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Sherlock Holmes is only recently in the public domain (at least in full), and hoo boy, are creators going to make the most of it—there are at least three major Doyle-adjacent works streaming in 2026, and I'm probably missing a couple. Not that IP was ever much of a barrier, as evidenced by the hundreds of films, books, porn parodies, etc. released in the near-century since Arthur Conan Doyle's death. Which is all to say that Holmes is pretty resilient as a character, and, while I wouldn't have said that we need a zippy, Guy Ritchie Sherlock prequel—Young Sherlock is unique, and quite a bit of fun. It's stretching the character to nearly his breaking point, for sure, but maintaining at least a reasonable bit of respect for the canon, with a well-cast lead in Hero Fiennes Tiffin alongside Dónal Finn as Moriarty.

Here are some other entertainingly stylish period (mostly) dramas for your post-Young Sherlock viewing enjoyment.

The Artful Dodger (2023)

Artful Dodger serves as a sequel to Oliver Twist, finding Jack Dawkins (Thomas Brodie-Sangster of Queen's Gambit and Wolf Hall) having made a life for himself as a surgeon following a prison escape: Turns out those nimble fingers are good for more than just picking pockets. It's all going great until his old mentor Fagin (David Thewlis) shows up on his doorstep, using their history to nudge Jack back into helping out with criminal endeavors. Thewlis and Brodie-Sangster are well-matched in the surprising and funny series that sees Jack torn between his roguish impulses and his desire to go straight. Stream The Artful Dodger on Hulu.

The Irregulars (2021)

What sounded like a desperately unnecessary Sherlock Holmes pastiche involving the Baker Street Irregulars (led here by Bad Sisters' Thaddea Graham) layered an unexpected exploration of grief into the dark supernatural mystery at its core. Here, Watson (Royce Pierreson) hires the damaged but resourceful urchins to aid in cases involving occult activity, as well as to help track down an aging, and missing, Sherlock. Holmes angle aside, the show works as a darker, Victorian-era Stranger Things. It was canceled before its time, but comes to a reasonably satisfying conclusion. Stream The Irregulars on Netflix.

Murdoch Mysteries (2008 – )

Kicking off in 1895, the show follows Detective William Murdoch (Yannick Bisson) of the Toronto Constabulary as he and his team solve Upper Canada's most baffling crimes. The chemistry between the leads has powered the show through 19 seasons (and counting), as has the show's whimsical attitude toward historical accuracy, throwing in real-life figures and innovations into a mix that just as readily includes technology that borders on steampunk. A bit cozier, perhaps, than Young Sherlock, but sometimes that's the perfect vibe. Stream Murdoch Mysteries on Tubi.

A Thousand Blows (2025 – )

A spiritual follow-up to Peaky Blinders from that show's creator, this one goes back a bit further, to the 1880s, during which an all-female crime syndicate is running London's East End. True story! Erin Doherty stars as Mary Carr, leader of the Forty Elephants crew, specializing in shoplifting and confidence schemes. In A Thousand Blows, Mary and her gang come up against Stephen Graham's Henry "Sugar" Goodson (another real-world antihero), running an illicit bare-knuckle boxing organization. Coming between them is Hezekiah Moscow (Malachi Kirby), a recently arrived Jamaican immigrant who introduces us to this gritty world and its competing factions. Stream A Thousand Blows on Hulu.

Vienna Blood (2019 – 2024)

Vienna Blood creator and writer Steve Thompson was a screenwriter for the Benedict Cumberbatch Sherlock series, as well as for the Young Sherlock series in question, so it perhaps makes perfect sense that this Edwardian-era crime procedural has Holmes in its DNA. Matthew Beard plays Doctor Max Liebermann, a student of Sigmund Freud who's recruited, early on, by police detective Oskar Reinhardt (Jürgen Maurer) to offer up some psychological insight to the investigation of several grisly murders. Liebermann makes brilliant deductions about character traits just as Holmes does with physical evidence, just with a bit more action and serial murder. Stream Vienna Blood on PBS Passport or buy it from Prime Video.

