‘Freakier Friday’ reunites Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis after 22 years
Nisha Ganatra, who just made a sequel of the 2003’s popular film Freaky Friday, has already teased the third sequel.
The second entry released globally in theatres on August 8 and following its release, the creator has shared her thoughts on a third film.
During a chat with Screen Rant, Nisha was asked if she would make a follow-up movie by the name Freakiest Friday.
She responded saying, “Freakiest Friday… What would it be? I mean, more swaps, right? Probably a six-way swap.”
Ganatra’s response gave a hint that she might have liked the idea and title. She further added, “We’d definitely have Manny Jacinto and Chad Michael Murray switching places. We all need that!”
The 2025 comedy film reunites Lindsay Lohan, Jamie Lee Curtis, Mark Harmon and Ryan Malgarini after 22 years.
Freakier Friday continues the story after two decades where Lohan’s character Anna’s blended family faces new challengers.
Anna and Tess, played by Curtis, discover their past may be repeating the with the next generation.
Ganatra’s directed film also marks as Lindsay’s first major project after her break.
New infant-friendly formulation closes a critical treatment gap for the youngest children, with support from African-led trials and global partners.
Addis Ababa, 16 August 2025 – The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) welcomes the approval of the first malaria treatment specifically formulated for newborns and infants weighing less than five kilogrammes — a major advance in closing a critical gap in care for Africa’s youngest and most vulnerable.
Africa CDC commends the eight Member States — Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda — whose participation in clinical trials was instrumental in achieving this milestone. Their leadership underscores Africa’s growing role in driving health innovation and ensuring that no child is left behind.
The new artemether-lumefantrin formulation for children was developed through a partnership between Novartis and the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), under the PAMAfrica consortium, with co-funding from the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.
Swiss drug regulators have approved the formulation, and rapid approvals are expected from the eight African countries under the Swiss agency’s Marketing Authorisation for Global Health Products procedure.
Until now, no approved treatment existed for infants under five kilogrammes. These children were often given modified doses of medicines for older children, raising the risk of overdose and toxicity. This new formulation offers a safe, effective, and infant-friendly option — dissolvable in breast milk and with a sweet flavour to ease administration.
Novartis plans to introduce the treatment on a primarily not-for-profit basis, aiming to increase access in malaria-endemic regions, where nearly 30 million babies are born each year.
“The approval of the treatment is a major step forward in the fight against malaria. It ensures that even the smallest and most vulnerable infants now have access to safe and effective treatment,” said Africa CDC Director General Dr Jean Kaseya.
This collaborative achievement exemplifies Africa’s commitment to accelerating access to essential health innovations.
“The approval of the new malaria treatment demonstrates the impact of Africa-led collaboration in delivering health solutions where they’re needed most,” said Dr Ngashi Ngongo, Principal Advisor to the Africa CDC Director General and Head of the Mpox Incident Management Support Team.
Africa CDC will continue to support Member States in integrating the new formulation into national health systems by:
Expediting regulatory approvals through harmonised mechanisms.
Updating clinical guidelines and training health workers on safe use.
Strengthening surveillance and operational research to monitor safety and impact.
Ensuring equitable access, especially in rural and underserved areas, including through local manufacturing and the African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation (APPM).
For Africa CDC, ensuring that every child — regardless of weight or location — can access effective malaria treatment remains a top priority.
“By making smart investments, implementing well-targeted policies, and deepening collaboration, we can ensure that all African countries become malaria-free within the coming generation,” Dr Kaseya said.
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Republished on August 16 with Microsoft’s new 60-day warning.
Microsoft has now issued its free update offer to millions more Windows 10 users. After this mandatory update to KB5063709, you should see the option to “Enroll in Extended Support Updates,” which will run until October 2026.
Per Windows Latest, “there’s a new Enroll Now link inside the Windows Update page.” You still have several options to extend security support, including paying $30 which could cover as many as 10 PCs on a single account. Most users will opt for the free update offer though, linking the ESU to their Microsoft account and OneDrive.
