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Exactly, it's almost as if he didn't want his last moments private
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CHANMINA reportedly had a minor traffic accident, but half the internet seems to have crashed trying to read her real name. 😂 The funniest part? She actually revealed that unusual surname on Japanese television back in January while explaining her family’s traditional walnut mochi recipe. She was introducing a family snack, and nine months later her surname is giving people a Japanese reading exam. 😭 Glad there are no reported injuries.
【速報】ちゃんみな運転で接触事故起こす ちょっと待ってくれ。 本名なんて読むの、、、??笑
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You can enforce MFA on every employee and STILL get breached through a trusted application that never asks for a login code. That’s the uncomfortable lesson from Microsoft’s latest investigation. AI-assisted hackers targeted over 2,250 Microsoft 365 environments using compromised ConnectWise app credentials. Some AI-driven attacks reached privileged cloud access in UNDER THREE HOURS. Most attempts failed, but the successful ones expose a serious blind spot. We’ve spent years securing human identities while giving third-party applications powerful access to our systems. AI just made exploiting that trust dangerously fast.
【速報】中国系ハッカー、AIで世界数百組織を攻撃 Microsoft発表 ・AIツールを悪用し、米IT企業ConnectWiseに侵入 ・一部では標的にしてから3時間未満でクラウドの高い権限を取得 ・攻撃の大半は失敗も、複数組織で継続的なアクセスを確保
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The scariest part of #php2shell isn’t the millions of exploit attempts. It’s the THOUSANDS that happened before the vulnerability was officially disclosed. Cloudflare says the details leaked early, and it had already deployed firewall protections roughly 9 hours before the public announcement. Think about that. Attackers were already hunting while much of the internet was still waiting for the official details. And because the flaws are inside PHP itself, updating your WordPress plugins won’t fix them. Your firewall buys time but ultimately patching PHP is what closes the hole.
Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now.
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Giannis answered Ant’s three-pointer with a monster dunk and some trash talk. Both had 21 POINTS at halftime. 😭 Then Anthony Edwards finished with 45, and Minnesota won by 25. But here’s the ridiculous part: Ant made NINE three-pointers. The entire Miami Heat team made EIGHT. Giannis can dominate the paint all night, but when one guy is outshooting your entire team from deep, you’ve got a serious problem. 😂
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“The answer is always yes” is a pretty dangerous promise to make about marriage. Here’s the irony: Sophia Bush herself quoted Esther Perel in this interview about how one person can’t provide everything we once got from an entire village. Nobody should feel trapped in an unhappy or harmful marriage because of age or societal pressure. But if “doing better” means finding someone who meets every need perfectly, even a good partner will eventually disappoint you. And that applies to men and women equally.
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Sauron might have already won half the war before forging the One Ring. 💀 Five years after Eregion fell, the Dwarves are trapped inside Khazad-dûm, Númenor is tearing itself apart, and the Elves are surviving behind the protection of their Three Rings. Now Sauron is building the ONE Ring that could turn even that protection into a vulnerability. That’s the terrifying part of his plan. His enemies are already divided, and he’s working on a way to make their remaining power answer to him.
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Kim Kardashian dressed up as North West for Halloween, and North turned around and dressed up as Natalie Nunn. 😂 This family is running a whole costume exchange program. But North’s commitment to that prosthetic chin is sending me. She could’ve stopped at the wig, but clearly accuracy was VERY important to her. Literally JAW-DROPPING. 😭
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North West dresses up as Natalie Nunn for Halloween.
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Tyrese Haliburton tore his Achilles with an NBA championship just one win away. Indiana then went 19-63 without him. In his first regular-season game back, he was already jawing at Derik Queen, picked up a technical, and watched the Pacers respond with a 13-3 run to take the lead. 😂 That’s why the tears hit. He spent 16 months watching from the sidelines, then finally got to be part of another Pacers comeback. Basketball owed him a night like this. ❤️
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Sauron is building the One Ring in a workshop copied from the very Elf he murdered. That’s a disturbing detail. 💀 The production designer confirmed that his forge inside Barad-dûr mirrors Celebrimbor’s workshop, while Celebrimbor’s body hangs in Sauron’s study. Five years after destroying Eregion, the Dark Lord is still surrounded by reminders of the man whose craftsmanship he needed. Sauron wants to rule Middle-earth, but even his greatest creation carries the shadow of someone he couldn’t replace.
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Giannis makes traveling so hard to judge that the NBA literally uses him as BOTH a legal example and a violation in its official video rulebook. 😂 In one example, he gathers and takes two legal steps. In another, he takes three after gathering, and it’s a travel. That fast break looked suspicious to me, but with those giant strides, you really have to slow it down and find the exact gather. Bro makes every layup hard for the referee. 😭
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I’ve been thinking about this AI matter for days now the same way people talk about guns. Somebody has to pull the trigger, except now they can automate it. Just as they say “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people”. 🤷‍♂️
Perhaps the threat was never a rogue AI agent trying to subvert humans—but humans using AI to hurt other humans.
