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- Marlon Wayans revealed that the role of Cindy in Scary Movie was supposed to go to Melissa Joan Hart, but his brother Keenan wanted Anna Faris to play the character.
Scary Movie is stirring up laughs (and maybe some groans) in theaters. Fans of the franchise have waited a long time to see some of their favorite characters return, like Anna Faris’ Cindy. She’s been a staple in the films as a main character since the beginning, but Faris almost didn’t get the role. Marlon Wayans revealed that Melissa Joan Hart was supposed to be Cindy in the Scary Movie franchise, but his brother Keenan advocated for Anna Faris to get the role instead.
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It’s pretty hard to imagine anyone else besides Faris’ as the well-meaning yet rather dimwitted Cindy in the Scary Movie franchise. Her comedic timing and facial expressions are impeccable and a huge reason why the films became so popular. But it would have made a lot of sense to have Melissa Joan Hart in the role as well.
She can be quite funny when given the chance and, more importantly, her name would have been a huge draw for audiences. Hart was well known for her starring role in Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, so playing Cindy would have been a huge departure from her family friendly sitcom roots. And it would have been incredibly funny to see her fight a black cat in Scary Movie 2 considering she had a black cat in the series.
SCARY MOVIE ‘Subservient Ghostface’ Website Mocks SCREAM and AIMarlon Wayans’ admission of this was a surprise to both Faris and his brother Shawn Wayans. And, in classic Marlon fashion, he joked that Faris did a good job of taking a job from another white lady. Now, it would be interesting to see what Melissa Joan Hart’s thoughts are about all of this. Scary Movie is pulling in box office numbers so we are sure that Anna Faris will be able to keep playing Cindy in the coming years.
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UBUNTU SUMMIT Canonical is still experimenting with the format of the Ubuntu Summit series of free conferences, and its most recent instance, the 26.04 edition, was a primarily online event. There was a small in-person invited audience, which by our informal estimate was about half the size of the one at last October's edition. The event opened with a keynote from Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth, and his opening sentence set the tone for much of what would follow: The agentic revolution will touch every aspect of human endeavor. We take that to mean the use of LLM "agents" to develop software, translate between human languages and from speech to text, and so on. For all that this vulture might personally dispute just how revolutionary this is, there were some 21 full-length talks over the two days of the summit, and about half of them were about AI, or at least touched upon the subject. Shuttleworth's keynote also contained the biggest Canonical product announcement of the event: the new Workshop sandboxed LLM development environments (at the 20-minute mark in the video above). Workshop uses Canonical's LXD "containervisor" and snap packaging to make it easy to install and run LLM agents, while keeping them isolated in sandboxes so that they can only access specific limited resources in that user's home directory. For instance, they can access the machine's GPUs and nominated local files, while being walled off from personal data such as stored credentials. As Shuttleworth put it: You can run random code, from the internet, on your laptop, without handing it root. Canonical also announced Workshop online the same day, with a collection of documentation already available, including a tutorial. Workshop is an open source project with the source code on GitHub. Later that day, engineering manager Dmitry Lyfar gave a talk on the new tool, titled Introducing Workshop. Shuttleworth's keynote was followed by another by VP of engineering Jon Seager. As we reported last month in our article on AI integration into Ubuntu and Fedora, Seager recently published a blog post about the company's AI intentions. In his keynote, Seager said that this post had been "SEO'd to death," but he too devoted a substantial part of his talk to AI, saying: Ubuntu can't be in the conversation about AI and open source unless it has a position and a stake. Seager also spelled out some of what this will mean, from small feature improvements such as improving auto-focus in webcams and making power management more intelligent, to more significant features. He called out accessibility as a key area for investment and improvement. He said that "existing Linux screen readers suck" – harsh, but not entirely unfair – and that there is "so much room for improvement" in that area. He continued that the plan is "to enable speech-to-text everywhere in the desktop," but said "AI is transformative for people with disabilities" and that the company soon hopes to preview the "first AI-powered context-aware desktop features." In case, this