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Takahisa Taura forms new studio after leaving PlatinumGames Astral chain director and Nier Automata designer is one of the founders of Eel Game Studio Image credit: PlatinumGames News by Sophie McEvoy Staff Writer Published on May 1, 2025 Takahisa Taura has formed a new studio after leaving PlatinumGames. As reported by VGC, the Astral Chain director and Nier Automata designer is one of the founders of Eel Game Studio. Taura confirmed the news in the latest edition of Famitsu, translated by journalist Genki. Taura said he is one of the founding members of the studio, but can't expand on what it is developing at the moment. In September 2023, PlatinumGames co-founder Hideki Kamiya announced he was leaving the developer. He previously worked for Capcom's Clover Studio before its closure in 2006. Last December, Kamiya announced he had returned to Capcom and became studio head and chief game designer of Clovers – a nod to the previous developer. Clovers is working on the sequel to Okami, a Clover Studio title that Kamiya directed. Speaking to VGC, Kamiya discussed why he left PlatinumGames and his thoughts on those still working at his former studio. "If I was satisfied at Platinum, then I wouldn't have left," he said. "If there was one thing I am worried about, it's the fact I was VP and chief game designer of PlatinumGames. And so with me quitting, I worry about the people there, the staff there. "Of course, if they're motivated and happy at Platinum, I believe that's the right path for them. But if there are others whose mindset aligns more with what we're building here at Clovers, we want to welcome and provide a path for them, too. I see that as a responsibility I have to those people after leaving Platinum."

I’ve been testing the EcoFlow Wave 3, a follow-up to the all-in-one battery-powered air conditioner, heater, and fan I reviewed last summer. EcoFlow has dialed back its absurd marketing with a more powerful unit that can be recharged through several methods, including the sun. Only now it can automatically (try to) maintain a set temperature range and act as a dedicated dehumidifier, too.I was grateful to have EcoFlow’s Wave 2 with me last summer while vanlifing around Portugal and Spain. That less powerful A/C helped to offset daytime temps hitting 37 degrees Celsius (98.6 degree Fahrenheit) and made 25C (77F) nights comfortable enough to sleep. But it only worked in small spaces and under just the right circumstances.The third-generation portable heat pump from EcoFlow can’t perform miracles. We’re still only talking 6100BTU (1800W) of cooling and 6800BTU (2000W) of heating. And placement is limited by bulky intake and exhaust hoses, and the space needed for a receptacle to collect any drained water.But if you own a van, surf shack, work shed, roof-top tent, boat, or another small space requiring occasional temperature control, then the Wave 3 could be for you. Prices are discounted for a limited time to $849, or $1,399 with the battery bundle, before they rise significantly next month. 7Verge Score$849The GoodA heater, air conditioner, dehumidifier in one portable deviceOptional battery that can recharge from 400W of solarHeat pump is super efficientThe BadLimited to small, well insulated spacesMost people will need more heating and cooling capacityCan get loudPet Mode not recommended$849 at EcoFlow$1399 at EcoFlowHow we rate and review productsWhile the Wave 2 was limited to spaces smaller than 10 square meters (107 square feet), the Wave 3 is designed to work in spaces up to 17 square meters (180 square feet). To test the claim, I used the Wave 3 as a heater inside a 14.8 square meter (161 square feet) tiny home about the size of a shipping container, and as an A/C inside a 9 square meter (97 square feet) Class-B Sprinter van. The Wave 3 has built-in Wi-Fi (and Bluetooth), so I could connect it to my Starlink Mini and manage operation remotely over the excellent EcoFlow app.Installed on a bed in a tiny house because that was the only suitable window. I had to create that foam cutout using the supplied template. Photo by Thomas Ricker / The VergeThe Wave 3 plus battery easily fits onto the slider in my van’s garage. Photo by Thomas Ricker / The VergeTrying and failing to cool down my van at mid-day with my insulated sun reflectors installed. One reflector is removed to light the photo. Photo by Thomas Ricker / The VergeI had to custom cut this piece of foam to fit the heat pump’s air intake and exhaust ducts in the window. Photo by Thomas Ricker / The VergeAs a heater in a one-room tiny home, the Wave 3 could only just cope with