Customers looking to purchase Hollow Knight: Silksong, which launched on Thursday, encountered clogged servers on Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo digital storefronts. The long-awaited side-scrolling action game quickly topped sales charts and garnered positive early impressions. Read Entire Article
Scammer posing as stranded astronaut convinces woman to send him $6,750 to buy oxygen
Like so many romance scams, this one started when the man contacted the victim – a resident of Japan's northern Hokkaido island – on social media. Police said initial contact was made in July, and that the person claimed he was a male astronaut. Read Entire Article
New 3D printing method creates superconductors with unprecedented performance
The research work, published in Nature Communications, was developed by an interdisciplinary team led by Ulrich Wiesner, a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and includes an all-in-one fabrication process. Read Entire Article
Bankruptcy attorney Mark Zuckerberg sues Meta for repeatedly suspending him
Mark Steven Zuckerberg, who is not related to Facebook's founder Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, said the social media platform removed his law firm's business page five times over the past eight years, while his personal account faced four suspensions during the same period. Each action accused him of impersonating a celebrity,......
Ransomware hackers threaten to feed stolen art to AI companies
The Artists&Clients website was recently compromised by the LunaLock ransomware group, putting users at risk of a significant privacy breach if the company does not pay the ransom. Even more concerning, the criminals warned that the stolen content could be sold directly to "AI companies" for training large language models.......
Lego’s most expensive set ever is the $1,000 Death Star
Lego says the set (item number 75419) is loaded with details and Easter eggs for fans to discover. Highlights include the crushing trash compactor that trapped Rebel heroes, the hangar that Luke Skywalker and Han Solo infiltrated while dressed as Stormtroopers, Emperor Palpatine's throne room, Princess Leia's holding cell, and......
Jury orders Google to pay $425 million for unlawfully tracking millions of users
The Web & App Activity feature is a central component of Google's privacy controls, designed to let users manage whether their searches, location history, and interactions with Google services or partner websites and apps are stored. Read Entire Article
ATI’s vintage R300 GPU continues to evolve with Linux driver updates
A developer named Brais Solla has recently added support for two "new" OpenGL features for graphics cards based on the R300 series, a GPU architecture first introduced by ATI in August 2002. ATI is long gone, but the Radeon GPU brand continues to fight an uphill battle against Nvidia's massive......
Tencent’s Voyager AI can turn one photo into an explorable 3D scene
HunyuanWorld-Voyager is an open-weights model that produces sequences of 49 frames – about two seconds of video – but users can link clips to create several minutes of continuous footage. Ars Technica notes that when viewers shift the virtual camera's perspective, objects maintain their relative positions, and the environment behaves......
Mozilla extends Firefox support for Windows 7 and older macOS until 2026
Mozilla has remained committed to supporting Windows 7 through 8.1, even years after Microsoft officially ended updates for those operating systems. Last September, the company announced it would extend Firefox support on these platforms until March 2025, and in February it added another six months. Read Entire Article