sounds niche or unimportant, it really isn't. Speech-to-text is a vital tool for people with physical impairments that make typing difficult. This vulture has written at length about the importance of keyboard user interface design, as well as about how few Linux desktops fully and correctly implement it, leaving Apple with a significant edge in this area. As it happens, this author is a keyboard-intensive user with relatively poor eyesight, so this matters to us. Register accessibility columnist Colin Hughes has written about the importance of speech-to-text UI. For now, Linux's usability in this area is much poorer, and as Wayland displaces X11 from the big-name desktops, it's about to get a lot worse, as the recent blog post from "nocoffei" describes: My Accessibility Stack and the future on Wayland. "nocoffei" links to the same series of blog posts by TapType developer Aaron Hewitt that we did back in March, under the collective title "I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn't Love Me Back." We recommend them again: Built for Control, But Not for People: Linux is already broken before you even start The Audio Stack Is a Crime Scene: You can't hear anything – and it's not your fault Interlude – A Thank You, Where It's Due: This is what it looks like when people care In part 4, he takes a surprising new direction: Wayland Is Growing Up, And Now We Don't Have a Choice: The future is Wayland. Let's make sure we're invited. In that, he reports on significant strides in keyboard-driven accessibility for blind users with GNOME on Wayland – but as nocoffei's post spells out, that is no help to those who can see fine but can't type. If the integration of AI into Ubuntu can address this or improve on the current situation, that will go further toward ameliorating this vulture's deep skepticism about the viability of LLMs than anything else. Bootnotes Canonical invited The Register to attend the Summit in person, and paid for our travel and accommodation during the event. Indeed, if you look closely at the 30-second mark of the highlight reel – it's only 50 seconds long, so it's not too arduous – you can see The Reg FOSS desk's hands typing away industriously into Logseq. Back in April 2023, severe injuries from a road traffic accident very nearly cost the author one of those hands, which is part of the reason for his interest in accessibility tools – as well as the reason for the MacBook Air visible in that video, into which his articles were dictated for the next few months. On the subject of AI integration into desktop distros, it's interesting to note that since we wrote about AI tooling in Fedora a month ago, there has been considerable pushback from the user community, and two committee members have changed their votes to oppose it. ®
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- An Adventure Time movie and two spinoff series are currently in the works. Little is known yet about the film project.
- The two spinoff series are Adventure Time Side Quests and Adventure Time Heyo BM. These two series are geared toward kids.
Lovers of Adventure Time may have a big reason to rejoice. An Adventure Time movie is in the works. According to a release from Warner Bros. Discovery, The Adventure Time Movie is officially a go. While we don’t have many details yet, The Adventure Time Movie includes animation talent like Steven Universe creator Rebecca Sugar, Over the Garden Wall creator Patrick McHale, and Adventure Time showrunner Adam Muto. All of these creative talents have worked on Adventure Time before. In addition to the Adventure Time Movie, two other spinoff series are in the works.
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The Adventure Time Movie DescriptionAs mentioned, we don’t know too much about what this Adventure Time movie will include, but a release notes that its current description is as follows: “Jake and Finn embark on their greatest adventure yet.” We can’t wait to see what that will mean.
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Other Adventure Time Spinoff Series in the Works In addition to an Adventure Time movie, two spinoff series are also said to be in development. First up is Adventure Time: Side Quests, which will take viewers back to when Finn was a daydreaming child who went on fantasy adventures with his best friend, Jake the Dog. This Adventure Time series will have standalone episodes “starring early versions of fan-favorite characters, including the sometime-villain The Ice King.” In addition, Adventure Time: Heyo BMO will be a series aimed toward younger children featuring BMO.
You can check out the full information we have about them so far below:
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- Description: Adventure Time: Side Quests takes the Adventure Time franchise back to the early days when Finn was just a kid, excited to fight monsters and go on epic quests with his best buddy Jake. In stand-alone episodes, our heroes take on classic Adventure Time villains like The Ice King and re-connect with stand-out side characters from the original series.
