons)....

Dear White People season 3’s ending revealed more details about the mysterious Order of X, as well as the real identity of Giancarlo Esposito’s enigmatic Narrator. The Netflix show’s third season picks up immediately after the season 2 finale, but Sam and Lionel are disappointed to learn that the man waiting for them in the bell tower doesn’t have the simple answers they need, and are even more disappointed when he tells them that the Order - an elite secret society of African-American students and alumni - has collapsed....

GDB is one of the most popular debuggers available for debugging Linux-based executables. GDB is also extensively used in exploit development and reverse engineering. This article focuses on understanding how to use GDB to step through the instructions of a given x86 assembly program. See the previous article in the series, How to build a program and execute an application entirely built in x86 assembly. The target executable The readers will be introduced to using GDB in the later sections of the article....

BIAS also offers assets to expand Deloitte’s advisory, implementation, and operational services with a presence in both the US and India. The new owner expects to apply the incoming tools and personnel to expanding and building presences in the cloud infrastructure, database, middleware, applications, analytics, and security product arenas. “This acquisition underscores the strategic priority Deloitte places on advancing business disruption with cloud technology,” said Amit Chaudhary, cloud-engineering offering leader and principal at Deloitte Consulting....

Carter Covington, showrunner of The CW’s Charmed reboot is stepping down, and in his place the TV show promotes husband and wife duo Craig Shapiro and Elizabeth Kruger. Covington was previously the creator of MTV’s Faking It before being tasked with reviving the late ’90s television series with the hopes of bring in both old and new fans. In 2018, Charmed received a more modern reworking of the original television series that ran from 1998-2006, which initially starred Rose McGowan, Holly Marie Combs, and Alyssa Milano....

1. How did you first get interested in computers and security? Anu first got interested in computers and security indirectly when she opened up to math, since computers and math are intertwined. Until the sixth grade, she was scared by math, but her teacher changed her perspective on the subject. She saw her first computer in her junior year of high school, at which point she fell in love with computers and knew that computer science was what she wanted to study....

The creative team of Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev return in April 2020 with the six-issue miniseries Event Leviathan: Checkmate, the next installment of their DC Comics Event Leviathan storyline. From the beginning, the story arc involved the various intelligence agencies and organizations within the DCU systemically dismantled by a new, masked villain calling himself Leviathan - who somehow had a private army at his disposal. By the conclusion of the first miniseries, Leviathan had managed to avoid capture and was revealed to be a former hero....

The Pentagon has banned deployed military personnel from using smartphones, smart watches fitness trackers and apps with geolocation enabled. The move was made in response to a serious security risk identified in January, when publicly available Strava data was found to reveal both the locations and layouts of US military bases in countries like Syria and Afghanistan … CNN reports that the Pentagon ban was signed on Friday, and came into immediate effect....

Researchers at cybersecurity company Group-IB analysed activity on underground forums and said there’s been a sharp increase in the number of offers to sell access to compromised corporate networks, with the number of posts offering access tripling between 2020 and 2021. Crooks are claiming to offer access to compromised Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) login credentials, as well as web shells, reverse shells, Cobalt Strike penetration testing tools and more....

In a series of PDFs released today (Intro, Site Plan/Landscaping, Floor Plans and Renderings), the City of Cupertino released detailed floor plans of Apple’s 20,000 plus person super-structure. The building, affectionately dubbed “the Mothership” was announced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs on June 7th, just days after WWDC earlier this year. Cupertino’s Mayor went on record a few weeks later saying “there was no way they weren’t going to approve the deal”....

Keatron discussed a wide range of issues related to becoming an incident responder (IR), including what piqued his interest in security, whether the milestones he faced still exist today, the day-to-day activities of an IR, what projects or activities should an IR be interested in, what certifications an IR should pursue, and more. When did you become interested in computer security? Keatron became interested in computer security through a series of milestones that progressively unfolded over time....

The large and passionate community of Twin Peaks fans, who have been waiting more than a quarter century for new episodes, had a big day on Monday. Showtime, the network that will air this year’s Twin Peaks revival, held a presentation at the Television Critics Association winter press tour, and answered a lot of questions about the long-awaited project. The series, finally, has a premiere date of May 21, which will see the debut of the first two episodes, followed by the immediate on-demand release of the third and fourth episodes....

At first glance, Zack Snyder’s 2004 Dawn of the Dead remake appears to have a fairly hopeful ending, that is until the credits scenes kick in. While remakes have been a thing since the earliest days of cinema, in recent decades, the horror genre has become especially inundated with them. It seems like just about any horror film with a decent following will one day be remade, ranging from all time classics like Halloween and Psycho to cult items like The Evil Dead and Suspiria....

Get the HyperJuice AirPods Wireless Charger Case 60% off for a limited time – $20 (Reg. $50) Head below for a video hands-on look: Hands-on with HyperJuice Wireless Charger Case for Apple AirPods: This is a new and improved 2nd generation version of Hyper’s wireless charging case featuring a fully enclosed design and other improvements. As you’ll see in our video above, you simply insert the original Apple AirPods Charging Case inside the HyperJuice case to add wireless charging functionality in a matter of seconds....

Deal or No Deal was one of the most talked-about game shows of the late 2000s. The franchise came to America in 2005 before it t took a break for almost a decade, but it returned to NBC in 2018. Howie Mandel hosts this program in which contestants win money, mostly by pure luck. There are 26 numbered briefcases, each manned by a model, with a noteworthy one of them having been Meghan Markle....

Death Stranding is coming to PC after all, as developer Kojima Productions will be teaming up with publisher 505 Games to bring the game to the platform in summer 2020. Death Stranding has had a curious relationship with PS4 exclusivity up until this point, having first been announced as a PS4 and PC title way back in 2015 before flirting with being available only on Sony’s flagship device on and off again....

Another Arrowverse character will be debuting in animated form on the CW Seed platform soon: Deathstroke. The deadly assassin follows the footsteps of characters like Vixen, The Ray and even Constantine in doubling up on both live action and animation, although they all made their first CW appearances around the same time in both mediums. Deathstroke, on the other hand, is arriving six years after his first Arrow episode aired....

I usually travel hand-baggage only as it saves time on arrival and removes the stress of wondering whether your luggage will arrive, but if you can’t avoid hold baggage, Delta now lets you keep an eye on it via its Fly Delta app. Delta started attaching RFID tags to bags back in April, but at that stage it was purely for use by the airline itself. It’s now making that same data available to customers, so you can see whether your bag made it onto the plane and then track it all the way to the carousel on arrival …...

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwyCaO9J9Qw] Need a new game to entertain you over the holidays? The sequel to the popular Cut the Rope series just launched today with all new levels and characters and its exclusive to the App Store. As with the original app, Cut the Rope 2 follows the main character Om Nom through an animated world through a puzzles to solve in pursuit of candy. Cut the Rope 2 is available for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch for $0....

There are many reasons for our favouring this app. But perhaps the biggest is the fact that it is available across the most platforms at no cost. You can get Glympse for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry – and without paying a penny. Coming a close second is the fact that the app lets you send your location to anyone – just about anyone – who has an Internet connection on their device, even if they do not have Glympse on it....