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Snoop Alert: Twitter Bug Lets People See Fleets Past Their Expiration Dates

It looks like Twitter just can’t catch a fleeting break. Days after the company unveiled Fleets, its new Instagram Stories-like posts that are theoretically supposed to disappear after 24 hours, a bug has basically made them pretty useless. Even worse, the bug could open the door to snooping galore. According to TechCrunch, Twitter users disclosed…

Social Media Jody Serrano

These Costumes From the Original Power Rangers Movie Are Up for Auction

The original Power Rangers movie was a fully Americanized production based on Japanese sentai, and it went a little hog wild with it. Now, some of its most distinctive—and possibly controversial—props are up for auction: the costumes. Yes, those costumes, which trade out the comfy-looking padded tracksuits of the original outfits for more complicated, armored,…

Movies Julie Muncy

This Dragon Ball Super Diorama Is the Coolest Thing I’ve Seen All Week

Look, I’m creative. I write, I can do some other things. But can I sculpt a perfect diorama of one of the best fighting moments in Dragon Ball? No, I can’t. But Dr. Garuda certainly can. If you’re a Dragon Ball fan, you know the moment (and if you’re not I’ll be vague to avoid…

io9 Julie Muncy

This Video Argues That Star Wars Is a Bit More Scientific Than You’d Imagine

Star Wars is definitely not hard sci-fi. It’s, as generally understood, very soft. But according to this video, it’s a bit less soft than you might think. In a new video, YouTuber EC Henry focuses on the original Star Wars film, A New Hope, to explore the ways in which it’s not as fantastical a…

Movies Julie Muncy

This New DuckTales Clip Is Also a Tantalizing Doctor Who Reunion, Kind Of

The Master, a-whoo-hoo! At least, that’s what the theme song would be for an upcoming episode of DuckTales if they were being a bit more honest about what fans are going to get out of it. As Syfy Wire points out, an upcoming episode of the Disney cartoon is going to introduce a new character,…

io9 Julie Muncy

Attackers Dupe GoDaddy Staff Into Helping Them Take Down Cryptocurrency Services

Roughly one year after a data breach at GoDaddy compromised 28,000 customer accounts, the world’s largest internet domain registrar is once again at the center of a security scandal. Hackers brought down several cryptocurrency services using GoDaddy domains in recent weeks, and apparently the company’s own staff unwittingly helped in these attacks. Hackers purportedly duped…

Privacy & Security Alyse Stanley

California Says Tesla Workers Are Now ‘Essential,’ and Can Ignore Stay-at-Home Order

Workers that make Teslas during the coronavirus pandemic are now apparently considered “essential” in the state of California, which has reported an average of 10,981 new covid-19 infections per day in the last week. This means that Tesla’s workers will not be affected by the state’s new limited stay-at-home order, which goes into effect Saturday.…

Tech News Jody Serrano

It Doesn’t Matter If Trump Never Concedes, Twitter Is Giving @POTUS to Biden

Outgoing President Donald Trump is set to receive a rude awakening on Jan. 20, 2021 on his favorite social media platform: Twitter. That day, Trump will no longer see a picture of himself on the popular @POTUS account—the official presidential Twitter account, although Trump prefers to use his own personal, @realDonaldTrump, as the world knows—but…

Social Media Jody Serrano

More States Are Offering Contact-Tracing Apps—Now if Only They Could Get People to Use Them

Google and Apple rolled out their covid-19 contact-tracing APIs months ago for state officials to use in developing their own covid-19-tracking apps, but adoption has proceeded at a snail’s pace. Just 15 states and Washington, D.C. are currently employing the tech giants’ “exposure notification” tech while a handful of other states such as California and…

Health Alyse Stanley

This Video Takes a Tour of the Hidden Tunnels Underneath the Original Disney Animation Buildings

What do Paris, Disney, and sprawling nuclear fallout shelters have in common? Catacombs! Yes, that’s right: there are hidden tunnels beneath the original Disney animation studio buildings on the Walt Disney Studios lot in Burbank. Which makes the world of Disney animation both cooler and more arcane, like a hidden home for powerful sorcerers lurking…

io9 Julie Muncy

Pennyworth Continues to Look Nothing Like a Show Related at All to Batman

This looks fun. But also... what is it? I still am not sure I truly follow the logic at play here.

