A dad who lost his sense of taste and smell for years after catching covid has had both senses restored – thanks to specially-developed chewing gum

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"In the event of an imminent nuclear apocalypse, we suspect that many people who have access to private jets will immediately take to the skies and escape city centers. This site tracks this indicator in realtime"

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Examining DNA from 15,836 ancient human remains, scientists found 479 genetic variants that appeared to have been favored by natural selection in just the past 10,000 years

Film created by Massive Attack (working with US photo artist thefinaleye). This montage work portrays a momentous American epoch that is yet to be named, and comes in the aftermath of the largest public protests in American history - focused on opposition to ICE raids, the militarisation of domestic forces, and state authoritarianism

Little Snitch, the well known macOS tool that shows which applications are connecting to the internet, is now being developed for Linux

Meta and YouTube designed addictive products that harmed young people, jury finds

Jury in Los Angeles awards plaintiff damages of $6m, with Meta to pay 70% and YouTube the remainder

Meta ordered to pay $375 million in New Mexico trial over child exploitation, user safety claims

LLM Death Count: LLMs Have Led to 25 Deaths, Ages 13 to 83, March 2023 to March 2026

German court ruled that TCL misled consumers by marketing certain TVs as "QLED" when they "do not deliver the color reproduction expected from QLED TVs." It has ordered the company to stop advertising or selling those models in Germany

"The internet is now populated, in meaningful part, by sophisticated AI agents and automated accounts. We knew bots were part of the landscape, but we didn't appreciate the scale, sophistication, or speed at which they'd find us. We banned tens of thousands of accounts. We deployed internal tooling and industry-standard external vendors. None of it was enough"

Binance is hoping that suing (PDF) The Wall Street Journal for defamation might help shake off a fresh round of government probes into how the cryptocurrency exchange failed to detect $1.7 billion in transfers to a network that was funding Iran-backed terror groups

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was built '95 percent' with Unreal Engine Blueprints

Sticking to a nearly-vanilla version of Unreal Engine kept Sandfall Interactive on track

"Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem"

"OpenFactBook provides free, comprehensive, and accurate information about every country in the world. We believe geographic and demographic data should be accessible to everyone—students, researchers, journalists, developers, and curious minds alike."

Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to score lower on standardized tests than the one before it

This BBC article discusses how TikTok tracks users even if they don't use the app, by using tracking pixels on other websites. The article explains how these pixels collect sensitive information and how to stop them

Automattic and the Internet Archive have released a free, open-source WordPress plugin that automatically detects broken outbound links on a site and redirects visitors to archived Wayback Machine copies instead of serving them a 404 error

This article by a former NASA engineer and Google veteran argues that building datacenters in space is a terrible idea due to challenges with power, thermal regulation, radiation tolerance, and communication