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• Google TV has revealed its most-watched movies and TV shows of 2024
• The most-watched movie is Road House and the most-watched TV show is Shōgun
• Other movies and TV shows that made the list include Deadpool and Wolverine and Fallout

We've all had the experience of switching on the TV and struggling to find something to watch. Well, Google TV has come to the rescue with its most-watched movies and TV shows of 2024 list, which I'm sure will spark some ideas for your next movie night.

Google TV is a great app for amalgamating all the best streaming services out there, as it allows you to access all kinds of movies and TV shows all in one place. From streaming services to live TV, Google TV has it all if you've signed up to those services. As the year comes to an end, Google has revealed the most-watched movies and TV shows across its apps in 2024, which makes for a great list of this year's top entertainment.

If you're looking for a good action thriller for your movie night, then you're in luck with Google TV's most-watched movie Road House. The Prime Video remake of the 1989 classic features Jake Gyllenhaal as ex-UFC fighter Dalton. Taking the title of the most-watched show of 2024 is one of the best Hulu series, Shōgun. The ancient Japanese epic currently sits at 99% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Google's 2024 greatest hits feature some of the biggest shows of this year from the likes of Apple TV Plus and Disney Plus. As well as blockbuster hits, which cover a wide variety of genres whether you fancy some action thrills or belly laughs. You can find the "Best of 2024" list on your Google TV device or through the mobile app, but to make it easier, we've put the full list of most-watched movies and TV shows below as reported by 9 to 5 Google.

Most-watched movies of 2024 on Google TV

Deadpool and Wolverine is one of the most-watched movies on Google TV. (Image credit: Marvel Studios)

• Road House
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• The Idea of You
• Descendants: The Rise of Red
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
• Inside Out 2
• IF
• Dune: Part 2
• Mean Girls (2024)
• Despicable Me 4
• Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
• The Fall Guy
• Wolfs
• Civil War
• A Quiet Place: Day One
• Kung Fu Panda 4
• The Instigators
• Twisters
• Monkey Man
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Bad Boys: Ride or Die
• Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• The Garfield Movie
• The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Most-watched TV shows of 2024 on Google TV

Hit Prime Video show Fallout makes the most-watched TV shows list. (Image credit: JoJo Whilden/Prime Video)

• Shōgun
• Fallout
• House of the Dragon
• The Bear
• Bluey
• Tracker
• Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV
• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
• Bad Monkey
• Agatha All Along
• Reacher
• True Detective
• High Potential
• Presumed Innocent
• The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard
• Yellowstone
• Saturday Night Live
• Masters of the Air
• Love Island: USA
• Spongebob Squarepants
• Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up
• 911
• The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
• Young Sheldon

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There are plenty of great things coming to Max in the months ahead and one of the world's best streaming services has just given us a taste of two such projects, albeit very different ones, in the form of two new trailers.

Winter is the perfect time to dive into some great new movies and shows, and Max is encouraging you to do exactly that. Whether or not these new titles will make it onto our best Max shows and best Max movies list remains a mystery, but I really hope that's the case!

Personally, I'm very intrigued by both of them. The first is Juror #2, which is reportedly the final film in legendary actor-turned-director Clint Eastwood's decades-long career. Having loved his previous work as a director on films like Gran Torino, I'm very excited to see this one. The other is a potentially thrilling new medical drama called The Pitt, and fans of the long-running ER will be excited to see a familiar face onboard!

Juror #2

Streaming date: December 20

If you love legal thrillers, Clint Eastwood's got you covered with his latest movie. Here, we follow Justin Kemp, a journalist called up for jury duty who realizes that he may be responsible for the victim's death.

Nicholas Hoult leads the cast and is joined by some great names, including Toni Collette, J. K. Simmons, and Kiefer Sutherland. Gabriel Basso stars here, too, ahead of his return in The Night Agent season 2, which will debut on Netflix early next year. So, if you're in the mood for a good legal story and an ensemble cast, don't miss Juror #2 when it arrives on Max.

The Pitt

Streaming date: January 2025 (date TBC)

Here's one for the medical fans. ER star Noah Wyle is back in the hospital once again, where he's leading the cast of a 15-episode series that's streaming sometime in January. Produced by ER and The West Wing's John Wells, the series is “a realistic examination of the challenges facing healthcare workers in today’s America as seen through the lens of the frontline heroes working in a modern-day hospital in Pittsburgh.”

It's filmed in an interesting way, too, with the entire first season taking place across a single 15-hour emergency room shift. Each hour-long episode will represent real time, then, which feels very 24-esque, and that's no bad thing!

