Amos

Drummer’s eye make-up. Avasarala’s jewels. Amos’ “that guy” smirk. Yep, these are good.Image: Nacelle/AlconMuch-loved sci-fi TV series The Expanse had so much going for it, with memorable characters navigating high-stakes space action as well as often tense personal relationships. But the one thing it didn’t have, besides a seventh season (sigh), was a set of action figures. Beltalowda, that’s all about to change.Launching tomorrow, a Kickstarter campaign aims to bring Expanse action figures, officially licensed by Alcon…

Fake Google Chrome and Safari updates for macOS are being used to infect Mac computers with the nefarious Atomic Stealer malware, also known as AMOS. Distributed to Mac owners as part of a social engineering campaign, AMOS can steal passwords, private files stored on a Mac. Users will need to stay alert and possibly use web protection tools in order to protect themselves from malware distributed by social engineering, as malware creators appear to be turning their attention to Mac owners.Security…

Tori Amos is honoring the legacy of Sinéad O’Connor the way she knows best: performing a few of her songs. During her show on Wednesday night, hours after O’Connor’s death, in San Francisco, the songstress performed O’Connor’s tracks “I Am Stretched on Your Grave” and “Three Babies.” She described O’Connor as “one of the most important songwriters” that has lived as she honored her for warning the world about the abuses of the Catholic church. “This is a person who was powerful, who wrote incredible music, and we…

Telegram seems to be the new favourite space for hackers and bad actors. We recently read reports of hackers making negotiations on Telegram for malware-laden apps and now a new report from Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) uncovers a new malware operating through the messaging app. Even worse is that this malware targets macOS which is generally considered a safer platform than Windows. CRIL researchers have a discovered a new malware called Atomic macOS Stealer (AMOS) that has been specifically designed to…

A weekend project exploring hash tables and recursive algorithmsImage by authorI know it’s all just an accident of language, but the fact that you can rearrange the letters in “the eyes” into “they see” feels… magical.Ever since I was a kid, I’ve enjoyed anagrams. So, I thought I’d try to build an anagram generator in Python. It turned into a fun little weekend project that uses hash tables, in the form of Python dictionaries, and recursion.Hash tables are used to implement things like database indexes and caches. They…

Amos Hochstein photographed in Beirut, Lebanon, on October 27, 2022.Hussam Shbaro | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesOil is all Russia's economy has left following its invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, according to Amos Hochstein, special presidential coordinator for President Joe Biden."Oil is the only thing they have left in that economy … Putin has destroyed the rest of the economy," Hochstein told CNBC's Hadley Gamble Monday."All he's got left is the stuff that comes out of the ground. He won't sell his gas to Europe…

The Small Press Spotlight is revisiting the Six Seasons of the Asiniskaw Īthiniwak series from HighWater Press. Earlier this year we showed you a glimpse of the first installment, and now the publisher is set to release part two in September, AMŌ’S Sapotawan from award-winning writer William Dumas and artist Rhian Brynjolson. Dumas won the Public Communications Awards for the first book in this series, which was also shortlisted for Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration. …

When I look in the mirror, I hope to see bits of my mother because she was my bestie. I was lucky to have the mum I had. People have told me, when your mother dies, you either mourn the mother you had or you mourn the mother that you wish you had. I found that very profound.I was homecoming queen, but only because there were a lot of nerds in my year. They became Silicon Valley dudes. I was their friend, so I think I might’ve gotten their vote. I certainly didn’t get the jock vote. But I got the nerds.It’s tough being the…

When Tori Amos thinks of Los Angeles, she first recalls the distinctly manmade scent of Aqua Net hairspray.“I’m ashamed to say it, but in those days, I had a can of Aqua Net in my handbag at all times,” says the singer-songwriter, 58. “I’d make my hair as high as I could and be ready to go.”Hailing from a Southern Methodist family in Maryland, Amos moved to L.A. in 1984, when hair-metal dominated the charts and the members of Mötley Crüe were the kings of the Sunset Strip.Amos was only 5 when she began a course of study…

| Comic book artist Alison Sampson is best known for drawing comics such as Hit-Girl In India written by Peter Milligan, Steven King's Sleeping Beauties written by Rio Youers and Winnebago Graveyard written by Steve Niles. she also has a bunch of playing card covers spread out over a number of upcoming titles from other creators. But she is also writing he own comic for the first time, as part of the Tori Amos graphic anthology from Z2 Comics, with her story The Pool, based on the Tori Amos song of the same name. She…