Gene therapy can improve hearing in children and adults with congenital deafness or severe hearing impairment, a new study involving researchers at Karolinska Institutet reports. Hearing improved in all ten patients, and the treatment was well-tolerated.…

Token Security researchers have discovered several Azure built-in roles that are misconfigured to be over-privileged - they grant more permissions than intended by Azure.In addition, we discovered another vulnerability in the Azure API that allows attackers…

For those curious about the direction of Mozilla Firefox web browser performance over the past year and a half, here are web browser benchmarks for every Firefox release from Firefox 120 in November 2023 through the newest Firefox 140 stable and Firefox 140…

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The citizen app for anonymously reporting ICE agents and raids went viral after criticism from the U.S. attorney general.

Have you ever heard Sam Altman speak?

I’m serious, have you ever heard this man say words from his mouth? 

Here is but one of the trenchant insights from Sam Altman in his agonizing 37-minute-long podcast conversation with his brother Jack Altman from last…

A modern 3d glassmorphism generator

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Discussing icon design, and commenting on some passages of Apple's Adopting Liquid Glass document.

We are out of Beta and in v1: we're releasing a new strategy around safe & active community instead of bashing our competitors, a fancy redesigned landing page, and a bunch of new features to make core couch surfing functionality better!

Faith and Practice.

AMD's RDNA 5 architecture will feature PlayStation tech.

ASCII Moon - view & cycle through The Moon's phases - rendered in ASCII art.

<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d16462011e451">We report evidence of a likely low-altitude cosmic airburst near Perkins, Louisiana,
associated with semi-consolidated deposits containing abundant…

For the second consecutive quarter, deployments of its Powerwall and Megapack stationary storage products have declined.

Brazil’s Supreme Court agreed on Thursday on details of a decision to hold social media companies liable for what their users post, clearing the way for it go into effect within weeks.

Websites displaying legally mandated U.S. national climate assessments seem to have disappeared. The reports tell state and local governments and everyday people what to expect in a warming world and how to prepare for it.