- Creative Talent: Nate Cash
- Studio: Cartoon Network Studios
Adventure Time: Side Quests will officially release on June 29. You can watch the trailer below.
A release further notes:
A companion to the beloved original, Emmy®, Peabody, and Annie Award-winning series Adventure Time, the new series follows young hero Finn and his magical dog best friend Jake as they embark on adventures across the fantastical land of Ooo — partying with cloud people and punching evil in the butt along the way.
Adventure Time captivated audiences with its heartfelt storytelling, playful humour, and richly creative world. AdventureTime: Side Quests builds on the spirit of the early seasons, delivering lighter, self-contained adventures. Designed to introduce a new generation of fans to the land of Ooo, whilst giving existing fans more of what they love, the series brings standalone, silly quests and playful challenges – celebrating the joyful chaos of Finn and Jake’s adventures.
Finn the Human is voiced by Sasha Knight and John DiMaggio returns as the voice of Jake the Dog. The series will also reunite fan-favourite characters including Ice King (Tom Kenny), Princess Bubblegum (Hynden Walch), Marceline (Olivia Olson), and BMO (Niki Yang).
Showrunner and Executive Producer, Nate Cash said: “Making Side Quests felt like making the original Adventure Time, which felt like hanging out with art school buddies making professional cartoons. That sounds like a big sandwich of feelings, and it was! You’re going to love these NEW adventures with Finn & Jake!”
Adventure Time: Heyo BMO (Preschool series, Cartoon Network)
- Description: In the fantastical Land of Ooo, the little robot BMO is on a new adventure! Now settled in a new neighborhood with new friends, BMO approaches each challenge he faces with his unique brand of enthusiasm and curiosity in a quest to learn and fill his database.
- Creative Talent: Adam Muto, Ashlyn Anstee
- Studio: Cartoon Network Studios
We’ll be excited to hear more about all of these upcoming Adventure Time offerings.
Originally published on June 12, 2024.
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At the recent TNB Energy Transition Conference, ZTE showcased an integrated portfolio of digital utility, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and intelligent infrastructure technologies. The display highlighted how advanced connectivity and digitalization can support the evolving needs of modern power utilities while driving Malaysia's broader energy transition ambitions. The technologies presented by ZTE encompassed a broad range of digital utility and intelligent infrastructure solutions designed to support the evolving needs of modern power systems. These included Digital Utility Solutions that demonstrate global best practices in utility digitalization and smart grid communications, AI-driven platforms that enhance operational intelligence and predictive decision-making, as well as integrated grid connectivity technologies that enable secure, resilient and wide-area communications for critical utility operations. The showcase also featured Smart Energy Innovations that apply AI technologies to energy optimisation, forecasting and sustainability initiatives, alongside Next Generation Optical Transport Networks that provide secure, high-capacity backbone connectivity for digital utility infrastructure. Collectively, the integrated technologies demonstrate how intelligent digital infrastructure can help utilities improve operational visibility, strengthen grid resilience, enhance efficiency and support more advanced energy management capabilities. The solutions are aligned with broader digital utility transformation efforts, including initiatives undertaken by utilities such as Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), by supporting capabilities such as real-time monitoring, operational efficiency, enhanced visibility of network performance and intelligent utility management. Liu Bang, Managing Director of ZTE Malaysia, said: "These technologies demonstrate how AI-driven platforms, intelligent connectivity, and optical transport networks can support the future of digital utilities and smart grid development." "Through our collaboration with Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) on selected technology initiatives, ZTE continues to contribute its expertise and innovation capabilities. We remain committed to supporting utility digitalization and Malaysia's broader energy transition aspirations," Liu added. In addition to its digital utility and intelligent infrastructure solutions, ZTE also showcased its latest mobile gaming devices, demonstrating the company's continued innovation across both enterprise and consumer technology segments. Among the devices on display was the nubia Neo 5 GT 5G, an affordable gaming smartphone equipped with a built-in cooling fan designed to maintain performance during extended gaming sessions. ZTE also presented the REDMAGIC 11 Pro, its latest flagship gaming smartphone featuring an advanced liquid cooling system and an under-display front camera design that delivers a true full-screen gaming experience without a visible camera cut-out. The devices reflect ZTE's broader commitment to technological innovation across communications infrastructure, artificial intelligence, digital utilities and next-generation smart devices. Beyond the technologies presented during the conference, ZTE has participated in technology validation