the space, but was a marked improvement over the Wave 2. With temperatures ranging from 8C (46F) to 10C (50F) outside, the Wave 3 at maximum heat could maintain temperatures inside at around 14C (57F) to 17 C (63F). I got 13 hours of runtime off the optional 1024Wh LFP battery using a mix of Eco and Sleep modes starting in the evening and running through the night. The heat was weak, but it was the difference between needing one down-filled duvet instead of two.In Sleep mode — the lowest setting — the Wave 3 is relatively quiet at around 45dB when measured from a distance of one meter. The sound becomes exhausting at Eco or above, reaching 60dB in Max mode, making it much louder than the 53dB I measured from the Wave 2. It also makes a steady 36dB buzzing sound when charging before falling silent after the battery is full.After reviewing its predecessor, I already had a good idea of how well the more powerful Wave 3 would cool my van during the day (mixed) and at night (good). It performed as I expected, but I still hoped for more.My van at its testing location, seen at the bottom of the image. Do not leave your dog unattended with the Wave 3 in Pet Mode on a day like this. Like the Wave 2, the new EcoFlow Wave 3 is helpless to cool the interior of my van when parked in direct sunlight, even with insulated sun reflectors installed in the windows. There’s too much heat produced by all that glass and steel to keep it from seeping into the interior, even in Northern Europe in April. On one sunny afternoon when the outside temperature never exceeded 18C (64F), I shut all the doors and windows, put the reflectors in place, and cranked the Wave 3 up to maximum cooling. Instead of decreasing the interior temperature, it rose from 24C (75F) to 28C (82F) over a period of 90 minutes before I called it quits. To keep my van cool in those situations, I’d have to permanently install a high-capacity (and more expensive) rooftop A/C on my van. Fine, I expected this result, and EcoFlow is clearer about the limitation this time.I strongly advise pet owners not to rely on the Wave 3’s new Pet Mode. While it might add a few minutes of comfort to your animal, the Wave 3 can not keep them safe in a sunny parking lot.As expected, the Wave 3 did much better when I parked in the shade. On a slightly warmer 19C (66F) afternoon, the Wave 3 brought the internal temps down to 16C (61F) — the unit’s lowest setting — and maintained it. So, like the Wave 2, I expect the Wave 3 would keep me comfortable in my van at night even when outside temps were 25C (77F) or even a little higher.When running off the battery in Max cooling, the Wave 3 died after almost three hours of operation. The 8-hour runtime EcoFlow claims is only for the less powerful Eco mode.I didn’t stress-test the dehumidifier. I mean, it works, and it can be useful to prevent mold from growing in an RV when parked in storage during the off-season, for example. That can help maximize your value for money by making the Wave 3 useful year-round.1/8The heaviest component is the 33.7lb (15.3kg) Wave 3 main unit, followed by the 21.4lb (9.7kg) battery.The EcoFlow Wave’s dual-use heating and cooling portability and BTUs per square inch have always set it apart from competitors. The third-generation Wave 3 takes a successful formula and improves on it, without the unrealistic marketing hype that created confusion and disappointment from buyers of the Wave 1 and Wave 2.But EcoFlow’s Wave 3 heat pump remains a niche product for anyone who need to occasionally heat or cool small spaces in temperate climates, especially if they’re located off the grid.Pricing for the Wave 3 is a mess due to EcoFlow’s insistence on using limited-time coupons to goose purchasing. At the time of publication, you can buy the Wave 3 without the battery for $849 ($799 with coupon), but then you miss out on the solar charging and portability. Most would be better off with the Wave 3 plus battery combo, currently discounted to $1,399, before increasing to its full list price of $2,198 after May 25th. And while EcoFlow typically offers steep discounts on its Chinese-manufactured products throughout the year, those could be Trumped by tariffs moving forward.Photos by Thomas Ricker / The VergeSee More:

