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Bye-bye TV-News: US-Wähler setzen auf Influencer statt auf Nachrichten
Eine Studie zeigt, wie rasant klassische Medien in den USA an Boden verlieren. Podcaster wie Joe Rogan und Late-Night-Talker übernehmen das Informationsmonopol.

(German) Der Wettlauf um das beste Implantat für das menschliche Hirn https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/forschung-innovation/gehirnchips-der-wettlauf-um-das-beste-implantat-fuer-das-menschliche-hi…

Gehirnchips: Der Wettlauf um das beste Implantat für das menschliche Hirn
Max Hodak hat Elon Musks Neuralink mitgegründet. Mit seiner Firma Science Corp arbeitet er daran, Blinden das Sehen zurückzugeben. Und ist damit nicht der einzige, der auf neue Gehirnchips setzt.

How social media influencers have become a magnet for political campaigns and groups in the US that want to push their priorities without disclosures (Ken Bensinger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/202…

Political Money Is Flowing to Influencers. But From Whom?
Social media stars have become a magnet for campaigns and political groups that want to push priorities without disclosing where their money is going.

An ICE Firearms Trainer Was Involved in At Least 4 Deadly Shootings (Ali Winston/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/an-ice-firearms-trainer-was-involved-in-at-least-4-deadly-shootings/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p100#a260518p100

As a fan of traditional machine learning research, I’ll just register here my sadness and discontent that things are going this way. Time was that an effort like this would follow stringent ethical rules for research involving humans that would never ever allow this kind of phony consent theater, would go through a review board •with actual teeth•, would not involve offloading raw personal data to commercial vendors who have the power to slurp it up and repurpose it, would result in a narrowly purposed-tuned model answering to the ethical parameters of the study, would not leave the barn doors wide open to endless open-ended use of personal data…I could go on.

Traders placed over $1 billion in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war.
On the night of 27 February, the day before the US and Israel would carry out strikes on Iran, an unusual influx of about 150 accounts on Polymarket placed bets that the US would strike Iran the next day.
A New York Times analysis found the bets totaled $855,000, with 16 accounts pocketing more than $100,000 each.
Soon after, a single anonymous Polymarket user, under an account named “Magamyman”, made o…

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? — Guardian US
Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

16WW Impulse Heating Test - A bit of research to understand the thermal behaviour of part of 16WW better! - https://www.earth.org.uk/impulse-heating-test.html

16WW Impulse Heating Test
A bit of research to understand the thermal behaviour of part of 16WW better!

Article on the ReVision Implant brain implant originating from China (WeChat): WeChat #BCI #NeuroTech

Milestone: Flexible Electrodes Implanted in Cerebral Cortex Offer Glimmer of Hope for Restoring Sight to the Blind; Brain - Computer Interface Gets FDA Breakthrough Device Designation
Recently, ReVision Implant, an innovative Belgian brain - computer interface firm, declared that its core product, the Occular visual reconstruction brain - computer interface, got the "Breakthrough Device Designation" from the US FDA.

Datenschutz im Umbruch: Aufsichtsbehörden fordern digitale Modernisierung
Mit den „Stuttgarter Impulsen“ reagieren die Landesdatenschützer auf anhaltende Kritik und unterstützen eine Reform für mehr Effizienz und weniger Bürokratie.

Datenschutz im Umbruch: Aufsichtsbehörden fordern digitale Modernisierung
Mit den „Stuttgarter Impulsen“ reagieren die Landesdatenschützer auf anhaltende Kritik und unterstützen eine Reform für mehr Effizienz und weniger Bürokratie.

Trump NRA snub fuels questions about key GOP ally's influence (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5837255-nra-influence-declines-trump-absent/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260418/p41#a260418p41