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Robert Downey, Jr.’s Doctor Doom gets an action figure. Bruce Campbell says Evil Dead has “moved away” from familiar favorites. Two new horror movies explore poodle breeding and the Civil War. They’re here already! You’re next! It’s Morning Spoilers!  Brine Deadline reports Jennifer Holland (Peacemaker) and Dave Annable (Lioness) will star in Brine, a “supernatural

Turns out, Paramount’s got more than a  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game in the works. At Saturday’s IGN Live, Silent Hill 2 maker Bloober Team is working on a triple-A title for Star Trek. Yes, really—it’s called Shadow Frontier, and it’s a single-player thriller/horror game starring Next Generation’s Lt. Ro Laren. Played by returning actor Michelle Forbes, players will control

The ongoing Paramount/Warner Bros. merger may soon hit a snag due to an incoming lawsuit. Per Reuters on Friday, California, New York, and other unnamed states have come together to prevent the merger. The suit is said to be filed “in the coming weeks,” so we currently don’t know what specific complaints will be made.

security Good luck, sys admins The threat is real. Unknown miscreants are exploiting a high-severity, zero-day bug in Cisco’s SD-WAN management software, and the networking giant hasn’t said when it will patch the flaw. Cisco issued an advisory on Thursday for the Catalyst SD-WAN Manager vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245, and it sounds like attackers have been

Shokz is expanding its lineup of solid open-style wireless earbuds. The company just introduced the OpenDots 2 as well as the OpenDots Air, both of which are clip-style open wireless earbuds. The $199 OpenDots 2 are the flagship pair, and according to Shokz, they emphasize added bass as well as premium sound. They have two

America has made measles great again. Not even halfway into 2026, the nation is already poised to surpass last year’s record-setting number of confirmed measles cases, judging from the latest data out of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). But this seemingly headlong race to end America’s herd immunity to measles—a disease

Networks Nice technology, shame about the price and the indoor blackouts Mobile telcos are linking up with satellite operators to extend coverage beyond their cell towers reach, but actual usage of the technology may fall short of industry expectations.  That’s the view of Juniper Research, which forecasts monthly active direct-to-cell (D2C) users will grow from

AI + ML Papal’s 40k-word encyclical drops and lawyers already asking if Catholics can refuse workplace AI on religious grounds OPINION AI and religion is becoming a hot topic. Pope Leo XIV just dropped a fat encyclical half as thick as a novel, saying we’re doing it wrong and threatening human dignity. Meanwhile, a study led

As the COOs from both Uber and Microsoft recently learned, encouraging company engineers to use AI aggressively can lead to hefty usage bills, perhaps even offsetting all the gains from laying off employees.  The AI bills at Netflix may not be so eye-popping thanks to company senior engineer Tejas Chopra, who has created software to

Charging up a smartwatch every night is a pain in the ass. But what if you only needed to charge it once every 21 days? Enter the 46mm Xiaomi Watch S5. Xiaomi first released the Watch S5 in China back in March, but the company launched it internationally this week, with global availability starting in