Can you feel it? There’s a slight chill in the air, the Sun is retiring earlier, and the leaves are beginning to change (at least in my Midwestern city). We’re wading right into the time of year when everyone starts posting the vampire Kermit the Frog meme to show how ready they are for Halloween. I’m even starting to eye that Shudder re-subscribe button.
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Shrunken Mac Minis and a new iPad Mini might come in November
Apple is planning to announce in late October that new Macs, including a rumored Mac Mini that’s about the size of an Apple TV, will be available to buy starting on November 1st. That’s according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who also writes in his Power On newsletter today that the iPad Mini is getting an overdue refresh — its first since 2021.
The Mac Mini may be the most exciting of the updates, given the rumored significant physical revamp coming along with a new M4 chip. Despite its shrunken size, the M4 Pro version might have a healthy connectivity spread (albeit without any USB-A ports).
Looking beyond that, Apple will roll out M4-equipped MacBook Airs, a redesigned iPhone SE, refreshed iPad Airs (and Magic Keyboards to go with them), and a new AirTag in the first half of 2025, according to Gurman. Apple could also release updated versions of the Mac Studio and Mac Pro — which haven’t shown up in the M3 upgrade cycle — in middle and second half of next year, respectively.
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Trailers of the week: Nosferatu, The Franchise, and Squid Game 2
October has its own vibe at the cinema, and theatrical releases this month include Operation Blood Hunt, a movie about 1944 special forces fighting werewolves in the Pacific theater, and Seven Cemeteries, a Danny Trejo-starring film about a guy who hires a witch to resurrect his posse to save a woman’s ranch. And let’s not forget Rumours, which I’m very excited for.
So I’ve got a couple of this week’s scary movie trailers for you to check out below, along with two streaming series. Enjoy!
1922’s Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror was a Dracula movie in all but name. So much so that Bram Stoker’s heirs got a court order to have the movie’s copies destroyed, yet some copies survived. Now, over 100 years after its release, Nosferatu is getting a remake starring Bill Skarsgård as the vampire Count Orlok, AKA Nosferatu. Lily Rose-Depp and Willem Dafoe also star.
The newest trailer does a great job setting up the atmosphere of terror that the townsfolk feel toward Count Orlok, but Focus Features isn’t showing us Orlok himself quite yet. Nosferatu hits theaters on December 25th.
Companion
I don’t know what the heck is going on with Warner Bros.’ Companion. The teaser for this Drew Hancock-directed movie starts with a head fake, making you think it’s a love story. Then it quickly devolves into what looks like a thriller about a woman (Sophie Thatcher) being held captive by a man (Jack Quaid).
I think that’s a head fake, too. There’s a bizarre moment, at the end of the trailer, where Thatcher’s character holds an unshaking hand over a candle until her arm catches fire. She’s crying, so she clearly feels pain, but the movie’s classification — it’s a sci-fi thriller — makes me wonder what’s going on underneath.
I hoped that by texting the number in the description on the trailer’s YouTube page I would glean a little more. It involves a questionnaire to “Find Your Companion today” that includes a request for a selfie. I got this at the end:
That didn’t answer any questions for me, but at least I’ll be getting marketing texts now. Anyway, Companion hits theaters on January 10th next year.
Three years after the first hit season of Squid Game ended and spawned a reality show spinoff, the Netflix show is returning with its second season on December 26th. A new teaser this week showed Gong Yoo’s Salesman preparing for work (and probably to do some slapping). It ends with him talking directly to the camera as he asks “Sir, would you like to play a game with me?”
The Franchise, HBO’s new series following the making of a fictional comic book-style movie, looks like a delightful takedown of Hollywood’s ongoing superhero obsession. It’s written by Jon Brown, who also wrote Succession, and stars Himesh Patel and Lolly Adefope as Daniel and Dag, two production workers on the film. Daniel Brühl is in there too — a bit of fun casting, given his role as Zemo in multiple Marvel productions. The Franchise begins streaming tonight at 10PM ET on Max.
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This AI tool can solve Google’s popular anti-spam defense every time — CAPTCHA system could soon become obsolete
A group of AI researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have developed an advanced tool that can solve Google’s CAPTCHA system with 100% accuracy, raising serious concerns about the future of CAPTCHA-based security.
CAPTCHA, an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart,” has been a primary defense mechanism against bots for years, with Google’s reCAPTCHA being the most widely used.
This system uses image-based challenges and tracks user behavior to differentiate between humans and machines, however, advances in AI have led to these systems becoming increasingly vulnerable.
The CAPTCHA race is on
Andreas Plesner, Tobias Vontobel and Roger Wattenhofer recently modified the You Only Look Once (YOLO) image-processing model, successfully solving Google’s reCAPTCHAv2 human-testing system. The study they conducted focused on evaluating the effectiveness of reCAPTCHAv2, which has become a critical part of website security by blocking automated bots from accessing forms, purchasing products, or participating in online interactions.
This project revealed that the modified YOLO-based model achieved a 100% success rate in solving reCAPTCHAv2 image challenges, compared to earlier systems that only managed success rates of 68-71%. Additionally, the researchers found that bots required roughly the same number of challenges to solve CAPTCHAs as human users, leading to doubts about the system’s reliability in distinguishing between bots and real people. It was also discovered that reCAPTCHAv2 depends heavily on browser cookies and history data to evaluate whether a user is human, meaning that bots can bypass security features if they appear to have human-like browsing behavior.
