Month: August 2024
Netflix is turning a Harry Hole book into the mystery series Detective Hole – I just hope it’s better than the movie adaptation’s 7% Rotten Tomatoes score
Netflix’s new mystery series Detective Hole is in the works – let’s just hope it’s better than the movie adaptation that got 7% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Netflix announced new mystery thriller series Detective Hole back in May, which is based on Jo Nesbø’s series of crime novels about the legendary detective Harry Hole. While the serial killer whodunnit sounds seriously chilling, I just hope it doesn’t meet the same fate as the movie adaptation of The Snowman, which has 7% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Book-to-screen adaptations have been a big win with the best streaming service, with the likes of Mindhunter, Ripley, and the new A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder all becoming some of the best Netflix shows. So it’s no surprise that the streamer has decided to make another Netflix Original series from the works of one of the greatest storytellers in crime fiction, Jo Nesbø.
But it’s not the first time Nesbø’s book has been adapted for the big screen, with Michael Fassbender playing the role of Hole in the 2017 movie flop The Snowman, which received a dire 7% Rotten Tomatoes score. In The Snowman, Hole tracks down a serial killer in Oslo who builds snowmen at their crime scenes.
Vox savagely reviewed The Snowman as “the most transcendently awful movie I expect to see in 2017,” so I just hope that Detective Hole will have a better appeal in this new Netflix series coming out in 2026.
What will Detective Hole be about?
Detective Hole will centre on Harry Hole, a renowned yet tormented detective who goes up against his long-time rival and corrupt police officer Tom Waaler, while a serial killer terrorizes Oslo.
The official Netflix plot reads: “As the two navigate the blurred ethical lines of the criminal justice system, Harry must do all he can to catch a serial killer and bring Waaler to justice before it is too late.”
After announcing Tobias Santelmann as Harry, Joel Kinnaman as Tom, and Pia Tjelta as Rakel Fauke, Netflix has now revealed the rest of the Detective Hole cast, with Peter Stormare, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Kåre Conradi, Simon Berger, Fridtjov Såheim and Eili Harboe all onboard to star in this Nordic noir series.
Also joining them are: Atle Antonsen, Manish Sharma, Henriette Steenstrup, Jesper Christensen, Kristoffer Joner, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Linn Skåber, Jonas Strand Gravli, and Sonny Lindberg, amongst many more.
It’s definitely looking promising that Detective Hole may join my list of favorite detective series alongside The Sinner, Baptiste, and Luther.
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Top flight tracking app says customer info has been leaked online — see if you’re affected
FlightAware erroneously kept sensitive data exposed on the internet for years, but has now plugged the hole.
FlightAware has become the latest in a long line of companies to have exposed sensitive customer data online by mistake.
The flight tracking website has sent a breach notification letter to affected customers, confirming that a “configuration error” discovered on July 25 2024 “may have inadvertently exposed” personal information people kept in their FlightAware accounts.
That information includes user IDs, passwords, and email addresses, and depending on the information the users left with the site, may also have included full names, billing addresses, shipping addresses, IP addresses, social media accounts, telephone numbers, year of birth, last four digits of their credit card number, information about aircraft owned, industry, title, pilot status (yes/no), and account activity (flights viewed and comments posted).
No evidence of theft
At the same time, the company filed a breach notification form with the California Attorney General’s Office, which states that the incident actually occurred on January 1, 2021, more than three years ago.
It isn’t known exactly how many users were affected by the incident, but as of 2024, FlightAware says it has over 12 million registered users worldwide.
The platform is widely used for tracking flights in real-time, providing valuable information to aviation professionals, travelers, and enthusiasts alike. FlightAware’s services span a variety of industries, including airlines, airports, and government agencies.
There is no evidence of misuse, the letter said, meaning there is a good chance that no one found it before FlightAware did. In any case, the company has forced its entire user base to reset their passwords out of caution.
The flight tracking website did not say to what extent the passwords are scrambled, if at all. Therefore, if someone obtained the archive, they could potentially cross-reference the login information with other services, since people often use the same username/password combo across a wide variety of services.
Via TechCrunch
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EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager to step down after nearly a decade
Margrethe Vestager to leave office after spending 10 years in top EU post.
EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager is to be replaced as a nominee after two terms in the role.
As one of the EU’s three Executive Vice Presidents, Vestager’s responsibility was in delivering a ‘Europe Fit for the Digital Age’.
The change comes after poor results for the commissioners Social Liberal Party in Denmark’s 2022 election, as the party is no longer part of the ruling coalition.
World’s next top trustbuster
As the EU’s most powerful antitrust official, Vestager delivered blows to numerous US tech giants such as Apple, Alphabet, and Meta. Landmark cases forced tech companies to make big changes in order to become fairer and invite competition, as was the case with the Google anticompetition case. Vestager also oversaw the handing out of hefty fines, which combined total to over $20 billion (although many are still being contested).
The bureaucrat was the target of significant criticism during her decade tenure, most famously from Donald Trump, who branded her the EU’s ‘tax lady’, and from Tim Cook, who labelled one of her rulings as ‘total political crap’.
The line of succession is unclear for this position, but it’s reported that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will start the interview process next week. Commissioners are nominated by member states in consultation with the commission president.
It is reported that Copenhagan is still deciding its candidate, but all three front-runners are men from the ruling Social Democrat party – climate minister Dan Jørgensen, business minister Morten Bødskov and finance minister Nicolai Wammen.
Via Financial Times
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Maria Branyas, World’s Oldest Person, Dies in Spain at 117
Maria Branyas, who was the world’s oldest person, has died peacefully in a Spanish nursing home at the age of 117. From a report: “Maria Branyas has left us. She has died as she wanted: in her sleep, peacefully and without pain,” her official X account said, and a spokesperson at the nursing home confirmed the news without providing details. Branyas had suggested that her demise was imminent on Monday on X, saying: “I feel weak. The time is coming. Don’t cry, I don’t like tears… You know me, wherever I go, I will be happy.” Her X account is handled by her daughter.
