Alex Jones has filed for bankruptcy

Photo by Joe Buglewicz / Getty Images Infowars founder Alex Jones has filed for personal bankruptcy in the wake of a billion-dollar defamation penalty. As reported by Reuters this morning, Jones filed a petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a Houston court this morning. Jones’ company, Free Speech Systems, filed its own bankruptcy petition in…

There’s more magma under Yellowstone than we thought—but don’t panic

The view from Yellowstone’s Grand Prismatic Overlook Trail on October 13, 2016. Neal Herbert / NPS In a corner of Yellowstone National Park in northwestern Wyoming, lies the Yellowstone Caldera, a crater situated over Yellowstone’s super volcano. The volcano has produced three Earth-shattering eruptions over the past 2.1 million years, with the most recent occuring…

Singapore-based e-commerce platform Carousell lays off 10% of staff

Carousell, a Singaporean consumer-to-consumer (C2C) service platform operating across Southeast Asia, is letting go of about 110 employees, or 10% of its total headcount, in an effort to reduce costs amid a challenging market condition for the tech industry.  The announcement came from the company’s blog on Thursday, posted by co-founder and CEO of Carousell…

This major Android bug may have led to the creation of awful new malware apps

Following a major security leak, devices from some of the world’s biggest Android smartphone manufacturers are vulnerable to malicious apps that operating systems are treating as trusted. The news comes from Google’s Android Partner Vulnerability Initiative’s (APVI) Łukasz Siewierski, who publicly disclosed the vulnerability in November 2022. As noted by 9to5Google, Siewierski’s disclosure doesn’t directly…

7 new movies and TV shows on Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max, and more this weekend (December 2)

Given that we’re now officially into December, we’re pleasantly surprised by the relative lack of festive features forcing their way onto streaming services this weekend.  Save for Scrooge: A Christmas Carol on Netflix – there’s always one! – this month’s first flurry of on-demand content is a real mixed bag, genre-wise. That’s not to say…