Microsoft confirmed this was coming back in July, blogging that “individuals will begin to see an enrollment wizard through notifications and in Settings, making it simple to select the best option for you and enroll in ESU directly from your personal Windows 10 PC.” As Windows Latest confirms, “more users should see the toggle” after this update.
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“We understand that moving to a new PC can take time,” Microsoft says, “and we’re here to support you throughout the process. The Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program is designed to keep your current Windows 10 PC protected after support ends—helping you stay secure during the transition.”
“If you weren’t seeing the option to extend updates earlier,” Windows Latest explains, “you should try looking again after today’s update.” It hasn’t all been smooth sailing for the well-publicized ESU enrollment wizard. Some users reported “immediately crashes” when it’s clicked. This was a central Microsoft issue that is now fixed.
It’s not all good news — at least not for Microsoft. Because “all activated licenses of Windows 10 are eligible for ESU,” the accelerating progress that was being made pushing Windows 10 holdouts to switch has shifted into a sharp reverse.
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A month ago we heralded Windows 11’s achievement in finally overtaking Windows 10 after years of frustration. It did seem that the flip would continue all the way through to the 250 million or so PCs ineligible for the upgrade. But that’s not to be.
The data behind this stats is illustrative — certainly not an exact science. But it’s the same data that tracked the slow upgrade numbers through the last few years and the accelerating momentum this year. The irony is that the extended support induced reversal comes just after Windows 11 finally achieved its market milestone.
As I warned might happen, this free ESU u-turn has triggered a reversal in Windows 11’s recent fortunes, at least according to Statcounter’s indicative data. And while it’s still marginally head of its retiring sibling, Windows 11 is moving in the wrong direction. A free ESU is laudable, but it should have been limited to PCs that cannot upgrade.
Windows 10 Vs Windows 11.
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Right now, it seems we may just have delayed a cliff edge, meaning we all get to go again next summer with the upgrade nags and cybersecurity warnings. We will know more over the coming weeks, but Windows 10 could be about to reclaim its crown.
Meanwhile, it’s not just Windows 10 users who must act now to ensure they maintain critical security updates on their PCs. Per Windows Latest, “Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 version 23H2 will reach end of support on November 11, 2025.”
This should not come as a surprise, with the Windows-maker simply following its “standard 24-month lifecycle for consumer editions.”
“Still on Windows 11 23H2?” PC World says. “Act soon! Your update deadline is almost here.” If you don’t act, “starting November 11th, 2025, regular security updates will no longer be available for Windows 11 23H2, leaving unupgraded systems vulnerable to cyber attacks. Millions of users worldwide are likely to be affected.”
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Just as with Windows 10 users who don’t select an ESU option or upgrade to Windows 11, if you miss the deadline then security updates will just stop. “You will need to move to Windows 11 version 24H2 or the upcoming 25H2 to stay supported.”
Microsoft has now issued a 60-day warning for Windows 10 users. “On October 14, 2025, Windows 10, version 22H2 (Home, Pro, Enterprise, Education, and IoT Enterprise editions) will reach end of servicing. October 14, 2025 will also mark the end of support for Windows 10 2015 LTSB and Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSB 2015.”
The company confirms that “the October 2025 monthly security update will be the last update available for these versions. After this date, devices running these versions will no longer receive monthly security and preview updates containing protections from the latest security threats.” Put more simply, do not let your PC fall off support.
Microsoft has also reiterated its support offer. “As we shared last October, for the first time ever, you can enroll your personal Windows 10 PC in the ESU program and receive critical and important monthly security updates after support ends in October.” Now the offer has been issued to more users, we await any data on take-up.
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But upgrading remains its primary push. “As always, we recommend that you update your devices to the latest version of Windows 11.” And Windows 10 users can expect constant nags through the next year, regardless of the ESU in place.
