Former Disney Employee Admits to Hacking Menu System to Change Allergy Information

The impacted company wasnt named in the complaint, though additional reporting revealed the company to be Disney. Court Watchreports thatScheuer has agreed to pay Disney restitution as well as a government fine. Scheuers lawyer, David Haas, reportedly said: Mr. Scheuer is prepared to accept responsibility for his conduct. © © stock photo/Getty/Melvyn Longhurst Haas added: No one was ever at risk of injury and he is deeply remorseful for what happened....

January 12, 2025 · 1 min · 203 words · Christian Thomas

Resident Evil 4Didn’t Just Change Everything, ItIsEverything

TheResident Evilfranchisehas been so core part to video games that its impossible to imagine a world without it. ButResidentEvil 4sbiggest impact came as it was ported over to the PlayStation 2 in October that same year. However, its jump to the PS2 wasnt without its bumps. © Capcom Microsoftshut Tango downafterRushsrelease, but the studio has beenrecently rebornby Krafton. Mikamileft Tangobefore its closure, and it seems hes since started up anew studiothats presumably doing its own thing....

January 12, 2025 · 1 min · 129 words · Mercedes Burns

Technology Is Supposed to Decrease Teacher Burnout—It Can Sometimes Make It Worse

Instead, we found that teachers whose schools were using learning management systemshad higher rates of burnout. Our study was peer-reviewed and published in April 2024. Ideally, these tools should have simplified their jobs. © shutterstock But in thefollow-up focus groups we conducted, the data told a different story. A telling example was seen in lesson planning. Before the pandemic, teachers typically submitted hard copies of lesson plans to administrators. Asking teachers to adopt new tools without removing old requirements is a recipe for burnout....

January 12, 2025 · 1 min · 151 words · Samuel Horn

The Best Obesity Drugs Aren’t Even Here Yet

Ozempic is just the beginning of a new era of obesity treatment. The researchers reaffirmed the safety and effectiveness of todays drugs. Wegovy and Other New Weight Loss Drugs Actually Workso Whats Next? Ozempic is just the beginning, according to new research.© Steve Christo/Corbis via Getty Semaglutide isnt the only new kid on the block, though. Eli Lillystirzepatidemimics both GLP-1 and another hunger-related hormone called GIPa potent combination that has allowed it to dethrone semaglutide....

January 12, 2025 · 1 min · 167 words · Jesus Nelson

WWE’s Seth Rollins Opens Up onCaptain America 4Reshoots

In a recent interview withChris Van Vilet, Rollins said he wouldnt appear in the film. Marvel never formally confirmed his casting, and Rollins was vague about who hed have been. […] Essentially my role got either repurposed or completely erased. © Marvel Studios I will unequivocally say I am not in the film, he continued. I dont want those people to waste their time, and I dont want to misinform anybody....

January 12, 2025 · 1 min · 190 words · Zachary Bailey MD

CanHorizonMake Space For Itself on the Big Screen?

Among PlayStations first-party lineup,Horizonoccupies a weird space. Horizonhas always been an odd duck, much of which can be owed towhenit exists. Come 2022, Guerrilla releasedHorizon Forbidden West,which released just a full week ahead ofElden Ring. © Guerrilla Games With the solid amount of general goodwillHorizonsmanaged to build up, cashing in on that makes sense. Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present. Image: Guerrilla Games/PlayStation PS5 and Xbox gamers are out of luck… for now....

January 11, 2025 · 1 min · 79 words · David Anderson

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is Tunneling Beneath Las Vegas With Little Oversight

This story was originally published byProPublica. It twice installed tunnels without permits to work on county property. State and local environmental regulators documented it dumping untreated water into storm drains and the sewer system. © Associated Press After an investigation,Nevada OSHA in 2023 fined the companymore than $112,000. Boringdisputed the regulators allegationsand contested the violations. The complaints have continued. In August, a Las Vegas Valley Water District staffer documented a similar issue....

January 11, 2025 · 5 min · 889 words · Mitchell Kerr

Spacecraft Captures Spectacularly Detailed Images of Mercury’s Hidden Surface

In this third image, volcanic activity and large impacts are highlighted as key factors behind Mercurys brighter regions. News from the future, delivered to your present. Mercury’s North Pole as seen by BepiColombo’s M-CAM 1.Credit: ESA BepiColombo captured this image of Mercury’s north pole. Credit: ESA Mercury’s sunlit north as seen by BepiColombo. Credit: ESA Lava and debris brighten up Mercury’s surface in this image by BepiColombo. Credit: ESA

January 11, 2025 · 1 min · 69 words · John Roberts

The Best Automotive Tech at CES 2025

But even in a light year for mobility, we managed to find some cool stuff. Here are our highlights. The 6-rotor aircraft tucks neatly into the back of the 6-wheeled mothership and is deployed automatically. © Gizmodo In person, the mothership has a little bit of a Cybertruck vibe, but without the awful proportions. Honda seems to be staying the course here, planning to deliver something truly different in 2026....

January 11, 2025 · 1 min · 193 words · Mark Schmitt

The Case forNosferatu‘s Mustache

The allure emanating fromCount OrlokinNosferatugoes more than decaying skin deep. The most appreciated contemporary vampire, Edward Cullen fromTwilight, is not scary at all, Eggers toldGold Derby. So clearly, there must be something scary there. © Focus Features And these early folk vampires looked like rotten corpsesmore like how we think of zombies in current cinema. So that was exciting theory. Here, hes just Thomas Hutter: regular man cuckolded by the power of centuries-old rotting rizz....

January 11, 2025 · 2 min · 245 words · Janice Holmes

What You Should Know About Wildfire Smoke in Homes

We also found elevated VOCs volatile organic compounds in airborne samples. Some VOCs, such asdioxins,benzene,formaldehydeandPAHs, can be toxic to humans. Benzene is aknown carcinogen. © Red Lemon via Shutterstock Many survey respondents said that the smells decreased over time. Despite this, many still had symptoms. We also found that living near a large number of burned structures was associated with these health symptoms. We found a significantdecline in the number of peoplereporting symptoms one year after the fire....

January 11, 2025 · 1 min · 136 words · Karen Moore

AI Algorithm Takes Us Closer to Forecasting the Northern Lights

But until now, its huge size limited how effectively we can use that data. There have beenplentyofaurorasthisyear, in part because the Sun is at the peak of its solar cycle. News from the future, delivered to your present. The aurora as seen from the International Space Station.Credit: Matthew Dominick/NASA Two banks say Amazon has paused negotiations on some international data centers. False color images of auroras from the Oslo Aurora THEMIS data set (OATH)....

January 10, 2025 · 1 min · 84 words · Kelly Gibson

Alien: RomulusImproved One of Its Most Controversial Scenes for Home Release

No, nothing with that insanelycreepy alien hybrid from the end of the movie. We mean a tweak to the visual effects for the home release in one of its most controversial scenes. Turns out though, whenRomulushit theaters last summer, Alvarez wasnt quite happy with how the effect looked either. A screencap of Rook in Alien: Romulus.Image: Fox We just ran out of time in post-production to get it right,he told Empire Magazine....

January 10, 2025 · 1 min · 178 words · Misty Atkins