Feed aggregator

Churches in Los Angeles put contingency plans in place after the Trump administration rescinds long-standing guidance advising immigration agents to avoid houses of worship.

(Image credit: Jason DeRose)

And configuration options abound to meet your computing needs and budget, including a 3K OLED display for only an extra $100.

Love Island USA. Chelley and her partner, Ace, were dumped from the villa on Friday's episode.'/>

The finale of Love Island USA airs Sunday night. Critic Aisha Harris says it's impossible to separate the season's racial and ethnic diversity from the show's mealy-mouthed handling of behind-the-scenes drama.

(Image credit: Kim Nunneley)

They all showed off their talents at this year's Smithsonian Folklife Festival. The theme: How youth keep cultural traditions alive.

(Image credit: Ben de la Cruz/NPR)

Satellite internet may not be the fastest broadband connection type, but it has extensive coverage nationwide. Here are the details on the top providers.

Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip killed at least 19 people on Sunday, including six children at a water collection point, local health officials said.

(Image credit: Abdel Kareem Hana)

• Xfinity, a Comcast brand, has introduced a new feature dubbed Wi-Fi Motion
• It lets an Xfinity router and up to three Wi-Fi-connected devices create a motion detection system
• The feature isn't available to everyone, but some users already have potential privacy concerns

Having a router that doubles as a motion detector was not on our bingo card for 2025, and yet, here we are. Xfinity by Comcast has introduced Wi-Fi Motion, a feature that lets you turn your printer, your smart fridge, or your TV – among other things – into a motion detector. But is that really a good thing?

Given that we're constantly connected to the internet these days, many of us assume that our devices have some kind of baseline of knowledge about our daily lives and habits.

We've got some of the best smartwatches tracking our sleep, workouts, and heart rate. As another example, Microsoft's Recall, now in preview, will go through our files to make our lives easier. Meanwhile, AI assistants can already read our emails and summarize them for us. Privacy is a commodity that we're running out of at a rapid pace.

In a world like this, having motion detection features in our home, free of charge, doesn't sound so bad. But some users are worried about the potential downsides of Xfinity's Wi-Fi Motion – here's what you need to know.

How does Xfinity's Wi-Fi Motion work?

As Xfinity describes, Wi-Fi Motion connects your compatible Xfinity Gateway (either the XB8 or the Technicolor XB7 CGM4981COM) to up to three eligible, always-on, stationary devices. So, think of things like printers or smart fridges, rather than smartphones and tablets. The feature is in early access and is only available to select customers right now.

The feature is off by default, but once enabled, it turns your router and those three devices into a motion detection system. This creates an oval-shaped area of Wi-Fi coverage, and anything that disrupts those signals may be detected as motion. It's worth noting that the coverage extends from the router and toward each device separately, and the devices themselves don't provide motion detection between each other.

(Image credit: Xfinity)

Let's say that this web of Wi-Fi signals detects motion – what then? Xfinity lets you tweak what happens, but the long story short is that you'll get a notification (see below), indicating that motion has been detected. This tech works across various rooms and floors, but it cannot pinpoint where the motion took place, and it'll just tell you which device spotted it.

You can choose the type of motion you'll be notified about. For example, it's possible to ignore pets under 40 pounds, saving you from pointless pings each time your dog crosses the room.

However, as noted by Cybernews, Xfinity can't always tell the difference between a large pet and a small child. You can choose different sensitivity levels to minimize notifications, and you can also set up alerts to go off only during certain times of day.

On paper, this sounds neat – an extra security system for your home at no extra charge. However, some users are understandably concerned about privacy, too.

Why are some users concerned about privacy?

Constantly being tracked in your own home could make you feel uneasy, so for those of you who find this idea a little creepy, you're not alone. But these privacy concerns, shared periodically by users since Wi-Fi Motion was first announced, stem largely from Xfinity's own description of the feature.

While Comcast notes that Wi-Fi Motion "is not a home security service and is not professionally monitored," the company will still generate and store data related to motion detection in your home. Comcast may also freely, without notifying you first, share that data with third parties if requested as part of an investigation, proceeding, or a court order or subpoena.

(Image credit: Xfinity)

This implies that Comcast could tell law enforcement whether you were home at a certain time, and some users on the Hacker News forums were not huge fans of that. However, others point out that your ISP already has that sort of information thanks to internet usage and phone pings, even when not in use.