There are around 700 million users still on Windows 10, of which perhaps 250 million cannot upgrade. As one Forbes reader commented on the ESU offer, “the landfills can breathe a sigh of relief for one more year,” and there’s certainly something in that.
While the recently filed lawsuit in California demanding Microsoft extend free support until the ~50% Windows 10 market share dwindles down to below 10%, there’s little chance a court will interfere in well-published product lifecycles. The real question now is whether this extra year does take those Windows 10 numbers down so materially that we stop talking about the cybersecurity cliff edge that needs to be avoided.
There are some red flags, sure. But I like four good points I found in what this incredibly popular musician (and her popular boyfriend) has to say.
I enjoyed Taylor Swift’s appearance on New Heights, the podcast of former Eagles Center Jason Kelce and his brother Travis Kelce, Taylor’s boyfriend. How could I not? I love my local Kansas City Chiefs and I’m on record in the new issue of Word on Fire’s Evangelization and Culture diving deep into Taylor Swift’s songs.
I have learned from Benedictine College’s Tory Baucum to be “in love with human love,” including the love of Taylor and Travis, so I was alert for the “green flags” they identified in their relationship.
There were red flags, too
As I’ve said before, Catholic parents are hyper-aware of both the good and bad ways Taylor Swift can influence our daughters. There was plenty of good influence in the interview, especially in Swift’s discussion of how she reclaimed her intellectual property.
But her bad influence was there too.
Swift embraces the coarsening of the culture. It was unfortunate to see Travis Kelce drop F-bombs with an aw-shucks grin, and Swift resorting to profanity too, as her music often does. As I tell my kids: Those are cop-out words that substitute shock for meaning while normalizing obscenity.
Swift embraces “witchcraft chic.” Taylor celebrates the “witchy” performance she gives to the song Willow, in a black cloak with a shining orb. She clearly sees it as spooky in a Halloween kind of way, something to have fun with like her version of “numerology.” But witchcraft is real, and really bad.
Swift also embraces the music industry’s sexual double standard. She shares the cover of her coming album “Life of a Showgirl” in the interview and, like her Eras Tour, it reinforces the terrible double standard in pop music, where men are expected to show off their musicianship and women are expected to show off their bodies. This deeply undercuts all the gains she makes for female artists.
But the “green flags” are also real
She mentions the first: Travis’ friends.
At her first NFL game, the friends in Kelce’s NFL suite impressed Taylor — not because they were famous, but because they weren’t.
“A huge green flag is that Travis has had the same friends since he’s probably four years old. He’s incredibly good at maintaining friendships and he’s so loyal,” she said.
She and Travis both praise Taylor’s dad, Scott Swift, for that same dedication to friendship.
It was friendship that brought Travis and Taylor together, in fact. When the football player, famously, announced on the podcast that he wanted to date Taylor, a number of his friends reached out to her friends to vouch for him — including Kansas City Chiefs Coach Andy Reid reaching out to Scott Swift.
The second green flag is one Travis mentions about Taylor: Her normalcy.
When Travis invited her to an NFL game, “We walked right in through general admission and rode with everybody on the bus to the game.”
Taylor Swift in this podcast is the Queen of Normal. A long portion of the podcast is concerned with Taylor Swift’s hobbies: Sewing and baking.
“I like to sew. I specialize, as you know, in children’s purses and baby blankets.”
She also bakes and is currently on a sour dough kick which (another green flag) Travis joins her in.
It was also refreshing to see the two show great familiarity with each others’ families — including charming stories about Taylor interacting with Jason’s children.
The third green flag is one Taylor mentions about Travis: He is open and accepting.
The way she puts it is “It’s a green flag that he’s not threatened by other guys.” But it shows up again and again.
Taylor knew next to nothing about pro football when they started dating. She jokes that she assumed every player played both defense and offense, for instance.