and assessment activities relating to smart metering communication solutions. These activities have provided valuable insights into the performance, reliability and applicability of the technology within utility operating environments. Aside from that, the readiness of ZTE's local delivery and technical support teams, together with ecosystem partners, will support long-term utility digitalization initiatives across Malaysia. As the country advances its National Energy Transition Roadmap ("NETR") ambitions, ZTE believes intelligent utility technologies will play an increasingly important role in accelerating Malaysia's energy transition by enabling accurate metering, improving operational transparency, strengthening grid resilience, and supporting more efficient energy usage. The technologies are also expected to support TNB's broader AMI ambitions, while enabling future smart energy applications such as rooftop solar integration, EV charging optimization, and demand-side energy management capabilities for households and businesses. Through continuous innovation and strategic collaboration, ZTE aims to support utilities in building intelligent, scalable and resilient infrastructure capable of supporting the future demands of the energy sector. Contributed by ZTE.
The devil may wear Prada, but soon Moon-bound astronauts will be sporting unmentionables from the high-fashion brand. Okay, to be honest, Prada hasn’t actually designed haute-couture Italian astronaut underthings for casual rocket missions so much as its existing collaboration with Axiom Space has been expanded to include a base layer for the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU), which the pair announced in 2024. One can’t be caught in an unfashionable Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment (LCVG) inside a fashion house EVA suit, after all. Axiom rolled out the LCVG in New York City over the weekend, describing it as the companion piece that future NASA Moon explorers will be issued when humans return to the lunar surface as part of the Artemis IV mission in 2028, provided that the timeline doesn’t change again. According to Axiom and Prada’s announcement, the new LCVG will be much like old designs, inasmuch as the ensemble is outfitted with a bunch of tubes circulating chilled water across an astronaut’s body and moving hotter stuff toward the suit’s life-support system, where heat is expelled. The ventilation portion of the acronym involves a series of oxygen tubes “delivering fresh oxygen across an astronaut's face to continuously wash away exhaled carbon dioxide,” which is then removed by carbon dioxide scrubbers in the suit’s life support system. The Prada/Axiom LCVG differs from older models in its redundancy, the companies said. The suit includes “a fully redundant cooling circuit” to ensure no one has to come back to the ship sweatier and nastier than they have to be. Because NASA is envisioning extended spacewalks on the Moon, Axiom and Prada designed the AxEMU to support eight-hour spacewalks on the Lunar South Pole, which the new LCVG is also designed to support. While the companies didn’t give specifics about the materials or other elements of the LCVG, the announcement did mention Prada’s “expertise in engineered knitting and innovative design concepts,” along with advanced 3D modeling, contributed to a “high-performance” suit that includes “specialized fibers that allow the garment to be worn repeatedly across long-duration missions.” Axiom didn’t respond to our questions before publication, so we're left to wonder what those fibers will do - maybe reduce the stink inherent in a long-term lunar mission? Astro-BO doesn’t matter if you can’t make it to the Moon No one wants to be stuck in a tiny capsule with several people unable to clean themselves with much more than wet wipes and dry shampoo, but presumably stink-suppressing Prada space suit unders don’t really matter if future Artemis missions have trouble getting to space. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket recently exploded, leading to extensive damage at its Cape Canaveral launch complex and what could be more than a year of reconstruction to get the platform ready for its next launch. SpaceX’s Starship, one of NASA's options for getting astronauts back to the Moon, hasn't done much better of late, and is running short on time to prove it can meet the agency's lunar mission needs. And then there's Axiom and Prada's part in the whole show, which NASA's watchdog has raised concerns about as well. NASA's Inspector General said in an April report that while Axiom currently plans to have demonstration suits ready in 2027, historical testing timelines suggest the agency might not see flight-ready demonstrations until 2031. As it currently stands, Artemis IV is the mission NASA intends to land at the Moon’s south pole, and it plans to do so in 2028. That timeline has already slipped once, and given recent setbacks, could very well slip again, likely giving Axiom and Prada a bit more time to get their interplanetary fashion house in order. ®
After a weekend of nations firing at each other in the Middle East, President Donald Trump responded on Monday morning with a pair of pleading social media posts, underlining his inability to influence global events and actors. Iran fired missiles at Israel on Sunday following the decision by the Israeli government to bomb the suburbs of Beirut in retaliation for alleged Hamas attacks.
