HTB is an excellent platform that hosts machines belonging to multiple OSes. It offers multiple types of challenges as well. The individual can download the VPN pack to connect to the machines hosted on the HTB platform and has to solve the puzzle (simple enumeration plus pentest) in order to log into the platform. Note: Only writeups of retired HTB machines are allowed. The machine in this article, Optimum, is retired....
While Gotham placed a great deal of focus on the evolution of Jim Gordon and Bruce Wayne, the show truly excelled when focusing on its villains. The villains provided the vibrant quirks and campy nature that allowed Gotham to find its identity and hit its stride. Each of them helped raise the stakes in a different way and sometimes made the audience want to root for them even more than Jim Gordon or Bruce Wayne....
Frankie Bergstein is the insatiable free-thinker from Netflix’s Grace and Frankie. After getting divorced from her husband Sol, viewers weren’t sure if Frankie was ever going to bounce back to her normal self after losing—who she thought—was her soulmate. Thankfully, we’ve seen Frankie achieve amazing things in the series’ six seasons and even find love again. Jacob was Frankie’s first love after her divorce. He was her “yam man” and grew all the yams Frankie needed for her lube....
Grace Slick had a colorful music career spanning four decades, but what is her net worth? Pioneering female rock star Grace Slick emerged onto the music scene in 1960s San Francisco when she formed the short-lived band The Great Society with her husband Jerry Slick and his brother Darby in 1965. Just a year later, The Great Society disbanded when Grace left to take up the position of Jefferson Airplane’s front-woman after the original singer Signe Toly Anderson quit....
Image by jennydeluxe Grand opening of Apple’s massive new store inside New York City’s Grand Central Station is scheduled for Friday, December 9 at 10am, but today at 10am is a “media day”. Ahead of the event, first images of the store’s interior are cropping up all over the web. UPDATE: Apple just released a press statement formally announcing the new store. The new outlet is open from 7am to 9pm, Monday through Friday, Saturday 10am to 7pm and Sunday 11am to 6pm as we reported last week....
Spider-Man villain Norman Osborn, a.k.a. the Green Goblin, would be the perfect next MCU big bad after Thanos. In 1964, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko created the Green Goblin, a formidable new nemesis for Spider-Man. According to Ditko, Lee’s original script portrayed the Goblin as an ancient, mythological demon unwitting awoken by a film crew, but Ditko took a different approach. He turned the Green Goblin into a human villain, and it didn’t take long for comic book readers to become captivated by the mystery of the Goblin’s true identity....
Take-Two Interactive announced that Grand Theft Auto 5 was the best selling game of the decade, according to figures from the NPD Group. This is not surprising considering GTA 5 received almost universal praise and acclaim, winning several Game of the Year awards in its release year while now being considered one of the best video games ever. Prior to Take-Two’s announcement, it was already known that Grand Theft Auto 5 had become the third best-selling video game in industry history....
Guild Wars 2 OS X Beta: NCsoft, developer of the popular PC MMORPG franchise “Guild Wars”, announced today that its critically acclaimed Guild Wars 2, released last month for PC, is now officially available for Mac OS X. The Mac version is available to download through the game’s account management page after purchasing the title and will initially launch in beta. While Windows players already have a jump on Mac users, the developer confirmed the beta would run on live servers to allow seamless play between Mac and PC users....
Gwent is a card game from the Witcher universe that became a playable game mode in Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt. The game became so popular, that CD Projekt Red actually developed a standalone card game, Gwent: The Witcher Card Game, which was finally released on mobile earlier this year. Gwent is a unique, free to play card game that changes many of the conventional mechanics of other games in the genre....
Apple includes three different USB-C chargers depending on the MacBook model you have. While the 61W charger is powerful enough to juice up all of Apple’s notebooks at full speed except for the 15-inch MacBook, is it still the best choice when replacing or picking up a second charger for any MacBook? Follow along for our hands-on test. Apple’s 87W USB-C charger will juice up all MacBook and MacBook Pro models at full speed....
