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Alibaba says its mapping app Amap's destination ranking feature hit 400M users since its launch in September; Amap had a record 360M daily users on October 1 (Xinmei Shen/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trend…

Alibaba’s Amap AI feature an instant hit with 400 million users since launch
As of June, Amap had 895.5 million monthly active users, making it the fourth biggest mobile app in China by that measure.

So last month ESET discovered AI-powered ransomware it called PromptLock. Turns out it was a research project from some NYU School of Engineering students.
PromptLock Ransomware Is Just a Research Project, But It's Still Disturbing
https://www.pcmag.com/news/pr…

NFL power rankings 2025: Model says Packers in top tier, Chiefs not among top five contenders

https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/nfl

TreeRanker: Fast and Model-agnostic Ranking System for Code Suggestions in IDEs
Daniele Cipollone, Egor Bogomolov, Arie van Deursen, Maliheh Izadi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02455

TreeRanker: Fast and Model-agnostic Ranking System for Code Suggestions in IDEs
Token-level code completion is one of the most critical features in modern Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). It assists developers by suggesting relevant identifiers and APIs during coding. While completions are typically derived from static analysis, their usefulness depends heavily on how they are ranked, as correct predictions buried deep in the list are rarely seen by users. Most current systems rely on hand-crafted heuristics or lightweight machine learning models trained on user…

The Return of the Cassette Tape: How Analog Music is Making a Comeback https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/09/the-return-of-the-cassette-tape-how-analog-music-is-making-a-comeback

The Return of the Cassette Tape? How Analog Music Is Making a Comeback | The Saturday Evening Post
It’s not just vinyl that’s become popular again. The humble cassette tape is having a renaissance of its own.

Asahi ships beer using paper and fax after ransomware attack
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/04/asahi-paper-fax-orders/

Asahi ships beer using paper and fax after ransomware attack
Asahi said it had identified evidence indicating a potential information leak, but was still verifying its nature and scope.

🤯 Interpretable EEG-to-Image Generation with Semantic Prompts
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Interpretable EEG-to-Image Generation with Semantic Prompts
Decoding visual experience from brain signals offers exciting possibilities for neuroscience and interpretable AI. While EEG is accessible and temporally precise, its limitations in spatial detail hinder image reconstruction. Our model bypasses direct EEG-to-image generation by aligning EEG signals with multilevel semantic captions -- ranging from object-level to abstract themes -- generated by a large language model. A transformer-based EEG encoder maps brain activity to these captions through…

The Department of Interior has such a wide-ranging set of duties that it’s sometimes referred to in Washington, D.C., as
“the department of everything else”
— public lands, natural resources, wildlife regulations and the Bureau of Indian Affairs all fall under its auspices.
It is now also the tip of the spear in the Trump administration’s war on renewables. 
On July 17, the Interior Department announced that all wind and solar projects would have to undergo
“eleva…

How Interior is using environmental laws to suppress renewable energy
The Trump administration is turning environmentalists’ legal playbook against them.

Google launches a new AI ransomware detection feature for Drive on desktop, trained on millions of real victim files encrypted by various ransomware strains (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/googles-latest-ai-ransomware-defense-only-goes-s…

Google’s Latest AI Ransomware Defense Only Goes So Far
Google has launched a new AI-based protection in Drive for desktop that can shut down an attack before it spreads—but its benefits have their limits.

Three picks to make on your favorite team https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/45695376/2025-nfl-betting-odds-rankings-picks-props-predictions-every-team