Despite notable advancements in large language models (LLMs), effective performance on reasoning-intensive tasks—such as mathematical problem solving, algorithmic planning, or coding—remains constrained by model size, training methodology, and inference-time capabilities. Models that perform well on general NLP benchmarks often lack the ability to construct multi-step reasoning chains or reflect on intermediate problem-solving states. Furthermore, while scaling up model size can improve reasoning capacity, it introduces prohibitive computational and deployment costs, especially for applied use in education, engineering, and decision-support systems. Microsoft Releases Phi-4 Reasoning Model Suite Microsoft recently introduced the Phi-4 reasoning family, consisting of three models—Phi-4-reasoning, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, and Phi-4-mini-reasoning. These models are derived from the Phi-4 base (14B parameters) and are specifically trained to handle complex reasoning tasks in mathematics, scientific domains, and software-related problem solving. Each variant addresses different trade-offs between computational efficiency and output precision. Phi-4-reasoning is optimized via supervised fine-tuning, while Phi-4-reasoning-plus extends this with outcome-based reinforcement learning, particularly targeting improved performance in high-variance tasks such as competition-level mathematics. The open weight models were released with transparent training details and evaluation logs, including benchmark design, and are hosted on Hugging Face for reproducibility and public access. Technical Composition and Methodological Advances The Phi-4-reasoning models build upon the Phi-4 architecture with targeted improvements to model behavior and training regime. Key methodological decisions include: Structured Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT): Over 1.4M prompts were curated with a focus on “boundary” cases—problems at the edge of Phi-4’s baseline capabilities. Prompts were sourced and filtered to emphasize multi-step reasoning rather than factual recall, and responses were synthetically generated using o3-mini in high-reasoning mode. Chain-of-Thought Format: To facilitate structured reasoning, models were trained to generate output using explicit <think> tags, encouraging separation between reasoning traces and final answers. Extended Context Handling: The RoPE base frequency was modified to support a 32K token context window, allowing for deeper solution traces, particularly relevant in multi-turn or long-form question formats. Reinforcement Learning (Phi-4-reasoning-plus): Using Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), Phi-4-reasoning-plus was further refined on a small curated set of ∼6,400 math-focused problems. A reward function was crafted to favor correct, concise, and well-structured outputs, while penalizing verbosity, repetition, and format violations. This data-centric and format-aware training regime supports better inference-time utilization and model generalization across domains, including unseen symbolic reasoning problems. Evaluation and Comparative Performance Across a broad range of reasoning benchmarks, Phi-4-reasoning and Phi-4-reasoning-plus deliver competitive results relative to significantly larger open-weight models: Phi-4-reasoning-plus shows strong performance not only on domain-specific evaluations but also generalizes well to planning and combinatorial problems like TSP and 3SAT, despite no explicit training in these areas. Performance gains were also observed in instruction-following (IFEval) and long-context QA (FlenQA), suggesting the chain-of-thought formulation improves broader model utility. Importantly, Microsoft reports full variance distributions across 50+ generation runs for sensitive datasets like AIME 2025, revealing that Phi-4-reasoning-plus matches or exceeds the performance consistency of models like o3-mini, while remaining disjoint from smaller baseline distributions like DeepSeek-R1-Distill. Conclusion and Implications The Phi-4 reasoning models represent a methodologically rigorous effort to advance small model capabilities in structured reasoning. By combining data-centric training, architectural tuning, and minimal but well-targeted reinforcement learning, Microsoft demonstrates that 14B-scale models can match or outperform much larger systems in tasks requiring multi-step inference and generalization. The models’ open weight availability and transparent benchmarking set a precedent for future development in small LLMs, particularly for applied domains where interpretability, cost, and reliability are paramount. Future work is expected to extend the reasoning capabilities into additional STEM fields, improve decoding strategies, and explore scalable reinforcement learning on longer horizons. Check out the Twitter and join our Telegram Channel and LinkedIn Group. Don’t Forget to join our 90k+ ML SubReddit. Asif RazzaqWebsite |  + postsBioAsif Razzaq is the CEO of Marktechpost Media Inc.. As a visionary entrepreneur and engineer, Asif is committed to harnessing the potential of Artificial Intelligence for social good. His most recent endeavor is the launch of an Artificial Intelligence Media Platform, Marktechpost, which stands out for its in-depth coverage of machine learning and deep learning news that is both technically sound and easily understandable by a wide audience. 