This New York Supreme Court case’s real name is Stambovsky v. Ackley, but its nickname, “the Ghostbusters ruling,” is way catchier—and way more descriptive. Not to mention accurate, as the most famous part of the decision contains the phrase “as a matter of law, the house is haunted.”
Source: Gizmodo – This New York Mansion Is Legally Haunted
There is inequality everywhere. But in San Francisco, it seems to be drawn by a cartoonist with an unrefined taste for absurdity.
Source: Gizmodo – I Asked The World’s Foremost Ethicist If It’s Okay To Have A Revolution
I have played 10 hours of Final Fantasy XV, a video game about how One Direction spends their days off, and I’m pleased to report that so far, it’s good. Very good. Maybe even excellent.
Source: Kotaku – Answering Your Best Final Fantasy XV Questions
Sometimes it takes more than simple color correction to make a good photo into a great photo. If you have a scenic picture that could use just a little more warmth to make it pop, try adding some extra light in Photoshop with “light bleeding.”
Source: LifeHacker – Add Vibrancy and Warmth to Photos With Light Bleeding
Switzerland is stepping up its bitcoin fascination in a big way. Railway operator SBB (with the help of SweePay) is launching a 2-year trial for a service that lets you exchange Swiss francs for bitcoin at any of the company’s ticket machines in the…
Source: Engadget – Swiss rail stations will sell bitcoins at ticket machines
Roger Corman’s 1966 classic Wild Angels defined the formula for a new genre called the “Biker Flick”, and it opened the floodgates for a deluge of good, bad and downright cringeworthy films that capitalized on the public’s fear of outlaw motorcyclists.
Source: io9 – Terror In High Gear! Ten Of The Spookiest Biker Movies
An anonymous reader writes: Google today shared details about a security flaw in Windows, just 10 days after disclosing it to Microsoft on October 21. To make matters worse, Google says it is aware that this critical Windows vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild. That means attackers have already written code for this specific security hole and are using it to break into Windows systems.In a blog post, security researchers at Google write, “The Windows vulnerability is a local privilege escalation in the Windows kernel that can be used as a security sandbox escape. It can be triggered via the win32k.sys system call NtSetWindowLongPtr() for the index GWLP_ID on a window handle with GWL_STYLE set to WS_CHILD. Chrome’s sandbox blocks win32k.sys system calls using the Win32k lockdown mitigation on Windows 10, which prevents exploitation of this sandbox escape vulnerability.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Google Discloses Exploited Windows Vulnerability 10 Days After Telling Microsoft
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Shadow Brokers—the name used by a person or group that created seismic waves in August when it published some of the National Security Agency’s most elite hacking tools—is back with a new leak that the group says reveals hundreds of organizations targeted by the NSA over more than a decade.
“TheShadowBrokers is having special trick or treat for Amerikanskis tonight,” said the Monday morning post, which was signed by the same encryption key used in the August posts. “Many missions into your networks is/was coming from these ip addresses.”
Monday’s leak came as former NSA contractor Harold Thomas Martin III remains in federal custody on charges that he hoarded an astounding 50 terabytes of NSA data in his suburban Maryland home. Much of the data included highly classified information such as the names of US intelligence officers and highly sensitive methods behind intelligence operations. Martin came to the attention of investigators looking into the Shadow Brokers’ August leak. Anonymous people with knowledge of the investigation say they don’t know what connection, if any, Martin has to the group or the leaks.
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Source: Ars Technica – New leak may show if you were hacked by the NSA
Humble’s new Day of the Devs bundle is a doozy, with popular titles like Grim Fandango, Broken Age, and Massive Chalice on sale for the price of your choice. Plus, if you pay $9 or more, and are attending Double Fine’s Day of the Devs event in San Francisco on Saturday, you’ll get early entry, a line-skipping fast pass, and 20% off merch.
Source: Kotaku – Fill Up Your Steam Library With Humble’s Newest Bundle
These are the felted witch hats handcrafted by Kate Koprowski of HandiCraftKate. Beautiful, right? They make my wizard hat look like a cheap $8 Halloween store wizard hat. Mostly because my wizard hat is a cheap $8 Halloween store wizard hat.
I use 100% real sheep wool sourced from companies that humanely treat their animals. I hand-block each hat, forming each curl and wrinkle individually. My hats are not knitted or crocheted or upcycled from wool clothing-I start from scratch every time and each piece takes about 3 days to complete fully.
Prices for the hats start around $285 and go up from there, so they’re not cheap. Hey — quality costs money. And apparently so do rainbow colored sheep.
Keep going for a bunch more examples.
Source: Geekologie – Cast A Spell On Me?: Beautiful Felted Witch Hats
The Monster Manual—a codex of rules for all sorts of creatures that adventurers could come across in a Dungeons & Dragons campaign—has been a staple feature of the games’ many editions for years. However, the latest version is changing things up a little, and we’ve got an exclusive look inside.
Source: io9 – An Inside Look at the Creepy Creatures of Dungeons & Dragons’ New Monster Manual
Just a few months after central Italy was battered by a magnitude 6.2 earthquake, the region has been struck again, and harder.
Source: Gizmodo – Entire Town Leveled As Yet Another Massive Earthquake Hits Italy
Patience is a virtue, people.
Source: Kotaku – In Memory Of The Guy Who Gets Beheaded At The Beginning Of Skyrim
It’s Halloween and that means binging on candy. Over on the Reactions YouTube channel, they worked out a formula that gives you an estimate for how much candy it’d take to kill you.
Source: LifeHacker – Use This Formula to Figure Out About How Much Candy It Would Take to Kill You
This is no way to treat people who have to use the sidewalk; put pedestrians first.
Source: TreeHugger – Streets are for people first, Part II
That was how Peter Thiel answered a question about his future in politics today. But, after he spent roughly 15 minutes delivering what amounted to a polite version of Donal…
Source: Engadget – Is tech billionaire Peter Thiel prepping for a life in politics?
Slimy, slithery creatures take centre stage at Halloween, but they fascinate children all year round.
Source: TreeHugger – Nature Conservancy of Canada, Earth Rangers and SFI Want to Make Life Less Scary for Amphibians at Halloween and All Year Round
Deadly Premonition’s Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro is leaving Access Games after a year-long health break. In a tweet, Swery told fans that, although his reactive hypoglycemia is getting better, he will be retiring after 12 years at the company:
Source: Kotaku – Deadly Premonition’s Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro is leaving Access Games after a year-long health break
At a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. this morning, Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel laid out his rationale for supporting Donald Trump, characterizing him as the only candidate with the ability to challenge establishment politics.
Source: Gizmodo – Peter Thiel Goes All-In For Donald Trump
NVIDIA Ansel is a revolutionary technology that hands gamers the tools to capture unique, professional-grade 2D, 360° and Virtual Reality 360° screenshots on GeForce GTX graphics cards. Today, we’re releasing NVIDIA Ansel for Cyan’s Obduction, a critically-acclaimed adventure game from the creators of Myst. Capture personally-framed freecam screenshots, adjust the field of view and rotation of the screen, add optional Instagram-style filters, and save to shareable filetypes with a single click. Simply hit Alt+F2 during gameplay and you’ll be able to capture incredible screenshots that were previously impossible to frame and snap.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – Obduction Adds NVIDIA Ansel Support And More