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A new feature in the Amazon Shopping app allows users to generate designs with Alexa, then print them on products like T-shirts, hoodies, and tumblers.
An Illinois high school won't reopen until Wednesday at the earliest after suffering a ransomware attack on Sunday, June 7. Evanston Township High School (ETHS), located 14 miles north of Chicago, said it would be closed today and tomorrow, and that the closure also affected summer school, sports camps, and on-campus activities, which are all canceled. "Upon discovering the incident, we immediately activated our incident response procedures and engaged external cyber breach attorneys and cybersecurity forensic experts to assist with the investigation and recovery process," ETHS said in a statement issued via a dedicated information page. "We are working with these specialists to determine precisely what information may have been accessed or acquired and to restore normal systems operations as quickly as possible. The district is cooperating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as part of the ongoing investigation." It said that phone systems are down and staff have limited access to emails. Children and their families may also not be able to access certain online resources, all of which suggests the institution may still be in the containment phase of remediation. Among the online resources currently offline is Home Access Center, which is powered by PowerSchool. PowerSchool itself was was at the center of a cybersecurity disaster in late 2024. However, ETHS has not linked the platform to the ransomware attack. All staff other than safety and operations workers were told to work from home, although their work will be limited since, for the time being, they're locked out of the district's Google accounts and "other network systems, including eSchool." "We understand this situation is disruptive and appreciate your patience and flexibility," ETHS went on to say. "Additional updates and instructions will be provided as they become available." No major ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the intrusion at the high school yet. Education under attack The ETHS incident follows a separate attack on the education sector disclosed on June 4 that affected 13 schools in Powys, Wales. Powys Council set up its own information page about the attack, although it has not revealed much, saying it is awaiting the outcome of investigations by external specialists. However, it said the attack has affected "some school systems" and personal data belonging to both staff and pupils was accessed. The council identified 13 affected schools, although the compromised data only appears to have been taken from one of these, according to current information. Its information page repeatedly uses the phrase "because of the sensitive nature of the data." The council cites this as the reason for not revealing information such as which schools were affected, how many individuals are affected, what types of data have been accessed, and whether this included sensitive or safeguarding-related data. It also refused to say whether the attack involved ransomware or who was responsible for it. However, it said the risk of identity fraud would vary by individual, hinting that different types of personal data may have been accessed. Powys Council confirmed that all schools across the region remain open, and the cyberattack does not affect their day-to-day safety or operations. Education remains a strong target for cybercriminals. Given the sensitivity of the data these organizations store, it makes the sector one of the most attractive for financially motivated criminals looking for an extortion payment. In the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office said that between 2022 and 2024, pupils were responsible for 57 percent of 214 school data breaches, often using stolen login details. ®
The messaging giant announced that it disrupted a phishing campaign targeting its users with NSO’s spyware.
