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The global pandemic has deepened an epidemic of loneliness in America. This report from Making Caring Common, a project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, explores who is lonely, the many causes of loneliness, and ways to alleviate it.
Chaining a misconfiguration in IE11/Edge Legacy with an argument injection in a Windows 10/11 default URI handler and a bypass for a previous Electron patch, we developed a drive-by RCE exploit for Windows 10. The main vulnerability in the ms-officecmd URI handler has not been patched yet and can also be triggered…
The thin, slippery layer of cartilage between the bones in the knee is magical stuff: strong enough to withstand a person’s weight, but soft and supple enough to cushion the joint against impact, over decades of repeat use. That combination of soft-yet-strong has been hard to reproduce in the lab. But now, Duke…
Posted by Mariusz Felisiak on Dec. 7, 2021
A couple of weeks ago Cloudflare, one of our competitors, claimed that their edge compute platform is roughly three times as fast as Compute@Edge. The false claim is a great example of how statistics can be used to mislead.
Decentraland joins the Blender Development Fund for a period of two years, as Patron Member.
Ad blockers like uBlock Origin are extremely popular, and typically have access to every page a user visits. Behind the scenes, they're powered by community-provided filter lists - CSS selectors that
If you're having trouble with your productivity, consider finding the root using the 5 Whys technique.
In Firefox 95, we're shipping a sandboxing technology called RLBox — developed with researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Texas
How accurate is Ikea's Vindriktning air quality sensor? This review covers PM2.5 behavior, limitations, and how it compares with better monitors.
Process isolation is a key component for containers. One of the key underlying mechanisms are namespaces. We will explore what they are, and how they work, to build our own isolated container and better understand each piece.
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Spark-style distributed datasets can be modeled with a few lines of code, using Unison's distributed computing library. This article teaches you how.
By trapping light into tiny crevices of gold, researchers have coaxed molecules to convert invisible infrared into visible light, creating new low-cost detectors for sensing.
Explore three common methods of debugging code in Elixir, as well as how to debug Elixir processes using trace and observer.
Right before the Thanksgiving break, while simultaneously attending the SfRBM annual conference (an event featuring lots of hard core wet-bench science grounded in reality), I had the dubious honor of also attending the Longevity Summit . The latter is a new online event featuring talks from leaders in the burgeoning…
The coalition contract of the newly elected German government contains right to encryption.
GraphQL support is in development for PostgreSQL + Supabase.
21 years after Blender 2.0, version 3.0 brings unprecedented performance on a robust yet light package.
UC Davis study shows most dogs are highly inbred, which affects health.
We love innovative materials which can replace our use of animal leather. But what is mushroom leather? and how is mushroom leather made? Read our complete guide to Mushroom leather and find out how this natural, earthy material can help lower our fashion footprint.
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Introducing AWS Amplify Studio
Synack Red Team breaks down a Windows RCE vulnerability enabling full remote code execution and complete attacker control — exploitation techniques and real-world security analysis.
Reckoning with the U.S Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste concludes plastic waste in the U.S. is ubiquitous and increasing. Worldwide, at least 8.8 million metric tons of plastic waste enter the world’s oceans each year — the equivalent of dumping a garbage truck of plastic into the ocean every minute — and in 2016…
