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The vulnerability was discovered by Apiiro’s Security Research team and explained in a blog post released alongside the patch. Argo CD is a popular open source Continuous Delivery platform, and the vulnerability – tagged as CVE-2022-24348 with a CVSS score of 7.7 – “allows malicious actors to load a Kubernetes Helm Chart YAML file to the vulnerability and ‘hop’ from their application ecosystem to other applications’ data outside of the user’s scope....

DailyMail reported today that Apple’s flagship retail store in France was the victim of an organized robbery. The crime apparently took place last night around 9 p.m. local time, three hours after the store closed for the day, with the suspects taking off with a reported £1 million in products. The masked, handgun-toting thieves were able to make off with the products before police arrived and have yet to be located....

After its third season was heavily criticized for being too dark, Arrow needed to redeem itself in its fourth season. Promised to be a lot brighter, season four also took a page out of The Flash’s book to make Oliver Queen’s (Stephen Amell) next threat not grounded. While the fastest man alive dealt with meta-humans, Arrow’s fourth year decided to introduce magic into the Arrowverse that was also busy setting up its newest spin-off, with Legends of Tomorrow....

Following Tuesday’s ruling from a federal judge, AT&T today has completed its acquisition of Time Warner. The deal, valued at $85 billion, was first announced in 2016 but faced a slew of regulatory delays due to antitrust concerns… Now that the deal has been completed, Time Warner’s handful of media properties are now under the ownership of AT&T. This includes HBO, CNN, Warner Bros., and more. Critics of the deal say owning this content gives AT&T an unfair advantage and the ability to promote its own content over that from its competitors....

Have you been spending inordinate amounts of time every day on video-sharing platforms, oftentimes completely losing track of time? Well, as it turns out, so has pretty much everyone, so don’t feel guilty. What makes the endless stream of entertaining clips available online so addictive, though? To try to paint a clear picture of this matter for you, we’ve rounded up the latest social video statistics from Australia and beyond....

James Cameron’s Avatar 2 has been pushed to December 2021, and the subsequent three sequels will be released every other year after. The long-awaited sequel was originally set to release in 2020. Released in 2009, Avatar was James Cameron’s epic return to directing feature films, over a decade after the massive success of Titanic. Cameron redirected his focus to underwater documentaries, like Ghosts of the Abyss and Aliens of the Deep, before making a record-breaking return to Hollywood, with Avatar becoming the first film to cross the $2 billion dollar mark (a feat Avengers: Endgame just achieved as well)....

The folks at popular Twitter image uploading service Twitpic released their own app today on the App Store. The app allows you to easily edit photos with a number of filters and other effects, such as cropping, brightness, and orientation. Twitpic for iPhone also offers the ability to view all pictures and videos of the people you are following on Twitter, as well as the ability to comment on Twitpic pictures, and the option to see the most popular pictures shared on Twitpic for the day....

On Jan. 26, The CW will unveil its latest comic book adaptation with Riverdale, a darker, grittier take on the classic Archie Comic characters. The series is being executive produced by Greg Berlanti, who also oversees the network’s Arrowverse lineup: Supergirl, The Flash, Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow. The modern retelling revolves around the murder of Jason Blossom and the aftermath that trails it. Newcomer K.J. Apa stars as Archie, while Cole Sprouse tackles his best friend, Jughead Jones....

Paul Blackthorne’s Quentin Lance will return from the dead in the Arrow series finale, which is currently filming. The eighth ongoing season is currently busy with bringing all the nostalgia as the Stephen Amell drama is approaching its end. While the season is mostly setting up Crisis on Infinite Earths, the first few episodes have featured some old favorites. The season opener had Oliver go to Earth-2, where he met several doppelganger versions of the people he has lost....

AT&T just released its quarterly numbers, and the company’s smartphone sales are still completely dominated by the iPhone. The company activated 3.7 million iPhones for the quarter, which represents 73 percent of all the smartphones sold (if each is taken as a new iPhone sold – there is likely a negligible difference). Additionally, 22 percent of the new iPhones sold were to new AT&T customers. The percentage would represent a slight downturn for AT&T over last quarter, where iPhone represented around 78 percent of smartphone activations with 4....

