Day: July 27, 2018

MoviePass outage: Read the full apology from CEO Mitch Lowe – CNET

The service was down Thursday after MoviePass temporarily ran out of money. …read more Source:: CNet


Star Wars Episode 9: Release date, cast, director and theories – CNET

In December 2019, J.J. Abrams will close out the Star Wars trilogy he kicked off with The Force Awakens. …read more Source:: CNet


IBM Wins $83 Million From Groupon In E-Commerce Patents Case

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: A U.S. jury awarded International Business Machines Corp. $83.5 million after finding that Groupon Inc. infringed four of its e-commerce patents. Friday’s verdict cements the prowess of IBM’s portfolio of more than 45,000 patents and is a boon to its intellectual-property licensing revenue, which brought in $1.19…


VR is not dying, insists manufacturer of VR headset – CNET

HTC has put out a blog post insistent that VR has a bright future ahead, and to not listen to all signs to the contrary. …read more Source:: CNet


Automating Kernel Exploitation for Better Flaw Remediation

Black Hat researchers plan on open sourcing a new framework they say can help organizations get a better rein on vulnerability fixes for kernel bugs. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Star Wars episode 9 cast announced: Leia to appear using ‘unseen footage’ – CNET

And we’ve learned who else will be starring in Episode IX. …read more Source:: CNet


Apple will fix any device for free if damaged by Japan’s devastating floods – CNET

You have until the end of September to take advantage of the service. …read more Source:: CNet


New York Orders Charter Out of State

Yesterday, it was reported that Charter Communications could lose its license in New York because of its failure to meet merger-related broadband deployment commitments. Today, according to Ars Technica, the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) voted to revoke its approval of Charter Communications’ 2016 purchase of Time Warner Cable (TWC). “The PSC said…


Andy Serkis’ Mowgli movie is now a Netflix exclusive – CNET

This take on The Jungle Book is set to come to Netflix in 2019. …read more Source:: CNet


Facebook: We’ve removed hundreds of posts under German hate speech law – CNET

The social network says its own community standards are also effective. …read more Source:: CNet