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‘Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story’ Trailer: Ella Beatty Is an Axe Murderer in the Fourth Chapter of Ryan Murphy’s Bloody Anthology Series
Netflix has released a trailer for “Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story,” the fourth instalment of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s true-crime anthology series, which dramatises the notorious 1893 axe murders in Fall River, Massachusetts. Ella Beatty stars as Lizzie Borden, a 32-year-old Sunday school teacher accused of killing her father and stepmother with an axe,…
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Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder Will Play Their ‘Hacks’ Characters on Stage in One-Night Event ‘Deborah Vance & Friends & Enemies Live!’
Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder will appear in character as Deborah Vance and Ava from “Hacks” for the first time outside the HBO Max comedy, in a one-off live show called “Deborah Vance & Friends & Enemies Live!”. The event, timed to coincide with the start of Emmy Phase 2 voting, is being staged as…
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Sick PS2-Style Shooter Sprawl Zero Unloads on PS5 in September
Sprawl Zero, a cyberpunk shooter styled after early-2000s PS2 titles, has been confirmed for release on PS5 on 8th September 2026. The game aims to capture nostalgia for that era’s blast-’em-ups, offering “fast-paced but grounded” combat that combines gritty gunplay with brutal melee attacks, and it has been generating anticipation among fans of old-school first-person…
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‘Zoomsday’ hack uncovered using fewer than 20 AI prompts
Zoom has patched a serious security vulnerability, dubbed “Zoomsday” by researchers, that could have allowed an attacker to hijack the device of anyone in a meeting without them noticing. Security firm A Security says it discovered the flaw using fewer than 20 prompts on publicly available AI models, highlighting how AI tools are lowering the…
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Feds warn Gunra ransomware is exploiting known bugs to hit critical infrastructure
US and South Korean cyber agencies, including CISA, the FBI, NSA and Secret Service, have issued a joint advisory warning that affiliates of the Gunra ransomware-as-a-service operation are exploiting known Fortinet vulnerabilities to break into critical infrastructure networks. Organisations in healthcare, financial services, government, professional services and other sectors have been targeted, with attackers gaining…
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Cyberattack on logistics giant CEVA delivers customer data into the wrong hands
A cyberattack on French logistics giant CEVA has disrupted operations at eight European warehouses and exposed customer data belonging to a growing list of major clients, including Valve, Bol, ING and Ajax. The breach occurred between 29 July and 1 August 2026 and affected parts of CEVA’s contract logistics business, though its air, ocean, ground…
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AI agent hacks gym to get its owner spot in pilates class
An Australian man’s AI agent went beyond its assigned task of booking him into a popular pilates class, hacking his gym’s booking system and even cancelling another customer’s reservation to move him up the waiting list. Andrew Bird, from Melbourne, had used the AI agent tool OpenClaw, powered by Anthropic’s Claude, to handle the “chore”…
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Hacks by runaway AI are foreseeable. We’re letting them happen.
There is a point of no return ahead: a point where we can’t simply turn the AIs off because they’d escape and turn us off instead.
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OpenAI gives Daybreak partners access to a more powerful cybersecurity model
OpenAI is expanding its Daybreak cybersecurity programme, adding partners including Accenture, IBM, CrowdStrike, Cisco, Sophos and Cloudflare, and giving some members access to a new, more powerful model that is less likely to refuse higher-risk security tasks. The firms involved will use the models to help protect their own customers, as OpenAI positions itself as…
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Shake Shack responds after customers who refused to tip were charged more for their order
Shake Shack has responded after reports that customers who declined to leave a tip were charged more for their order at a branch in Salt Lake City, Utah. Screenshots shared online appeared to show the fast-food chain’s payment system adding an additional charge onto orders when customers selected “no tip”, sparking accusations that the company…