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RightsCon, the world’s largest digital rights conference, was canceled this year due to pressure from the Chinese government, according to the nonprofit organization that organizes the annual event.In a statement, Access Now says it was “told that diplomats from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were putting pressure on the Government of Zambia because Taiwanese civil society participants were planning to join us in person.”The Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC and the United States Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office did not immediately respond to requests for comment. When WIRED called the Zambian embassy in Washington, a member of the…
Nasdaq Chair and Chief Executive Officer Adena T. Friedman, left, and NASA’s Artemis II crewmembers CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman, right, ring the closing bell of the Nasdaq market session, Thursday, April 30, 2026. NASA’s Artemis II mission took Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen on a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth earlier in April 2026. Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
At the end of March, Kotaku reported on the story that Max Hejtmánek, the English editor and voiceover director of Warhorse Studios’ Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, had announced on Reddit that his role at the studio had been made obsolete “in favor of using AI for all translations going forward.” Well, they say an elephant never forgets, and I guess Warhorse fans don’t either, because the studio had to spend the better part of a day defending itself against accusations of replacing staffers with AI during a Reddit AMA yesterday. As spotted by IGN, yesterday’s AMA (Ask Me Anything) thread…
Joshua Sukoff/Shutterstock You can add Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and NVIDIA to the growing list of tech giants that have decided to give the US Defense Department access to their AI tools. According to Bloomberg, the three companies — alongside a forth, Reflection AI — have signed agreements granting the Pentagon use of their AI technologies “for lawful operational use” on classified military networks. “These agreements accelerate the transformation toward establishing the United States military as an AI-first fighting force,” the Pentagon said in a statement shared with Bloomberg. The…
Two new projects, including one from a Pulitzer-winning reporter, claim they’ve solved the mystery of Bitcoin’s creator. So why does the hunt continue?
Despite being surrounded by a multitude of people, urban birds may be picky about who can approach them, new research suggests.After surveying over 37 city bird species in five European countries, experts found that the avians fled sooner when approached by women than by men. The findings, published in December 2025 in the journal People and Nature, suggest that the birds can differentiate between the sex of the person approaching them.The researchers used each bird’s distance from a person before flying away as a metric of fearfulness. But why the birds seem to be more fearful of women remains a…
After a messy legal battle, the developers behind Subnautica 2 are finally releasing the highly anticipated underwater survival game into early access on Steam. And as recently announced, the release date is very soon: May 14. This has thrown a wrench in the plans of one upcoming and also highly anticipated indie game, Outbound, which is now going to arrive on PC a few days early to avoid Subnautica 2′s big splash. On April 30, as spotted by GamesRadar, the devs behind cozy RV simulator Outbound announced that the team wants to avoid competing with Subnautica 2‘s upcoming release on…
Netflix has closed the deal to start production on a prequel for hit series The Crown, according to the Daily Mail. The streaming company has reportedly been in talks with the show’s producer, Left Bank Pictures, for prequels since 2022, even before The Crown’s last season came out in late 2023. Now, deals have been struck, and Left Bank has received the green light to officially start working on the project. The prequel will cover the British royal family’s lives from the time Queen Victoria died in 1901 until the beginning of the events in…
A little over a year ago, MG was leading the relatively normal life of a twentysomething in Scottsdale, Arizona. She worked as a personal assistant and supplemented her income by waiting tables on the weekends. Like most women her age, she had an Instagram account, where she’d occasionally post Stories and photos of herself getting matcha and hanging out by the pool with her friends, or going to Pilates. “I never really cared to pop off and become popular on social media,” says MG (who is cited only as MG in the lawsuit to protect her identity). “I just used…
Summer is “Go” for launch, and NASA has a universe of ways to help you to jump in, explore, and create! Whether you prefer to spend this season fueling your creativity, going outdoors into nature, or daydreaming about your future, NASA offers ways to take your interests to the next level. Here are some opportunities to level up your skills with NASA STEM this summer. From Monday, June 1, through Sept. 30, students ages 13 to 18 are invited to flex their creativity in the online Stardance Challenge, a partnership between NASA and the education non-profit Hack Club. Whether you’re…