Beyond sharing data with third parties, motion detection could open the door to a whole new host of cybersecurity threats. If the data falls into the wrong hands, a lot of sensitive information could potentially leak out, including data on when you're home and when you're not.

The impact of Wi-Fi Motion is unclear at this time. If you're an Xfinity user, you can just skip the feature and easily avoid any potential risks.

Still, this new feature, while certainly innovative, invites a larger debate on privacy, when exactly enough is enough, and how much data we're all willing to share with third parties. It will definitely leave some people struggling to choose between extra home security and giving up a little bit more privacy, so we're interested to see how it develops from here.

You might also like

• The best WiFi routers in 2025: our top picks for wireless connectivity
• Say hello to HaLow: Wi-Fi routers that can send 250Mbps across 10 miles (yes, 10 miles) have been demoed at CES 2025 and I'm very excited
• I just learned something awful about my home Wi-Fi setup thanks to iFixit’s ‘worst of CES 2025’ awards

Recent college graduates are facing one of the most challenging job markets in years — with the exception of the pandemic period — even as the overall unemployment rate remains low.

(Image credit: Spencer Platt)

Sotheby's in New York will be auctioning the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

(Image credit: Richard Drew)

The Testaments: key information

- The show was commissioned by Hulu in September 2019

- The Handmaid’s Tale’s Bruce Miller will also be showrunner for The Testaments

- The show went into production in April 2025

- It is being developed by Hulu and MGM Television

- It will follow three main female characters, and will be set around 15 years after The Handmaid’s Tale

- Ann Dowd (Aunt Lydia) will be reprising her role in the new series

- The other two main characters are Agnes, played by Chase Infiniti and Daisy, played by Lucy Halliday

- Elisabeth Moss will executive produce, but is unlikely to appear in the show

The Testaments is the next Margaret Atwood book to be adapted for the small screen. It's the sequel to one of the best Hulu shows The Handmaid's Tale, so will be a continuation of the story like the book it's based on.

Back in 2017, when a dystopian TV show that imagined what life would be like if American women had all their rights taken from them and were forced to live under a cruel dictatorship regime. Are we sliding closer to that being a reality, almost a decade later? It’s debatable.

What’s not up for discussion is that The Handmaid’s Tale – based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 book of the same name – became one of Hulu’s biggest ever hits, winning the first ever Emmy for the streamer, regularly pulling in millions of viewers in the UK on Amazon Prime Video and Channel 4, and making an even bigger star out of Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss.

But six series later, the story finally drew to a close at the end of May 2025, when the final loose ends of the story around June (Moss), her family and friends were tied up. The ending might have been surprising for some fans – it was left slightly ambiguous, as was the ending in the original novel – but it had to make way for the sequel of the book, 2019’s The Testaments, which is now being turned into a TV show by Handmaid’s Tale showrunner Bruce Miller.

As the show only went into production in early 2025, we wouldn’t expect The Testaments to be on screen until 2026 at the very earliest, but in the meantime, here’s everything we know about the follow up series, including the potential cast, the plotline, the potential release date and if a trailer has been released yet.

The Testaments: release date prediction

A post shared by Hulu (@hulu)

A photo posted by on

The bad news is there's likely to be a bit of a wait until we know when The Testaments will be released. The show only went into production in April 2025, and filming is expected to continue in Toronto, Canada until August 2025.

The cast did, however, post a picture of one of their table readings on the official Instagram account for The Testaments, confirming that production started on April 7, 2025 – but there have been no further updates since.

The Testaments: is there a trailer yet?

There's no teaser trailer for The Testaments yet. (Image credit: Disney)

No, not yet – as soon as even a teaser is released, we’ll post it here.

The Testaments: who is in the cast?

Ann Dowd (Aunt Lydia) will be reprising her role in The Testaments. (Image credit: Hulu)

There are three main characters in the series – as in the book – and the story will each be told through these three main voices.

The first is Aunt Lydia, who finally has had a change of heart about carrying out mass abuse on women under Gilead’s orders. Ann Dowd, the actor who played the cruel and sadistic Lydia in Handmaid’s Tale, will return to play the hateful character who has finally seen the light.

The two other main protagonists for The Testaments are Agnes, who is going to be played by Chase Infiniti (last seen in Presumed Innocent) and Daisy, played by Lucy Halliday (Blue Jean). Without giving too much away, we may already know who these girls are – they’ve just had their names changed.