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McDonald’s got a Top Chef winner to make a Quarter Pounder feel like a luxury dining experience. 😂 Tristen Epps-Long actually started his career working at McDonald’s, and now he’s hosting a FREE chef’s table serving the same familiar menu items. Four days later, McDonald’s launches an $8 Quarter Pounder meal nationwide. They’ve turned a value-meal promotion into an exclusive dining event. That’s some seriously clever marketing.
JUST IN: McDonald's announces its first-ever reservation-only "fine dining experience" in New York City on October 29.
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Sam LaPorta says he’ll get paid elsewhere if Detroit won’t extend him. The Lions have one uncomfortable advantage: they can franchise-tag him in 2027. Detroit already gave fellow 2023 draft picks Jahmyr Gibbs $67.5 million and Jack Campbell $81 million extensions. LaPorta has 316 receiving yards and 3 touchdowns in five games after returning from back surgery. Detroit can keep him for another season without agreeing to a long-term deal. But forcing a player who already feels undervalued to stay could create an even bigger problem.
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Sam LaPorta let some frustration show over his lack of a contract extension with the Detroit Lions, telling Barstool's "Pardon My Take" podcast that the team is "not showing the love" and indicating he would be OK with playing elsewhere in 2027.
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The GMA love square has managed to pull off a reverse plot twist. 😂 Andrew Shue proposed to Marilee Fiebig in SPRING, months before their exes Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes got married in September. But the engagement only became public in October, making it look like the other couple got there first. Four people, two new relationships, and an engagement that predates the wedding everyone was talking about. Even the timeline has better writing than most soap operas. 😭
💍 Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes' ex-spouses Andrew Shue and Marilee Fiebig are engaged. tmz.com/2026/10/21/andrew-sh…
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Dallas just picked up a former No. 18 draft pick without giving up a single draft asset or clearing a standard roster spot. Memphis waived Walter Clayton Jr. despite him averaging 9.7 points and 5.7 assists in 24 games after arriving from Utah. Even better, Mavericks coach Dusty May previously recruited him at Michigan. Dallas gets up to 50 NBA games to evaluate him on a two-way deal. If he delivers, they’ve found a bargain. If he doesn’t, they’ve risked very little.
Guard Walter Clayton Jr. has agreed on a two-way NBA deal with the Dallas Mavericks, sources tell ESPN.
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The Warriors gave Kristaps Porziņģis a $40 million extension designed to make him trade-eligible immediately. They might need that flexibility before he even plays a game this season. Only $3 million of next year’s $20 million salary is guaranteed. Golden State expected him to start alongside Draymond Green. Now ESPN reports he’s considering whether he can continue playing basketball at all. The Warriors can find another center. Porziņģis is facing a much harder problem, and I genuinely hope he recovers.
Porzingis is on a trade-flexible contract for $20 million this season and a small partial next year, serving as essentially an expiring deal that the Warriors can utilize, potentially with their pool of assets. He first revealed his POTS diagnosis last year and has had ups and downs with the issue. If there is no breakthrough in recovery, stepping away from basketball -- for good -- is possible.
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Cyberpunk 2077 just slipped a HUGE feature into its Edgerunners 2 update: console mod support. 👀 Six years after launch, PS5, Xbox Series and Nintendo Switch 2 players are finally getting access to selected community-made mods directly inside the game. But there’s a catch. Playing a modded save on consoles disables achievements and trophies. CDPR is finally opening Night City to console modders, but completionists will have to choose between experimenting and earning that platinum trophy.
Thought you were done with Night City? Well, Night City isn't quite done with you. Patch notes for Cyberpunk 2077’s Edgerunners 2 Update (2.5) are now available for you to ready up and review before going live on the streets tomorrow. Jack in: cp2077.ly/2.5_Patch_Notes
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Manuel Otto built Stick Run at just 14 years old, and the game reportedly went on to reach over 43 MILLION players. Now, at 30, he’s gone, and his team is asking people to respect his privacy rather than spread footage of his final moments. 💔 Twitch has reportedly removed the broadcast, but that doesn’t stop people from sharing copies. He gave millions of people something to enjoy. His final moments deserve to remain private. Rest in peace, Manuel.
🕊️ Influencer Manuel Otto dies after incident on live stream. Details: tmz.com/2026/10/21/manuel-ot…
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BioWare told Mass Effect fans in November 2025 that EA was still committed to the next game. Eleven months later, EA has shut down the entire studio. The project was announced back in 2020, and after SIX YEARS of waiting, EA says it was still in early development. That’s the part that stings. Six years of teasers, another reassurance last November, and the game never even made it into full production. One of gaming’s greatest RPG studios deserved a better ending.
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