Lou Pearlman's Controversial Legacy In the late 1990s and early 2000s, mainstream pop seemed to follow a simple recipe: a handful of charismatic young men, tight harmonies, earworm choruses and synchronized dance moves — and the world would sing along. Behind many of those acts was Lou Pearlman, the impresario who engineered careers for groups like the Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC and...

A glaring technical hiccup caused Google to erroneously brand countless websites as malware distributors for roughly forty minutes on Saturday morning. This system-wide alert stemmed from a simple yet critical human mistake: a single forward slash ("/") was incorrectly added to Google's threat database, expanding its scope to effectively encompass the entire web. While Google swiftly...

VPNs for German Streaming Love Island Germany Season 3 is broadcast on RTL II and its streaming platform (TVNOW), both of which restrict access to viewers inside Germany. If you’re outside Germany, a VPN is the simplest way to watch legally by giving your device a German IP address. What a VPN does: A virtual private network (VPN) reroutes and encrypts your internet traffic through a...

VPN for ABC iView Access ABC iView is restricted to viewers inside Australia, so if you try to stream live or on-demand content while traveling overseas, the player will usually refuse to load because of geographic licensing controls. A VPN (virtual private network) can solve this by masking your real IP and making it look like you’re connecting from Australia, while also encrypting your...

A supposed act of revenge against Fannie Mae was thwarted when engineers found a covert, destructive script tucked into a routine Unix file, and the suspect — 35-year-old Rajendrasinh Babubha Makwana — was taken into custody. Makwana, an Indian national working for an Omnitech subcontractor as a Unix engineer at Fannie Mae’s Urbana, Maryland site, was dismissed on October 24...

2001 turned into a record-breaking year for Japanese cinemas, with total ticket sales jumping to about 163.3 million — roughly a 20.6% rise from 2000. Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, distributed by Toho, dominated the market and dethroned Titanic to become Japan’s highest-grossing film, finishing the year near $227 million domestically. Hollywood fare still performed well:...

Megan proved herself a star the moment the words. left her mouth. She continued to remind us of this as, the scene assistant turned executive on but has the top billing to prove it. Angel may only be in her sophomore season, but She already ma moves like a legend. Until she suffered a back injury in July, which took her out of the season indefinitely, the Sky power forward was, by all accounts,...

Netflix Karen Read Case Doc Netflix Docuseries to Explore Controversial Karen Read Case Following Acquittal The highly publicized legal battle surrounding the death of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe has reached its conclusion, with Karen Read being acquitted of the most serious charges against her. Netflix's upcoming three-part documentary series aims to examine this complex case that...

A recent audit by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s information security practices fall short, and that many weaknesses are tied to systems run by the IRS and the Treasury Communications System (TCS). The GAO examined FinCEN’s systems and the points where it consumes IRS and TCS data used to administer the Bank Secrecy...