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Netflix has dropped three action-packed trailers for brand new titles, including Cameron Diaz’s first movie in 11-years.

Just when I think I’m about to run out of movies and shows to watch on Netflix, it always comes back and hits me with a trailer for a brand new original title. But this time I have not one, not two, but three new action-packed new releases (see below) to look forward to, so Netflix’s reputation as one of the best streaming services remains intact.

The three exciting new Netflix trailers are for espionage action movie Back in Action, comedy thriller series No Good Deed and chilling psychological crime series The Madness, which is my prediction for one of our next best Netflix movies entries. Each title will be available to stream over the course of the next three months, but what thrills me the most about these new titles is the slew of actors coming to the screen.

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After an 11-year break from acting Princess Fiona herself, Cameron Diaz (Shrek, Charlie’s Angels), joins forces with on-screen husband and Annie (2014) co-star Jamie Foxx (Django Unchained, Ray) in an action spectacle with a spy family twist.

If you were a fan of Dead To Me (one of the best Netflix series), its creator Liz Feldman is bringing you another comedy-thriller series No Good Deed starring leading actress of Dead to Me, Linda Cardellini. Joined by Lisa Kudrow, Luke Wilson and Matt Rogers, the new series appears to pack a perfect balance of comedy and suspense.

That’s not to forget Colman Domingo leading Stephen Belber’s conspiracy thriller series The Madness, where the trailer’s dark and looming aura points to a whodunnit story.

Over the next three months, each title will be landing on Netflix and we’ll be undoubtedly sharing our thoughts and feelings as they roll out. But what are these new titles about you may ask? Here’s what you can expect from the upcoming shows, and their respective trailers.

Back in Action

Coming to Netflix: January 17

Cameron Diaz breaks out of her 11-year acting retirement returning to the screen in Seth Gordon’s espionage action movie. Married couple Emily (Diaz) and Matt (Jamie Foxx) have been out of their CIA roles for many years to focus on raising a family, but are pulled back into the field for another mission when their secret identities are revealed.

Diaz’s return to the screen isn’t the only thing that excites me about this new Netflix movie, but the star-studded line-up of names alone reveal how much budget has been invested in its production. According to Variety, as well as Diaz and Foxx, Kyle Chandler, Glenn Close, Andrew Scott, Jamie Demetriou, McKenna Roberts, and Rylan Jackson will also be bringing the fun.

No Good Deed

Coming to Netflix: December 12

From the creator of Dead to Me, Netflix’s new comedy-thriller stars icon of Friends Lisa Kudrow, so that was enough to entice me. With her on-screen partner Ray Romano, the two play a couple struggling to sell their house and conceal a dark secret that lurks beneath the estate’s plot.

Additionally to Kudrow and Romano, it stars Linda Cardellini, O-T Fagbenle, Abbi Jacobson, Denis Leary, Poppy Liu, Teyonah Parris, and Luke Wilson as a gang of prospective buyers who are fighting to get their hands on the property.

The Madness

Coming to Netflix: November 28

Oscar Nominee Colman Domingo steps into a spine-chilling role as Muncie Daniels, a high-profile media figure who’s being framed for the murder of a notorious white supremacist. As a Black man with a well-respected job in the media, he must stop at nothing to clear his name and prove his innocence from a threatening targeted attack.

The show will run over eight episodes with creator Stephen Belger and VJ Boyd as co-show runners. Marsha Stephanie Blake, Gabrielle Graham, Tamsin Topolski, and Thaddeus J. Mixson also star.

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Netflix is developing a sequel to Under Paris but do we really need one?

Netflix is developing a sequel to French shark movie Under ParisIt’s currently the second most-watched non-English movie on NetflixPlot could include “a Paris that is entirely submerged under water”

Netflix is developing a sequel to its hit shark movie Under Paris, but I’m not sure I’m ready to sink my teeth into a second installment just yet.

Hailed as ‘Jaws set in France’, the French creature feature became a surprising success when it dropped on the best streaming service in the run-up to the Paris 2024 Olympics in June. At the time of writing, Under Paris remains the second most-watched non-English film on Netflix, behind the Norwegian movie Troll.

Now, despite its post-apocalyptic ending, filmmaker Xavier Gens is diving back in for another deadly shark adventure with a sequel to Under Paris. The satirical plot focuses on a mutant killer shark lurking in France’s river Seine just as the World Triathlon Championships kick off in the city.

