SpaceX Could Catch Its Massive Starship Ship With Tower On Flight 9 Suggests FCC Filing

SpaceX can try to catch the upper stage Starship booster with the launch tower during Flight 9 shows a fresh filing made to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). With an FAA advisory suggesting that Starship Flight 8 could take place later this month, it appears that SpaceX aims to test its catch hardware on the upcoming flight and then proceed with a catch attempt on the next mission. The firm flew catch hardware on Starship Flight 7, with statements by Elon Musk made ahead of the mission suggesting that if the ship softly splashed

ByBit Crypto Exchange Suffers A “Sophisticated Attack” On One Of Its Ethereum Cold Wallets, The Wallet’s Holdings Were Transferred To An “Unidentified Address”

In what is likely to end up as one of the biggest crypto-related hacks of the past few months, ByBit crypto exchange has lost control over one of its Ethereum cold wallets, resulting in the outright theft of the wallet's content. Bybit detected unauthorized activity involving one of our ETH cold wallets. The incident occurred when our ETH multisig cold wallet executed a transfer to our warm wallet. Unfortunately, this transaction was manipulated through a sophisticated attack that masked the signing… — Bybit (@Bybit_Official)

Avowed Sales Make Obsidian Happy So Far; Game Director Would Love to Do More in the World

Avowed, the latest roleplaying game by Obsidian Entertainment and the first they published under Xbox Game Studios, has been officially out for three days. The first real data on player concurrency will come in this weekend, as the game will presumably reach a new peak on Steam, but in the meantime, Bloomberg has shared a tidbit as part of their interview with Game Director Carrie Patel: Obsidian is happy with sales so far. In the conversation with Bloomberg, Patel went over the reboot that happened in 2021,

visionOS 2.4 Release Will Refresh Your Vision Pro Headset With Apple Intelligence – Download Developer Beta Now

Apple has released its latest visionOS 2.4 beta 1 to developers alongside watchOS 11.4 and tvOS 18.4 with major changes and new features. If you are a registered developer, you can download and install the latest beta builds through the Settings app on your compatible devices. Apple has released visionOS 2.4, watchOS 11.4, and tvOS 18.4 to developers for testing and curating bugs before final release The latest updates were expected for a while, but the company took

Apple Removes Advanced Data Protection For UK Users Following Government Demands For Backdoor Access To Encrypted iCloud Data

Apple has been increasingly focused on protecting user data and privacy, which seems to be one of the company's core values. To ensure that users are able to get end-to-end encryption (E2EE) on its iCloud data, it introduced a security feature called Advanced Data Protection (ADP) that is meant to allow only users to access their data and not even the company can decrypt it. The optional feature is available in many countries but did not sit well with the UK government, and

NetEase CEO Reportedly Cutting Funding for a Dozen Games, Won’t Support Marketing for Nagoshi’s and other Japanese Made Games

NetEase made waves in all the wrong ways when it decided to lay off developers at its Western Marvel Rivals studio despite the fact that the game was an absolute smash hit with over 40 million players to date. Now, a fresh report by Bloomberg alleges that the Chinese company suffered many abrupt changes mandated by its founder and CEO, William Ding, who cut hundreds of jobs and suddenly pulled back its massive foreign investment. As a reminder, over the last few years, NetEase has invested in many studios based in North

Apple Finally Releases iOS 18.4 And macOS 15.4 Beta 1 To Developers With Major Changes And New Features

Today, Apple has seen fit to release the first beta of its upcoming iOS 18.4 update to developers for testing and curating bugs. The latest update is accompanied by iPadOS 18.4 and macOS 15.4 beta 1, which can also be downloaded on compatible devices right now. Apple has released iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS 15.4 beta 1 to developers If you are a registered developer, iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is January 2025’s Third Best Selling Game in the US Thanks to its PC Release

Despite having debuted 11 months ago on the market, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth sold extremely well last month in the United States thanks to its PC release, further highlighting how damaging exclusivity can be. According to new sales data shared today by Circana (NPD), the second entry in the Remake trilogy, which launched on PC late last month, was the third best-selling premium game in the United States, right after two huge sellers like Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Madden NFL 25. The

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, With its Polished Day 1 Polished Experience, Feels “Old School in All the Best Ways”; Runs With Impeccable Smoothness On a Ryzen 5 3600, RTX 4060 at 1080p

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II has launched in a great technical state, bucking the trend of games launching in rather poor states in the 2020s, and feeling almost old-school in this, according to a new in-depth technical analysis shared online. The tech experts at Digital Foundry recently took a good look at the second entry in the series by Warhorse Studios, highlighting how going with CryEngine was a winning choice. Even in its DirectX 12 form, the game engine developed by Crytek delivers an

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5090 “GB202” Chip Turns Out To Be Defective For “Specific” Units In The Market; All Variants Potentially Affected By The Issue

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs are now said to be experiencing another fiasco, as the onboard "Blackwell" GB202 turns out to be defective for many units out there. NVIDIA's Flagship RTX Blackwell GPU Sees Missing ROPs In GPU-Z & Similar Tests; Issues Rumored To Lie With The GB202 Chip Well, when would gamers find peace in the GPU markets? Initially, we had inventory issues, with NVIDIA's flagship RTX Blackwell model being available in "