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Codemasters has confirmed that no further expansions will be released for 2023’s EA Sports WRC, and that the team has “reached the end of the road” working on the game. Unfortunately, alongside this news comes the additional confirmation that Codemasters is also “pausing development plans on future rally titles.” The veteran UK racing studio published the announcement via EA.com.“Our WRC partnership was a culmination of sorts for our Codemasters journey with off-road racing, spanning decades through titles like Colin McRae Rally, and Dirt,” reads the studio’s statement. “We’ve provided a home for every rally enthusiast, striving tirelessly to push the boundaries and deliver the exhilarating thrill of driving on the ragged edge. We’ve brought together incredibly talented racing developers, worked with some of the sport’s icons, and had the opportunity to share our love of rallying.”PlayThe World Rally Championship itself has acknowledged the news on social media, with a largely vague comment noting the “WRC gaming franchise is going in an ambitious new direction with more news coming in the near future.”EA pulling the pin on Codemasters rally games will be a bitter pill to swallow for motorsports fans following EA’s acquisition of the storied British racing studio back in 2020.The news comes in wake of reports of over 300 layoffs at EA, including roughly 100 at Respawn Entertainment.Codemasters has been at the spearhead of rallying video games for almost three decades, dating back to 1998’s iconic Colin McRae Rally. The pioneering rally simulation kicked off a series of successful and highly esteemed racing games. Following the death of Colin McRae in 2007, the series retired McRae’s name and continued its evolution as Dirt. 2009’s Dirt 2 (known as Colin McRae: Dirt 2 in Europe and other PAL game territories) marked a transitional point for the series, which was reinvented again as a hardcore simulation in 2015’s Dirt Rally. 2023’s EA Sports WRC was the first Codemasters rally game to hold an official WRC license since 2002’s Colin McRae Rally 3. IGN’s review notes EA Sports WRC took the class-leading feel of 2019’s Dirt Rally 2.0 and stuffed it into an officially licensed World Rally Championship experience, like a steel rod in Timo Rautiainen’s backside, but its technical gremlins left it feeling like a “great racing game trying to fight its way out of an unfinished one.” Subsequent updates sought to improve its screen tearing issues.Luke is a Senior Editor on the IGN reviews team. You can track him down on Bluesky @mrlukereilly to ask him things about stuff.

Netflix is starting the month off strong with the premiere of the new original series The Four Seasons on May 1. Starring Tina Fey, Steve Carell, Will Forte, and Colman Domingo, this series follows three couples who have been friends for decades. Their friendship is put to the test after one couple divorces, making their tradition of quarterly getaways a little more complicated. Another noteworthy new series is Sirens (May 22), produced by Margot Robbie’s Lucky Chap Entertainment. The series follows Devon (Meghann Fahy) the older sister of Simone (Milly Alcock) as she tries to intervene on her sister’s creepy cult-like relationship with her boss. Sirens also stars Julianne Moore and Kevin Bacon. Big Mouth is returning for its eighth and final season on May 23. In the final season, we follow our favorite hormonal teens as they take on high school and start the next chapter of their lives. It’s sure to be an awkward yet hilarious ride. Among the many movies joining Netflix’s library this month is the new Netflix original Fear Street: Prom Queen (May 23) another slasher set in the eerie town of Shadyside. The entire Twilight Saga will be available to watch on the first of the month for those who celebrate hoa hoa hoa season year round. For anyone who missed The Wild Robot in theaters or just wants to watch this emotional film again, the movie will be available on Netflix starting May 24. Here’s everything else coming to Netflix this month. Note that Netflix marks its international offerings with that respective country’s two-letter country code. You can find a list of those abbreviations here. New on Netflix – May 2025 Coming Soon Losmen Bu Broto: The Series (ID) — NETFLIX SERIESLost in Starlight (KR) — NETFLIX FILMMad Unicorn (TH) — NETFLIX SERIESRhythm + Flow: Poland (PL) — NETFLIX SERIESMay 1 Angi: Fake Life, True Crime (ES) — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARYThe Biggest Fan (MX) — NETFLIX FILMThe Four Seasons — NETFLIX SERIESAirportAirport ’77Airport 1975AliAmerican GangsterAmerican GraffitiBurn After ReadingConstantineCrazy, Stupid, Love.Dawn of the DeadEat Pray LoveThe Equalizer 2HannaHomeThe JerkThe Lego MovieMid90sThe MuleOcean’s ElevenOcean’s ThirteenOcean’s TwelveThe Paper TigersPast LivesSistersStarship TroopersThe Sugarland ExpressTrainwreckTrollsTwilightThe Twilight Saga: New MoonThe Twilight Saga: EclipseThe Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 2Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-RabbitMay 2 PeninsulaTrain to BusanUnseen: Season 2 (ZA) — NETFLIX SERIESMay 4 Conan O’Brien: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor — NETFLIX COMEDY SPECIALMay 5 Britain and The Blitz (GB) — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARYMighty Monsterwheelies: Season 2 — NETFLIX FAMILY May 6 The Devil’s Plan: Season 2 (KR) — NETFLIX SERIESUntold: Shooting Guards — NETFLIX SPORTS FILM Join our mailing list Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! May 7 Full Speed: Season 2 — NETFLIX SPORTS SERIESLast Bullet (FR) — NETFLIX FILMMay 8 Blood of Zeus: Season 3 — NETFLIX ANIMEFOREVER — NETFLIX SERIESHeart EyesKarol G: Tomorrow was Beautiful (CO) — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARYMay 9 A Deadly American Marriage (GB) — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARYBad Influence (ES) — NETFLIX FILMNonnas — NETFLIX FILMThe Royals (IN) — NETFLIX SERIESMay 11 ABBA: Against the OddsMay 12 Tastefully Yours (KR) — NETFLIX SERIES May 13 All American: Season 7Bad Thoughts — NETFLIX SERIESUntold: The Liver King (GB) — NETFLIX SPORTS FILMMay 14 American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARYFred and Rose West: A British Horror Story (GB) — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARYMarried at First Sight: Season 17SmileSnakes and Ladders (MX) — NETFLIX SERIESMay 15 Bet — NETFLIX SERIESLove, Death & Robots: Volume 4 — NETFLIX SERIESFranklin (LB) — NETFLIX SERIESPernille: Season 5 (NO) — NETFLIX SERIESSecrets We Keep (DK) — NETFLIX SERIESThank You, Next: Season 2 (TR) — NETFLIX SERIESVini Jr. (BR) — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARYMay 16 Dear Hongrang (KR) — NETFLIX SERIESFootball Parents (NL) — NETFLIX SERIESThe Quilters — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARYRotten Legacy (ES) — NETFLIX SERIESMay 20 Sarah Silverman: Postmortem — NETFLIX COMEDY SPECIALUntold: The Fall of Favre — NETFLIX SPORTS FILMMay 21 Newly Rich, Newly Poor (CO) — NETFLIX SERIESReal Men (IT) — NETFLIX SERIESSneaky Links: Dating After Dark — NETFLIX SERIESThe UnXplained with William Shatner: Season 6 May 22 Sirens — NETFLIX SERIESTyler Perry’s She The People — NETFLIX SERIESMay 23 Air Force Elite: Thunderbirds — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARYBig Mouth: Season 8 — NETFLIX SERIESFear Street: Prom Queen — NETFLIX FILMForget You Not — NETFLIX SERIESOff Track 2 (SE) — NETFLIX FILMMay 24 Our Unwritten Seoul (KR) — NETFLIX SERIESThe Wild RobotMay 26 CoComelon: Season 13 — NETFLIX FAMILYCold Case: The Tylenol Murders — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARYMike Birbiglia: The Good Life — NETFLIX COMEDY SPECIALMay 28 F1: The Academy (GB) — NETFLIX SPORTS SERIESMay 29 Dept. Q (GB) — NETFLIX SERIES May 30 A Widow’s Game (ES) — NETFLIX FILMThe Heart Knows (AR) — NETFLIX FILMMay 31 Netflix Tudum 2025: The Live Event — NETFLIX LIVE EVENTLeaving Netflix – May 2025 May 1 About TimeAnnieApollo 13Blade Runner: The Final CutDallas Buyers ClubDefinitely, MaybeErin BrockovichEuropa ReportThe FlintstonesFridayThe Frozen GroundFuryKing KongMaid in ManhattanNext FridayNotting HillOut of AfricaPompeiiPublic EnemiesQueen & SlimSchindler’s ListSpider-ManSpider-Man 2Spider-Man 3Spider-Man: Across the Spider-VerseThis Is 40Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by MyselfWaterworldWedding CrashersThe WhaleWhiplashThe WizYou, Me and DupreeMay 4 Insidious: The Red DoorMay 5 The Peanut Butter FalconMay 9 The Lost CityResident Evil: Death Island May 10 RamboRambo: Last BloodMay 15 The Clovehitch KillerCrossroadsMadam Secretary: Seasons 1-6May 16 The Sum of All FearsTullyMay 19 A Simple FavorMay 28 BurntMay 29 The Silencing

