Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Mitch Lowe and Ted Farnsworth already settled with the FTC over fraudulent activity affecting MoviePass customers, but now the former heads of MoviePass and its parent company, Helios and Matheson Analytics (HMNY), are facing criminal allegations of securities fraud and wire fraud. The Department of Justice announced the…
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The swiftness with which Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav began canceling shows and entire movies as part of his plan to boost the company’s revenue was cause for much alarm earlier this year. As series like Infinity Train and Summer Camp Island began disappearing from HBO Max,…
Enlarge (credit: Getty | Future Publishing) The new bivalent COVID-19 booster spurred neutralizing antibody levels that were fourfold higher against the omicron subvariants BA.4/BA.5 in older adults than those seen after the original booster, Pfizer reported Friday. The new data may help calm concerns about whether the updated booster is an improvement over the previous…
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It’s a very pretty thing when it’s going. Stan Horaczek We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › I suck at starting traditional campfires. I burn through all of my kindling but the big logs never catch. Next thing you know, I’m left with…
In a series of cancellations, HBO has managed to disappoint many viewers as of late. Now, “Westworld” fans will be among them. The network announced today that it is canceling the sci-fi drama after four seasons. The show just aired its season four finale in August. HBO, in a prepared statement, said, “Over the past…
The crypto ecosystem may be experiencing fewer hacks and alleged fraud incidents, but they’re still occurring as bad actors take hundreds of millions of dollars from users in the space. According to Immunefi’s Crypto Losses Q3 2022 report, crypto losses have declined for the past three quarters in a row, but it’s not clear whether…
A brand new clipper malware has been found taking the theft of cryptocurrency to a whole new level, researchers have claimed. Clippers are a well-known security threat, as they are malware variants that monitor the clipboard of a Windows-powered endpoint, and when they see that a user copied a cryptocurrency wallet address to the clipboard,…
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett. AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes A lawsuit seeking to block Biden’s student-loan forgiveness landed at the Supreme Court on Tuesday. On Friday, Justice Amy Coney Barrett dismissed the case. This comes as Biden’s debt relief is on pause as it awaits a ruling from the 8th Circuit. It didn’t…