Oscar-winning Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark writer-producer Guillermo del Toro says he is done making comic book movies. Long before snagging two Academy Awards for The Shape of Water, del Toro had already established himself as one of independent cinema’s most truly original genre directors through movies like Cronos, The Devil’s Backbone and later the widely acclaimed Pan’s Labyrinth. But of course, del Toro has also often dabbled in big budget filmmaking, with very mixed results....
In the tech equivalent of a turkey dissing Thanksgiving dinners, Corning SVP Tony Tripeny has criticized sapphire as a material for protecting phone screens, coming up with a whole list of claimed drawbacks, reports CNET. Sapphire is far more resistant to scratches than Gorilla Glass, but Corning argue that it is more likely to be smashed. Apple is expected to switch to a sapphire coating for the iPhone 6, manufacturing the material at the plant it jointly operates with GTAT in Arizona....
Now well into its fifteenth season, Grey’s Anatomy recently earned the title of the longest-running medical drama in television history. The series has certainly developed its share of some of the most iconic characters in existence. Of course, with that, the show has also produced some of the most memorable losses. Grey’s is loved for its diverse cast of characters, and the fact that their journeys always resonate with audiences....
New gameplay footage of the Half-Life prequel, Half-Life: Alyx, shows the game’s protagonist using her cool new gravity gloves in a tense fight against Combine soldiers. As the name suggests, Half-Life: Alyx will put players in control of Alyx Vance, who played a major role in Half-Life 2. Half-Life: Alyx may not be the Half-Life 3 that many players have been waiting so long for, but there’s still plenty of reason to be excited for the game....
For many Mac users, one of the top features of macOS 10.14 Mojave will be the new Home app and support for controlling HomeKit devices with Siri on the Mac. Both of these have been sorely missed in previous versions of macOS, but Mojave is finally changes things… Home app First and foremost, macOS 10.14 features a new Home app. As Apple explained on stage at WWDC, this is one of the applications it brought from iOS to macOS using new cross-platform frameworks....
On February 28, TAG member Shane Huntley published a bulletin sharing some of the unit’s latest efforts to tackle the spread of misinformation, including the removal of a coordinated campaign involving these countries – a topical issue considering the current Russia-Ukraine conflict. The influence operation was terminated in January, prior to the start of the conflict, but at a time when tensions between Russia and Ukraine was rising due to the presence of Russian troops at Ukraine’s border....
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fpBEcpw3wqA] It appears that Apple isn’t satisfied with the progress on the Grand Central Apple Store and is postponing the opening at least a week perhaps more. Clearly, Apple would have preferred to have another huge venue open for Black Friday but we’ve been told by a GC Apple employee today that they’ve been told to continue working at other New York Area Apple Stores during Black Friday weekend. Last weekend, a group of employees was told that the opening announcement was scheduled for today and Apple was going to try to open for Black Friday....
Grey’s Anatomy has been on the air since 2005. Throughout fifteen seasons, it has captivated audiences and been a constant in several viewers’ lives. The series is the longest-running medical drama on TV and overall, one of the most famous shows ever. Everybody knows of Grey’s Anatomy, even if they haven’t actually seen it. This series is completely iconic, and still manages to be extremely successful, even after many of the original main characters have long since been written out of the show....
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Warning: SPOILERS for Guardians of the Galaxy #2 The Guardians of the Galaxy are proving themselves bigger than any one leader or roster of crew members in their new Marvel Comic. The bad news is Star-Lord has demonstrated that point by sneaking away from his friends to form a new team. Thankfully, they have recruited the strongest of the Olympian gods… just in time to watch Star-Lord die. Those who have missed the first two issues of the new Guardians of the Galaxy series may only know realize how much has happened, as Al Ewing and Juann Cabal have hit the ground running....