Death Comes to Pemberley (2013)

This isn't a sexy, action-packed update to Pride and Prejudice, but puts a bit of a spin on the source genre much as Young Sherlock does. Adapted from the novel by P. D. James, one of the 20th century's most accomplished crime novelists, Pemberley finds us several years after the events of the Austen novel. Darcy (Matthew Rhys) and Lizzie (Anna Maxwell Martin) remain contentedly, if not always blissfully, married, and have arranged one of those balls for which Pemberley is famous. On the way there, Lizzie's sister and her husband George Wickham are traveling with Captain Denny. Wickham and Denny have a fight, disappear into the woods, and Denny turns up dead. Lizzie doesn't have time to get bored in her giant house—not when there's a murder to solve. Stream Death Comes to Pemberley on PBS Passport or buy it from Prime Video.

Perry Mason (2020 – 2022)

Speaking of Matthew Rhys, there's this addictive odd duck of a show that takes the Perry Mason of print, film, and television, and places him in a dark and gritty Depression-era prequel. Rhys is fabulous, naturally, as a brilliant but hard-living defense lawyer, going through a divorce while still facing trauma from the Great War. He's hired to investigate the case of a kidnapped and mutilated child, one which ends up having ties to crooked cops, local business leaders, and politicians in 1932 LA. Juliet Rylance co-stars as no-nonsense legal secretary Della Street and Tatiana Maslany as a creepy evangelist. Stream Perry Mason on HBO Max.

Monsieur Spade (2024)

An original drama from Scott Frank (The Queen's Gambit) and Tom Fontana (Homicide, Oz), Monsieur Spade finds Hammett's Sam Spade, of The Maltese Falcon fame, living a quiet life in retirement in the South of France. It's all going well for the rumpled former detective—until six nuns are brutally murdered at a nearby convent, the same convent that's been home to Sam's ward for some time. Naturally, he finds his past has caught up with him, and is forced to surrender his idyllic life in order to help uncover the complex mystery that endangers his (very few) loved ones. Clive Owen is great as the rumpled, emphysemic detective, and the story feels like a fitting sequel to the original novel. Stream Monsieur Spade on Prime Video and AMC+.

The Gentlemen (2024 – )

Theo James plays army officer and Eddie Horniman (a name mentioned as often as possible), heir to the Horniman estate (there it is again) who, upon the death of his father, is named the Duke of Halstead. He learns that dad was tied to various criminal enterprises, and that his scouse brother is millions of pounds in debt to a drug dealer. What else is the dapper, military-trained Duke to do but learn to navigate the violent underworld while looking cool? Stream The Gentlemen on Netflix.

Sherlock & Daughter (2025 – )

Even if the setup is removed from anything in the Doyle canon, this CW production offers up, probably, the most lit-accurate Holmes in the form of David Thewlis. He's broody, persnickety, and emotionally distant, which makes for all the more effective a contrast when Amelia Rojas (Blu Hunt) shows up on his doorstep following the death of her mother and a harrowing journey from California. With the real possibility that Sherlock is her father, she teams up with him to investigate an international criminal cartel and, hopefully, to find out what happened to her mother. The clever Amelia quickly takes the place of the missing Watson, though the show doesn't shy away from the challenges an Indigenous American young woman would face in Victorian London. Stream Sherlock & Daughter on HBO Max.


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Working off a single laptop screen gets limiting fast, especially when you’re juggling tabs, documents, and calls. The Mobile Pixels Duex Float 2 Pro is meant to solve that without turning your desk into a full setup, and it’s currently on sale for $279.99 on StackSocial, down from $389.99. This is a 16-inch portable monitor with a 2560x1600 resolution and a 16:10 aspect ratio, so you get more vertical space than a standard display, meaning you scroll less and see more at a glance when working on spreadsheets or editing documents. The 120Hz refresh rate also makes scrolling and general movement feel smoother than most portable monitors, which still tend to sit at 60Hz.

Instead of sitting beside your laptop, this extra monitor can sit above it, which feels more natural if you’re used to a dual-monitor desk setup. You can still use it in other ways—as a standalone display with its built-in kickstand or flipped around for presentations. It also works across macOS, Windows, Linux, and even devices like the Nintendo Switch or newer Android phones with DeX support, so it’s flexible depending on how you plan to use it.

Setup is simple: A single USB-C cable can handle both power and display, and it supports 65W pass-through charging, so you’re not sacrificing your laptop’s charging port. There’s also a mini-HDMI option if your device doesn’t support full USB-C display output.

