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Leo Lewis / Financial Times: Sources: Chinese state-backed hackers breached Japanese cybersecurity agency NISC’s email system; experts link July 4 Port of Nagoya ransomware attack to China  —  Infiltration comes as allies scrutinise Tokyo’s defences against hacking  —  The organisation responsible for Japan’s national defences …

This photograph taken on August 24, 2023 shows a burned forest during wildfires in Kirki, a village near Alexandroupoli. A forest blaze in Greece is “the largest wildfire ever recorded in the EU” and the bloc is mobilising nearly half its firefighting air wing to tackle it, a European Commission spokesperson said Tuesday. Eleven planes and one helicopter from …

The upcoming remaster of the first two Suikoden games, titled Suikoden I & II HD Remaster: Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars, has been delayed to an unknown date. Konami says the Suikoden team will be working on getting the remaster ready for release “as soon as possible.” The delay was announced on Twitter in what is now an all-too-familiar …

Eight months after it won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, “Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project” has been officially picked up by HBO Documentary Films, which is buying U.S. and Canada television and streaming rights. Backed by Confluential Films and Rada Studio and directed and produced by respected veterans Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson (“American …

Last March, just two weeks after GPT-4 was released, researchers at Microsoft quietly announced a plan to compile millions of APIs—tools that can do everything from ordering a pizza to solving physics equations to controlling the TV in your living room—into a compendium that would be made accessible to large language models (LLMs). This was just one milestone in the …

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If you follow the discourse around Call of Duty from a certain segment of the player base, you’ll no doubt have heard the cries about disbanding lobbies, which has over the years taken on a sort of mythical status that YouTubers and the most dedicated players always claim would make the experience better for everyone if it got removed. Modern …

Editor’s note: The below contains spoilers for the Justified: City Primeval finale. For almost its entire season, Justified: City Primeval delivered the (rather excellent) stand-alone sequel series its creators promised. And while it’s been great fun seeing Raylan Givens, Timothy Olyphant‘s fearless U.S. Marshal, tackle a new adventure in Detroit over the last two months, you could always feel the …

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo’s visit to China is putting a spotlight on the future of TikTok in the United States, where criticism of the app and its ties to Beijing reached a fever pitch this year. Despite the intense pressure on the popular short-form video app, which is owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance, efforts to ban or regulate …

Underlying Tian’s sculpture is a sense of anonymity often found in classical statuary. Guided by the natural structure of the raw material, his modestly sized, deftly shaped faces and human forms seem to engage in a never-ending dance of fading in and out of the vessels. The artist revives found and collected everyday objects and kitchen utensils, such as cutting …