Science & Tech

EFF analysis finds schools, police using Flock Safety license-plate cameras for residency and background checks

An EFF review of Flock Safety logs shows schools and police used license-plate searches for residency verification, background checks and noise complaints.

#surveillance, #privacy, #lawenforcement, #flocksafety

NASA Awards Lunar Rover Contracts, Sets Moon Base Campaign Launches Starting Fall 2026

NASA awarded rover contracts to Astrolab and Lunar Outpost, hired Blue Origin to deliver them, and set Moon Base missions to begin as early as fall 2026.

#nasa, #moon, #lunar, #space, #artemis

Epic Shows Unreal Engine 6 Running Rocket League at RLC 2026 Paris — No Release Date or Technical Details Announced

Epic Games unveiled Unreal Engine 6 at the Rocket League Championship Series 2026 Paris Major, showing Rocket League on UE6 but giving few technical details.

#unrealengine, #rocketleague, #epicgames, #gameengines

Take-Two Reaffirms Nov. 19, 2026 Release Date for Grand Theft Auto VI

Take-Two reaffirmed on May 21 that Grand Theft Auto VI remains scheduled for Nov. 19, 2026, tying its fiscal 2027 guidance and growth to the launch.

$TTWO, #gaming, #gta6, #taketwo, #rockstargames

SpaceX’s First Starship V3 Test Reaches Key Milestones; Booster Lost, Upper Stage Destroyed After Splashdown

SpaceX’s Starship Flight 12, the first V3 test from South Texas, completed key objectives and payload deployment but lost its Super Heavy booster and upper stage.

#spacex, #starship, #space, #starlink

New arXiv Preprint Says Adaptive 'Metis' Jailbreak Achieved High Success Against Multiple LLMs, but Results Aren't Yet Reproducible

An arXiv preprint describes Metis, an adaptive jailbreak that reportedly reached ~89% success across 10 LLMs, but its results are author-reported and not yet reproducible.

#ai, #security, #jailbreaking, #arxiv

Pyth Network outage halts price feeds for more than five hours

Pyth Network validators stopped creating blocks on May 22, 2026, interrupting price feeds for over five hours; Hermes endpoints remained delayed.

#crypto, #blockchain, #pyth, #oracles

Bungie to end active Destiny 2 development with final live update, Monument of Triumph, on June 9

Bungie will end active Destiny 2 development after releasing final live-service update, Monument of Triumph, on June 9, 2026; the game will remain playable.

#destiny2, #bungie, #gaming, #liveservice

May 20 Bridge Exploit Mints 1 Quadrillion Fake MAPO Tokens, Attacker Extracts ~52.21 ETH

A May 20 bridge exploit minted 1,000,000,000,000,000 MAPO on Ethereum; attacker sold tokens into Uniswap liquidity for about 52.21 ETH.

#cryptocurrency, #ethereum, #hack, #mapprotocol

Preprint Claims Perfect Scores by Multi‑Agent AI on Multiple Math Competitions; Results Unverified

A May 19 arXiv preprint says STAR‑PólyaMath scored perfect on AIME and Putnam and topped several benchmarks, but results remain unverified.

#ai, #arxiv, #math, #benchmarks

Google makes Gemini 3.5 Flash the default across Search and Gemini app, unveils Spark agent

Google rolls out Gemini 3.5 Flash globally as the default in the Gemini app and Search AI Mode, unveils Spark agent and previews Gemini 3.5 Pro.

$GOOGL, $GOOG, #ai, #google, #gemini, #generativeai

Google makes Search proactive with Gemini 3.5 Flash and new 'Search agents'

At I/O, Google made Gemini 3.5 Flash the default in Search AI Mode and unveiled “Search agents” that monitor the web and can complete tasks and bookings.

$GOOGL, $GOOG, #google, #search, #ai, #generativeai

Fortnite Returns to Apple App Store Worldwide Except Australia as Epic Pushes App-Store Fight

Fortnite returns to Apple’s App Store in the U.S. and most markets after nearly six years as Epic presses its global legal fight over App Store fees; Australia remains excluded.

$AAPL, #fortnite, #apple, #epicgames, #appstore

Reports: Sony to Keep PlayStation Narrative Single‑Player Games Console‑Exclusive, Reversing PC Push

Reports say Sony will keep narrative single-player PlayStation games off PC, reversing a years‑long strategy of porting big first‑party titles to Windows.

$SONY, #sony, #playstation, #pcgaming

Echo Protocol halts eBTC cross‑chain transfers after unauthorized mint of 1,000 tokens

Echo Protocol suspended cross‑chain eBTC transfers after an unauthorized mint created 1,000 eBTC (~$76M nominal); on‑chain tracing shows only ~ $870k converted.

#crypto, #defi, #ebtc, #monad