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An NPR investigation is raising fresh concerns about how new chemicals reach your dinner plate. The piece focuses on the FDA's GRAS designation — Generally Recognized As Safe — a self-reporting pathway that lets companies quietly introduce additives without formal agency review. It's a regulatory gap that food safety advocates have flagged for years, and it's getting renewed attention now.
On a very different note, Teamgroup has unveiled a solid-state drive that sounds like it belongs in a spy thriller. The new SSD includes a built-in four-G modem, allowing owners to trigger remote data destruction over a cellular connection. It reflects a broader push in enterprise and security storage toward hardware that can protect sensitive data even after a device leaves your hands.
And wrapping up, Firefox has merged support for Vulkan video decoding, a meaningful step for Linux users in particular. Vulkan is a low-level graphics API, and bringing video decoding into that pipeline means smoother, more hardware-efficient playback — less CPU strain, better battery behavior. It's the kind of quiet infrastructure work that rarely makes headlines but genuinely improves daily use.
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