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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team now is targeting as soon as early September 2026 for launch, ahead of the agency’s commitment to flight no later than May 2027. “Roman’s accelerated development is a true success story of what we can achieve when public investment, institutional expertise, and private enterprise come together to take on the near-impossible missions that change the world,” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, who announced the update at a news conference on April 21 at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Roman will pair a large field of view with crisp infrared…
It’s Just A Short Beta So Don’t Give Up All Hope Owlcat Games may have become their own worst enemy thanks to the stellar job they did with Rogue Trader and Baldur’s Gate 3. Those games were very well done and have raised everyone’s expectations to a level that is hard to maintain. Case and point is the closed beta demo of The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, which Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN tried out. It’s not an isometric game, instead resembling Mass Effect’s over the shoulder third person perspective. That’s not the only way it resembles that series, it also has the…
The advent of AI hacking tools has raised fears of a near future in which anyone can use automated tools to dig up exploitable vulnerabilities in any piece of software, like a kind of digital intrusion superpower. Here in the present, however, AI seems to be playing a more mundane, if still concerning, role in hackers’ toolkit: It’s helping mediocre hackers level up and carry out broad, effective malware campaigns. That includes one group of relatively unskilled North Korean cybercriminals who’ve been discovered using AI to carry out virtually every part of an operation that hacked thousands of victims to…
Who says prices always go up? Sometimes, they go down if a company is thoughtful or competitive enough. Xfinity Mobile, an MVNO that uses Verizon’s 5G network, today rolled out new mobile plans. The plans are designed to address the grievances that customers have with the Big Three — AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon.Paying less for moreThe first plan is Mobile Select, which costs $30 per month, making it cheaper than the retired Unlimited, which was $40/month. Despite the lower price, the high-speed data cap has increased from 30GB to 50GB. Other features include unlimited talk and text and high-definition video…
Meta has introduced a new “live chats” feature to Threads, enabling people on the platform to participate in real-time conversations about live events they’re interested in. Live chats can be hosted within Threads communities, the topic-specific social spaces that Meta last year.The new feature sounds a bit like Threads’ take on Instagram’s broadcast channels, but the latter only allows for one-way messaging. Live chats can be hosted by select creators, including Community Champions — users highly engaged within specific communities — and media personalities. Once a chat is launched or scheduled, the host chooses who is invited to contribute and…
Welcome to Stealing Cars, Kotaku’s semi-regular column dedicated to rounding up interesting stories and news about the Grand Theft Auto franchise and Rockstar Games. This time around, I chatted with one of the lead devs behind a cool new GTA mod mixing Manhunt and San Andreas into a new game. I also discovered a GTA 6 fan who counted over 10,000 trees in a single screenshot. And we have more stats from that Rockstar Games data breach that happened earlier this month. Y’know, the one that ended up leading to Take-Two’s stock price exploding. New GTA San Andreas Mod Finally…
NASA will host a news conference at 1:45 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 29, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to preview astronaut Anil Menon’s upcoming mission to the International Space Station. Watch the news conference live on NASA’s YouTube channel. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of online platforms, including social media. Following the news conference, individual interviews with Menon will begin at 3 p.m. United States-based media interested in attending the news conference in person must contact the NASA Johnson newsroom at jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov by 5 p.m. Monday, April 27. U.S. and international media interested…
Framework had a bit of news this week, with a revamped Laptop 13 Pro that can ship fully assembled with Ubuntu installed and configured, as well as the traditional DIY version. …
New York has banned state employees from using insider information to trade on prediction markets. In an executive order signed today and viewed by WIRED, Governor Kathy Hochul forbade the state’s government workforce from using “any nonpublic information obtained in the course of their official duties” to participate on prediction market platforms, or to help others profit using those services.“Getting rich by betting on inside information is corruption, plain and simple,” Hochul said in a statement provided to WIRED. “Our actions will ensure that public servants work for the people they represent, not their own personal enrichment. While Donald Trump…
No longer content to subsume recognizable intellectual properties, the majority of the indexed internet and books (basically all of them), AI will apparently now begin devouring its own workforce.A report in Reuters alleged that the keystrokes, mouse movements and clicks of Meta’s workforce are to be captured for the purposes of training AI — something the company’s communications department was happy to confirmed as accurate! In a cheery missive, a company spokesperson told Engadget that “If we’re building agents to help people complete everyday tasks using computers, our models need real examples of how people actually use them […] we’re…