It was nice to see how easily Travis shrugged off her mistake. “I mean, that’s how you played on the playground growing up …” he says, rising to her defense. She also leaps to Travis’ defense at several points.
It’s refreshing to see the dynamic between them as “outdoing one another in showing honor” with their teasing instead of criticizing.
A fourth green flag is their attitude toward social media and the press.
It was refreshing to see how the two ignore media.
“I’m not an online person at all,” Swift said. “Anything you feed your brain it will internalize,” she added. “Anything you feed the internet it will kill.”
She fully recognizes that in news stories, “my name can be in the actual headline and it can still be none of my business.”
Travis learned to “grow up fast” by seeing how indifferent to media Taylor is, and Taylor learned from Travis’ ability to laugh off crazy things about the two they read.
“Information is power, I guess, unless all of your information is geared towards you thinking that everything is about you. … If your algorithm is giving you either criticisms of yourself or adulation or praise, you’re creating an ecosystem in which you’re the centerpiece of the table — and I just don’t think that’s healthy.”
In the age of the smartphone, that’s advice everyone should follow.
Alice Capsey whacked her second half-century in this year’s edition of The Hundred as Oval Invincibles eased to a 40-run victory over winless Welsh Fire.
Capsey’s 55 off 34 balls featured seven fours and one six as she provided the backbone of the Invincibles’ imposing total of 150-6.
It was the 21-year-old’s second fifty in as many matches following a lean run which had seen her score just one half-century in her past 32 T20 or Hundred innings.
Capsey has also struggled in England colours this summer with five single-figure scores in six T20 international innings, but this was another outing brimming with confident strokeplay.
It was almost a shock when Capsey was out – the crowd stunned when she was dismissed caught and bowled by Shabnim Ismail, who bagged 2-31.
Marizanne Kapp took over where Capsey left off and boosted the total with an unbeaten 47 off 32 balls while Hayley Matthews bowled tightly to collect 2-18.
Set the highest chase in the women’s tournament at The Oval – and the fourth highest overall – Fire lost the dangerous Matthews early on for 12.
Sophia Dunkley carried the charge and looked well poised to make a fist of it with a knock of 56 off 41 balls.
But when she chipped Sophia Smale into the hands of Phoebe Franklin at long-off with the score on 90-6 and 29 balls Fire’s hopes were effectively extinguished.
Capsey also impressed with the ball, finishing with 2-16, as Fire were bowled out for 111 with Smale the pick of the attack after she snaffled 3-13.
Invincibles’ win lifts them up a place to fourth spot, level on eight points with fifth-placed Manchester Originals, while Fire are bottom on zero.
Lucky Motor Corporation has opened bookings for the Peugeot 2008, a locally assembled compact SUV now available in two variants, Active and Allure, with flexible installment options.
Features and Equipment
Both variants are powered by a 1.2-liter turbocharged PureTech engine producing 131 hp and 230 Nm of torque, paired with a 6-speed automatic transmission. The Active trim includes essential features such as LED daytime running lights, rear parking sensors, cruise control, and a 7-inch touchscreen infotainment system supporting Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.
The Allure variant offers additional features, including a panoramic sunroof, six airbags, automatic climate control, blind-spot monitoring, lane-keeping assist, and a 10-inch digital instrument cluster. Both models come equipped with Peugeot’s signature 3D i-Cockpit design.
The company has introduced a limited-time installment plan with 50% down payment and monthly installments over 18 months. This offer is available through select dealerships, including Peugeot Metropolis in Islamabad.
Pricing and Payment Schedule
Variant
Price (PKR)
50% Down Payment
18 Monthly Installments
Active
7,249,000
3,624,500
201,362
Allure
8,049,000
4,024,500
223,584
Terms and conditions apply. Prices may vary depending on the dealership and availability.
Availability
Bookings are now open nationwide. The installment plan is designed to make ownership more accessible amid rising vehicle costs. Deliveries will be managed based on stock availability at the time of booking.