According to Variety, the key cast from the original film (the ones who weren’t chomped to pieces I mean) will return to go head-to-head with the mammoth man-eater, including Bérénice Bejo as grieving scientist Sophia and Nassim Lyes as police officer Adil.

What can we expect in Under Paris 2?

While there’s no plot details for Under Paris 2 just yet, the outrageous ending of the first installment along with director Gens’ hints paves the way for what could happen in the second film.

In an interview with Variety, Gens revealed that if a sequel was made “it will take place in a Paris that is entirely submerged under water” as well as dig deeper into the genre. But when will be seeing some more shark action? Well, sources close to the production have confirmed to Variety that Under Paris 2 is still in the early stages of development and shooting could start in 2026.

The Under Paris ending does set up a larger, global story for the next movie and could potentially move beyond Paris. However, I’m not sure we really need another ‘sharksploitation’ film franchise amongst the likes of Sharknado, Jaws, and Deep Blue Sea.

Under Paris’ stellar Netflix reputation suggests that the sequel will also be a success. But as it failed to become one of the best Netflix movies with its rather middling score of 63% on Rotten Tomatoes and 30% audience score, the sequel may not make as much of a splash as the first.

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Google’s Application-Bound encryption is broken once again.

Researchers discover Glove Stealer, a new infostealerIt can bypass Google’s cookie encryption mechanism, introduced last summerGlove Stealer can grab cookies, passwords, and information from add-ons and extensions

Another infostealer able to bypass Google’s Application-Bound (App-Bound) encryption for Chrome, and steal sensitive information from the browser has been discovered.

Researchers at Gen Digital recently found a “relatively simple” infostealer malware the named Glove Stealer that comes with “minimal obfuscation and protection mechanisms”.

This .NET malware is being distributed through the ClickFix infection chain (a fake virus detection popup), and is capable of grabbing plenty of information from Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, and others).

Glove Stealer

The information Glove can grab includes cookies, cryptocurrency wallet information (through browser extensions), 2FA session tokens from Google, Microsoft, and others, password data from Bitwarden, LastPass, KeePass, and more.

“Other than stealing private data from browsers, it also tries to exfiltrate sensitive information from a list of 280 browser extensions and more than 80 locally installed applications,” researchers said, according to BleepingComputer. “These extensions and applications typically involve cryptocurrency wallets, 2FA authenticators, password managers, email clients and others.”

In late July 2024, Google released Chrome 127, which introduced App-Bound Encryption, a feature which looked to ensure sensitive data stored by websites or web apps was only accessible to a specific app on a device. It works by encrypting data in such a way that only the app that created it can decrypt it, and was advertised as particularly useful for protecting information like authentication tokens or personal data.

However, mere weeks after it was introduced, multiple hackers already claimed to have beaten the feature, introducing bypasses to MeduzaStealer, Whitesnake, Lumma Stealer, Lumar, Vidar, and StealC. At the time, Google said it wasn’t too surprised, or disappointed, by the end result, stating that it forced cybercriminals to change their pattern of behavior into something more predictable.

Via BleepingComputer

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Spotify still can’t specify a release date for HiFi –but it’s launching uninterrupted video podcasts in January.

Spotify is still working on the hi-fi tier first revealed in 2017Spotify is launching ad-free video podcasts in early 2025Spotify’s financials suggest it doesn’t need hi-res streaming

In 2017, Spotify was preparing to launch a hi-fi music tier. And now, seven years later, Spotify is preparing to launch a hi-fi music tier. We wouldn’t recommend holding your breath; in its latest earnings call on Wednesday November 13, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek responded to a question about Spotify Supremium, saying that it was indeed coming with better sound quality “and a bunch of other things”. But he wouldn’t commit to a timescale – and let’s not forget, a few months back he said “it’s early days”.

Although Spotify Hi-Fi is beginning to sound a lot like the Tesla Roadster (whose buyers plonked down $38K deposits in 2017 for cars that still don’t exist), Spotify is improving what it offers. It’s just not improving the sound quality.

While Spotify Hi-Fi, Supremium, or whatever it ends up being called, is still in limbo, Spotify will launch ad-free video podcasts in January, and the firm notes that there are already 300,000 video podcast shows on the streaming service.

