Breaking the iris scanner locking Samsung’s Galaxy S8 is laughably easy

Enlarge (credit: Chaos Computer Club) Hackers have broken the iris-based authentication in Samsung’s Galaxy S8 smartphone in an easy-to-execute attack that’s at odds with the manufacturer’s claim that the mechanism is “one of the safest ways to keep your phone locked.” The cost of the hack is less than the $ 725 price for an […]

The Blair Witch Project almost ended with a laughably lame-looking crucifixion

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly on Wednesday, the co-directors of the 1999 classic found footage horror film The Blair Witch Project revealed that they filmed several alternate endings. “We went back to that house with a skeleton crew and basically just shot all the endings that Ed [Sanchez] and I threw out when we […]