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Saturday Night Live is preparing for its milestone 50th season this fall on the 2024 TV schedule, and it’s still baffling to me what happens behind the scenes. Since the variety sketch series is of course live, anything can happen. That also accounts for what goes on when it comes to quick changes and getting ready for the next sketch, as an SNL creative shared a story from when Emma Stone hosted.

The Poor Things actress marked a major milestone with her most recent guest hosting gig, joining the elite Five-Timers Club last December. Hair department head Jodi Mancuso and makeup department head Louie Zakarian spoke to Variety about some of the behind-the-scenes secrets for Season 49 of SNL, including one particular sketch involving Stone.

In February, the decentralized cryptocurrency exchange FixedFloat experienced a drainer attack, resulting in the loss of over $26 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH). By late March, the exchange suffered a second exploit, leading to an additional loss of $2.8 million.

A few months later, FixedFloat shared the details of these incidents and ongoing investigation with BeInCrypto.

FixedFloat has been hacked twice this year. How did this happen?

The first hack occurred on the night of February 16-17. This was an external attack caused by vulnerabilities in our security structure. A hacker exploited a vulnerability in our security and was able to gain access to some of FixedFloat’s functions. The second breach took place on March 31, where the hacker exploited a…

A video of Vladimir Putin appears to show the Russian president ignoring King Charles at an event. 

The clip, which has been widely shared on Facebook and X (formerly Twitter), shows President Putin walking into what appears to be an auditorium and shaking hands with French president Emmanuel Macron, while ignoring or failing to notice King Charles beside him. 

But this short clip, which has been edited to emphasise the moment President Macron appears shocked at President Putin apparently ignoring the King, doesn’t tell the full story. 

In the full clip, taken at a meeting of the World Holocaust Forum, President Putin goes back to shake King Charles’ hand after appearing to miss the fact he was sitting beside President Macron. 

The clip also dates back to…

While flying to SC23 (the 2023 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis) in Denver, Patrick Kennedy from Serve The Home had a chance encounter with a man on the plane who shared an intriguing story about Blizzard‘s decision to auction off its servers to fans.

World of Warcraft launched in November 2004 and was hugely popular – and even now boasts over a million daily logins. Each player’s character is tied to a specific realm, requiring servers that track the state of all players and NPCs continuously.