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StairMed's penetrating BCI trial at Huashan reaches 18 cumulative implants https://insidebci.com/news/2026-07-20-stairmed-18-patients-huashan-shanghai-penetrating-bci-trial/

StairMed's penetrating BCI trial at Huashan reaches 18 cumulative implants
On 20 July 2026, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, StairMed disclosed that its cortex-penetrating invasive BCI clinical trial at Huashan Hospital has now reached 18 cumulative implants since March 2025. The Shanghai firm co-founded by Zhao Zhengtuo and Xue Li at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Center for Excellence in Brain Science demonstrated a patient three months post-op controlling a wheelchair by thought and hitting 6.19 bits per second on a cursor task, alongs…

Cardinals, Panthers first teams to fully report to training camp ahead of 2026 NFL season https://www.nfl.com/news/cardinals-panthers-veterans-report-training-camp-2026-nfl-season

Staged publishing for npm! Finally 🙏
I'm only just starting to test it now, but in theory at least this trusted publishing could very significantly tighten up the security posture for lots of packages. Would be fantastic to see the current wave of attacks slow down a bit.
https://docs.npmjs.com/staged-publishi…

Staged publishing for npm packages | npm Docs
Documentation for the npm registry, website, and command-line interface

from my link log —
VBR: version based reclamation.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13843
saved 2022-12-26 https://dotat.at/:/IVLGG.html

VBR: Version Based Reclamation
Safe lock-free memory reclamation is a difficult problem. Existing solutions follow three basic methods (or their combinations): epoch based reclamation, hazard pointers, and optimistic reclamation. Epoch-based methods are fast, but do not guarantee lock-freedom. Hazard pointer solutions are lock-free but typically do not provide high performance. Optimistic methods are lock-free and fast, but previous optimistic methods did not go all the way. While reads were executed optimistically, writes w…

The people have moved on.
Americans are not just fed up with pandering to Israel by politicians beholden to funding from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
The people have moved on from this notion that things need to move slowly or worse yet, nothing can be done at all.
The current fear-mongering about democratic socialists overshadows the fact it started in the early 1980s,
a time when Americans struggled to make ends meet.
And the current scare f…

Granderson: Voters want what the Democrats' left wing offers
The emergence of democratic socialists has caused some soul-searching, but the answers aren't mysterious. Just ask the public.

Several journalists on Substack say they feel safer working for themselves rather than for legacy outlets, but some say earning a living wage can be difficult (Mallary Tenore Tarpley/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/can-independent-…

What journalists gain — and lose — when they go independent - Poynter
The creator economy is opening new doors for journalists. But can independence replace everything a newsroom provides?

What is the Source?
To the painter Remedios Varo, and possibly to Thomas Cole (founder of the Hudson River school), the Source was an overflowing chalice set in a mysterious landscape.
The Source is magical and inexhaustible (like a fairy-tale soup pot), hidden and yet waiting to be found, ready to be discovered not once but endlessly.

Lake Tear of the Clouds
What is the Source? On Thomas Cole, Remedios Varo, Verplank, Colvin, Lake Tear of the Clouds, and the Hudson, the river that flows both ways.

NFL news roundup: Panthers RT Taylor Moton to miss start of '26 due to blood clots; Jaycee Horn on NFI https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-tuesday-july-21

Officially an engraver and accorded the lowly status thereof,
William Blake devoted his labors to realizing his elaborately idiosyncratic visions using images and words together in ways that no artist had done before.
Blake swam against the current “of modern human understanding, whose bedrock is the principle of specialization.”
Today, nearly two centuries after his death, that principle still obtains -- and in some ways more rigidly than ever.
But his work remains,

The Radical, Unclassifiable Art of William Blake
William Blake is a household name, or not far from it, but things get more complicated when it comes to professional description. He was a poet, a painter, and a printmaker, at least insofar as he wrote poetry, painted paintings, and made prints.

Reuters' staff union files an unfair labor practices complaint with the NLRB, saying a producer's contract ended after he discussed Reuters' ICE ties internally (Angela Fu/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/reuters-ret…

Reuters retaliated against a journalist for raising concerns about the company’s ties to ICE, union alleges - Poynter
The union says the contractor was investigated after participating in internal chats about Thomson Reuters’ DHS contracts