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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Cloud storage provider Snowflake said that accounts belonging to multiple customers have been hacked after threat actors obtained credentials through info-stealing malware or by purchasing them on online crime forums. Ticketmaster parent Live Nation—which disclosed Friday that hackers gained access to data it stored through an unnamed third-party provider—told TechCrunch the provider was Snowflake.

Enlarge / Children checking their weight. (credit: Getty | BSIP) Kids and teens with a high body mass index (BMI) were 29 times more likely to have a high fat mass index compared with youths who had lower BMIs, making the controversial metric a "very good screening tool," according to a study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics. The study adds to the long-standing debate about the use of BMI, which has always been an imperfect proxy for assessing a person's body fat, aka adiposity.

Enlarge / Sony's marketing image for PSVR2 on PC. (credit: Sony) It doesn't seem like PlayStation VR2 is having quite the same success as its predecessor, which was a runaway hit at a moment when public curiosity and investment in VR were at an all-time high. Nonetheless, it's one of the most advanced VR headsets available—tied to a tiny library on the PS5. That's about to change, as Sony has confirmed its plans to launch a PC adapter for the headset on August 7.

Enlarge / A Long March 5 rocket carrying the Chang'e 6 lunar probe blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center on May 3, 2024, in Wenchang, China. (credit: Li Zhenzhou/VCG via Getty Images) China landed a spacecraft on the Moon this weekend for the fourth time, successfully placing its Chang’e 6 lander in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the Moon. After the landing on Saturday evening (United States time), the autonomous spacecraft will spend about 48 hours collecting samples.

Enlarge / Daisy Ridley stars as Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle in The Young Woman and the Sea. (credit: Walt Disney Studios) In August 1926, American champion swimmer Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel, completing the 21-mile feat in 14 hours and 34 minutes—a record that would stand until 1950.

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Alexander Koerner) Google apparently accidentally posted a big stash of internal technical documents to GitHub, partially detailing how the search engine ranks webpages. For most of us, the question of search rankings is just "are my web results good or bad," but the SEO community is both thrilled to get a peek behind the curtain and up in arms since the docs apparently contradict some of what Google has told them in the past.