Enlarge / Hackers are getting closer to fully unlocking user control of the PS5 hardware. (credit: Sony) Long-time console hacker and exploit developer SpecterDev has released a PS5 exploit that can give users root privileges and read/write access to large chunks of system memory. While this exploit can’t be used to actually execute arbitrary code…
Enlarge / Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket is seen on the pad ahead of the “To The Black” mission. (credit: Firefly) Since SpaceX reached orbit for the first time in 2008 with the Falcon 1 rocket, a handful of other companies such as Rocket Lab and Virgin Orbit have developed and successfully launched small, liquid-fueled rockets….
Enlarge (credit: Aaron Horowitz/Getty Images) Three numbers. Just three numbers—that’s all it takes to completely, unequivocally, 100 percent describe a black hole in general relativity. If I tell you the mass, electric charge, and spin (i.e., angular momentum) of a black hole, we’re done. That’s all we’ll ever know about it and all we’ll ever…
Enlarge (credit: Karsten Möbius) The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to a single recipient on Monday: Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Pääbo’s work will be familiar to regular readers of these pages, as he was the driving force behind the completion of the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes, and…
Enlarge / Full-disk image of Mars captured by the Mars Orbiter Mission. (credit: ISRO) Despite its modest overall achievements, India’s Mars Orbiter Mission is one of the more notable successes of the modern spaceflight era. Launched in 2013, it was the first Mars mission built by an Asian country to reach orbit around the red planet—only…
Enlarge (credit: Getty | Jeff Greenberg) Pharmacy giants CVS and Walmart will have to face trials over claims that placing ineffective homeopathic products alongside legitimate over-the-counter medicines on store shelves deceives consumers into thinking that the pseudoscientific products are akin to evidence-based, Food and Drug Administration-approved drugs. The claims come from the nonprofit organization Center…
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Herschel Walker, the GOP candidate for the US Senate for Georgia, speaks at a primary watch party May 23, 2022, at the Foundry restaurant in Athens, Georgia.. Akili-Casundria Ramsess/AP Herschel Walker went on Fox News to deny he ever reimbursed a woman for an abortion.”I send money to a lot of people,” Walker told host…