Amazon is set to miss its deadline to deploy half of its Leo satellite constellation by July 30, as required by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The agency has, however, granted it a waiver of sorts – at the cost of priority status in spectrum licensing. The Bezos-founded behemoth got the go-ahead from the FCC for what was then known as Project Kuiper back in 2020. This was on the proviso that it had 50 percent of its planned constellation of 3,236 broadband satellites in orbit by July 30, 2026. Amazon rebranded its satellite broadband biz from Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo in November last year. However, the company filed an application on January 30 this year seeking an extension of the deployment deadline by 24 months, or alternatively a complete waiver of this milestone requirement. At the time of filing the application, Amazon Leo reported that it had launched just 180 satellites and estimated that it will have deployed approximately 700 by the July 30 deadline. On June 5, the FCC granted Amazon a limited waiver of its 50 percent deployment requirement. However, the company is still expected to meet its final deployment deadline of July 30, 2029, for the entire constellation. Under normal circumstances, if a licensee failed to meet the set interim milestone, its total number of authorized satellites would be capped at the number of satellites that were in orbit and operating on the date of the missed milestone. This will still apply if Amazon fails to have completed its deployment by the final deadline. The FCC says in its order [PDF] that it may waive any rule for good cause shown, though this only tends to happen if such a move is judged to serve the public interest. Amazon blamed delays from rocket launch providers and shortages of launch availability for causing significant backlogs and stretching out its planned deployment timelines. It also claimed that many of its planned launches were further delayed due to "a variety of factors that were outside of its control," including weather, technical problems, and prioritization of government launches. The company is understood to have given the FCC assurances of its ability to meet an extended 50 percent milestone, as well as the final milestone in 2029, providing detailed schedules of future launches along with information on its financial and operational investments in the constellation and its mitigation efforts so far. As a condition of the waiver, Amazon Leo is temporarily losing its priority status for any satellites that are not deployed and operational as of July 30, 2026, as initially authorized in the 2020 Ku/Ka-band Processing Round and in the 2021 V-band Processing Round, the FCC says, and will be reassigned to a later priority status. "Priority status" governs a company's legal right to transmit in a specific orbital slot or frequency block. This ruling means that Amazon Leo satellites deployed after July 30, 2026 will lose their priority access to the Ka/Ku spectrum until either 20 months have passed from that date (to March 30, 2028), or the date Amazon Leo manages to deploy and operate 50 percent of its constellation, whichever comes first. We also understand that Amazon will forfeit the surety bond it agreed to post as a condition of its authorization for satellite launches. The amount involved was not disclosed. The FCC notes that "a number of parties" filed comments in response to Amazon Leo's application, many of which support granting either the requested extension or waiver. However, Elon Musk's SpaceX filed comments opposing the granting of a waiver. This is hardly surprising as Amazon Leo is a direct rival for SpaceX's Starlink satellite broadband service. Back in March, Amazon also tried to get the FCC to reject a SpaceX application for permission to launch a fleet of orbital datacenter satellites. ®
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Here’s what’s happening on the roads this morning…
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Road incidents as of 8:30 a.m. on June 8
- South Highway 1 at Park Avenue in Capitola / Soquel is facing closures for roadway excavation. The closure is expected to end at 7:01 a.m. on August 19.
- There is one-way traffic on Highway 9 at Cascade Avenue in San Lorenzo Valley because of ongoing work. The closure is expected to end at 7:01 a.m. on August 31.
- There will be alternating lane closures on Highway 9 at Pool Drive in San Lorenzo Valley because of bridge work. This will continue until April 30 at 6:59 a.m.
- A lane on westbound SR-152 at Clifford Drive/Ohlone Parkway in Watsonville and Pajaro is closed for asphalt paving. The closure will last until July 3 at 5:59 a.m.
- CHP helped Caltrans with paving work and one-way traffic control on eastbound SR152 from southbound Highway 1 to Green Valley in lane 2. The work took place from 6:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. today near Highway 1 South and SR152 in the Watsonville and Pajaro area.
- A lane on Highway 17 at Beulah Park/La Madrona in the Eastside / Live Oak area is closed for utility work. The closure is expected to end at 2:59 p.m. today.
