After just two months of exchanging WhatsApp messages, Mark Santos knew the stranger he met online was falling in love with him. “He was very nice,” Santos says, of the unmarried 47-year-old real estate broker from Virginia. “We even celebrated our two months of being together.” Except Santos wasn’t who he said he was. And … Read more
Image: Funko Sandy Claws is coming to town with the smallest, cutest-yet-creepiest Bitty Pop Funkos you’ve ever seen. The residents of Halloween Town have been shrunken down to perfect stocking-stuffer size, especially for the Tim Burton fan in your life. io9 has the first look at the mystery bag collection of The Nightmare Before Christmas … Read more
NECA has revealed a Jack Skellington figurine for The Nightmare Before Christmas’ 30th-anniversary. Jack and His Lantern The 9” tall figurine is fully poseable and wears the familiar pinstripe suit. An official description from the NECA website is below. Credit: NECA ”Celebrate the 30th anniversary of Disney’s Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas with this new Jack … Read more
Deadly bioweapons, automated cybersecurity attacks, powerful AI models escaping human control. Those are just some of the potential threats posed by artificial intelligence, according to a new UK government report. It was released to help set the agenda for an international summit on AI safety to be hosted by the UK next week. The report … Read more
A horrific new era of ultrarealistic, AI-generated, child sexual abuse images is now underway, experts warn. Offenders are using downloadable open source generative AI models, which can produce images, to devastating effects. The technology is being used to create hundreds of new images of children who have previously been abused. Offenders are sharing datasets of … Read more
The Nightmare Before Christmas fans shouldn’t be expecting a sequel… at all. The fan-favorite stop-motion animated movie just turned 30 years old this past Friday the 13th, and is currently replaying in theaters! In a recent interview, the director of the film, Henry Selick, spoke out about the possibilities of a sequel, and he shared … Read more
The year is 1994. I head to the theater, buy a ticket for Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, and I’m not ready for what happens next. The year is 2023. I flip over to Max, press play on Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, and I’m still not ready for what happens next. Spoilers of the Week | … Read more
The scene as recounted by Eyal Nouri is almost too painful to tell: his uncle, Said Moshe, was killed in front of his aunt, Adina. His last sighting of Adina is from a photograph posted online: “You see her on a motorcycle,” Eyal says. “She’s sitting in the middle between the two terrorists. Think about … Read more
Homeowners in Scottsdale, Arizona, had to resort to drastic legal action when their local HOA, called DC Ranch, refused to stop removing their beloved Sissoo trees, 12News reported. There are hundreds of Sissoo trees in the Silverleaf Arcadia neighborhood. As homeowner Paul Petelin told the news station, “Everybody knew this was the tree neighborhood.” Another … Read more
Kari Groszewska, a senior at Vanderbilt University studying computer science and economics, says she attended the conference and arrived at the expo hall 15 minutes early one day, only to see that a line to speak with companies was already several hours long. The vibe, Groszewska says, had shifted from the year before. She felt … Read more