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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…

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

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.”

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,"

Two years ago I got the hardware for a RAID-mirrored 12TB storage array for all my precious files, particularly my video and music archives. I then dragged my feet ever setting up the software for it so it's sat unused, spinning.
Now in about two days an AI has set up a custom operating system for it to run syncthing, sshfs, restic, and local mounts for me. (It could have done NFS or SMB but I don't need those.) There's a day or two more of testing and tuning but it's already proving useful.
I am 100% a convert for using Claude Code (with Opus) for devops stuff. I have always been fairly competent as a sysadmin but I never loved doing it. And it sure is nice using Nix to have a declarative setup instead of ad hoc installing things.

Es gibt viele Fragen ud Vermutungen zu den Maßnahmen der US-Regierung gegen #Autistici @… .
Hier gibt es erste Antworten und Erklärungen von ihnen selbst:

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.

A dozen memes (in a thread) of the foreign policy moment: capitulation, surrender, losing the war.
🧵 1 of 3
#USpol #Iran #kegseth

An opaque White House office staffed largely by veterans of Elon Musk’s
“department of government efficiency”
(Doge) has quietly rebuilt some of the federal government’s most sensitive websites
– for passport applications, voter registration, prescription-drug pricing and children’s savings
– in ways critics say appear to violate federal law.
The National Design Studio (NDS)
was established by a Donald Trump executive order last August,
and is led by…

‘It’s dangerous and it’s going to erode trust’: redesign of US government websites stokes surveillance fears
The National Design Studio, staffed by Doge veterans, installed visitor-tracking software on vital federal websites