The screen itself is good for everyday work. It’s bright enough at 350 nits, has an anti-glare coating, and covers 100% of the sRGB color gamut, so colors look accurate. Built-in speakers are there if you need them, but like most portable monitors, they’re more for convenience than quality. The monitor itself weighs about 2.9 pounds, so it’s not the lightest thing to carry, but if you often work from different places and want more screen space without committing to a fixed setup, this is a practical way to stay productive without carrying a full monitor.


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Smaller air conditioners struggle to keep up with open layouts, while larger ones can be loud and power-hungry. This LG 23,500 BTU air conditioner strikes the right balance, and it's currently on sale for $599.99 on StackSocial, which is a notable drop for a unit designed to cool spaces up to about 1,400 square feet. That capacity makes it suitable for large living rooms, open studio spaces, or offices where a smaller 8,000- or 12,000-BTU unit would run continuously and struggle to keep up. The design is still recognizably a window air conditioner, but it’s a big one, measuring about 30.7 by 17.7 by 26 inches and weighing 112 pounds, so installation should require two people and a sturdy window frame.

Unlike traditional window units, this smart window AC uses LG’s Dual Inverter compressor, which adjusts its speed based on a room's temperature. In everyday use, that means the air conditioner can maintain a steady temperature rather than blasting cold air in short bursts. It delivers 23,500 BTU of cooling power across four cooling and fan speeds, with an Auto Cool setting that automatically adjusts them. You can also change the airflow direction with four-way adjustable vents, so it isn’t limited to the area directly in front of the unit. There’s also a 3-in-1 mode system: standard cooling for hot days, a fan mode to circulate air without running the compressor, and a dry mode that focuses on pulling moisture out of the air during humid weather. Through the LG ThinQ app, you can change settings remotely from your phone, and the system also works with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant for voice commands—useful if the AC is installed in a hard-to-reach window or you want to turn it on before walking into the room. That said, one practical detail to check before buying is the power requirement—this model runs on a 230-volt outlet, which not every home window setup already has.

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After linking the Axios npm supply chain attack to North Korean hackers, Google researchers warned that “hundreds of thousands of stolen secrets could potentially be circulating” as a result of this and the Trivy, KICS, LiteLLM, and Telnyx supply chain attacks (linked to TeamPCP).

“This could enable further software supply chain attacks, software as a service (SaaS) environment compromises (leading to downstream customer compromises), ransomware and extortion events, and cryptocurrency theft over the near term,” they added.

TeamPCP exploits stolen secrets for cloud intrusions

Google-owned cloud security company Wiz has responded to multiple attacks being carried out by TeamPCP.

“[The Wiz Customer Incident Response Team (CIRT)] saw indications in Cloud, Code, and Runtime evidence that the credentials and secrets stolen in the supply chain compromises were quickly validated and used to explore victim [cloud] environments and exfiltrate additional data,” they said.

“While the speed at which they were used suggests that it was the work of the same threat actors responsible for the supply chain operations, we are not able to rule out the secrets being shared with other groups and used by them.”

Tech firm OwnCloud stated last week that it had been affected by the Trivy compromise and their ability to ship new builds of and patches for their software solutions “is temporarily suspended.”

Mercor, a startup that connects human experts with companies building AI, confirmed on Wednesday that it was affected by the LiteLLM supply chain attack.

The company said it is “one of thousands of companies” impacted and its security team and third-party forensics experts are still investigating the incident.

Though the Lapsus$ cyber extortion group claimed to have accessed the company’s databases and source code, Mercor has yet to disclose the extent of the impact/breach.

The connection between TeamPCP and Lapsus$ has been documented. Evidence from Lapsus$’s Telegram channel indicates they had prior knowledge of TeamPCP’s planned supply chain attacks.

TeamPCP has also apparently partnered with the Vect ransomware-as-a-service operation, and is professedly working on spinning up its own RaaS program called CipherForce.

Axios compromise affected organizations around the world

Axios is one of the most widely used JavaScript libraries out there, and the Axios npm supply chain compromise is expected to have a widespread impact.

“With over 100 million weekly downloads across both [affected] branches [of Axios npm], the blast radius of a three-hour compromise window is significant,” Tenable researchers noted.

Palo Alto Networks reports that this supply chain compromise has affected organizations across the US, Europe, Middle East, South Asia and Australia, operating in a variety of industries: financial services, high-tech, retail, professional and legal services, insurance, higher education, customers service, and more.

