The FDA has rejected a first-of-its-kind proposal to use the psychedelic drug MDMA as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to drugmaker Lykos Therapeutics. NBC News reports: There had been intense political pressure on the FDA to approve the drug. Friday’s decision was the first time the agency had considered a Schedule 1
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Security flaws in your computer’s firmware, the deep-seated code that loads first when you turn the machine on and controls even how its operating system boots up, have long been a target for hackers looking for a stealthy foothold. But only rarely does that kind of vulnerability
Read MoreThe vulnerabilities, which have been patched, may have novel appeal to attackers as an avenue to compromising phones.
Read MoreJust look at those eyes. | Image: Sony As expected, Sony’s limited edition Astro Bot DualSense controller for the PS5 is now available for preorder for $79.99. The forthcoming gamepad, which is currently only available through the PlayStation Direct storefront and Antonline, will launch alongside the next Astro Bot game on September 6th, giving those
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Smartwatches and fitness trackers are adding more capabilities to users’ wrists than ever, including powerful features related to health and fitness. Most recently, companies have been moving towards holistic wellness tracking, introducing tools that offer broader analysis and actionable insights. Though Garmin has been on that train for some
Read MoreIn what is possibly the slowest speed nautical crash ever, Steve Jobs struck another billionaire’s vessel. Steve Jobs’ Venus hits another yacht [Instagram/Ricardo Salinas Pliego] A pair of luxury yachts came into contact with each other off the coast of Naples, Italy on Wednesday. The at-sea incident saw Venus, a luxury yacht build for the
Read MoreWe’ve been able to use Google Messages to send images via RCS without recompression The latest Messages betas have been removing the Send photos faster toggle. It’s still too early to say if this option will ever formally arrive, or if we’ll just get better compression settings. Google Messages represents the future of person-to-person communication on
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Read MoreFinal Fantasy VI is a hallmark of the series thanks in part to its dark story. | Image: Square Enix It’s wild to think that the Final Fantasy series is nearly four decades old, but it’s thankfully less hard to believe you can get all six of the original games in cleaned-up remastered form for
Read MoreADT, a leading home security company, confirmed a data breach that compromised customer addresses and contact information. The breach’s timing remains unclear, but ADT claims only a small percentage of its six million users were affected. This incident adds to ADT’s history of security issues, including a 2021 case where a technician illegally accessed customers’
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge Apple Maps will finally let you manually refresh your search as you pan around to find similar destinations in adjacent (or distant) areas. In the iOS 18 beta, Apple Maps displays a new “search here” button after you search for things like coffee shops or restaurants and then
Read MoreIllustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge Apple Maps will finally let you manually refresh your search as you pan around to find similar destinations in adjacent (or distant) areas. In the iOS 18 beta, Apple Maps displays a new “search here” button after you search for things like coffee shops or restaurants and then
Read MoreYou may have heard some scary news about RISC-V CPUs. There’s good news, and bad news, and the whole thing is a bit of a cautionary tale. GhostWrite is a devastating vulnerability in a pair of T-Head XuanTie RISC-V CPUs. There are also unexploitable crashes in another T-Head CPU and the QEMU soft core implementation.
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Whitwam / Android Authority The Galaxy Z Fold 3, 4, and 5 have all started to roll out the August Security update. So far it seems Samsung is focusing on the US, though it should come to other regions shortly. The update includes a large number of important fixes, including one marked as
Read MoreIt’s been six months since the Apple Vision Pro was released and there is so much to like — yet still so much missing. Plus for all the great features in Apple’s beta updates, there are some real gripes too. The hardware is still remarkable, but the lack of content and apps is holding the
Read MoreThis week, Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz cemented their bid for the White House with some camouflage caps. The headgear is on its way to red MAGA hat status.
Read MoreThis comes just days after Musk said in a post the company ‘tried being nice’ for two years and got ‘nothing but empty words’, adding ‘now, it is war’. Read more: Media not-for-profit shuts down after X antitrust lawsuit
Read MoreAlan Crawford / Bloomberg: A look at the deepening engagement of EU’s auto chipmakers with China as sales suffer in the West; McKinsey: automotive chips market will be worth $150B by 2030 — – Latest earnings show China’s EV growth as a rare bright spot — Beijing’s push for tech independence threatens foreign sales
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Read MoreSecurity researcher Grant Smith uncovered a large-scale smishing scam where scammers posing as the USPS tricked victims into providing their credit card details through fake websites. Smith hacked into the scammers’ systems, gathered evidence, and collaborated with the USPS and a US bank to protect over 438,000 unique credit cards from fraudulent activity. Wired reports:
Read MoreFrom the “why didn’t we think of that” department comes [dupontgu’s] pong mouse project. The mouse appears and acts like a normal computer mouse until you click the scroll wheel. When you do, the mouse rapidly moves the cursor on the connected computer to play pong. Obviously, though, the paddles and the ball all look
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The past several years have been absolute scorchers, with 2023 being the warmest year ever recorded. And things did not slow down in 2024. As a result, we entered a stretch where every month set a new record as the warmest iteration of that month that
Read MoreOne UI 6.1.1 removes the need to tap “start now” every time you want to stream an app from your Galaxy device to your Windows PC via Phone Link. This became a problem due to a restriction in Android 14 that affected the method that Link to Windows used to stream apps. In the latest
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The past several years have been absolute scorchers, with 2023 being the warmest year ever recorded. And things did not slow down in 2024. As a result, we entered a stretch where every month set a new record as the warmest iteration of that month that
Read More[Ryan Miceli] wanted to build some reverse engineering skills by finding a new exploit for an original Xbox. Where he ended up was an exploit that worked across the network, across several games, and several different consoles. But it all started with an unbounded strcpy in Tony Hawk Pro Skater (THPS). Xbox, PlayStation 2, and
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