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• CISA updates advisory on BianLian, originally published in May 2024
• Agency claims the group is moving away from deploying the encryptor
• Instead, BianLian exfiltrates sensitive data and threatens to release it

The infamous BianLian ransomware group has stopped deploying an encryptor on victim devices, and now focuses exclusively on data exfiltration, an updated security advisory from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and partner agencies has warned.

CISA, alongside the FBI and Australian Cyber Security Centre, first published an in-depth report on BianLian in May 2024 as part of its #StopRansomware effort, detailing the group’s techniques, tactics, and procedures, but this has now been updated with new information, including the changes to the group’s modus operandi.

As it turns out, BianLian no longer encrypts the information on the endpoints of its victims. Rather, it just steals the data, and then demands payment in exchange for not leaking it to the public.

BianLian following the trends

This is a change that the cybersecurity community has been warning about for quite some time now, and BianLian is hardly the only group that is no longer deploying the encryptor.

As it turns out, developing, maintaining, and deploying the encryption software is too tedious, too cumbersome, and too expensive. In terms of money extortion, simple data exfiltration yields the same results, anc crooks are taking notice.

The agencies also say BianLian is a Russian actor, based in the country, and with Russian affiliates. If the name threw you off, and made you think the group is likely Chinese (or elsewhere in the far East, for that) - that is intentional.

“The reporting agencies are aware of multiple ransomware groups, like BianLian, that seek to misattribute location and nationality by choosing foreign-language names, almost certainly to complicate attribution efforts,” the report claims.

In the past, the group was observed targeting organizations in the US critical infrastructure sector, and private enterprises in Australia.

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• Earlier this week, EnergyWeaponUser shares a database, claiming it was stolen from Ford
• Ford responds by launching an investigation
• The investigation concluded that the data belonged to a third party, Ford said

Ford has denied suffering a data breach frecently, saying the information circulating around the web belongs to a third party and is, for the most part, publicly available.

A known leaker with the alias EnergyWeaponUser recently posted a new thread on BreachForums, claiming to be sharing Ford’s data for free. “Today, I have uploaded the Ford Motor Company internal database for you to download, thanks for reading and enjoy!,” the hacker said at the time.

“In November 2024, Ford Motor Company, an American multinational automobile company suffered a data breach,” the post further added. “It exposes 44k records of customer names, physical locations, bought product.”

No breach

A small sample was shared, in which hackers could find people’s names, postal addresses, country codes, customer type codes, city information, sales types, account codes, last update timestamps, and other records.

After the thread surfaced, the company confirmed looking into the allegations of data theft.

"Ford is aware and is actively investigating the allegations there has been a breach of Ford data," spokesperson Richard Binhammer told the press at the time. "Our investigation is active and ongoing."

Now, a few days later, Ford told the media that its data was secure. In a statement to BleepingComputer, the company said: “Ford’s investigation has determined that there was no breach of Ford’s systems or customer data. The matter involved a third-party supplier and a small batch of publicly available dealers’ business addresses. It is our understanding that the matter has now been resolved.”

We now wait to see EnergyWeaponUser’s response. However, given the fact that they were willing to give away such a database, lends credence to Ford’s claims. After all, all registered BreachForums members could grab the archives for eight forum credits, which is roughly two dollars.

Via BleepingComputer

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• New turntable has the stiffest Planar 3 plinth ever created
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The Rega Planar 3 turntable is an audio legend, and it's been delighting listeners since the 1970s. It's been updated a few times since then to take advantage of technological and engineering advances, and now there's a brand new version of the best-seller.

The new Rega Planar 3 RS Edition isn't just the same turntable given a lick of paint. There are some important upgrades to what was already a winning formula.

The new RS Edition, aka the Rega Special, is made with a brand new plinth that uses aluminum metal skin HPL laminate, usually reserved for the Planar 6, 8 and 10, to create what Rega says is the stiffest Planar 3 plinth it's ever made.

The dark, brushed metallic finish and high-gloss black edges certainly look stunning, but there's substance as well as style here.

What's so special about the Rega Special?

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The RS Edition comes with a custom-matched Neo MK2 PSU, each motor vibration circuit tuned to each individual motor, and that motor drives the sub platter via Rega's Reference EBLT drive belt.

The familiar RB330 tonearm is now supplied with an award-winning Nd5 moving magnet cartridge. To spec an existing Planar 3 with the same cartridge and PSU would be considerably more expensive than the RS Edition.

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