The attack resulted in a remote access trojan being installed on Windows, macOS and Linux systems, allowing operators to perform system reconnaissance and drop and execute additional binary payloads and commands.

The North Korean group (UNC1069) behind the Axios breach is known for using social engineering to trick people – especially in crypto, DeFi, software, and VC firms – into installing malware, which matches how the Axios maintainer said his system was compromised.

Historically, they have been financially motivated.

“While UNC1069 has had a smaller impact on cryptocurrency heists compared to other groups like UNC4899 in 2025, it remains an active threat targeting centralized exchanges and both entities and individuals for financial gain,” Mandiant researchers noted earlier this year.

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This is for new routers; you don’t have to throw away your existing ones:

The Executive Branch determination noted that foreign-produced routers (1) introduce “a supply chain vulnerability that could disrupt the U.S. economy, critical infrastructure, and national defense” and (2) pose “a severe cybersecurity risk that could be leveraged to immediately and severely disrupt U.S. critical infrastructure and directly harm U.S. persons.”

More information:

Any new router made outside the US will now need to be approved by the FCC before it can be imported, marketed, or sold in the country.

In order to get that approval, companies manufacturing routers outside the US must apply for conditional approval in a process that will require the disclosure of the firm’s foreign investors or influence, as well as a plan to bring the manufacturing of the routers to the US.

Certain routers may be exempted from the list if they are deemed acceptable by the Department of Defense or the Department of Homeland Security, the FCC said. Neither agency has yet added any specific routers to its list of equipment exceptions.

[…]

Popular brands of router in the US include Netgear, a US company, which manufactures all of its products abroad.

One exception to the general absence of US-made routers is the newer Starlink WiFi router. Starlink is part of Elon Musk’s company SpaceX.

Presumably US companies will start making home routers, if they think this policy is stable enough to plan around. But they will be more expensive than routers made in China or Taiwan. Security is never free, but policy determines who pays for it.


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Over the past few years, the Chinese-made Boox Palma e-reader has gained a cult following in the U.S. for its phone-like form factor, Android compatibility, and less-addictive grayscale screen—I've personally credited it with helping me spend more time reading and less time scrolling on my iPhone. But as much as I love it, I do still always need to carry my phone with me, because the Palma—even the newer Palma 2 Pro with mobile data—just isn't a good match for many of the tasks I use my phone for, including navigation and tap-to-pay.

Soon, though, there may be a dual-purpose device that will serve both masters. Bigme, another Chinese tech company best known for its e-ink devices like e-readers and digital notebooks, has announced plans to produce a smartphone with two displays—an LCD screen on one side, and a color e-ink screen on the other.

The "world's first" color e-ink/LCD smartphone

This new phone doesn't yet have a price tag or a release date, but it does have a placeholder product page on the Bigme website, which promises the "Hibreak Dual" will be the "world's first color e-ink + LCD = dual-screen smartphone." The company has also posted cryptic comments on Reddit, encouraging you to "reserve your front-row seat" by signing up for more information about the device when it becomes available.

While the tech sounds intriguing, I have some reservations. It's true that Bigme has a track record with e-ink smartphones—it has made a few of them, including the Hibreak Pro, which is generally recognized as the best e-ink smartphone in a (very) niche market. But I've tried it, and it has the same problem that plagues Bigme's e-readers: absolutely horrendous software. I imagine the "Hibreak Dual" will use a similar OS, with the added technical hurdle that it will have to be optimized for two display formats. So my interest is piqued, but I'm skeptical the user experience will be good enough to actually make me consider ditching iOS.

Though there are no indication of what it might cost, the Hibreak Dual is likely to be on par with the entry level iPhone 17e at the very least—the existing Hibreak Pro costs between $400 and $430, depending on the model and the current promotions Bigme is offering.

Not truly the first dual-screen device

While Bigme may be technically correct that the Hibreak Dual would be the first phone with both an LCD screen and color e-ink, it's not quite the innovation it seems: Yota, a now-defunct Russian mobile phone manufacturer, debuted the "Yotaphone" way back in 2012. That device had a 4.2-inch LCD screen on the front and a black-and-white e-ink display on the back. Though a few different models were introduced over the years, it was never widely available internationally, however, and Yota went out of business in 2019.


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