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Zepotha is huge on TikTok, but it’s no Goncharov

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The seminal 1987 horror film “Zepotha” is back on TikTok. Reaction videos to the film’s gory forest scenes dominate user feeds. In another video, she recommended bringing up Zepotha “every time a film bro mocks you” to gaslight them into believing that the movie is real. Her original video has 7.6 million views.

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Generative AI is pushing unstructured data to center stage

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Since those early days, the ratio of structured and unstructured data has shifted as the Internet, social media, digital cameras, smartphones, digital communications, etc. much of it is still stored in physical, or analog, formats such as paper, tape, film, microfiche, etc. have encouraged the creation of unstructured data.

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How Ryan Reynolds and Mint Mobile worked without becoming the joke

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Maximum Effort was founded to help promote the actor’s first Deadpool film. The film raked in $783.1 million at the box office — a record for an R-rated film that held until the 2019 release of Joker. Reynolds and Dewey had come up with several low-budget spots to get people excited about an R-rated comic book movie.

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Daily Crunch: Experts say Musk’s open-source vision could make Twitter vulnerable to attack

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We know, we know — all of these puns are clucking terrible, but what is a poor pair of newsletter writers to do when they pull our favorite social media site from the stork exchange? If you don’t give two craps about Twitter or Elon Musk … we’re really sorry, it’s got to suck being you on the internet right now.

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Creative Juice launches a $50M fund to invest in creators

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YouTubers and other social media stars can apply for upfront cash to grow their businesses in exchange for a cut of their revenue over a certain period of time, usually between six months and three years. I wish there was a way to invest in social media influencers! Idk anything about the stock market and I find it boring.

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From reel to real: Translating movie magic into cybersecurity realities

Lacework

With the Oscars just around the corner, movie fans everywhere are gearing up to celebrate the best films of the year. Hacking the CIA: Not as easy as the movies make it seem Another film that stretches cybersecurity credibility is Jason Bourne. Keeping it real: Mr. Robot’s hacking authenticity The TV series “Mr.

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LOVE unveils a modern video messaging app with a business model that puts users in control

TechCrunch

These concepts have emerged as part of bigger trends towards a sort of “ web 3.0, ” or next phase of internet development, where services are decentralized, user privacy is elevated, data is protected, and transactions take place on digital ledgers, like a blockchain, in a more distributed fashion.

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