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Game studio shuts down just days after launching anticipated MMO
The Day Before, an open-world zombie survival MMO, experienced a dramatic series of events resulting in its developer closing down four days after the game’s launch. Initial reviews were not great. Though billed as a survival MMO, players remarked that it was more like an extraction shooter but with mediocre loot. Players to team up…
BlackRock’s (BLK) BTC ETF Now Invites Participation From Wall Street Banks
“If the SEC accepts this revised, dual model of create and redeem with cash and physical, that means the liquidity that supports the ETF shares when they trade would be increased, because obviously, you have more potential APs as part of the process,” CF Benchmarks CEO Sui Chung said in an interview. (CF Benchmarks is…
See some of the James Webb telescope’s stunning images from 2023
This year, the James Webb Space Telescope celebrated its first full year of operation, during which it returned a treasure trove of images. And it’s just getting started. Since it first began sending pictures back home in July 2022 from its location 1.5 million kilometers beyond Earth’s orbit, JWST has peered deeper in space and…
Sony is investigating an alleged ransomware attack on Insomniac
Sony is investigating claims by the Rhysida ransomware group that it stole sensitive data from Insomniac Games, including personal information for the voice actor who portrayed Peter Parker in Spider-Man 2. Australian outlet Cyber Daily reported today that the group had posted some of the data as proof of the hack and is currently auctioning…
KuCoin to Pay $22M, Exit N.Y. to Settle NYAG Lawsuit
Kucoin will refund $16.77 million to New York customers and pay $5.3 million to the Attorney General of the State of New York to settle charges it violated securities laws by offering tokens – including ether – that meet the definition of a security without registering with the attorney general’s office. Source link
Climate change made 2023 the hottest year on record
This year didn’t just shatter records. It changed the scales. Graph after graph tracking this year’s soaring global temperatures reveal that not only were the numbers higher than ever recorded in many places around the world, but the deviation from the norm was also astonishingly large. “The margins by which records are being broken this…
Marvel’s Black Panther Disney Plus series will dig into Wakandan history
Details about Marvel’s forthcoming Black Panther spinoff series have been sparse since the studio first announced it a couple years back. But ahead of What If …?’s season 2 premiere on Disney Plus, the streamer’s just shared a few promising details about what to expect from The Eyes of Wakanda. Along with reminders about the…
Polygon to Offer Data Solution Celestia as Option for New Layer-2 Developers
Ethereum has its own roadmap for handling data, including an initial step known as “proto-danksharding,” but developers of the blockchain have been slow to realize the plan, and in the meantime several independent networks like Celestia, EigenLayer’s EigenDA, Avail and even the rival layer-1 blockchain NEAR have sprung up to provide their own data-availability solutions….
A gene editing technique shows promise for lowering LDL cholesterol
PHILADELPHIA — Ten patients enrolled in the experimental drug trial, and they were the sickest of the sick. All had a genetic disorder that cranks up levels of LDL cholesterol in the blood. Known as “bad cholesterol,” LDL cholesterol is infamous for clogging arteries. The patients’ disorder, called heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, can lead to severe heart…
Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies
The FCC announced today that it won’t award Elon Musk’s Starlink an $886 million subsidy from the Universal Service Fund for expanding broadband service in rural areas. The money would have come from the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund program (RDOF), but the FCC writes that Starlink wasn’t able to “demonstrate that it could deliver the…