Monthly Archives: August 2025

The Conjuring: Last Rites Reactions Hint at Scary Conclusion to Horror Franchise

The Conjuring: Last Rites is set to release next week, and ahead of it, reactions for the film are beginning to come out, hinting at a scary conclusion to the legendary horror franchise. What are The Conjuring: Last Rites reactions saying? Reactions to the film began showing up on social media today, and the overwhelming… Read More »

High-severity vulnerability in Passwordstate credential manager. Patch now.

The maker of Passwordstate, an enterprise-grade password manager for storing companies’ most privileged credentials, is urging them to promptly install an update fixing a high-severity vulnerability that hackers can exploit to gain administrative access to their vaults. The authentication bypass allows hackers to create a URL that accesses an emergency access page for Passwordstate. From… Read More »

My Life with the Walter Boys’ Ashby Gentry on Alex’s ‘Glow-Up’ in Season 2

Alex Walter gets a massive glow-up in Netflix’s My Life with the Walter Boys Season 2. Ashby Gentry, who plays Alex Walter in the series, said that getting over Alex’s Season 1 look was quite stressful, saying, “It did make me feel like s— about myself at times.” Here’s what the actor said about his… Read More »

Harry Potter Director on Why He Was Fired From Marvel’s Fantastic Four

Harry Potter director Chris Columbus is opening up about why he was fired from Marvel’s Fantastic Four movie that was released in 2005. In addition to directing the first two Harry Potter movies, Columbus is known for helming movies such as 1987’s Adventures in Babysitting, 1990’s Home Alone, 1993’s Mrs. Doubtfire, and more. After writing… Read More »

The personhood trap: How AI fakes human personality

Knowledge emerges from understanding how ideas relate to each other. LLMs operate on these contextual relationships, linking concepts in potentially novel ways—what you might call a type of non-human “reasoning” through pattern recognition. Whether the resulting linkages the AI model outputs are useful depends on how you prompt it and whether you can recognize when… Read More »