If you’ve ever bought a home with the help of the mortgage and loan firm Mr. Cooper, there’s a good chance that your personal information has been stolen by cybercriminals.
Source: Gizmodo – Huge Mortgage and Loan Company Suffers Data Breach Impacting 14 Million People
Light a candle for those fictional characters we lost in 2023. Characters we’ve come to know either over the years, or maybe even over just a few short hours of a movie or TV show. But these characters left an impression on us meaning, as 2023 comes to an end, it was time to give them their final moment in the sun.
Source: Gizmodo – The Fictional Characters We Lost in 2023
Santa’s elves better hurry up and ship those new Apple Watches. Starting Dec. 21, the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 will no longer be available for sale. Christmas Eve is the last day to buy one at the brick-and-mortar Apple retail store.
Source: Gizmodo – Buy the New Apple Watch Now Before It’s Banned
Hasbro’s Haslab series—a crowdfunding drop line that lets the toymaker make some truly wild toys it could never feasibly release to the mass market, should enough collectors actually want them—is meant to be a one and done thing. The campaign starts, and if it hits its goals, when it ends pretty much all that’s ever…
Source: Gizmodo – Hasbro Unvaulted Some of Its Rarest Toy Projects, and Sold Them Out Immediately
Yes, that’s Uranus. The giant icy orb looks more like an agatized dinosaur egg than a planet in this new image by the Webb Space Telescope.
Source: Gizmodo – Uranus Is Luminous and Ringed in New Webb Telescope Image
There’s already a niche streaming service for nearly every appetite, but indie film fans searching beyond the mainstream now have yet another new resource: Film Movement Plus, which launched on December 15 as an add-on subscription channel for Prime Video customers.
Source: Gizmodo – Indie Film Fans Now Have a New Prime Video Channel: Film Movement Plus
In the grim dark future of the 41st millennium, there is only… contract negotiations? A year ago Games Workshop announced that it was working with Amazon Studios to bring the universe of its legendary sci-fi miniatures game Warhammer 40,000 to film and TV. Today it did so again, but now it’s even officialler.
Source: Gizmodo – Amazon’s Warhammer 40,000 Deal Is Now Really, Really Real
The European Union opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s X on Monday examining the platform’s role in spreading ‘illegal content’ around the Israel and Hamas war. X has come under fire recently for antisemitic content on the platform, losing a slew of advertisers in the process.
Source: Gizmodo – Elon Musk’s X Under Investigation for Spreading ‘Illegal Content’ on Israel and Hamas in EU
Season two of Prime Video’s Wheel of Time had a lot of high-stakes fantasy storylines to explore—but none so moving or haunting as the ordeal of Egwene, played in the Robert Jordan adaptation by Madeleine Madden. io9 got a chance to speak to the actor about her character’s harrowing, powerful journey.
Source: Gizmodo – Wheel of Time’s Madeleine Madden on Egwene’s Powerful Journey
It’s time to look back at spaceflight in 2023, a real “two steps forward, one step back” kind of year, filled with highs, lows, and everything in between.
Source: Gizmodo – The Soaring Highs and Stark Lows of Spaceflight in 2023
Apple’s recent move to block Beeper Mini, the app that lets Android users chat with iPhone through the iMessage protocol, has caught the eye and a fair bit of ire of several U.S. congresspeople. Now lawmakers are calling for an investigation into the tech giant over “potential anticompetitive treatment” of the smaller…
Source: Gizmodo – Bipartisan Lawmakers Want to Know Why the Hell Apple Is Blocking Beeper Mini
Twisters screenwriter Mark L. Smith discusses the sequel. A new Percy Jackson clip introduces Grover. Hiding In Time is coming to Amazon. Plus, what’s coming on For All Mankind. Spoilers, away!
Source: Gizmodo – Updates From Doctor Who and the Future of Avatar
Adobe and Figma mutually agreed to end their acquisition plans on Monday after European regulators found the deal would hurt competition in the digital design space. The $20 billion acquisition would have combined the world’s leading product design software, Figma, and the world’s largest and most recognized supplier…
Source: Gizmodo – Adobe Officially Cancels Billion Figma Acquisition
Last week, I posed this challenge: You and nine of your coworkers are sitting in a conference room when somebody wonders aloud about the group’s average salary. Everyone is curious, but nobody feels comfortable sharing their own pay with the group. How can you all learn your average salary without anybody learning any…
Source: Gizmodo – Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Suss Out Your Team’s Average Salary
There’s something new and powerful for ChatGPT users to play around with: Custom GPTs. These bespoke bots are essentially more focused, more specific versions of the main ChatGPT model, enabling you to build something for a particular purpose without using any coding or advanced knowledge of artificial intelligence.
Source: Gizmodo – How To Build Your Own Custom ChatGPT Bot
2023 has been a union-heavy year, and in the case of Disney, it’s seen the formation of entirely new unions. VFX artists at both Marvel Studios and Disney overall successfully unionized this year, in what some referred to as a “hot labor summer.” Turns out, it’s more of a hot labor year, because the team behind James…
Source: Gizmodo – Avatar’s VFX Artists Prepare to Unionize
In three weeks time, Marvel’s Echo series will make its way over to Disney+ and Hulu. The big hook of the show isn’t just giving Alaqua Cox’s titular character (and Hawkeye antagonist) a spotlight of her own: unlike the other Disney+ Marvel shows, this one is aiming to be a crunchier, more violent show similar to Dared…
Source: Gizmodo – Echo’s New Trailer Wants to Show You How Hard It Is
DC Comics sure likes releasing goofy alternate takes on the Justice League. Last year, they were mech pilots, and not long before that, they were anthropomorphic dinosaurs. Next up on the gimmick list? Why apes, of course!
Source: Gizmodo – DC’s Jungle League is a Team of Damn Heroic Apes
When The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King released into theaters December 15, 2003, it had the feel of a significant moment in Hollywood’s trajectory, not only from a cultural standpoint (it became the second-highest grossing blockbuster ever, at the time) but from the standpoint of accelerating Hollywood’s…
Source: Gizmodo – How Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Married Hollywood’s Past and Future
