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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S4 goes episodic

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 will lean into classic episodic Trek before a shorter, more serialized final season hands the Enterprise to Kirk.

As Stranger Things nears its end, Netflix is banking on The Boroughs, a Duffer Brothers-produced sci-fi series set in a retirement community.

White Wolf is developing a new Vampire: The Masquerade tabletop project, its first big in-house game since the brand revival, with reveals at Gen Con 2026.

Hulu’s best shows now anchor Disney’s streaming gamble

As Disney folds Hulu deeper into Disney+, a stacked lineup of genre and prestige series from The Bear to Futurama is becoming its secret streaming weapon.

Brandon Sanderson, Paul Tremblay, T. Kingfisher, Daniel Kraus, and Critical Role anchor a packed summer 2026 sci-fi and fantasy release slate. Here’s why it matters.

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The Mandalorian & Grogu packs decades of Star Wars canon, Legends nods, and deep-cut cameos into a lightsaber-free feature. Here’s how it all connects.

Google’s new Gemini Omni AI model promises ‘anything-to-anything’ media generation, blurring the line between creative tool and deepfake machine.

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Will AI make us extinct? It’s a common scenario, and I was able to get two independent chatbots to discuss it. I built the bots as a customizable WordPress plugin (run locally, but hey, it’s portable too!) with options to easily swap out providers and models, plus an “auto-converse” mode that triggered the bots to…

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ATM jackpotting is a sophisticated cyber-physical crime where threat actors exploit vulnerabilities in an ATM’s hardware and software to make it dispense all its cash on command. What was once a niche threat has now become a nationwide crisis, with federal authorities warning that losses are accelerating at an alarming rate.

Security researchers have uncovered WhisperPair, a critical Bluetooth vulnerability affecting nearly all modern devices, allowing attackers to eavesdrop on pairing sessions and hijack connections without detection.

The newest cybersecurity threat – phishing attacks using fake calendar invites.

A widespread surge in phishing attacks using fake calendar invites is affecting users on Outlook, Gmail, and Apple devices, with events that resist deletion due to cross-device synchronization and urge victims toward financial scams.

OpenAI launches Prism, a new AI tool designed to enhance user interaction with AI.

OpenAI has unveiled Prism, a groundbreaking new AI tool designed to enhance user interaction with artificial intelligence systems through advanced multimodal capabilities, marking a significant advancement in accessible technology today.