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

NHS England screening programme detects 10,678 lung cancers, majority found at early stages

NHS England’s lung screening programme has detected 10,678 cancers, with more than three-quarters found at stage 1 or 2 after community mobile scans.

#lungcancer, #nhs, #screening, #publichealth

WHO declares PHEIC and Africa CDC issues continental alert for Bundibugyo Ebola in DRC and Uganda

WHO raised its top alert and Africa CDC activated a continental emergency over a Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak affecting eastern DRC and cases in Uganda.

#ebola, #publichealth, #who, #africa

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

FDA Approves Hepcludex, First U.S. Treatment for Chronic Hepatitis Delta

The FDA cleared Hepcludex (bulevirtide-gmod) for adults with chronic hepatitis D, the first approved U.S. therapy for this serious liver infection.

#hepatitisd, #fda, #gilead, #antivirals

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

JADES releases uniformly modeled catalog of about 500,000 galaxies in GOODS deep fields

JADES DR5 offers a uniform Bayesian catalog of stellar mass, SFR, metallicity and AGN contribution for about 500,000 sources in GOODS-N and GOODS-S.

#jwst, #jades, #galaxies, #astronomy

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

Fermi Detects Delayed Gamma Rays from Superluminous Supernova SN 2017egm, Supporting Magnetar Power Source

Fermi's LAT saw months-delayed GeV gamma rays from SN 2017egm, offering rare evidence the explosion was powered by a newborn magnetar.

#astronomy, #supernova, #gammarays, #magnetar

Preprint claims first detection of 'moving lens' effect in CMB at 4.8σ

An arXiv preprint reports a 4.8σ detection of the 'moving lens' effect in the CMB using ACT and DESI, a claimed new probe of transverse cosmic velocities.

#cosmology, #cmb, #act, #desi, #astrophysics