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He’s a Beatle, baby, not a loser this time. Eventually, in an unnerving scene, Young McCartney pulls off a mask to reveal himself as singer Beck. McCartney himself even joked about the rumor by naming a 1993 album Paul Is Live. Featured performers on the album include Idris Elba, Phoebe Bridgers, Josh Homme and St. Vincent.

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A new report from VMware shows that cybersecurity professionals are seeing more deepfakes being used in cyber attacks. “They’re already here.” The technology entered the mainstream in 2019,sparking fears it could convincingly re-createother people’s faces and voices. While early deepfakes were largely easy to spot, the technology has since evolved and become much more convincing. It was quickly denounced by Zelenskyy but showed the potential for harm posed by deepfakes....

HBO Max has greenlighted areboot of the Degrassi franchise, set to hit the streaming service in 2023. The new series will feature 10 episodes of an hour apiece, HBO Max said Thursday. It’ll be produced by Lara Azzopardi of The Bold punch in and Julia Cohen of Riverdale. No word yet on whether any characters from the previous seasons of Degrassi will be in the new franchise.

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Dell has accused five Asian firms that make liquid crystal display panels of illegally colluding on prices. Damages sought by Dell have not yet been determined. For Sharp and Hitachi, this is also familiar territory. Executives from Chunghwa, Hitachi and LG executives were sentenced to jail and fined.

Dell is joining the parade of tech companies instituting companywide layoffs. PC shipments boomed to record highs during the pandemic, only to come crashing down in 2022. HP made plans in November tocut between 4,000 and 6,000 jobsby 2025.

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Employees have until Nov. 1 to get fully vaccinated before the $200 monthly surcharge goes into effect. The pay protection rule is set to kick in on Sept. 30. All Delta employees hospitalized with COVID-19 in recent weeks were unvaccinated, Bastian said.

It really is a virus that seems to be optimized for infecting humans." The delta variant is now thedominant strain in the US, accounting forroughly 80% of new cases. [That’s] what we’ve seen with delta." “We know what it takes to get a vaccine to work against COVID-19,” he says. “There really is light at the end of the tunnel. There really is a path forward. you could check out the entire conversation in the video above....

Also called the B.1.617.2 variant, delta was originally detected in India. The variant might also lead to more severe COVID-19 disease. A study in Scotland found that deltadoubled the risk of hospitalizationwhen compared with the Alpha variant. “If you look at the number of deaths, about 99.2 percent of them are unvaccinated. About 0.8 percent are vaccinated,” Fauci said. “No vaccine is perfect. But the vaccination rate varies greatly state to state and community to community....

Delta Air Linesplans to offerfree Wi-Fi serviceon its flightsin early 2023, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The company is testing out the service by providing it “to select customers on select routes.” If the airline eliminates the fee, it could become an appealing perk for passengers. It is unclear whether Delta will continue offering the feature through Viasat or its other provider, Intelsat. Delta did not immediately respond to a request for comment....