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'It's not our job to make the audience comfortable': Gugu Mbatha-Raw on why new supernatural Sky TV thriller Possession will make colonial history 'accessible' — not more palatable

If you like the aesthetic vibes of colonial gothic horror stories such as Jamaica Inn and Wide Sargasso Sea, new Sky TV supernatural thriller Possession is definitely for you. However, a word of warning — the story is going to touch a much more modern nerve.

We're set to follow Claudia (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), an ambitious bi-racial lawyer who travels to Jamaica to challenge an inheritance claim made by a local man against a wealthy white aristocrat.

However, she arrives to find the disputed estate is a former plantation that has long haunted her dreams. Cue a terrifying slew of 1800s flashbacks, curses, and misunderstood spiritual connection.

On a surface level, you can see why someone might find this frightening. The drama isn't just tense to the level of consistent jump scares, but is often violently disturbing in its commitment to guts and gore (think Evil Deadlevels of supernatural...

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Linux Use Skyrockets to a Historic High

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Hidden Backdoor Found in Chinese-Made Zbtlink Routers

Routers made by the Chinese company Zbtlink are shipped with a built-in backdoor, according to a new report from cybersecurity firm VulnCheck. VulnCheck examined 20 models made by Zbtlink and found an implant on each one’s firmware that automatically communicates with cloud servers in China. The backdoor could give

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FBI agent accused of stealing $1 million in crypto — and he even consulted ChatGPT on how to leave the country

* A former FBI counterintelligence supervisor is accused of memorizing seed phrases from bureau systems * The agent moved roughly $1 million out of wallets tied to a foreign adversary without having to resort to any sort of hacking * Investigators recovered ChatGPT conversations in which he asked how to invest the money

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FBI agent accused of stealing $1 million in crypto &mdash; and he even consulted ChatGPT on how to leave the country

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