Derick Gant from Ohio relied on his Apple Watch to call for help after he had a stroke while exercising outside. The incident shows how even the most active people can experience a medical emergency and benefit from being connected to emergency services through the Apple Watch. Gant was jumping rope in his driveway last summer when he decided to push harder and break his personal best. Gant reached his workout goal, but then he collapsed and couldn’t feel his leg or arm. His doorbell camera actually caught the whole incident on video. After collapsing, Gant’s Apple Watch fall detection feature activated and offered to call emergency services. Gant says he initially brushed it off and thought he’d be fine in a couple of minutes, before deciding he needed help. Within minutes, paramedics arrived at his home and began treating him. His Apple Watch also notified his emergency contacts that an incident had occurred. The response was basically automatic within the first minute of falling and experiencing the stroke. Derick Gant has made a full recovery less than a year later, and he now knows why he had a stroke despite being physically active at 57. Gant had recently stopped taking blood thinners. Simply adjusting his medication caused his natural blood clotting tendencies to return, and physical exertion raised his heart rate and blood pressure. This likely resulted in a clot being dislodged that traveled to the brain and blocked his cerebral artery. The result was an ischemic stroke, preventing oxygen delivery to the brain. A lack of oxygen kills brain cells within minutes, potentially causing permanent brain damage. Gant’s stroke affected his motor cortex specifically based on the loss of arm and leg control. Gant’s experience is especially relatable for active individuals who rely on medication to manage heart health. It also shows how the Apple Watch can instantly become a lifeline when you least suspect it. Do more with your iPhone Follow Zac Hall: X | Threads | Instagram | Mastodon Add 9to5Mac to your Google News feed.  FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.You’re reading 9to5Mac — experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Don’t know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

Morale at NASA is bottoming out as the Trump administration threatens to cut budgets.Future cullings still loom on the horizon, with disgusted employees calling the agency's new management out for "targeted" and "cruel" layoffs last month.Earlier this month, acting administrator Janet Petro revealed that work at some regional offices could soon be consolidated, hinting at the possibility of thousands of livelihoods being uprooted. This week, the Trump administration canceled the lease at its top climate monitoring lab at Columbia University in New York City, the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), as the result of devastating cuts carried out by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.The gloomy atmosphere made for a "tense" meeting during a Monday town hall at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, according to the well-sourced former insider Keith Cowing, who now blogs at NASA Watch, with security guards overseeing the proceedings in the back of the overflow room.In light of having lost their headquarters in NYC, GISS staffers will have to work from home through September, per Cowing's reporting. But termination of the lease could end up being far more expensive, at least in the short run, highlighting how Musk's DOGE is wasting boggling amounts of money in its pursuit to gut government agencies.The space agency is going through a major transitional period. Staffers and managers alike have been waiting for the new administrator to take up the reins and provide some much-needed clarity in the wake of the chaos and destruction the Trump administration and DOGE have left behind.Are you a NASA insider with information to share? Drop us a line at tips@futurism.com. We can keep you anonymous.Billionaire fighter jet pilot-turned-SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman, who's widely expected to be confirmed as NASA's next administrator in the coming weeks, has remained noticeably tight-lipped about proposed cuts to the agency's budget.In carefully worded responses to questions by bipartisan members of the Senate Commerce Committee last week, Isaacman called Trump's purported goal of slashing the space agency's science budget nearly in half not an "optimal outcome."The president has made a big deal out of NASA's efforts to send astronauts to the Moon and eventually to Mars. Given Isaacman's personal experience flying to space with the help of SpaceX twice, space exploration will likely be a priority going forward."A commitment to keeping on to the Moon mission is the key requirement that we have to have in this position," said ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee Maria Cantwell (D-WA) in a statement following the group's decision to advance Isaacman's nomination today. "Given this explicit commitment, I support Mr. Isaacman’s confirmation."Whether those priorities will come at the expense of climate science and other areas of research at NASA remains to be seen.Share This Article