Opinion: Spotify doesn’t really care about music

Many years back, a music business expert told me that music companies didn’t care about music; they’d sell Brillo pads full of custard if that’s where the money was. And I’ve long thought the same about Spotify, whose CEO’s net worth (around $6.9 billion) is more than any musician who’s ever lived (Jay-Z is reportedly worth around $2.5 billion; Taylor Swift a relatively paltry $1.6 billion) and whose service stopped paying royalties to smaller artists earlier this year.

Spotify’s big love isn’t music. It’s growth. And it sees podcasts as the prime driver of that growth. The reason we don’t have Spotify Hi-Fi is because it’s no Joe Rogan.

The latest official quarterly financials make Spotify’s position clear. Monthly active users are up. Net subscribers are up. Total revenues are up 21%, premium revenues are up 24% and advertising revenue is up 7%. Spotify’s profit margin is a record-breaking 31.1%; its operating income is breaking records too.

It’s obvious that the reason Spotify hasn’t launched its hi-fi tier is because, financially speaking, it doesn’t need to make its music sound better – it’s got Spotify Wrapped, Daylist and other fan favorites doing the heavy lifting to accelerate growth. But I think it’s sad that it doesn’t seem to want to do it either.

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Mark your calendars: The Game Awards nominees are set to be announced early next week.

The Game Awards is announcing its nominees next weekFolks can tune in live on November 18 to learn about the nominationsThe nominations will be announced at the Peacock Theater by Keighley

Geoff Keighley, presenter of The Game Awards, has confirmed the show’s nominees will be revealed early next week.

In a post on X / Twitter from the official The Game Awards account, Keighley confirms that the nominees will be revealed on Monday, November 18. The 2024 Nomination Special event will be streamed live at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm GMT over at The Game Awards’ official website.

Like the show itself which is happening on December 12, the nominees will be announced live at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, California. The show it also celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, so it’s expected to be more of a special event than usual, though it remains to be seen if there are any particular surprises in store beyond the usual awards and announcements.

As for the nominations themselves, there are plenty of standout games from this year that’ll likely feature in multiple categories. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Silent Hill 2 and Astro Bot are likely shoe-ins for the Game of the Year category.

The Nintendo Switch has also had a hell of a year, with releases including Mario & Luigi: Brothership, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. Expect the Kyoto-based company to have a strong presence at The Game Awards this year.

Of course, the other major draw of The Game Awards is its litany of game announcements and world premieres. We won’t know what to expect until it comes from Keighley himself, but it’s reasonable to expect another look at upcoming games like Assassin’s Creed Shadows and potentially Grand Theft Auto 6.

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PII, passports and ID documents left exposed in misconfigured Google Cloud Storage bucket.

Xobin left a database publicly exposed online for at least three monthsThe database was filled with the PII of over 500,000 job applicantsIdentification documents and passports were included in the files

Days after a database containing the personally identifiable information (PII) of millions of jobseekers was uncovered, another half million may have been exposed by a different company.

The unprotected files were found by Cybernews researchers, and contain the PII of over 500,000 job applicants, including resumes, scans of passports, and copies of identification documents.

The files were left exposed by AI-powered HR tech company Xobin, and despite numerous alerts to the public database, remained open and accessible for almost three months.

Xobin responsible for some big names

The researchers say Xobin counts Toyota, Ericsson, the University of Toronto, and Domino’s as some of its clients, among many other companies and organizations.

It isn’t known how long the database was left exposed before discovery, but Cybernews first discovered the database on August 5 and issued an immediate alert, with the database only being taken down on November 4.

The files were stored in a misconfigured Google Cloud Storage bucket. In total, 18,000 CSV and XLSX files were uncovered which included the job applications of 523,074 people, with each application including full names, phone numbers, and email addresses.

Moreover, 3,129 copies of passports and IDs with Permanent Account Numbers – the Indian equivalent of US social security numbers.

18,629 resumes were found, each containing further details on each applicant. If the database was accessed by malicious actors, it could be used along with other PII for social engineering, spearphishing attacks, extortion, financial fraud, and account takeover, particularly if an individual is known to be seeking or earning a high wage.

