An interview with Galen Buckwalter, a BCI recipient in a Caltech brain implant study, on his recent ability to use the implant to produce musical tones (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-man-making-music-with-his-brain-implant/
📢 Inflationsrate steigt im März auf 2,7 Prozent
Die durch den Iran-Krieg stark gestiegenen Ölpreise schlagen deutlich auf die Verbraucherpreise durch. Die Inflationsrate stieg im März laut einer ersten Schätzung des Statistischen Bundesamts auf 2,7 Prozent. Im Februar hatte sie noch bei 1,9 Prozent gelegen.
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Contrary to Elon Musk's claims about Neuralink Blindsight, ReVision Implant admits about their V1 implant that it will not work for congenitally blind adults, i.e. "blindness contracted from birth as then the visual cortex does not develop normally" https://www.revision-implant.com/faq
A profile of Spanish-language US news influencer Carlos Eduardo Espina, who has ~22.5M followers, relies on traditional media, and provides help to his viewers (Graciela Mochkofsky/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-rise-of-a-spanis…
Don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Iran-linked hackers leak FBI director’s personal emails in targeted influence operation,
--Anthropic exposed cache of materials through a misconfigured CMS,
--Lockdown Mode locks out mercenary spyware,
--Crypto account protection products fall short,
--Stats SA hit by ransomware,
--ClickFix campaign targets crypto users on macOS th…
Nanofiber implant delivers three drugs, doubles survival in glioblastoma mice
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-nanofiber-implant-drugs-survival-glioblastoma.html
Anthropic's Claude Security, formerly Claude Code Security, is in public beta for Enterprise users; the Opus 4.7-powered tool can scan code for vulnerabilities (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)
https://www.implicator.ai/anthropic-opens-claude-s…
Jim Cramer on inflation report: ‘These numbers are just bad’
https://thehill.com/business/5857905-iran-war-inflation-cramer/