May 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / VPN Security SonicWall has revealed that two now-patched security flaws impacting its SMA100 Secure Mobile Access (SMA) appliances have been exploited in the wild. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below - CVE-2023-44221 (CVSS score: 7.2) - Improper neutralization of special elements in the SMA100 SSL-VPN management interface allows a remote authenticated attacker with administrative privilege to inject arbitrary commands as a 'nobody' user, potentially leading to OS Command Injection Vulnerability CVE-2024-38475 (CVSS score: 9.8) - Improper escaping of output in mod_rewrite in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.59 and earlier allows an attacker to map URLs to file system locations that are permitted to be served by the server Both the flaws affect SMA 100 Series devices, including SMA 200, 210, 400, 410, 500v, and were addressed in the following versions - CVE-2023-44221 - 10.2.1.10-62sv and higher versions (Fixed on December 4, 2023) CVE-2024-38475 - 10.2.1.14-75sv and higher versions (Fixed on December 4, 2024) In an update to the advisories on April 29, 2025, SonicWall said the vulnerabilities are potentially being exploited in the wild, urging customers to review their SMA devices to ensure that there are no unauthorized logins. "During further analysis, SonicWall and trusted security partners identified an additional exploitation technique using CVE-2024-38475, through which unauthorized access to certain files could enable session hijacking," the company said. There are currently no details on how the vulnerabilities are being exploited, who may have been targeted, and the scope and scale of these attacks. The disclosures come weeks after the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added another security flaw impacting SonicWall SMA 100 Series gateways (CVE-2021-20035, CVSS score: 7.2) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter  and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post. SHARE    

Headquarters: Copenhagen URL: https://memmora.dk/ We’re hiring two senior backend contractors ..To help us rebuild and scale the core systems behind our fast-growing app. Memmora is a fast growing, award-winning European startup in the death tech space. Our app helps families care for gravesites remotely through local service providers. We’re growing quickly and rebuilding our backend to handle payments, routing, and communication at scale.Your first project is to rebuild our Stripe sync engine. When payments fail or retry, it currently breaks everything - status updates, customer comms, even service delivery. You’ll fix that. Then we’ll build the rest together.What you’ll work on:- Stripe webhook handling (subscription updates, retries, failures)- Syncing payment data across admin panel, HubSpot, and our routing engine- Writing clean backend logic with clear fallbacks, retries, and logging- Collaborating directly with CTO and CPO- Future work: admin panel rebuild, route planner logic, keeper app, provider appOur tech stack includes:- Backend: Node.js (NestJS) with TypeScript- Database: PostgreSQL using MikroORM- Cloud: AWS (App Runner for Dockerized services, S3, VPC, RDS)- Payments: Stripe API + MobilePay Subscriptions API- Integrations: HubSpot, OptimoRoute, Henryflow- DevOps: Bitbucket CI/CD, Terraform- Other: Mapbox API (custom extensions), YOLOv8/SAM for AI-powered route planning and grave mappingHow we work:- Remote-first with async culture- Daily standups (morning CET), full autonomy, ship fast- Two-week sprints with tight scopes- Minimal tools (Slack, Jira, Figma Jam, Miro)Ideal candidate:- 5+ years backend experience (Node.js, TypeScript)- Hands-on Stripe integration experience- Can own a system from spec to production- Strong async communicator- Can start this week (or latest early next week)Process:- Apply via link- Interview with founding CPO + founding CTO- Start buildingBudget:$35–60/hour depending on experience. We pay on time, give fast feedback, and want long-term collaboration. To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/memmora-backend-contractor-node-js-stripe-fast-paced-execution