“You can name all the cyber threats: identity theft, spear phishing, doxxing, social engineering, and many other forms of fraud. The leaked personal information includes sensitive details, and job seekers are particularly vulnerable. Scammers can impersonate legitimate recruiting agencies, offer enticing fraudulent jobs, and perform other targeted fraudulent activities leading to potentially devastating financial and personal repercussions,” Cybernews researchers said.

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Coca-Cola has recreated its iconic 1995 UK ad with AI for this year’s holiday season.

Coca-Cola’s UK TV ad campaign for the 2024 holiday season has launchedThe iconic ‘Holidays Are Coming’ ad has been recreated using AICoca-Cola CMO Javiet Mexa says, “we want to bring Holidays Are Coming into the present.”

Holidays are coming… but this time Coca-Cola has opted to strip the soul out of its iconic 1995 UK TV ad and use generative AI to recreate it.

The 16-second ad, which is set to run in the UK instead of the beloved original, has been entirely created using AI without any human input. The ad shows the famous Coca-Cola truck driving through a snow-covered landscape and arriving in a town, and Santa’s hand passing out bottles of the fizzy drink to happy people excited at the thought of the taste of Coca-Cola Zero Sugar.

Coca-Cola’s European CMO Javier Meza told Marketing Week, “We didn’t start by saying: ‘OK, we need to do this with AI’. The brief was, we want to bring Holidays Are Coming into the present, and then we explored AI as a solution to that.”

Interestingly, and unlike the original ad, Coca-Cola’s new AI version omits Santa’s face entirely. Whether this was intentional, or because AI’s recreation of Santa Claus was deemed too eerie, we’re not quite sure.

Meza added that Coca-Cola tested the AI-generated ad with consumers prior to release, and said they “loved” it, leading the multi-billion dollar company to push on with the idea.

Festive spirit generated by AI

The advert was generated using Coca-Cola’s own Real Magic AI, which was launched last year in collaboration with Bain & Company and OpenAI. The AI model combines the capabilities of OpenAI‘s GPT-4 and Dall-E, and learns from Coca-Cola’s creative assets created over the brand’s 138-year history.

The ‘Create Real Magic’ campaign from last year invited digital artists to use the AI model to create digital billboards for the brand, with the winners appearing in New York’s Times Square and London’s Piccadilly Circus. At the time, I don’t think anyone expected Coca-Cola to use the same technology for a TV ad, but then a lot has changed since March 2023, and now Coca-Cola wants to show that it’s evolving with the times.

AI can be incredibly useful and often magical, but many people – myself included – will feel that some things, like Coca-Cola’s cozy and magical holiday ad, should remain untouched by technology.

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The latest Xbox marketing campaign shows all the weird places you can play Xbox games.

Xbox has unveiled a new marketing campaignIt focuses on the many devices that can be used to play Xbox gamesSome online argue it dilutes the brand’s identity

Xbox has launched a new advertising campaign titled ‘This is an Xbox’ that showcases the many devices that players can use to enjoy Xbox games.

Among them is both the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, plus more unconventional choices like a Samsung Smart TV, Amazon Fire TV Stick, mobile phone, the Meta Quest 3 VR headset, and more. A few humorous additions including a bento box and cat litter box are thrown in there too.

According to the company, the campaign “invites people to play with Xbox across multiple devices and screens” and “showcases the evolution of Xbox as a platform that extends across devices, with bold, iconic, fun visuals and a light-hearted tone.”

Xbox has also partnered with several brands for amusing crossovers, aiming to “bring the campaign to life in unexpected and entertaining ways.” As part of this, Samsung Smart TV owners will be able to see some ‘This is an Xbox’ branding on their home screens. An advertisement showing a Samsung Smart TV will also be featured in Times Square.

The campaign follows a wave of efforts to make Xbox titles playable on a wide range of platforms. Xbox Cloud Gaming is available on most PCs, while the Xbox TV app and Game Pass Ultimate were made accessible via Amazon Fire TV Sticks earlier this year.

What’s an Xbox now?

Reception to the ads has certainly been a little mixed so far, with some online commentors feeling like it strays too far from the brand’s core identity. “The downfall of the Xbox brand and its identity is so depressing,” responded one user on X / Twitter. “Surely this is the Xbox team now saying ‘we give up’,” replied another.

Other reactions have been more positive, though, with one online poster saying that “this is good Xbox marketing” and that it has “a nostalgic mid 2000’s vibe.”

