23andMe filed for bankruptcy late Sunday night and announced the resignation of its chief executive, capping a precipitous fall for the DNA-testing company.
CEO Anne Wojcicki, who is stepping down from her position but remaining on the board, has so far tried unsuccessfully to rescue the business by buying it back.
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The youngest son of former New York Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner and his wife, Jessica, has died after falling ill during a family vacation. Miller Gardner was 14.
Miller Gardner died in his sleep Friday morning, according to a statement from the couple that was released by the Yankees on Sunday. The Gardners said they “have so many questions and so few answers at this point.”
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Golfing hero Tiger Woods on Sunday confirmed his relationship with Vanessa Trump, the former daughter-in-law of President Donald Trump, by declaring that "love is in the air."
Woods posted a picture of him alongside Trump to his Instagram and X accounts, with the caption: "Love is in the air and life is better with you by my side! We look forward to our journey through life together. At this time we would appreciate privacy for all those close to our hearts."
Vanessa Trump was married to Donald Trump Jr. from 2005 to 2018, and the couple has five children together.
One day soon, at a research lab near Santa Barbara or Seattle or a secret facility in the Chinese mountains, it will begin: the sudden unlocking of the world’s secrets. Your secrets.
Cybersecurity analysts call this Q-Day—the day someone builds a quantum computer that can crack the most widely used forms of encryption. These math problems have kept humanity’s intimate data safe for decades, but on Q-Day, everything could become vulnerable, for everyone: emails, text messages, anonymous posts, location histories, bitcoin wallets, police reports, hospital records, power stations, the entire global financial system.
“We’re kind of playing Russian roulette,” says Michele Mosca, who coauthored the most recent “Quantum Threat Timeline” report from the Global Risk Institute, which estimates how long we have left. “You’ll probably win if you only play once, but it’s not a good game to play.” When Mosca and his colleagues surveyed cybersecurity experts last year, the forecast was sobering: a one-in-three chance that Q-Day happens before 2035. And the chances it has already happened in secret? Some people I spoke to estimated 15 percent—about the same as you’d get from one spin of the revolver cylinder.--from Wired
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"The result is absolutely delicious, a svelte piece of entertainment that feels like a vintage yarn yet very much represents our own current anxieties, questions of sustaining trust in relationships and high-stake careers."--Monica Castillo at Ebert
Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, and Pierce Brosnan are just some of the names in Steven Soderbergh's newest spy thriller, which has been met with positive reviews. Black Bag follows the British Intelligence agents and married couple George (Fassbender) and Kathryn (Blanchett) into a world of secrets and intrigue as they race to find the traitor in their organization.
The movie title refers to the code word "Black Bag," which the spies in the film use to avoid divulging confidential or top-secret information.
There are personal and professional secrets and lies throughout Black Bag, which begins when George is ordered by his superior, Meachum (Gustaf Skarsgard), to find the culprit inside their organization who has leaked a top-secret software known as Severus, which could result in the deaths of tens of thousands of people.
Cat-and-mouse games abound. The clandestine software theft, a clandestine effort to counter the theft, a plan to implicate Kathryn by giving her access to the bribery money (I missed how) but apparently motivated by both a misdirection effort and some poorly explained reason to attack Kathryn and George's marriage, the murder of Meachum which I thought motiveless. (Maybe misdirection?}
Wide lens, dark lighting, and short sentences all contribute to concentrated tension in a story with little--but occasionally shocking--action. The actors are uniformly excellent, although Fassbender's robotic intensity only masquerades as depth. The marriage theme is curious, as if inserted after focus group meetings.
There is a tight, set-piece quality here, as if conceived for the stage. The atmosphere and technique demand attention and some of the story is easy to miss in the darkness and the British accents. That often makes the effort more than the film is worth.
