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Michael Sheen will soon be playing a serial killer on Fox’s Prodigal Son, which makes the upcoming series the second notable (and likely sizeable) television role Sheen has secured in as many years. Little is known about the upcoming series, but what is known has many convinced that Sheen’s casting in the project is perfect. According to Variety, Sheen will be playing Martin Whitly, who’s described as an intelligent, witty and charismatic man who formerly lived with his family in New York City....

That’s a large task for a company with thousands of developers and many large Android apps, including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Portal, and its Quest VR headset. “Shifting away from Java, which we currently use for Android development, and over to Kotlin is not a trivial task,” notes Omer Strulovich, a software engineer at Facebook. Also: Salary freezes and a return to the office? Not for software developers The migration to Kotlin is underway, with Meta’s Android app repositories already consisting of 10 million lines of Kotlin code....

This is the job of the blockchain’s consensus algorithm, which selects the official creator of each block in the blockchain. A blockchain consensus algorithm needs to meet the following criteria: Decentralization: The consensus algorithm must be completely decentralized, meaning that every node can run it independently and come to the same conclusion. Byzantine fault tolerance: A blockchain network may have nodes that are not working in the network’s best interests....

Every so often, a bug in iOS emerges where a certain string of text will cause your iPhone or iPad to crash. This week, another such string of text is going viral, and a fix from Apple is not yet publicly available. The string of text, which we aren’t going to share here, includes the Italian flag emoji and characters in the Sindhi language. When an iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch receives a notification with this text string, things get wonky....

AgileBits has promised to beef up the security of 1Password after a Microsoft software engineer discovered that details of which websites you visit are unencrypted and indexed by Google if you use the 1PasswordAnywhere feature. Dale Myers said that he discovered this by chance after a sync problem led him to investigate the files used to store the metadata. While passwords remain secure, privacy is placed at risk and the data obtained could, says Myers, be used in a phishing attempt....

Amid their recent decision to part ways with the Royal family, close sources say Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were “shocked” to learn the Youth Ambassador titles would also be revoked. It appears the Duke and Duchess had to drop their roles within the Commonwealth as part of their Megxit agreement with Queen Elizabeth. The current royal crisis comes after Prince Harry and his wife, Duchess Meghan Markle decided to step down as senior royal members and move to Canada....

This is the first year that memory safety vulnerabilities are not the biggest category of security flaws, and comes a year after Google made Rust the default for new code in the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). Other memory-safe languages Google has used for Android include Java and Java-compatible Kotlin. C and C++ are still dominant languages in AOSP, but Android 13 is the first version where most of the new code is from memory-safe languages....

The PlayStation 5 is the latest gaming console from Sony Interactive Entertainment. Released in November 2020, the PlayStation 5 (PS5) is the successor to the PlayStation 4. The PS5 is the most powerful console Sony has ever produced, offering more realistic and detailed graphics, faster loading times, and advanced features such as ray-tracing technology. The PS5 also supports various games, from classic titles to modern blockbusters, and features PlayStation exclusives like Horizon Zero Dawn and Spider-Man: Miles Morales....

Ubisoft has finally announced a new Prince of Persia game today, but it will be a location-based virtual reality escape room. There have been two other location-based escape rooms created by Ubisoft in the past, both of which were set in the world of Assassin’s Creed. The storied Prince of Persia series has been through a few reboots and retellings since it was first acquired by Ubisoft. Ubisoft Montreal’s The Sands of Time was a fantastic game that was rightly adored after its release in 2003 and spawned its own series of sequels....

Managing alerts on Cultured Code’s Things task management app across multiple devices is about to become a whole lot more effective. Things already uses its own robust syncing solution called Things Cloud since iCloud syncing has been rocky at times in the past, and today Cultured Code is unveiling a major upgrade to Things Cloud. Built on an all-new architecture, the Things Cloud “Nimbus” upgrade delivers a push sync feature that allows Things for iPhone, iPad, and Mac to stay up-to-date without having to actively open it on each device....