Chase Infiniti – last seen in Presumed Innocent – will play Agnes, a character who Handmaid's Tale viewers will know of, but with a different name (Image credit: Apple TV+)

Other actors confirmed for roles in the series include Rowan Blanchard, who plays Shunammite, a pampered teen from a well-known Gilead family, whose “status affords her a certain level of respect and power amongst her peers”. Mattea Conforti will star as Becka, a girl who goes to school with Gilead’s elite. Also on the cast are Mabel Li, Amy Seimetz, Brad Alexander, Zarrin Darnell-Martin, Eva Foote, Isolde Ardies, Shechinah Mpumlwana, Birva Pandya, and Kira Guloien.

When Bruce Miller was writing The Handmaid’s Tale, he said he had a hotline to Atwood, who was writing The Testaments at the time, and who had a couple of requests of who could live and die in the show, to make the book work. She gave him a “no kill list” that included Lydia, and June’s daughters, Hannah and Holly.

He told The Hollywood Reporter: “She let me know as the creator of the world that things might be shifting a little under my feet. The show went past the book, The Handmaid’s Tale. So I was trying to come up with an ending that fit well and certainly I was playing with a lot of the things that she talked about doing in The Testaments.”

Elisabeth Moss will be executive producer on The Testaments, but it’s highly unlikely she’ll appear in the show, unless it’s in flashbacks. She may well possibly direct a couple of episodes, as she did in Handmaid's Tale.

The Testaments: plot

The Testaments will be based on Margaret Atwood's book of the same name. (Image credit: Hulu)

The action picks up about 15 years after the end of The Handmaid’s Tale, and the bad news is Gilead haven’t been defeated, and are back in power again. However, there’s a new generation willing to resist and fight the murderous and abusive regime.

Aunt Lydia talks about how she finally turned her back on the evil overlords, and reveals how she feels shame for her part in Gilead. But she’s now become a key player in the resistance against it, which is still fighting to put an end to the horrors of their rulers.

The other two young women we meet are Agnes and Daisy. Agnes lives in the tortuous confines of Gilead, while Agnes lives safely over the border in Canada with her “parents”. The story will bring together these three women, and as their “fates become intertwined as they uncover the secrets of Gilead and the resistance against its regime.”

The official synopsis adds of Agnes and her friends: "For these young women, growing up in Gilead is all they have ever known, having no tangible memories of the outside world prior to their indoctrination into this life… Facing the prospect of being married off and living a life of servitude, they will be forced to search for allies, both new and old, to help in their fight for freedom and the life they deserve."

For more Hulu TV coverage. read our guides on Daredevil: Born Again, X-Men 97 season 2, and Andor season 2.

• GitHub repositories host malware disguised as tools that gamers, and privacy-seekers are likely to download
• The fake VPN campaign drops malware straight into AppData and hides it from plain view
• Process injection through MSBuild.exe allows this malware to operate without triggering obvious alarms

Security experts have warned of an emerging new cyber threat involving fake VPN software hosted on GitHub.

A report from Cyfirma outlines how malware disguises itself as a “Free VPN for PC” and lures users into downloading what is, in fact, a sophisticated dropper for the Lumma Stealer.

The same malware also appeared under the name “Minecraft Skin Changer,” targeting gamers and casual users in search of free tools.

Sophisticated malware chain hides behind familiar software bait

Once executed, the dropper uses a multi-stage attack chain involving obfuscation, dynamic DLL loading, memory injection, and abuse of legitimate Windows tools like MSBuild.exe and aspnet_regiis.exe to maintain stealth and persistence.

The campaign's success hinges on its use of GitHub for distribution. The repository github[.]com/SAMAIOEC hosted password-protected ZIP files and detailed usage instructions, giving the malware an appearance of legitimacy.

Inside, the payload is obfuscated with French text and encoded in Base64.

“What begins with a deceptive free VPN download ends with a memory-injected Lumma Stealer operating through trusted system processes,” Cyfirma reports.

Upon execution, Launch.exe performs a sophisticated extraction process, decoding and altering a Base64-encoded string to drop a DLL file, msvcp110.dll, in the user’s AppData folder.

This particular DLL remains concealed. It is loaded dynamically during runtime and calls a function, GetGameData(), to invoke the last stage of the payload.