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There are so many ways to dive into the Doctor Who fandom. The show has decades of episodes and various points that are easy for new fans to hop into. There are a slew of Big Finish Audio dramas that either expand stories that we wished we saw onscreen or introduce new elements of the Whoniverse altogether. Do you like comics and games? There are plenty of Doctor Who ones to enjoy. But if you’re into hands-on projects and love to celebrate your Who devotion, then Crochet AmiguWHOmi: Adventures in Time and Space by Liz Ward is perfect for you. Crochet AmiguWHOmi: Adventures in Time and Space, by Liz Ward; published by Ten Speed Press, 2026
This book is full of crochet projects to craft iconic characters and objects from the franchise’s various eras. It’s the perfect way to vibe out, flex your creative muscles, and create something that’s worthy of display in your abode. We have exclusive excerpts from Crochet AmiguWHOmi to highlight two beloved figures from Doctor Who: the TARDIS and companion Rose Tyler.
As we all know, the TARDIS is one of the most famous spaceships in pop culture history. It has been a mainstay in Doctor Who since the show’s first episode premiered in 1963. While it has gone through some regenerations of its own in the inside, the police box exterior looks mostly the same, thanks to that broken chameleon circuit. Crochet AmiguWHOmi gives you a nice breakdown of the TARDIS’ history and shows you how to make your own crochet version step-by-step. Here’s a peek at some of those steps as well as the finished product:
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When it comes to modern era companions, Rose Tyler ranks high among the fandom’s faves for good reason. For many of us, she was the first companion that they ever met over twenty years ago. From a teenager who was bored with her life working in a shop to a time-traveling girl boss who ran straight towards dangerous otherworldly forces, Rose had an incredibly powerful arc that resonated with many younger Who fans.
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While she has so many classic looks, many of which are hard for cosplayers to find, Crochet AmiguWHOmi chose her Union Jack shirt look from “The Empty Child” and “The Doctor Dances” for this crochet project.
DOCTOR WHO to Stream Exclusively on AMC+ Starting June 11In addition to these projects, you can craft the Fourth Doctor’s iconic colorful scarf, a wee Cyberman or Dalek, and even a time vortex blanket. Crochet AmiguWHOmi will go on sale June 9, so get ready to spend your summer streaming Doctor Who and making cool creations. You can grab your copy right here.
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- Scary Movie’s “Subservient Ghostface” website mocks Scream and AI by letting you control an actual human version of the iconic killer.
The new Scary Movie might not be for everyone, but its new website has something for everyone to enjoy. That’s because it will let you do almost anything you want. The parody franchise found yet another way to mock Scream. And it did so in a way that also mocks the latest installment in the horror series, which made AI a major plot point. You can get Scream‘s iconic killer to do whatever you want (sort of) at Subservient Ghostface, a very silly website that relies on good old-fashioned human silliness and not artificial intelligence.
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Subservient Ghostface is exactly what it sounds like. It features a slightly swaying sociopath in the legendary mask and black robes waiting for you to enter a prompt of no more than 50 characters. When you hit enter, it then follows your instructions. What makes it so funny is that it does not employ AI. This is not a computer-generated Ghostface. It’s a real person in a real costume who clearly acted out a whole lot of possible prompts in anticipation of what you might ask. I told it to make a cup of tea, and it pulled exactly that from behind its bath. I instructed Subservient Ghostface to do math, and the slasher whipped out a calculator. It then typed in “8008.”
Perfect.
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The broader your prompt, the more likely you are to get an appropriate response. But if you get really specific and weird by typing in something like “contemplate life” or “eat a stack of pancakes,” then Ghostface performs a non-sequitur, like running or laughing at you.
This is not only a very fitting way to promote Scary Movie. It also takes aim at the most recent Scream, which brought back long-dead characters via AI (in the world of the story, not in actuality). In that way, this Subservient Ghostface site makes fun of Scream in two very different ways.
Well three. Type in “make fun of Scream” to see the third. Subservient Ghostface will not let you down.