Earlier this month we noted that Apple has new interactive HomeKit displays rolling out to select stores, namely those that include its new Avenue video screen area introduced for some stores as part of its latest retail refresh over the last year. There isn’t any official way for the public to easily find out which specific stores have the new displays, so we’ve put together a full list below… The interactive displays allow customers to try out the Home app on iOS devices for various accessories the store sells and see the changes update live in a virtual home environment visualized on large displays (as pictured above)....

. Apple and Qualcomm were denied, according to Bloomberg, when they tried to obtain exclusive chip production rights from Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. Both put forward more than $1 billion in investments so TSMC would pledge production capacity to them, but the manufacturer rebuffed the bid to keep versatile in chip yielding. Bloomberg explained: One read of the story is that Apple wants to bail on Samsung and its new Texas foundry for CPU production....

The problem may stem from the way your system is set up. However, it might not be your system at all. Slow internet could be the result of someone stealing your Wi-Fi. Fortunately, there are free downloads to help you see who’s accessing your Wi-Fi, whether you’re using Windows or a Mac. Keep reading for details. For Windows Wireless Network Watcher scans your network and shows you the IP address, MAC address, name and manufacturer of the computers, tablets and smartphones it detects on your network....

Multithreading and parallel processing A lot of modern computing is dependent upon software running quickly. Humans are impatient, to the point where even a second-long delay in a web page loading causes a significant drop in the number of people that actually visit a page. Since there are limits on how quickly a single execution thread can run on a computer, especially if memory accesses and I/O are required, modern computers contain multiple processes and support multi-threading....

Many other speculations are being made about Donald Trump’s unsafe website and smartphone. Recently, a hacker who goes by the name Pro_Mast3r managed to hack US president Donald Trump’s official website. According to the reports from Ars Technica, the hacked server, secure2.donaldjtrump.com is behind CloudFlare’s content management and security platform. The hacked server isn’t directly linked to the campaign’s homepage. The server seems to be an official Trump campaign server and the hacker claims to be from, Iraq....

Propnight is a PvP horror video game that contains elements of a prop hunt and a classic horror survival video game. While playing you have two options. You can play as a survivor and try to stay alive until the end. And another option is to join the dark side and play as a killer. Simple, isn’t it? With that being said, Prophunt sounds quite an interesting proportion of all elements mixed together....

Also Read How To Cancel Premium Subscribed Channels on Prime Video How to Fix Gran Turismo 7 Multiplayer Not Working (PS4/PS5) Luckily, here we’ve shared a couple of possible workarounds that should gonna help you to fix the issue. So, without wasting any more time, let’s jump into it. 1. Reboot the PS5 Make sure to restart your PS5 console and the controller to refresh the cache data or any kind of temporary data completely....

You can check my previous articles for more CTF challenges. I have provided a downloadable URL for this CTF here. You can download the machine and run it on VirtualBox. The torrent downloadable URL is also available for this VM and has been added in the reference section of this article. For those who are not aware of the site, VulnHub is a well-known website for security researchers which aims to provide users with a way to learn and practice their hacking skills through a series of challenges in a safe and legal environment....

Sort function in Python helps sort a list into ascending or descending order. It can be used for sorting a numeric list, tuples, and string list. It does not create a separate list but modifies or sorts the original. Syntax of Sort method in Python The sort function has the following syntax as listed below: – The sort function has two optional parameters, namely as listed below: – Key: – This is used to sort a function based on a sorting criterion....

The company was founded in Lund, Sweden as QlikTech in 1993, and is now based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania in the US, a suburb of Philadelphia. At its founding, it was one of three companies in the wave of then-new business intelligence (BI) companies focused on self-service BI and data visualization. The others, Spotfire and Tableau, were acquired by Tibco and Salesforce in 2007 and 2019, respectively. The company’s original offering was Windows-based BI solution QlikView....