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4chan, the infamous forum known for its anonymous user base posting unhinged material, has made its comeback. A post on the websites official blog, titled Still Standing, detailed the timeline of events that led to 4chans shutdown earlier this month. According to the sites own status checker, the boards and front page are up, but posting and images are still down. The 4chan blog post explains that moderators shut down the servers on April 14 to prevent any more damage after a serious database attack where hackers gained access to the sites source code. The blog post labeled the incident catastrophic since it breached a ton of 4chans databases along with its most important server. The hack even vandalized the website and revealed personal information of the 4chan moderation team and many of its users. The blog post attributed the hack to the sites inability to update the code and infrastructure due to a lack of skilled man-hours. Unsurprisingly, the site was starved for money to address these concerns since its hard for 4chan to find willing financial backers. Advertisers and payment providers willing to work with 4chan are rare, and are quickly pressured by activists into cancelling their services, the blog post read. Putting together the money for new equipment took nearly a decade. Now that the website is back, there will be some crucial changes. According to the blog post, the /f/ board will stay shut down since the 4chan team cant prevent exploits related to the commonly-posted .swf file format. For similar reasons, the resurrected 4chan will also disable PDF uploads for now, but will reintroduce them in the near future. Moving forward, 4chan says it is bringing on volunteers to keep up with the workload of putting the website back together. The moderation team apparently isnt going to let 4chan die easily the blog post read no matter how hard it is, we are not giving up. Still, it feels inevitable that 4chan will run into a similar problem in the future, considering it hasnt solved the root issue of securing money to keep its servers up-to-date.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/4chan-is-back-after-a-nearly-two-week-shutdown-but-it-still-has-some-serious-problems-171124240.html?src=rss
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Its safe to say people are loving Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 so far. The turn-based RPG which is the debut game from French developer Sandfall has been racking up rave reviews in the days around its release, and already soared past some big sales milestones. On Sunday morning, publisher Kepler Interactive shared on social media that the game has sold a million copies since its release on April 24. It hit the first 500,000 in one day. On the games BlueSky account, the team said that the latest figure includes units shipped to retailers, and does not encompass our awesome GamePass players! Expedition 33 follows a group of Expeditioners who have set out to destroy the entity known as the Paintress, who every year paints a number on a monolith that dooms everyone of that age to death, whittling down the population down as the number gets smaller and smaller. Engadgets Mat Smith called Expedition 33 a gorgeously made and well-considered world, and found it to be a solid, enjoyable RPG. The game is available now for PC, Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/clair-obscur-expedition-33-sold-1-million-copies-in-its-first-three-days-155554248.html?src=rss
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The Curiosity Mars rover covers a lot of ground for a robot that only moves at a max speed of .1 mph. A photo snapped recently by NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter provides a pretty cool visualization of what the rover has been up to so far this year, showing the tracks Curiosity left behind as it journeyed from its previous science target an area called the Gediz Vallis channel to its next destination. The rover itself is just a tiny speck at the front of the roughly 1,050-foot-long trail, and according to NASA, this snap is believed to be the first orbital image of the rover mid-drive across the Red Planet. The image was captured on February 28 by the orbiters HiRISE (High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera, and shows Curiositys movement over 11 drives starting at the beginning of that month. While a few weeks might seem like a long time for tire tracks to stick around in the dirt, this is normal for Mars. The tracks are [l]ikely to last for months before being erased by wind, NASA says. Curiosity is expected to reach its next science destination, which is home to formations thought to have been created long ago by groundwater, in the coming weeks. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/science/space/nasas-mars-orbiter-snapped-this-image-of-curiosity-trucking-along-down-at-the-surface-211404950.html?src=rss
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