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Sensory restoration via brain-computer interfaces: a scoping review https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.15091 "Teams developing high-density invasive stimulation interfaces rarely collaborate with teams building non-invasive sensory substitution setups";

Sensory Restoration via Brain-Computer Interfaces: A Scoping Review
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) can restore sensory and motor function in individuals with severe neurological impairment, but the literature is fragmented between invasive neuroprosthetics and non-invasive electrophysiological decoders, with inconsistent terminology and metrics. This scoping review maps BCI-mediated sensory restoration along a unified 2x2 framework (invasiveness x signal direction), charts representative modalities and their trade-offs, and synthesizes a convergence roadmap f…

The DoJ civil rights division has seen dramatic changes since Trump came back into office last year and installed Harmeet Dhillon, a former Republican Party operative in California, to lead it.
Dhillon has fired employees in droves,
pushed out others through separation incentives tied to pressure campaigns,
reassigned staff
and rewritten the mission statements for each section in the division.
She has vastly reshaped the types of cases the office pursues
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How Trump Transformed the DOJ’s Civil Rights Office
New, permanent hires include an attorney sanctioned for attempting to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss.

UPLOAD-ANYON: Progress Towards an Optimised Twisted Anyon Cavity with High-Sensitivity AM-Noise Detection for an Ultralight Axion Dark Matter Search
Robert Crew, Emma Paterson, Maxim Goryachev, Eugene Ivanov, Pashupati Dhakal, Tugrul Talha Ersoz, Michael Tobar, Jeremy Bourhill
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19225 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.19225 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.19225
arXiv:2608.19225v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We propose a superconducting single-mode microwave haloscope based on helical cavity resonators for the detection of ultralight dark matter axions over the mass range $10^{-18}$ to $10^{-13}\,\mathrm{eV}$. Building on the single-mode helical-cavity concept introduced by Bourhill et al. [Phys. Rev. D 108, 052014 (2023); arXiv:2208.01640], we use an inverse-design framework to develop practical resonator geometries compatible with superconducting niobium fabrication. The optimisation employs a figure of merit derived to minimise the measurement time required to achieve a fixed experimental sensitivity. Relative to the heuristic M\"obius-geometry benchmark, the best subtractively manufacturable bulk-niobium design achieves a figure of merit more than three orders of magnitude larger. An experimentally informed microwave interferometric readout model, incorporating measured electronics noise and active suppression of pump amplitude noise, is used to project the sensitivity of the proposed experiment. For an acquisition time of three months, the haloscope is projected to reach $g_{a\gamma\gamma}<10^{-11}\,\mathrm{GeV}^{-1}$ across more than four orders of magnitude in axion mass. The projected sensitivity extends approximately one order of magnitude below the current exclusion limits set by CAST, providing a practical pathway towards a high-sensitivity direct search for ultralight dark matter axions.
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China's first commercial insurance policy for invasive BCI surgery is out https://insidebci.com/market/2026-08-16-picc-property-casualty-china-first-commercial-insurance-invasive-bci-surgery-zhejiang/

China's first commercial insurance policy for invasive BCI surgery is out
State-owned PICC Property and Casualty signed China's first commercial insurance policy covering invasive brain-computer interface surgery on Wednesday 12 August 2026. Counterparty is the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine. Zhejiang Provincial Government Office released a same-day industry-policy package. Hong Kong and Shenzhen BCI-tagged stocks rallied.

«“It’s an absolute disaster,” said one former official in an Army office supervising the project. “The Army should’ve gone after recovering money from General Dynamics,” added the official, who, like others interviewed for this story, spoke on the condition of anonymity.»
https://www.propublic…

Graham had been advocating for much stronger sanctions on russia. Super lucky for russia: he’s gone now.
“The office of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham says the South Carolina Republican has died following a brief and sudden illness.”
“In a statement released Sunday, Graham’s office said he passed away Saturday evening, July 11.”
“Graham had recently returned from a trip to Kyiv, Ukraine, where he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday.”

Es gibt viele Fragen ud Vermutungen zu den Maßnahmen der US-Regierung gegen #Autistici @… .
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Perplexity launches Hybrid Compute, which splits workloads between frontier cloud models like Opus 5 and local LLMs, for all users of its Mac app (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2248548/perplexitys-hybrid-compu…

Perplexity's Hybrid Compute Splits Sensitive Tasks Between Cloud And Local AI
Perplexity's Hybrid Compute lets you split tasks between cloud and local models.

The U.S. Department of Justice and the Pentagon ‌
have created a joint task force to identify and prosecute what Defense Secretary ⁠Pete Hegseth described as
unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information to news media.
"I have delegated tasking authority to the War Department's ‌Office ⁠of General Counsel,
empowering OGC to request and receive all information, ⁠records,
and support across the department concerning media ⁠leak investigations,"

Sanctioning Officials of the Palestinian Authority and Members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (United States Department of State)
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesman/2026/09/sanctioning-officials-of-the-palestinian-authority-and-members-of-the-palestine-liberation-organization-2/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260917/p92#a260917p92