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FBI Arrest Chinese National Linked to OPM Data Breach Malware

A 36-year-old Chinese national was arrested in Los Angeles this week in connection with a computer hacking conspiracy involving malware linked to the 2014 US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach. Yu Pingan of Shanghai, China, was arrested on Wednesday while traveling at Los Angeles International Airport. Also identified by the hacker pseudonym “GoldSun,”…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron Aug 24

James Cameron Thinks Wonder Woman Was a ‘Step Backward’ For Women in Film

Oh wow, does James Cameron have a hot take on Wonder Woman. “All of the self-congratulatory back-patting Hollywood’s been doing over Wonder Woman has been so misguided,” Cameron said in a new interview with The Guardian. “She’s an objectified icon, and it’s just male Hollywood doing the same old thing!” The “self-congratulatory back-patting” Cameron is…

io9 Germain Lussier Aug 24

A Synthetic Human Fights to Survive in Visually Stunning Scifi Short Seam

In the not-too-distant future, a tenuous peace between humans and remarkably humanlike “machines”—some don’t even know they’re not real—is tested when synthetics begin spontaneously exploding. A military-led search for these unwitting suicide bombers begins, sending a terrified machine woman and her human partner on the run. Seam—named for a volatile border area sandwiched between the…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Aug 24

The Shannara Chronicles Heads To War (and To Spike TV) in the First Look at Season Two

One of the most curious network-and-show pairings in recent years had to be MTV’s The Shannara Chronicles, adapted from Terry Brooks’ epic fantasy series. We had mixed feelings about season one, but will season two’s shift to Spike TV offer a game-changing boost? The first trailer suggests… maybe. First, here’s a synopsis of where things…

io9 Cheryl Eddy Aug 24

Coffee Could Be Changing Our Perception of Taste

Coffee seems to be the most overstudied beverage; seemingly every day we’re bombarded with another study about it causing or curing cancer. But surprisingly, there are plenty of scientists who don’t really understand its many effects. In fact, it may even be changing the way we taste all the other things we eat in a…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Aug 24

Surely Someone Wants to Watch Game of Thrones‘ Mountain Beat Katy Perry At Basketball

What exists at the very center of the Venn diagram between Katy Perry’s feud with Taylor Swift, Stranger Things, Game of Thrones, and GLOW? Perry’s new music video for her song “Swish Swish,” that’s what. I’m sure there’s some kind of plot you’re supposed to pick up on here, but I’m struggling to find it.…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Aug 24

David Bowie and Prince Were Adam Wingard’s First Choices for Death Note‘s Demon

Choosing Willem Dafoe to voice shingami Ryuk—basically a spirit of death—was applauded as one of the better casting decisions in Netflix’s Death Note. Director Adam Wingard told io9 that, while Dafoe was his first pick among actors, he originally wanted to go with a glamorous singer for the part. While the Netflix version of Death…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Aug 24

Italians Have Been Getting Blitzed on Wine for a Very Long Time

When we think about wine in Italian history, we think of the booze-soaked bacchanalias of ancient Rome. But it turns out that Italians were using wine to get their drunk on long before that, as evidenced by an exciting new discovery of the region’s oldest vino near a Copper Age site in Sicily. It’s a…

Tech News Rae Paoletta Aug 24

Daily Stormer Whack-A-Mole Begins Again: Neo-Nazi Site Resurfaces Then Moves Back to GoDaddy [Now in Albania]

Less than 24 hours after neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer returned to the web, its domain registrar, DreamHost, claimed Anonymous hit it with a DDoS attack that put its 400,000 websites offline. Then, after inciting an attack on DreamHost, Daily Stormer moved its domain registration back to GoDaddy the registrar that first booted the site…

Tech News Brian Patrick Byrne and Bryan Menegus Aug 24

Your Guide to Flashpoint, the Flash Story Everyone Uses to Change Up the Universe

Flashpoint is one of the most important stories in DC Comics’ recent history. But bizarrely, it’s also become one most popular Flash stories to crop up in other media. There’s an animated film, it’s been part of the CW TV show, and now, it’s being set up as the story of the Flash movie. Here’s…

io9 James Whitbrook Aug 24

Amazon’s Takeover of Whole Foods Begins on Monday With Discounted Baby Kale

The $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods only received a green light on Wednesday, but the company has already announced that the deal will be done on Monday, August 28th. In a PR statement that will inspire lovers of $6 asparagus water, Amazon says that it will immediately drop the notoriously high prices at the…

Commerce Rhett Jones Aug 24

Common Antiseptic Chemical Can Harm Important Cell Function

There are many bad things to worry about. Be it climate change, diseases, rabid dogs or ticks, life is just chock full of worry. So, here’s another thing: virtually everything in your medicine cabinet. Sorry 🙁 Don’t freak out, because there’s not enough information to know how bad the chemical is, and well, the human…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Aug 24

