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CD PROJEKT RED announces 2027 expansion 'Songs of the Past' for The Witcher 3; PC requirements rise

CD PROJEKT RED will release Songs of the Past, a 2027 expansion for The Witcher 3 starring Geralt; PC minimum requirements will increase.

$CDR, #witcher3, #cdprojektred, #gaming, #pc, #expansion

Square Enix Renames Dragon Quest XII to 'Beyond Dreams' as Development Reset Is Reported

Square Enix revealed Dragon Quest XII — Yume no Kanata e (Beyond Dreams) on May 27; Japanese reports say development was restarted under a 'new structure'.

#dragonquest, #squareenix, #videogames, #gaming

Apparent Infinite‑Mint Exploit Creates 5.4 Trillion vsdCRV on Arbitrum; Attacker Swapped ~43.8 ETH

Security feeds report an apparent infinite‑mint exploit on Arbitrum's vsdCRV, creating ~5.4T tokens; attacker swapped about 43.78 ETH (~$90k).

#crypto, #arbitrum, #stakedao, #defi, #security

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