Modern technology brings convenience, but it also opens new doors for surveillance. Smartphones, once trusted as private communication devices, now pose risks that go beyond hacking or data breaches – their internal vibrations can actually expose what’s being said during a call.
This possibility prompted researchers to explore how silent signals might still give away conversations. The results highlight both the advances of science and the fragile balance between technological innovation and personal privacy.
A new surveillance concern
A new form of surveillance called “wireless-tapping” is raising questions about phone call security. Researchers at Penn State demonstrated that it is possible to transcribe phone conversations by detecting tiny vibrations from a cellphone’s earpiece.
Using radar measurements taken up to three meters away, they achieved transcription accuracy of about 60% when dealing with a vocabulary of 10,000 words. While still imperfect, the findings highlight potential risks for personal privacy in the digital age.
This study builds on earlier work in 2022, where the team used radar sensors and recognition software to identify specific words, letters, and numbers with up to 83% accuracy.
Capturing phone vibrations with radar
“When we talk on a cellphone, we tend to ignore the vibrations that come through the earpiece and cause the whole phone to vibrate,” said first author Suryoday Basak, doctoral candidate in computer science from Pennsylvania State University.
“If we capture these same vibrations using remote radars and bring in machine learning to help us learn what is being said, using context clues, we can determine whole conversations. By understanding what is possible, we can help the public be aware of the potential risks.”
Basak and his adviser, Professor Mahanth Gowda, used a millimeter-wave radar sensor similar to those in self-driving cars and 5G networks. The goal was to anticipate how such tools could be misused, even though their current setup was only experimental.
To interpret the vibrations, they customized “Whisper,” an open-source AI-powered speech recognition model, to process radar data into readable transcriptions.
Wireless tapping with AI adaptation
“Over the last three years, there’s been a huge explosion in AI capabilities and open-source speech recognition models,” Basak said.
“We can use these models, but they are catered more toward clean speech or everyday use cases, so we have to adapt them to recognize low quality, ‘noisy’ radar data.”
Instead of retraining Whisper entirely, they used a technique called low-rank adaptation. This method let them fine-tune only about one percent of the model’s parameters for radar-specific data.
By doing so, the researchers made the system more effective without requiring massive computing resources.
Phone vibrations to transcriptions
To test their approach, the team placed a millimeter-wave radar sensor a few feet away from a phone while speech played back through the earpiece.
The radar captured surface vibrations, and the AI system transformed these signals into text with about 60% accuracy.
The accuracy improved further when context-based manual corrections were applied, such as adjusting predicted phrases with prior knowledge of the conversation.
“The result was transcriptions of conversations, with an expectation of some errors, which was a marked improvement from our 2022 version, which outputs only a few words,” Gowda said. “But even picking up partial matches for speech, such as keywords, are useful in a security context.”
Comparisons to lip reading
The researchers compared their model to lip reading, where people interpret about 30% to 40% of spoken words. By combining partial recognition with contextual knowledge, meaningful understanding can still emerge.
“Similar to how lip readers can use limited information to interpret conversations, the output of our model combined with contextual information can allow us to infer parts of a phone conversation from a few meters away,” Basak said.
“The goal of our work was to explore whether these tools could potentially be used by bad actors to eavesdrop on phone conversations from a distance.”
“Our findings suggest that this is technically feasible under certain conditions, and we hope this raises public awareness so people can be more mindful during sensitive calls.”
The research received support from the U.S. National Science Foundation.
The team presented the study at the Proceedings of WiSec 2025: 18th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks.
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Lionel Messi is ready to return for Inter Miami when they host the Los Angeles Galaxy in a Major League Soccer clash that will launch a key stretch for the Florida club, coach Javier Mascherano said Friday.
Following Saturday’s Galaxy match, Miami plays Mexican club Tigres UANL on Wednesday in the Leagues Cup quarter-finals.