Trailers Julie Muncy

Channing Tatum Is Set to Star in a Monster Movie From 21 Jump Street Directors, Lord and Miller

Cue “The Boys are Back in Town.” Channing Tatum is reuniting with his very funny former directors on 21 Jump Street, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, for another film. A monster movie. As reported by Deadline, the masters of upcoming movie announcements, Tatum is joining Lord and Miller for a monster-related project at Universal Pictures.…

Movies Julie Muncy

The Last of Us Television Adaptation Is a Go at HBO

From the mind behindChernobyl and some of the folks at game developer Naughty Dog, The Last of Us, the hit PlayStation series about a fungus-based zombie apocalypse, is officially making its way to television. As shared by HBO yesterday in a press release, the The Last of Us series, which has been in development since…

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Amazon’s Channels Platform Will Drop HBO Next Year as Part of HBO Max Deal

Starting next year, you won’t find HBO among Amazon’s Prime Video Channels selection anymore, CNBC reports. That was apparently one of WarnerMedia’s conditions in the months-long negotiations to bring its subscription streaming service, HBO Max, to Amazon Fire TV devices. Once the companies’ current placement deal expires next year, subscribers will have to navigate to…

Internet Alyse Stanley

Screenshot: R.B. Silva, Jesus Aburtov, Joe Caramagna, Marve Comics

We Need to Talk About Franklin

Way back at the very beginning of Marvel’s Dawn of X, the Fantastic Four and members of the newly founded mutant nation of Krakoa crossed paths in a fateful, chance encounter that underlined just what it is about this new mutant age that scares the rest of the world so much. That subsequent tension between…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

The Coronavirus Has Once Again Contracted Trump

The eldest Trump spawn, Donald Trump Jr., has reportedly contracted the coronavirus. Honestly, given the rate at which the virus has spread among the president’s staff and associates in recent weeks, is anyone really surprised? “Don tested positive at the start of the week and has been quarantining out at his cabin since the result,” a…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

Transfomers and X-Men Collide, and More of the Most Mutagenic Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular roundup of all things good and plastic. This week: Hasbro turns its transforming eye to another nostalgic mashup. Mando Monday reinforcements bring The Mandalorian’s big bad to the Star Wars Black Series. Also? Warm Kirby. Check it out! Hasbro Transformers Generations Collaborative: Marvel Comics X-Men Mash-Up, Ultimate X-Spanse…

Toys & Collectibles Andrew Liszewski & James Whitbrook

The Trump Admin Is Refusing to Give Full Cybersecurity Support to Biden’s Transition Team

President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team is using a “standard, paid Google workspace network” with only limited support from the federal government thanks to Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the 2020 elections and efforts to hobble the inbound Democratic administration, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Presidential transition teams typically have the support of the…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay

Black Panther 2 Will Reportedly Begin Shooting This Summer

The unthinkable loss of Chadwick Boseman understandably slowed down the timeline on Black Panther 2. Originally, production was aiming to start in March 2021 for a May 6, 2022 release, but then then tragedy struck. However, things have slowly begun to pick back up, and a new report says filming will begin in July 2021.…

Movies Germain Lussier

That Time Donald Trump Tried to Be Captain Planet, as Told by Barack Obama

It’s Barack Obama book week. The former president’s new book, The Promised Land, dropped on Tuesday, and there’s a lot to pour over. Soon-to-be-former President Donald Trump is largely a specter in the book, not appearing until very near the end. While Trump’s most famous tie to Obama is using the false birther conspiracy theory…

Earther Brian Kahn

Snoop Alert: Twitter Bug Lets People See Fleets Past Their Expiration Dates

These Costumes From the Original Power Rangers Movie Are Up for Auction

This Dragon Ball Super Diorama Is the Coolest Thing I’ve Seen All Week

This Video Argues That Star Wars Is a Bit More Scientific Than You’d Imagine

This New DuckTales Clip Is Also a Tantalizing Doctor Who Reunion, Kind Of

Attackers Dupe GoDaddy Staff Into Helping Them Take Down Cryptocurrency Services

California Says Tesla Workers Are Now ‘Essential,’ and Can Ignore Stay-at-Home Order

It Doesn’t Matter If Trump Never Concedes, Twitter Is Giving @POTUS to Biden

More States Are Offering Contact-Tracing Apps—Now if Only They Could Get People to Use Them

This Video Takes a Tour of the Hidden Tunnels Underneath the Original Disney Animation Buildings

Pennyworth Continues to Look Nothing Like a Show Related at All to Batman

Channing Tatum Is Set to Star in a Monster Movie From 21 Jump Street Directors, Lord and Miller

The Last of Us Television Adaptation Is a Go at HBO

Amazon’s Channels Platform Will Drop HBO Next Year as Part of HBO Max Deal

We Need to Talk About Franklin

The Coronavirus Has Once Again Contracted Trump

Transfomers and X-Men Collide, and More of the Most Mutagenic Toys of the Week

The Trump Admin Is Refusing to Give Full Cybersecurity Support to Biden’s Transition Team

Black Panther 2 Will Reportedly Begin Shooting This Summer

That Time Donald Trump Tried to Be Captain Planet, as Told by Barack Obama

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