She had turned 117 on March 4, according to Guinness World Records, and had become the oldest person in the world in January 2023. Born in San Francisco, California, in 1907, she moved with her Spanish family back to the northeastern region of Catalonia when she was seven. She spent the rest of her life there, living through the 1936-39 civil war and two pandemics a century apart – the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic. In 1931, she married Catalan doctor Joan Moret, with whom she had three children. Her husband passed away in 1976 and she also outlived her son, August, who died in a tractor accident at the age of 86, Guinness World Records said on its website.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Maria Branyas, who was the world’s oldest person, has died peacefully in a Spanish nursing home at the age of 117. From a report: “Maria Branyas has left us. She has died as she wanted: in her sleep, peacefully and without pain,” her official X account said, and a spokesperson at the nursing home confirmed the news without providing details. Branyas had suggested that her demise was imminent on Monday on X, saying: “I feel weak. The time is coming. Don’t cry, I don’t like tears… You know me, wherever I go, I will be happy.” Her X account is handled by her daughter.
She had turned 117 on March 4, according to Guinness World Records, and had become the oldest person in the world in January 2023. Born in San Francisco, California, in 1907, she moved with her Spanish family back to the northeastern region of Catalonia when she was seven. She spent the rest of her life there, living through the 1936-39 civil war and two pandemics a century apart – the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic. In 1931, she married Catalan doctor Joan Moret, with whom she had three children. Her husband passed away in 1976 and she also outlived her son, August, who died in a tractor accident at the age of 86, Guinness World Records said on its website.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Against all odds, an asteroid mining company appears to be making headway
“It’s not easy to ever raise for an asteroid mining company, right?”
Enlarge / The Odin spacecraft passed vibration testing. (credit: Astro Forge)
When I first spoke with space entrepreneurs Jose Acain and Matt Gialich a little more than two years ago, I wondered whether I would ever talk to them again.
That is not meant to be offensive, rather it is a reflection of the fact that the business they entered into—mining asteroids for platinum and other precious metals—is a perilous one. To date NASA and other space agencies have spent billions of dollars returning a few grams of rocky material from asteroids. Humanity has never visited a metal-rich asteroid, although that will finally change with NASA’s $1.4 billion Psyche mission in 2029. And so commercial asteroid mining seems like a stretch, and indeed, other similarly minded startups have come and gone.
But it turns out that I did hear from Acain and Gialich again about their asteroid mining venture, AstroForge. On Tuesday the co-founders announced that they have successfully raised $40 million in Series A funding and shared plans for their next two missions. AstroForge has now raised a total of $55 million to date.
Flu Shots Are Already Popping Up: When Do You Need One?
Some pharmacies like CVS and Walmart have this season’s flu vaccines stocked. Here’s what to know and when to make the appointment.
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Apple Podcasts Now Available on the Web
Juli Clover, MacRumors:
Apple today announced the launch of a Podcasts on the web
feature, which works in Safari, Chrome, Edge, and Firefox
on Macs, PCs, and other devices. Podcasts on the web allows users
to search for, browse through, and listen to podcasts with access
to the Up Next queue and library when signed in to an Apple
Account.
The only use case for something like this is for users who spend a lot of time on Windows — presumably at work — and wish they could listen to their own podcast queue. That’s a big use case though! Overcast has had a web player for as long as I can remember — before Catalyst allowed Marco Arment to bring the iPad version of Overcast to Mac, it was the only way to listen to your Overcast podcast library on the Mac.
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Juli Clover, MacRumors:
Apple today announced the launch of a Podcasts on the web
feature, which works in Safari, Chrome, Edge, and Firefox
on Macs, PCs, and other devices. Podcasts on the web allows users
to search for, browse through, and listen to podcasts with access
to the Up Next queue and library when signed in to an Apple
Account.
The only use case for something like this is for users who spend a lot of time on Windows — presumably at work — and wish they could listen to their own podcast queue. That’s a big use case though! Overcast has had a web player for as long as I can remember — before Catalyst allowed Marco Arment to bring the iPad version of Overcast to Mac, it was the only way to listen to your Overcast podcast library on the Mac.
Could this little robot help rehabilitate stroke patients?
Robotic “coaches” programmed to guide stroke patients through rehabilitation exercises could soon be tested in Scotland.
Robotic “coaches” programmed to guide stroke patients through rehabilitation exercises could soon be tested in Scotland.
Boeing’s Starliner problems have become fodder for Putin’s propaganda squads
“They don’t know how to get back. We ask you to help them.”
Enlarge / Screenshot from Putin’s squad video on bringing Starliner’s astronauts home. (credit: Putin’s Squads Z Soc Sprav)
One of the odder propaganda phenomenon in Russia, of late, is seemingly spontaneous groups of elderly Russian pensioners gathering outdoors and espousing some random bit of agitprop.
From a Western perspective, these are obviously staged and hilarious to behold. For example, last year a very earnest-looking group of elderly women, and a few men, urged Russia to “take back Alaska” in an attempt to preserve the United States from fascism. One of the women in the video also advocated for a military alliance with Mexico, saying, “In order to effectively fight fascism, we must establish military relations with Mexico to prevent the fascism from spreading further. We must form a military alliance with Mexico.”
There are entire Telegram channels devoted to these “Putin’s squads” videos, and you can find them on YouTube as well. It is not clear whether these “man on the street” videos are having any impact on Russian opinion, but evidently someone in the Kremlin believes they are helping to shape domestic opinions.