“Leo is doing well,” Mascherano told reporters on Friday before training. “He has been training with the team since Wednesday. Unless something strange happens during today’s training session, we think he’ll be available for tomorrow’s game.”
Eight-time Ballon d’Or winner Messi suffered a “minor muscle injury,” apparently a hamstring strain, in the 11th minute of Inter’s August 2 Leagues Cup match against Necaxa.
The 38-year-old Argentine superstar returns as the Herons vie to bounce back from a humbling 4-1 loss to Orlando City last weekend.
Inter have slipped to sixth in the MLS Eastern Conference with 42 points — nine behind leaders Philadelphia but with three matches in hand.
Messi, the reigning MLS Most Valuable Player, leads the Golden Boot race with 18 goals and nine assists in 18 games.
Miami will be favored at home against the Galaxy, who are the defending MLS Cup champions but have sunk to last place with the league’s worst record.
The Galaxy, however, did qualify for the Leagues Cup quarter-finals, and Mascherano cautioned that Miami can’t afford to take them lightly.
“For me, they’re a team in which the MLS standings don’t reflect their quality, especially the quality of their players,” Mascherano said.
“The reality is that maybe they didn’t start the season well because of injuries and different situations. But they’ve improved a lot over the last few months.”
Warzone is no stranger to promoting whatever the next Call of Duty title is, and following the Season 5 update, players have been discovering a ton of material linked to Black Ops 7. The upcoming title will reportedly arrive sometime in November, and in the run-up to its release, you can expect to see easter eggs and events themed around the game. For the time being, the devs have added a brand-new XM4 blueprint that comes with tracers and is completely free to obtain. With this in mind, here’s how you can unlock the ‘Prismatic’ XM4 blueprint in Warzone.
How to Get ‘Prismatic’ XM4 Blueprint in Warzone
Image Credit: Activision/Warzone (screenshot by Aryan Singh/Beebom)
Image Credit: Activision/Warzone (screenshot by Aryan Singh/Beebom)
Image Credit: Activision/Warzone (screenshot by Aryan Singh/Beebom)
To get the secret XM4 blueprint, you’ll need to locate special Red Butterfly Loot Crates in Verdansk, open them, and collect 30 Red Butterflies. These loot crates spawn near specific POIs during a match, and their locations are randomized. You can identify them via the distinct red mist emanating from the crates.
Once you open them, you’ll trigger a hallucination sequence where you’ll be able to spot Red Butterfly trails. Follow these trails until the hallucination ends to collect the butterflies. It’ll take multiple matches, but eventually, you’ll be able to collect the 30 Red Butterflies required to complete this hidden objective. After you meet the target, you’ll receive an on-screen message notifying you of your brand-new XM4 blueprint.
All Red Butterfly Loot Crate Locations in Warzone
Image Credit: Activision/Map Genie (edited by Aryan Singh/Beebom)
As you can see in the image above, most Red Butterfly Loot Crates are located near POIs. While their exact spawn locations are randomized in every match, they will always spawn outside or on top of a building, and never indoors. Moreover, only one of these loot crates spawns at a given location in every match, meaning you might have to visit multiple spots to progress the objective.
Considering this objective can be accomplished solo, we recommend pursuing it in Battle Royale Casual. This way, you’ll be likely to run into enemy resistance. And if you haven’t earned them already, we also suggest collecting the three Stadium easter egg blueprints before they expire.
That wraps up our guide on how to get the ‘Prismatic’ XM4 blueprint in Warzone. Are you surprised that the skin is available for free? Be sure to let us know in the comments.
Aryan Singh
A massive gaming nerd who’s been writing stuff on the internet since 2021, Aryan covers single-player games, RPGs, and live-service titles such as Marvel Rivals and Call of Duty: Warzone. When he isn’t clacking away at his keyboard, you’ll find him firing up another playthrough of Fallout: New Vegas.
