Marvel Zombies lands an October release date on Disney Plus, but it won’t debut or end on Halloween

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 Speaker Selection We are excited by the fantastic response to our call for speakers at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, scheduled for October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco. After a thorough selection process, we have chosen 20 outstanding finalists, featuring 10 breakout sessions and 10 roundtables. Now, we invite you to help shape the agenda through Audience Choice voting, allowing you to influence which sessions resonate most with our attendees. Full Article

The controversial “Make America Healthy Again” commission report led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been scrutinized for questionable sources, with investigations revealing numerous errors, including fictitious citations and misrepresented studies. Reports indicate that generative AI, particularly ChatGPT, may have contributed to these inaccuracies, as suggested by the presence of “oaicite” markers in the citations. Despite the identified issues, the White House defended the report's overall substance, labeling errors as mere “formatting issues” while updating...

For the first time, scientists have directly observed atmospheric sputtering on Mars, a process driven by solar wind ions that may significantly contribute to the planet's atmospheric and water loss. Utilizing data from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, researchers found variations in argon densities at altitudes above 350 kilometers, correlating with the orientation of the solar wind electric field, indicating active sputtering. These findings, published in Science Advances, also suggest conditions on early Mars were influenced by...

SummaryMeta announced the disruption of three covert influence operations from Iran, China, and Romania during Q1 2025, as detailed in its quarterly Adversarial Threat Report. The company successfully detected and removed these campaigns before they could establish genuine audiences on its platforms, which included a network of 658 Facebook accounts and 14 Pages. This proactive measure highlights Meta's ongoing efforts to combat misinformation and maintain the integrity of its social media ecosystem. Full Article

An accused movie pirate, Steven Hale, who stole over 1,000 Blu-ray discs and DVDs while employed at a DVD manufacturing company, struck a plea deal this week to reduce his sentence after the FBI alleged his piracy cost studios millions. Arrested in March, Hale was accused of bypassing encryption to leak pre-release movies, including popular titles like Spider-Man: No Way Home, which reportedly led to tens of millions in losses for studios. His plea deal...

YouTube Shorts is currently beta testing the integration of Google Lens, allowing users to search for information about elements within short-form videos. Viewers can access this feature by pausing a video and selecting Lens from the menu, enabling them to tap or highlight parts of the clip for visual search results overlaying the content. During this test phase, advertisements won't appear in the search results, and the Lens functionality is not available for Shorts with...