As AI technology continues to evolve, the boundary between human and machine intelligence narrows. CAPTCHAs, designed to be solvable by humans but difficult for bots, may soon be rendered obsolete. This research underscores the challenge of creating new CAPTCHA systems that can outpace AI’s rapid advancement or the need to explore alternative forms of human verification.
The study, available on the arXiv preprint server, calls for the development of future CAPTCHA systems capable of adapting to AI advancements or the exploration of alternative methods of human verification. It also emphasizes the need for further research into refining datasets, improving image segmentation, and examining the triggers that activate blocking measures in automated CAPTCHA-solving systems.
These findings are significant because they point to an urgent need for innovation in digital security. As AI continues to progress, the traditional methods of distinguishing humans from machines become less reliable, forcing the tech industry to rethink security protocols and human verification methods in the near future.
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Salem’s Lot director reveals it was originally much longer
There was a lot of hype surrounding Salem’s Lot heading into its long-awaited streaming premiere in early October. The Gary Dauberman-directed adaptation of Stephen King‘s beloved 1975 novel originally finished filming in the summer of 2022, but then it was seemingly put on the shelf for an indefinite amount of time by Warner Bros. Pictures. King himself, however, helped bring attention back to the project in February when he tweeted his positive thoughts about it and expressed his confusion over its behind-the-scenes delays. Shortly afterward, WB announced it would be releasing Salem’s Lot as a Max exclusive.
King’s support of the film did a lot to bolster the early word-of-mouth surrounding it, but that didn’t stop Salem’s Lot from being welcomed with mostly mixed reviews when it premiered on October 3. The film was notably criticized for its rushed retelling of King’s iconic vampire story and its inability to fully flesh out its characters. Some, consequently, speculated that the movie’s biggest problems may have been due to studio interference and corporate-mandated cuts.
Whether that’s true or not is unclear. In an interview with Den of Geek, though, Dauberman did confirm that his original cut of Salem’s Lot was much, much longer than the 113-minute version that was released. “My first cut was about three hours,” the filmmaker revealed. “There’s a lot left out. My first draft of the script is 180-odd pages or something.”
While speaking with Den of Geek, Dauberman offered some insight into what specifically from his original, 3-hour version of Salem’s Lot ended up being left on the cutting room floor. He singled out one scene, in particular, from King’s original novel in which Ben Mears (played as an adult in Dauberman’s film by Lewis Pullman) has a ghostly encounter in a haunted house. “In the book, Ben sneaks into the Marsten House and he sees the ghost of Hubert Marsten,” Dauberman noted. “I shot that and it used to open the movie, but it seemed to muddy the waters for audiences … That was the hardest thing to cut because I love the sequence.”
Knowing that a longer and likely more fleshed-out version of Salem’s Lot did exist at some point may only make watching the disappointingly slight cut that was actually released all the more frustrating for fans of its 1975 source material. For his part, though, Dauberman seems to have — for the time being, at least — come to terms with the cuts he had to make in order to get Salem’s Lot in front of the public.
Salem’s Lot is streaming now exclusively on Max.
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Android Theft Protection features rolling out via Play Services
Google has started rolling out three Theft Protection features for Android devices. These features will rely on multiple sensors to lock the device immediately after a thief steals it.
Google rolling out Theft Protection features for Android
Android smartphones have several layers of security. These features and processes ensure smartphones remain locked and inaccessible to thieves.
Phone snatchers often try to disable cellular and Wi-Fi connectivity by putting the stolen device in Airplane mode. Thieves also attempt to switch off the device or activate silent mode immediately after stealing the device.
To thwart these attempts and securely lock a device if stolen, Google announced three new Theft Protection features at this year’s Google I/O 2024. The company has now started rolling out the following features to Android devices.
The first one is Theft Detection Lock. It works by using device sensors, Wi-Fi, and smart device connections to determine, if while in use and unlocked, a thief suddenly takes your phone and runs away with it. When that happens, the phone will automatically lock the screen so that they won’t be able to access your phone.
Next, Offline Device Lock will trigger if someone steals your phone and immediately deactivates the Wi-Fi. It will only trigger if the device is being actively used at the moment of theft. The feature will only trigger twice a day to minimize accidental triggers.
The last feature is Remote Lock. Users can visit android.com/lock if a thief steals their device and calls a number. Users have to provide their number (confirmed during the set-up process) and complete a security challenge. This can be done on a trusted person’s phone. Google has indicated this feature is faster than logging into Find My Device.
Which smartphones will get the new anti-theft features?
These features have a dedicated page called Theft Protection in the main Settings app for Android. Alternatively, users can head over to the redesigned Google services page > All services tab > Personal & device safety.
All three Theft detection capabilities are visible when in the Google Play services beta (version 24.40.33). They will gradually reach Android smartphones in the stable version of the Google Play services.
Phones running Android 10 and above are eligible to receive the Theft Protection features. In other words, most modern smartphones should get these features in the near future.
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