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IEEE Spectrum: World's first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients https://spectrum.ieee.org/fully-implantable-cochlear-implant "Users get round-the-clock hearing with no visible external hardware";

First Fully Implantable Cochlear Implant Launches
Users get round-the-clock hearing with no visible external hardware

HANNAH ARENDT TAGE: Experten diskutieren bei heise über KI und Denken
Zum 120. Geburtstag der Politiktheoretikerin laden die HANNAH ARENDT TAGE 2026 dazu ein, ihre Impulse für unabhängiges Denken neu zu entdecken.

HANNAH ARENDT TAGE: Experten diskutieren bei heise über KI und Denken
Zum 120. Geburtstag der Politiktheoretikerin laden die HANNAH ARENDT TAGE 2026 dazu ein, ihre Impulse für unabhängiges Denken neu zu entdecken.

Google freezes product flaw submissions to its OSS Vulnerability Reward Program over an influx of invalid AI-driven reports, plans an update by Q1 2027 (Etiido Uko/Tom's Hardware)
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Google freezes open-source bug bounty program amid flood of invalid AI slop submissions — product flaw submissions halted until 2027 as maintainers drown in hallucinations
Engineers and open-source maintainers reportedly overwhelmed by thousands of sloppy reports

"BoM forecasts strongest El Niño on record as research points to ‘alarming’ climate change influence"
#ElNino #Climate #ClimateChange

BoM forecasts strongest El Niño on record as research points to ‘alarming’ climate change influence
Bureau of Meteorology suggests El Niño has already broken records, with Pacific ocean temperature change exceeding 2C in six months

Q&A with United Talent Agency executives Ali Berman and Raina Penchansky about UTA's Creators division, helping creators launch products, AI, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/961603/raina-penchans…

Inside the big business of the creator economy, with the agents making it happen
Nilay Patel discusses the creator and influencer economy and marketplace with the heads of UTA’s Creators Division.

Here’s why wages are falling behind inflation, an economic warning sign
It wasn’t so long ago that Americans’ earnings lost ground to inflation.
From 2021 to 2023, prices for gas, food and housing soared due to a combination of increased demand and supply chain shocks.
That pain weighed heavily on households across the country,
even helping Donald Trump retake the White House.

“This is one of the reasons consumers hate the economy.
They’ve never recov…

Here’s why wages are falling behind inflation, an economic warning sign
Inflation beat out wage growth again in August, which feels like 2023.

Can a brain implant restore vision? Elon Musk says yes https://www.dhakatribune.com/feature/tech/416707/can-a-brain-implant-restore-vision-elon-musk-says This is actually a decent news article by not just regurgitating Musk's unsubs…

How Rationalism, a movement pioneered by Eliezer Yudkowsky focused on existential superintelligent AI risks, influenced top AI leaders and their alarmist claims (Cal Newport/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/opinion

Opinion | How Scared Should We Be of A.I. Right Now?
The dark and distressing way that Silicon Valley talks about A.I. can be traced to a philosophy that influenced many tech executives.

"Restoring sight to the blind": what Neuralink's Blindsight implant can actually do #BCI

Neuralink Blindsight: what the implant can actually do
Neuralink announces an implant to restore sight. Dated timeline, real state of published data, and what it changes for AMD or diabetic retinopathy.

South Korean officials are probing whether AI agents were used in recent bank hacks, after President Lee Jae Myung said "signs" suggest AI models were involved (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/world/asia/south-korea-banks-hacked-ai.…

South Korea Investigates Possible Use of A.I. in Hacks on Its Banks
The president said there were signs that such models were used in recent attacks on several banks involving customer data. Police are investigating.