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FDA grants breakthrough device designation to ReVision Implant visual cortex prosthesis https://med-techinsights.com/2026/03/09/fda-grants-breakthrough-device-designation-to-revision-implant-visual-cortex-prosthesis/

FDA grants breakthrough device designation to ReVision Implant visual cortex prosthesis - Med-Tech Insights
Belgian neurotechnology startup ReVision Implant has received Breakthrough Device designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its visual cortical prosthesis, Occular, clearing the way toward first-in-human clinical trials. The Occular system is designed to restore functional vision in people with severe blindness, including patients whose condition cannot be treated with retinal implants or optic nerve therapies.

“People were bouncing off the walls (at The Smell) and it was just crazy.
We were going so hard. They were going so hard.
It was like a spiritual experience."
—Nick Rattigan, Surf Curse
https://floodmagazine.com/150698/los-angeles-most-influe…

You Set the Scene: LA’s Most Influential Music Venues
Love’s Johnny Echols, Redd Kross, Surf Curse, and more local luminaries reflect on LA’s most storied clubs through the decades, from the Whisky to The Smell. 

Anthropic altered the course of how security vulnerabilities are discovered, with profound implications for the bug hunting industry.
But the implications go beyond bug bounties. In the words of Jeff Williams, founder of OWASP and CTO of Contrast Security, Anthropic's Project Glasswing "threatens the whole idea that security can remain a find-and-fix afterthought. The era of the security backlog is coming to a welcome end.”
Check out my latest CSO piece.
What Anthr…

What Anthropic Glasswing reveals about the future of vulnerability discovery
A closed consortium including tech giants and top security vendors gets early access to a model Anthropic says can autonomously discover software vulnerabilities at scale. The implications for cybersecurity’s future could be significant.

“4% of GitHub public commits are being authored by Claude Code right now. At the current trajectory, we believe that Claude Code will be 20% of all daily commits by the end of 2026. While you blinked, AI consumed all of software development.”
Must-read article, even if you can disagree with the analysis

Claude Code is the Inflection Point
What It Is, How We Use It, Industry Repercussions, Microsoft's Dilemma, Why Anthropic Is Winning

#Rant
Rob Shaw is solidifying his position as the new Dean of Right Wing, anti-Worker Legislative Reporters in British Columbia.
With these gems, it's incredible that he has an education or goes to a doctor at all…
"The BCTF is typically one of the most militant unions, and quickly prone to job action.”
BCTF Strikes since 2000:
2005
2014
phew! almost got to three!
Remember that this was at the time of a union-busting BC Liberal government that had to go to the Supreme Court of Canada to get told that they ripped up union contracts unconstitutionally and were *forced* to compensate many years later.
"The ratification is a win for a New Democrat government. And extraordinarily expensive for taxpayers, too."
“extraordinarily expensive. Really? How is a wage increase that is *barely* in line with inflation after literally decades of below-inflation increases, “extraordinary”? I'll wait.
"Teachers can thank the BCGEU for turning what was an initial 3.5 per cent wage offer over two years by government, into a more than 12 per cent increase over four that is now forming the baseline for all other union deals."
Indeed! For those who can do math, that means 3% each of 4 years instead of 3.5 over two. But thanks Rob for making it seem like 4 times more!
Thanks BCGEU members for your solidarity and perceverence! I have been on strike. It sucks HARD. But it was worth it and it works.
"The ratification by the BCTF means roughly half of the 450,000 public sector employees now have deals of some sort with the province. Two majors left on the table are nurses and doctors.”
Oh no! Let’s not pay doctors and nurses! Surely they'll stay regardless in our incredibly overworked and under resourced healthcare system!
Like how does Mr Shaw believe we are to stay competitive or attract people. Or is he just not worried about getting sick….
"The skyrocketing deficit has the NDP government inking sweetheart deals with organized labour on the one hand, while pledging to cut public sector jobs with the other.”
Ya, we could have kept those public sector jobs if it weren't for fools like you who demanded governments cut taxes over the past 20 years instead of reasonable rises to... again…keep up with inflation and retain service!
It is a crappy balancing act that the NDP is doing and I do not like a lot of it. At the same time as Mr. Shaw complains about "sweetheart deals" for people in post-secondary, I am seeing historic cuts in that same sector. It's a blood bath actually. So the potential wage increases are going to be welcome, but feel pretty hollow as so many collegues have left.
Rob Shaw would have had us all lose our jobs and take a pay cut at the next one for good measure.
Thanks but no thanks Rob, your world view sucks.
https://www.nsnews.com/economy-law-politics/rob-shaw-ndp-deal-with-bc-teachers-sets-another-costly-precedent-for-public-sector-talks-11966874

Packers rumor involving $48 million pending free agent should interest Steelers, Raiders, Titans https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/green-bay-packers/news/packers-rumo…

during the #formosa talk at day1 of #realworldcrypto i see they reference signalapp/noise-c using some jade implementation for the pqkem. i wonder why don't the use the formally verified noise-star project instead?

GitHub - Inria-Prosecco/noise-star: Verified implementations for the Noise family of protocols
Verified implementations for the Noise family of protocols - Inria-Prosecco/noise-star

The 'pv' #Linux utility is quite nice as you can track any process read process with the -d option. But what if it is not installed?
p=long_run_prog_name; while pgrep $p >/dev/null; do echo $(date -Isec) $(awk -v s=$(stat -c %s infile) '/pos/{printf "%.3f %%\n", 100*$2/s}' $(eval echo /proc/{$(pgrep -d, $p)}/fdinfo/3) ); sleep 30;done
'infile' is …

Back in sight - "Breakthrough for patients with age-related macular degeneration", on the PRIMA retinal implant https://www.pittmed.pitt.edu/news/prima-system-age-related-macular-degeneration-retinal-implant-vision-j…

You’ve read your last free article
https://www.wired.com/snake-bros-antivenom-index-zoos-influencers-chris-gifford/

Snake Bros Keep Getting Bitten by Their Lethal Pets. Only Zoos Can Save Them
Your venomous serpent bites you, and the clock is ticking. America’s zookeepers—and a cooler full of rare antivenom—are your best chance of survival.