While security researchers may now be able to earn up to $200k by reporting vulnerabilities to Apple, some may find it hard to resist a counter-offer of $500k by blackhat company Exodus Intelligence. While Exodus uses the innocuous-sounding label ‘Research Sponsorship Program,’ the firm makes its money by buying details of vulnerabilities and then making them available to those wishing to exploit them to hack devices … Exodus has a hitlist on its site showing that it will pay up to $500k for a zero-day vulnerability in iOS 9....

Update: While AT&T claims that the move was to safeguard its delicate infrastructure, two public advocacy groups (Freepress, Public Knowledge) are claiming the FCC is looming large. Seth submits a third postulate: The iPad Mini LTE launch later this month will present a chance for AT&T to grab new tablet customers and AT&T doesn’t want to lose out to competitors with friendlier offers. AT&T just announced you could now use FaceTime over cellular at no extra charge on the iPhone 5 and LTE iPad if it is on one of the network’s tiered data plans....

In conducting a national survey with 1,000 Australian workers on behalf of the Australian College of Applied Professions (ACAP), YouGov found that more than two thirds of workers in IT and computer services share the belief that their workplace has only introduced mental health and wellbeing initiatives to tick boxes, while day-to-day, their management shows little, if any, genuine concern or empathy for their wellbeing. Workers from the IT and computer services sectors represented the highest percentage to share this belief out of all the industries that were surveyed, the ACAP highlighted....

With Netflix’s live-action adaptation of the beloved Avatar The Last Airbender nearing its release, there is a fair amount of fan speculation on how good we can expect it to be. There is a relatively significant portion of fans that are of the stubborn opinion that the only thing Netflix should be doing with Avatar is putting the original show up to stream, rather than creating an entirely new live-action take on the 15-year old story....

Ariana Grande played Chanel #2 on horror series Scream Queens, though her character didn’t survive very long. Outside of notable exceptions like The X-Files or Tales From The Crypt, horror TV shows used to be relatively rare. Network standards and modest budgets meant a lot of horror series were a little too tame - or cheap - for fans of the genre. The success of The Walking Dead has changed that perception, and its success led the way for other shows like Hannibal....

Denis Villeneuve’s cerebral 2016 sci-fi film Arrival featured bizarre-looking aliens called heptapods - but creature designer Carlos Huante says that even weirder designs were considered. The film stars Amy Adams as a linguistics expert who is brought in to try and communicate with an alien species after twelve of their ships appear in locations around the world. Because of the film’s premise, the aliens of Arrival couldn’t simply be humanoids with wrinkled foreheads or even Roswell-style aliens with pale skin and big eyes; they had to be truly alien, and communicate in a way that would be near-impossible to translate....

Arrow is already beginning to change the future for Star City in 2040 after this week’s episode, “Present Tense.” Despite traveling back in time, Mia Smoak (Katherine McNamara), William Clayton (Ben Lewis), and Conner Hawke (Joseph David-Jones) are still facing a familiar foe. The eighth and final season of the Stephen Amell-led series is tapping into the bigger comic book themes of the Arrowverse ahead of Crisis on Infinite Earths. With the Multiverse being the primary focus, the season is now exploring the time travel territory through the Star City 2040 characters....

Kevin Costner voices a dog who loves car racing in the trailer for The Art of Racing in the Rain. Funny as it sounds, 2019 has been a pretty big year for live-action movies featuring “talking” dogs. Case in point: Bryce Dallas Howard lent her voice to the canine star of A Dog’s Way Home in January, and Josh Gad only just reprised his four-legged character from A Dog’s Purpose in this month’s sequel, A Dog’s Journey....

As the most highly anticipated film of the 22 entries taking place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and one of the most culturally significant cinematic events in the past several decades, Avengers: Endgame had a big responsibility and a lot to deliver for its fans. Not only did it have to tie up loose ends and complete character arcs, it had to do so in a way that respected the emotional labor of its fandom....

One clever Avengers: Endgame fan has sculpted Thanos himself from a lone coffee bean. Unsurprisingly, despite releasing last April, Avengers: Endgame is still a big discussion point among moviegoers. The film was also nominated for an Academy Award, for Best Visual Effects. At this point, what can be said about Avengers: Endgame? Even those who don’t enjoy comic book movies can’t deny the film is a crowning achievement. Somehow, directors Anthony and Joe Russo were able to complete the story arcs of Captain America/Steve Rogers and Iron Man/Tony Stark, while including almost every major character in the MCU....