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Hackers expose Russian intelligence research projects
A hacking group called 0v1ru$ has taken 7.5TB of data from Russian intelligence contactor SyTech, including details of projects to collect data from social networks, penetrate peer-to-peer networks, and deanonymise Tor traffic using rogue endpoints (ZDNet). The group has given copies of its data trove to BBC Russia and fellow hacking group Digital Revolution.
YouTube still denies that it sends viewers down a rabbit hole
YouTube's new managing director for the UK has emphatically denied to BBC News that the video platform exhibits any kind of algorithmic rabbit hole effect. Ben McOwen Wilson was responding to a BBC feature exploring the role of YouTube in indoctrinating Flat Earth conspiracy theorists.
Natalie Portman will take up Thor's cinematic hammer
Natalie Portman will be starring as Mighty Thor in Taika Waititi's Thor: Love and Thunder (The Guardian). Following a narrative that appeared in the comics in 2014, Portman's character, Jane Foster, becomes Thor when his previous human incarnation loses his powers. Marvel has also announced that it's rebooting the Blade franchise with Mahershala Ali in the title role.
A big breakthrough is finally making fake fish taste fishy
Earlier this month, Impossible Foods announced that it is trying its hand at making fishless fish using heme (soy leghemoglobin), the plant-based protein it has built its fortunes on, and the key ingredient that makes its Impossible Burger taste so much like real meat (WIRED). The distinctively briny flavour of tuna is achieved via the addition of farmed algal oil (derived from marine algae), which the brand claims “embodies that certain je ne sais quoi flavour of fine seafood”. Algal oil also contains docosahexaenoic acid, an essential omega-3 fatty acid found in fish.
Watch the first trailer for Netflix's adaptation of The Witcher
Netflix has released the first trailer for its forthcoming adaption of Andrzej Sapkowski's series of stories and novels, The Witcher (The Verge). Although the books also famously spawned CD Projekt Red's games of the same name, showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich says that the Netflix show follows different aspects of the books to the games.
FaceApp is not as worrying as you think
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