Reverse engineering the software is challenging because of anti-debugging strategies like IsDebuggerPresent() checks and control flow obfuscation.

This attack uses MITRE ATT&CK strategies like DLL side-loading, sandbox evasion, and in-memory execution.

How to stay safe

To stay protected from attacks like this, users should avoid unofficial software, especially anything promoted as a free VPN or game mod.

The risks increase when running unknown programs from repositories, even if they appear on reputable platforms.

Files downloaded from GitHub or similar platforms should never be trusted by default, particularly if they come as password-protected ZIP archives or include obscure installation steps.

Users should never run executables from unverified sources, no matter how useful the tool may seem.

Ensure that you activate extra protection by disabling the ability for executables to run from folders like AppData, which attackers often use to hide their payloads.

In addition, DLL files found in roaming or temporary folders should be flagged for further investigation.

Watch out for strange file activity on your computer, and monitor for MSBuild.exe and other tasks in the task manager or system tools that behave out of the ordinary to prevent early infections.

On a technical level, use best antivirus that offer behavior-based detection instead of relying solely on traditional scans, along with tools which provide DDoS protection and endpoint protection to cover a broader range of threats, including memory injection, stealthy process creation, and API abuse.

You might also like

• These are the best ransomware protection tools to keep you safe
• Nail the basics with the best firewalls available now
• McDonald’s AI recruiting platform had a really embarrassing security flaw

The data also highlights critical risks in other areas along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, and nationwide as many Americans have a flood risk they are not aware of.

(Image credit: RONALDO SCHEMIDT)

Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for July 13, No. 293

Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for July 13.

The final between the two top-ranked players in the world will be one not to miss. Here's how to catch the Wimbledon final on Sunday.

• AV Access KVM docking station promises 8K gaming performance on a dual-monitor, dual-computer switch dock
• Eleven ports aim to consolidate your mess of hubs, docks, and splitters into one device
• 100 watts of charging power puts this dock in serious workstation territory, not just convenience

In a market crowded with accessories claiming to streamline your setup, AV Access has announced a new contender: the iDock B10.

The new KVM docking station is marketed as an all-in-one solution for dual-computer setups, offering support for two 8K monitors at 60Hz or ultra-high refresh rates up to 240Hz.

This level of resolution may not be essential for most users, but AV Access is targeting performance-conscious professionals and gamers who prioritize both speed and visual clarity.

Built for switching ease and intense workloads

This device offers more than the best USB hub and even some laptop docking stations by combining high-speed USB expansion, video output, and Ethernet connectivity with integrated KVM functionality.

The iDock B10 includes 11 ports: USB 3.0, HDMI, DisplayPort, Gigabit Ethernet, an SD card slot, and a 3.5mm headphone jack.

It also delivers 100W of power, enough to charge a high-performance laptop during extended use.

Its core function allows users to control both a laptop and a desktop with a single keyboard, mouse, and monitor, switching between them using either a front panel button or a wired remote.

“In today’s hybrid work environment, flexibility is essential, especially for professionals such as graphic designers, software developers, and gaming enthusiasts,” said Bill Liao, CTO of AV Access.

At $224.99, with a 10% launch discount, the iDock B10 isn’t cheap, but it attempts to replace what would typically require multiple devices.

For users who need a dual-monitor setup capable of shifting between two computers without signal dropouts or peripheral lag, the B10 could be a worthwhile investment.

However, the dual-8K support, equivalent to 66 million pixels, is still an extreme proposition, especially when most creative professionals work with 4K displays at best.

AV Access has also launched a 4K version, called the iDock M10, for MacBook users, and is offering summer discounts on other models such as the C10 and C20.

Via TechPowerUp

You might also like

• These are the best NAS devices around
• We've also rounded up the best cloud storage platforms on offer
• Yet another mini PC vendor launches an eGPU — AOOStar's Radeon RX 7600XT

President Trump will be at the final game in the FIFA Club World Cup, taking place Sunday. Paul Tenorio of The Athletic talks about this moment in the culture and business of soccer in America.

The Atlantic Writer Charlie Warzel on his new reporting about Elon Musk, Grok and why a chatbot called for a new Holocaust.

Here are hints and answers for the NYT Strands puzzle for July 13 No. 497.

Here are hints and the answer for today's Wordle for July 13, No. 1,485.