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NEED TO KNOWThe season 1 finale of Alien: Earth premiered Sept. 23 on FX and HuluThe episode saw a change in power dynamics, as Wendy (Sydney Chandler) and her Lost Boy hybrids took revenge on their creatorsThe episode set up for a potential season 2, with Yutani’s (Sandra Yi Sencindiver) soldiers on their way to the labMonsters — human, robot and alien — were lurking everywhere in the Alien: Earth season finale.On Sept. 23, the eighth and final episode of Alien: Earth season 1 premiered on FX and Hulu. The latest installment saw Wendy (Sydney Chandler) and her Lost Boy…

Agentic AI , Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning , Identity & Access Management SailPoint’s Steve Bradford on Risks of Unchecked Nonhuman Identities Tom Field (SecurityEditor) • September 24, 2025     Steve Bradford, senior vice president and general manager, EMEA, SailPoint Artificial intelligence agents have rapidly become a force inside enterprises, creating a surge of new, nonhuman identities. While adoption has grown quickly, oversight has not kept pace. More than 80% of organizations now use agents, but only 40% actually manage them, said Steve Bradford, senior vice president and general manager for EMEA at SailPoint. That lack of control is…

Alien: Earth has ended its first season with a cliffhanger.The human-robot hybrids have taken control over their masters, and their leader, Wendy (Sydney Chandler), has designs to take over the world. But will the series get a second season?So far, FX hasn’t given any word on a second season, but fans expect it to get renewed due to its popularity and critical acclaim. Series creator Noah Hawley also expects to continue the story with a new season.What Noah Hawley says about ‘Alien: Earth’ Season 2 plans“I’m pretty confident, given the show’s success, that we’ll get to make more,” he told…

The 1982 blockbuster film E.T. made aliens easy to love. In the film, a crinkled extraterrestrial being with large expressive eyes—looking like the love child of a turtle and an ape—takes shelter in the home of a young boy named Elliott after getting stranded on Earth. For the bulk of the movie, Elliott protects his otherworldly friend from government agents, who treat E.T. as a threat, the same way they might treat a deadly virus or an explosive device. E.T., who clearly displays intelligence and a complex emotional life, has no rights.While the popular film is entirely fictional, and scientists…

Kate McKinnon is spilling the secrets behind one of Saturday Night Live’s 50th Anniversary Special’s most jaw-dropping moments.In her appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonon Tuesday night, the comedian revealed how she got legendary actress Meryl Streep to appear in the anniversary special’s “Close Encounter” sketch. She also discussed her book tour, which she embarked on last year, and proudly showed off some of the fresh vegetables she grew in her own garden.A recurring sketch on SNL, “Close Encounter,” starts with two government specialists interviewing three people who experienced an alien abduction. While two of the witnesses have…

Here’s what to know about the upcoming hearing about UFOs and the perceived lack of government transparency around the topic, as well as how to watch it live.Discussion of UFOs and assertions that the government knows more about them than it’s letting on will once again fill the halls of Congress.A House task force on government transparency is set to host a hearing Tuesday, Sept. 9 in which four witnesses will offer testimony under oath about their experiences with UFOs, as well as their perception that the military is being less than fully transparent about what exactly is behind the…

The world has finally been given a glimpse of the world of Marvel’s Wolverine, and it’s one soaked in viscera, as the debut trailer shown during a Sony State of Play was both incredibly violent and filled with X-Men villain cameos. Marvel’s Wolverine is being developed by Insomniac Games, the team behind the incredible Marvel’s Spider-Man games. Fans had previously only been given a brief cinematic trailer for the game, with years passing without any news. The September 24 Sony State of Play finally gave the world a proper look at Marvel’s Wolverine, as well as a release date, as…

Alien: Earth Season 1 wrapped on September 23, 2025, with a major cliffhanger showcasing Wendy and The Lost Boys in charge of the Neverland overthrowing the adults. Kavalier, who was the mastermind behind the hybrid experiments, has been imprisoned by them but not killed. This suggests that Season 2 might introduce Kavalier as a looming threat, as he may be determined to seek revenge. At the same time, the season can also explore some subplots related to the bio-organic entities that escaped in the early episodes and were never touched upon since then. However, there has not been any information…

Billionaire tech guru says unchecked progress may summon apocalypse Peter Thiel who once made billions betting on technology now wants everyone to think a bit harder about a literal biblical Armageddon and the Antichrist. In a private four-part lecture series in San Francisco, Thiel has been connecting Christian Nationalist “prophecy” with modern tech’s darker edges. He claims that fears over AI and biotechnology could be used as excuses to hand power to a charismatic, global authoritarian figure who would match the biblical description of the Antichrist. According to the Wall Street Journal, in one lecture, Thiel told attendees that cracking…

In the quest for a reliable way to detect any stirrings of a sentient “I” in artificial intelligence systems, researchers are turning to one area of experience—pain—that inarguably unites a vast swath of living beings, from hermit crabs to humans. For a new preprint study, posted online but not yet peer-reviewed, scientists at Google, Google DeepMind and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) created a text-based game.* They ordered several large language models, or LLMs (the AI systems behind familiar chatbots such as ChatGPT), to play it and to score as many points as possible in two different…