A recent statement from China left the Apple in trouble, again: Beijing government authorities have been using an advanced encryption-breaking tool, aimed at removing the anonymity of users of the AirDrop, the proprietary protocol for sharing content via Wi-Fi, present on iPhones, iPads, Macs, and other Apple devices. The method, aimed at identifying those who share subversive content (read criticism of the government and Prime Minister and General Secretary Xi Jinping), uses a flaw known to security professionals since 2019, which Apple was alerted to, but never corrected. Chinese authorities use AirDrop flaw to identify those who share subversive content…
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“We are currently transforming it into a traveling exhibition that will not only allow it to circulate throughout the country, in schools, local authorities, parish councils, but also to go abroad”, Maria Inácia Rezola, commissioner, announced in an interview with Lusa Executive of the 50th Anniversary 25th of April Commemorative Commission. The exhibition was also in Guinea Bissau, in November, and will be definitively installed in Cape Verde this year. “A traveling exhibition will also follow for Cape Verde, a lighter form of this exhibition that will tour all the islands and all the schools. There is great involvement with…
Thrilling chases, cutting-edge technological devices and a gun duel. “Thelma” could easily be the next film in the “Mission: Impossible” series, starring Tom Cruise, with one detail: the performer, June Squibb, is 94 years old. In the film, Squibb holds the bull by the horns after being tricked by a swindler who steals ten thousand dollars from him (9200 euros at the current exchange rate). The hit is the trigger that makes her take to the streets of Los Angeles on an urban mobility scooter and armed with an old pistol, determined to confront the thief. This action comedy, which…
French filmmaker Maiwenn, who last year made Johnny Depp's comeback film about King Louis XV, was convicted and fined on Tuesday (16) for attacking a journalist. Maiwenn, who no longer uses the surname Le Besco, said she was angered by an article on news website Mediapart about her ex-husband, filmmaker Luc Besson (“The Fifth Element”), who faced a rape investigation that was later dropped. In February last year , she saw Edwy Plenel, head of Mediapart, in a restaurant, grabbed him by the hair and spat in his face. On Tuesday, a Paris court fined her 400 euros for the…
The 75th edition of the Emmys, the most important awards in the world of television, is scheduled for the early hours of Monday to Tuesday (January 15th to 16th). The ceremony, which usually takes place in September, was postponed for the first time in more than 20 years due to strikes in Hollywood – the last postponement took place in 2001, due to the 9/11 attacks. The ceremony presented by Anthony Anderson (“Black- ish”) starts at midnight (mainland Portugal time) and can be seen on SIC Caras. ” data-title=”Emmys are awarded today: from “Succession” to “The Last of Us”, discover…
“We received a lot of comments on social media from Portugal asking if the film will premiere in the country”, he began by explaining to Lusa Walkiria Barbosa, detailing that the film's distributor in Brazil is now looking for “a partnership in Portugal to be able to release the film”“The We really want to release the film in Portugal”, he stressed, referring to the film about the famous 90s band that ended in drug trafficking after a plane crash, which resulted in the death of all members of the group, on March 2nd. 1996, on a private plane that was…
“Barbenheimer” also reached the nominations for the US Film, Television and Advertising Directors Guild awards (generally known as the DGA Awards), announced on Wednesday (10). Greta Gerwig with “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan with ” Oppenheimer” are among the five nominated for what is one of the best indicators for the Oscar race. Greta Gerwig and Christopher Nolan, nominated respectively for the second and fourth time in their careers at the DGA Awards, joined Martin Scorsese, achieving the 11th nomination with “Assassins da Lua das Flores”; Alexander Payne, with the third nomination thanks to “The Excluded”; and Yorgos Lanthimos making his…
There's news for fans of “Stranger Things”. The fifth and final season of the series is now in production, Netflix confirmed on social media. Filming for the final season's episodes begins this month. On X, formerly Twitter, the streaming service shared an image of the main cast alongside the creators of “Stranger Things”, the Duffer Brothers. Initially scheduled for 2025, it is not known when The last episodes of “Stranger Things” will be shown: production of the series was paused in solidarity with the Hollywood screenwriters' strike. The fourth season was divided into two parts, released on May 27 and…
Glynis Johns, immortalized in cinema as the mother of the Banks family and a suffragette in “Mary Poppins” (1964), died this Thursday (4), in a nursing home in Los Angeles. With 100 years celebrated on October 5th and a career with cinema notoriety that began in the 1940s, she was one of the last living stars of the “Golden Age” of Hollywood and British classic cinema. She was still the most veteran of Oscar nominees in all acting categories, the British star with more seniority in film and on stage (where she began in the 1930s) and the oldest honored…
The titles in the race for the Oscars arrive in the first months of another year marked by the impact of the Hollywood strikes with fewer superheroes and many super productions, sequels and animations… and even some ambitious original films.