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How ‘The Matrix’ helped build—and break—beleaguered production company Village Roadhouse

Fast Company Tech

But last week, following a years-long decline in box office performance, the company filed for bankruptcy. on 91 of 108 total movies over the decades that followed, according to its bankruptcy filing. As the filing details, Village Roadshow spent approximately $47.5 Neither Village Roadshow nor Warner Bros.

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The Verge

They were all getting the same error message: The program couldn’t find their files. She asked each student where they’d saved their project. Not only did they not know where their files were saved — they didn’t understand the question. Now, he thinks of his hard drives like filing cabinets. “I What are you talking about?”

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Meta Quest 3 design and spec files leak

TechSpot

YouTuber Brad Lynch claims to have leaked the spec files for what may be the Meta Quest 3. The files indicate a device called "Project Stinson" with fewer bells and whistles than the headset the company plans to launch in October, likely offering customers a cheaper option.

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In Texas, ‘water is the new oil’ as cities square off over aquifers that may soon dry out

Fast Company Tech

In Central Texas, a bitter fight over a $1 billion water project offers a preview of the future for much of the state as decades of rapid growth push past the local limits of its most vital natural resource. The site of a water pipeline project by the company Recharge through Lee County into Williamson County is pictured on March 28.

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Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects

The Verge

A developer appears to have purposefully corrupted a pair of open-source libraries on GitHub and software registry npm — “ faker.js ” and “ colors.js ” — that thousands of users depend on, rendering any project that contains these libraries useless, as reported by Bleeping Computer. I have 100s of projects. For context, faker.js

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Apple files lawsuit against former engineer for leaking details of projects he wanted to kill

TechSpot

He worked on optimizing battery performance, a role that made him "privy to information regarding dozens of Apple's most sensitive projects." According to Apple's complaint (via MacRumors), Andrew Aude joined Apple in 2016 as an iOS engineer shortly after graduating college. Read Entire Article

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US files lawsuit against Georgia Tech over cybersecurity failures, lab admin opposed the use antivirus software

TechSpot

Amid growing concerns over cybersecurity compliance in research settings, the US government has filed a lawsuit against the Georgia Institute of Technology, specifically targeting Dr. Emmanouil "Manos" Antonakakis and his cybersecurity lab. Read Entire Article

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