Month: December 2024

Games are constantly at risk of being lost to time, gated behind old, hard-to-find hardware, and servers being shut down. Yet there’s a growing trend of developers creating remakes, remasters, and re-releases. They’re bringing games back to be playable on modern hardware, like Backyard Baseball ’98, or making them again from the ground up to
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Bob “Slim” Dunlap, the Replacements’ former guitarist and a solo artist in his own right, died on Wednesday, December 18, The Minnesota Star Tribune reports. Dunlap’s family said, in a statement, that the musician died of complications from the severe stroke he had in 2012. The family also said he was listening to the Slim
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Created by A.C. Bradley, What If…? Season 3 has been off to a stellar beginning. This new entry to the MCU’s anthology series has focused on the characters introduced in the latest phase of the MCU and on putting together combinations that we may not have thought of yet. What If Season 3 Episode 3 pulls
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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. Months before voters went to the polls in November, a group of election skeptics based in North Carolina gathered on a call and discussed
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The Federal Trade Commission announced on Friday it finalized an order (pdf) requiring Marriott International and subsidiary Starwood Hotels to improve their digital security, reports BleepingComputer. The FTC charged the companies with lax security practices that resulted in three big breaches detected in 2015, 2018, and 2020, “affecting more than 344 million customers worldwide,” leaking
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