In september 2005, a fun film editor named Robert Ryang took The Shining and cut together a new trailer for it, making the axe-driven horror flick seem like a sweetheart family movie. YouTube hadn’t broken out of beta yet, so Ryang posted his humor gem to a private quarter... Read more

Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here. Digital transformation is redefining enterprise communication, storage and workflow, especially on the back of technologies like cloud networking. Gartner estimates that while several thousand customers have deployed multicloud... Read more

Fishpig, a UK-based maker of e-commerce software used by as many as 200,000 websites, is urging customers to reinstall or update all existing program extensions after discovering a security breach of its distribution server that allowed criminals to surreptitiously backdoor customer systems. The unknown threat actors used their control... Read more

Google will have to face the bulk of a multistate antitrust lawsuit that accuses the tech giant of reaching an illegal deal with online ad rival Facebook. The lawsuit, filed in 2020 by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and 16 states or territories, alleges that Google entered into a secret agreement,... Read more

When Rachel Aviv was six years old, she stopped eating. Shortly after, she was hospitalized with anorexia. Her doctors were flummoxed. They’d never seen a child so young develop the eating disorder, yet there she was. Was it a response to her parents’ divorce? Diet culture? Innate asceticism? The... Read more

Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here. The cloud wave has been on the rise for a while now. According to Palo Alto Networks, nearly 70% of organizations currently host more than half of their... Read more

Twitter has serious issues, according to new testimony from the company’s former security chief, Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, who emerged as a whistleblower in August. It’s central issue: The sensitive personal information of its 400 million users is at risk, he says. During a bipartisan hearing before the US Senate... Read more

Google has removed browser extensions with more than 1.4 million downloads from the Chrome Web Store after third-party researchers reported they were surreptitiously tracking users’ browsing history and inserting tracking code into specific ecommerce sites they visited. The five extensions flagged by McAfee purport to offer various services, including... Read more

Disney fans flocked to California for D23 Expo 2022 last weekend. It was the first D23 convention since 2019 — the year its Disney Plusstreaming service launched, and also marked the company’s 100th anniversary (which is next year, but Disney loves to prolong its celebrations.) We got some major announcements from Disney,... Read more

Spotify has the best music discovery algorithms and the slickest, snappiest user interface. It led me down rabbit holes to find new artists and old favorites, based on what I’ve already liked and listened to on the app. The free tier, with advertisements, defaults to a low-quality 96-Kbps streaming... Read more