How Terminator 2: Judgment Day Changed the Blockbuster Game

When Terminator 2: Judgment Day was released, it was a blockbuster to end all other blockbusters—the most expensive movie of all time that actually lived up to its price tag. It was the kind of movie that, if it was made today, would have been the subject of thousands upon thousands of bullshit internet articles…

io9 Germain Lussier Aug 24

Another Government Agency Has Purged References to Climate Change From Its Site

Data-tracking watchdog group, Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI), has reported dozens of instances where the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has deleted references to climate change from its site. As the name suggests, the NIEHS’ site links to research summaries detailing how the environment affects personal health. Since it began tracking changes to…

Climate Change Sidney Fussell Aug 24

Matt Reeves Clarifies The Batman‘s Place in the DC Movie Universe

It’s been a hell of a week for the DC movieverse—with the news that Warner Bros is also launching a banner for DC movies that are not part of the continuity of the DC Extended Universe. That news collided with a rumor about the future of The Batman last night, but director Matt Reeves has…

io9 James Whitbrook Aug 24

World’s Luckiest Guy Has Incredibly Close Call While Filming a Lightning Storm

The intense flash of light and booming crack of thunder that follows a lightning strike can be exhilarating, but it’s best to observe both whilke safely inside your home. As Norway’s Daniel Modøl discovered while filming a storm from his deck, those unpredictable lightning bolts can strike anywhere, even 16-feet from where you’re standing. Modøl,…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Aug 24

Court Orders DreamHost to Turn Over Info on Anti-Trump Site [Updated]

DreamHost must turn over some information about a website hosted on its platform that was used to plan a protest on President Donald Trump’s inauguration day, a DC judge ruled today. The Justice Department, which alleges that the site helped coordinate a riot, initially sought a massive amount of DreamHost data including the IP addresses…

Privacy & Security Kate Conger Aug 24

We Finally Know How Characters on Game of Thrones Keep Getting To the Wall So Fast

Season seven of Game of Thrones has been exciting and dreadfully sloppy in equal measure. Important character arcs are rushed, motivations are confusing, and reality has gone out the window in terms of how quickly characters move between locations—particularly the route from Dragonstone to the Wall. Jon made the journey to meet Daenerys in no…

io9 Avery Ellis Aug 24

What Present-Day Hunter-Gatherers Can Tell Us About the Bacteria in Our Gut

The Hazda is a small group of hunter-gatherers living in the central Rift Valley of Tanzania, one of the few remaining groups of people left in the world who still collect the majority of their diet through foraged foods. Modernity has still managed to touch their lives, of course, but far less than it has…

Health Kristen V. Brown Aug 24

This Probe Might Investigate the Mysterious Ocean of Saturn’s Biggest Moon

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is kind of like what you’d expect if Salvador Dali designed a planet. It has methane lakes, electrically charged sand, and allegedly, an ocean hiding under its crust. While the Cassini and Huygens spacecraft have revealed some of these mysteries to us, so many lingering questions about this weirdo moon remain.…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta Aug 24

FBI Arrest Chinese National Linked to OPM Data Breach Malware

James Cameron Thinks Wonder Woman Was a ‘Step Backward’ For Women in Film

A Synthetic Human Fights to Survive in Visually Stunning Scifi Short Seam

The Shannara Chronicles Heads To War (and To Spike TV) in the First Look at Season Two

Coffee Could Be Changing Our Perception of Taste

Surely Someone Wants to Watch Game of Thrones‘ Mountain Beat Katy Perry At Basketball

David Bowie and Prince Were Adam Wingard’s First Choices for Death Note‘s Demon

Italians Have Been Getting Blitzed on Wine for a Very Long Time

Daily Stormer Whack-A-Mole Begins Again: Neo-Nazi Site Resurfaces Then Moves Back to GoDaddy [Now in Albania]

Your Guide to Flashpoint, the Flash Story Everyone Uses to Change Up the Universe

Amazon’s Takeover of Whole Foods Begins on Monday With Discounted Baby Kale

Common Antiseptic Chemical Can Harm Important Cell Function

How Terminator 2: Judgment Day Changed the Blockbuster Game

Another Government Agency Has Purged References to Climate Change From Its Site

Matt Reeves Clarifies The Batman‘s Place in the DC Movie Universe

World’s Luckiest Guy Has Incredibly Close Call While Filming a Lightning Storm

Court Orders DreamHost to Turn Over Info on Anti-Trump Site [Updated]

We Finally Know How Characters on Game of Thrones Keep Getting To the Wall So Fast

What Present-Day Hunter-Gatherers Can Tell Us About the Bacteria in Our Gut

This Probe Might Investigate the Mysterious Ocean of Saturn’s Biggest Moon

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