Kieran Smith / Financial Times:
Sources: Palo Alto Networks, Sophos, and others record an increase in demand for their ransom negotiators, as businesses seek help in talks with cybercriminals  —  With ransomware attacks on the rise, businesses are calling on a new class of security expert to help with high-stakes talks

Maul's criminal network and Mandalorian allies were introduced in Dave Filoni's The Clone Wars.

Even for a Star Wars superfan, keeping track of when Darth Maul's new series fits into the timeline can be confusing.

Lucasfilm Animation has struck gold with Maul: Shadow Lord, leaning hard into being the sci-fi crime-thriller Star Wars fans never knew they wanted.

Thomas Claburn / The Register:
Netflix debuts VOID, a vision language model that can erase objects from a scene and simulate how remaining objects would behave in the scene without them  —  Video-language model revises how objects interact when things get removed from a scene  —  A new Netflix model promises to rewrite the way we make movies.