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NHS England is handing Microsoft Copilot to more than half a million staff after a pilot claimed the AI assistant could claw back 43 minutes a day from administrative work. On Monday, NHS England announced plans to roll out Copilot to 505,000 clinicians and support staff. Its confidence comes from a pilot involving 30,000 staff across 90 organizations, which the health service says saved users an average of 43 minutes a day on admin, working out to roughly five working weeks over the course of a year. The rollout won't happen overnight. NHS England said that each trust will receive a central allocation of licenses based on headcount, typically starting with around 2,000 Copilot seats, and that more than half a million staff are expected to have access by October 2026. The NHS has no shortage of administrative work to throw at the software. The rollout envisions Copilot helping with discharge paperwork, bed management, rota planning, meeting minutes, board papers, briefings, data analysis, and assorted HR, finance, and procurement tasks. NHS organizations will also receive access to Copilot Studio, Microsoft's toolkit for building custom AI agents. NHS England said trusts will be able to develop agents for tasks such as handling Freedom of Information requests, processing complaints, reducing helpdesk workloads, and assisting with financial analysis. A governance framework called Agent 365 will oversee the deployment of those systems. The health service is not alone in buying into Microsoft's vision of AI-powered digital workers. Lloyds Banking Group signed up for a similar vision last week, rolling out Microsoft's Frontier Suite to support what it called its "agentic future." One detail missing from today's announcement is the price tag. NHS England has not disclosed the cost of the deal, although public pricing for Microsoft 365 Copilot typically runs to tens of pounds per user per month. At list price, a deployment of this size would be worth well into nine figures annually, though large public sector customers rarely pay sticker price. The NHS has spent years trying to reduce paperwork. This time, it's handing the job to Microsoft. ®
Bending Spoons say its app caters to a user base of over 500 million monthly active users.
Microsoft’s GitHub has disabled over 70 repositories after they were reportedly compromised by a worm in the latest open source supply chain attack. The code shack took down 73 repos within the space of 105 seconds after its alarms were tripped on Friday, June 5, after detecting signs of the Miasma worm infecting its projects, according to StepSecurity’s co-founder and CTO, Ashish Kurmi. Users reported issues quickly on Friday, after visits to those repos all resulted in the same message displayed, indicating that they had been disabled due to terms of service violations. According to StepSecurity’s analysis, the attack kicked off after a compromised contributor account pushed a malicious commit to Azure/durabletask. The commit dropped configuration files that triggered remote code execution on machines when a developer opened the repo in an IDE or AI coding tool, such as Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Cursor. Several developers soon reported broken CI/CD pipelines, a support thread showed, although a moderator said at the time this was due to “an internal management issue.” "The repo that most immediately caused issues was Azure/functions-action,” Kurmi wrote, used to deploy code to Azure. With it being taken down, every workflow that referenced Azure/functions-action@v1 stopped resolving. GitHub stepped in a few hours after the repos were infected by the malicious commit. Its automated detections kicked in and disabled the repos in under two minutes, in two separate waves. However, it was the borking of the durabletask family that hinted at the bigger picture, that the attack was indeed a re-opening of the previous Miasma worm attack that hit Microsoft last month. Microsoft’s durabletask PyPi package was a previous target of the Miasma worm on May 19. Within a 35-minute window, three versions of the package were uploaded to PyPi, which planted infostealers on developers’ machines, specifically sniffing out cloud secrets and developer tool configurations on Linux systems. Crucially, the re-targeting of durabletask suggests the tokens associated with the compromised developer account used to execute the PyPi attack were not fully rotated, allowing an attacker to gain access and push commits to GitHub, Kurmi said. It was either that, or the contributor was re-compromised through the worm's own propagation loop, or a different contributor's token was used but the attacker altered the metadata to make it look like a repeated attack. Security shop Snyk described Miasma as a descendant of the Mini Shai Hulud worm. It’s the same one that ravaged open source packages over at the npm registry, including Red Hat’s, earlier this month. Cybercrime group TeamPCP claimed responsibility for developing Mini Shai Hulud, which itself is named after an earlier worm of the same name, sans “mini.” However, because TeamPCP open-sourced Mini Shai Hulud, it’s difficult to tell whether it was also behind Miasma or if someone else took the reins on the follow-up project. StepSecurity also reported that two days before the Microsoft attack, the same worm was making a nuisance of itself at npm, compromising more than 50 packages, including a Vapi.ai SDK with more than 408,000 monthly downloads. The Register asked Microsoft for comment, but it did not immediately respond. ®
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