All things considered, I think that it’s a pretty effective campaign. The Xbox brand has been drifting towards a more software focused business model for some time, driven partially by a move to release more Xbox games on other platforms.

The option to jump into the latest Xbox games via a low-cost piece of hardware like a Fire TV Stick could be hugely enticing to more casual gamers. It also helps reduce the financial barriers associated with needing to purchase a full console, which can only be a good thing.

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A misconfiguration on permissions leaked sensitive data on millions of people.

Researchers from AppOmni found a misconfiguration bug in sites built with Microsoft Power PagesAs a result, data on millions of people was leaking on the webUK NHS among affected firms, with other urged to investigate immediately

Businesses in both the private and public sector have been leaking personally identifiable information (PII) on millions of people due to a fault with a Microsoft website builder platform.

Experts from AppOmni revealed the leak stems from misconfigurations in Microsoft’s Power Pages, a low-code platform within the Microsoft Power Platform suite that allows users to build websites without needing to be expert coders.

However, due to misconfigured access controls – namely excessive permissions granted to the Anonymous role – many websites were leaking “significant amounts of data”. That information included full names, email addresses, phone numbers, and home addresses.

NHS among those affected

Power Pages is especially geared toward business users and developers who need to build sites that integrate with business data from sources like Microsoft Dataverse, and apparently has more than 250 million monthly users.

“During my research, I’ve uncovered several million records of sensitive data being exposed to the public internet from authorized testing alone,” the researcher said, suggesting that the leak is probably even bigger (since this was found from “authorized testing alone”). The primary nature of this data are internal organization files and sensitive PII belonging to both internal organization users and other users registered on the website.

Among the leaksters was the NHS – UK’s National Health Service – which allegedly leaked sensitive information belonging to more than 1.1 million employees. The healthcare giant has since plugged the hole. The researchers did not want to name any other organizations leaking the data, possibly because the holes have not yet been plugged.

Misconfigured databases are one of the main causes of data leaks. Over the years, there were many instances of organizations keeping large archives of sensitive customer files without even a weak password, let alone a strong one.

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Apple added a secret upgrade to the M4 MacBook Pro’s display, it has been revealed.

Apple announced several improvements to the M4 MacBook Pro’s screenIt also secretly added a new display techThis change could improve motion and color gamut performance

If you’ve bought an M4 MacBook Pro and get the feeling its display looks even better than it did on previous models, you’d be right. Apple has kept very quiet about it, but there seems to be a new technology at work inside the laptop’s screen, and it could be providing a handful of worthwhile benefits.

The discovery was made by well-known display industry expert Ross Young, who has a strong track record when it comes to Apple leaks and rumors. Posting on X, Young said that the new MacBook Pro is using quantum dot tech that is “very efficient” and provides “as good or better color gamut and better motion performance” compared to the previous technology used in MacBook displays.

Despite this performance increase, Apple didn’t mention the quantum dot upgrade when it revealed the M4 MacBook Pro in October. However, there was one clue that something might have changed: the maximum screen brightness for SDR content was increased from 600 nits all the way up to 1,000 nits – a significant improvement.

In our 14-inch M4 MacBook Pro review, we described the display as “gorgeous” and noted that its increased SDR brightness made it “quite effective at remaining viewable and usable in direct sunlight.” At the time, though, we had no idea about Apple’s quantum dot treatment, which has remained well hidden until now.

Getting the green light

(Image credit: Future / Lance Ulanoff)

Back in 2015, Apple said that it considered quantum dot technology for its screens, but ultimately rejected it because it involved using the toxic element cadmium. Apple has long made environmentalism a key part of its product strategy, and that likely wouldn’t have jived with the inclusion of a harmful element in the display.

However, the new quantum dot tech used in the M4 MacBook Pro can be achieved without the use of cadmium, Young explains. This, alongside its improved efficiency, presumably gave it the green light from Apple, allowing the company to enhance its MacBook Pro displays without the environmental concerns.

The next question is whether quantum dot screens will make their way to other devices. Apple sometimes shares technology between the MacBook Pro and the iPad Pro, so it’s possible that Apple’s flagship tablet might follow its laptop in the future.

Whether Apple will actually go ahead with this move – or bring quantum dot panels to some of its other products – remains to be seen.

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