Anyone who has spent time in cybersecurity has likely sat through a threat modeling exercise. You figure out who the adversaries are, what they want, what tools they have, and where your defenses are weakest. […]
PT Barnum didn’t create Jumbo the elephant. He bought him from the London Zoo in 1882 and convinced America it needed to pay to see the biggest animal anyone had ever seen. Barnum’s real talent […]
Have you ever had a smoke detector go off because the toast got a little too dark? It’s loud and obnoxious, and in the moment it feels like the thing is overreacting to nothing. Some […]
Tom Cruise has been dangling off skyscrapers and airplanes for so long that I’ve come to treat his movies as a workout for my blood pressure. Digger doesn’t work that way at all. The most […]
Folk songs get handed down a lot like an old jacket. Somebody wears it for a while, then passes it along, and the next person takes it in at the waist or swaps out the […]
My wife and I have watched Catfish for years. Most episodes follow a familiar arc where someone has been talking to the love of their life for months without ever seeing them on a live […]
In 2012, 16-year-old Skylar Neese sneaked out of her home in Star City, West Virginia, got into a car with two of her closest friends, and was never seen alive again. Her killers were those […]
I’ll be honest—I wasn’t sure what to expect going into Out of Plain Sight. A documentary about barrels of toxic waste sitting on the ocean floor off the coast of Southern California doesn’t exactly sound […]
I’ve been a Will Smith fan for a long time. Long before blockbuster franchises and Oscars, I was listening to DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince on repeat when I was in high school […]
The Ice Age tends to get flattened into a postcard: endless white, a few mammoths, maybe a saber-toothed cat. Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, debuting on Apple TV+ on November 26, replaces that simple picture with […]
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