January 2026

Biology-based brain model matches animals in learning, enables new discovery

Biology-based brain model matches animals in learning, enables new discovery

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A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, but even enabled the discovery of counterintuitive activity by a group of neurons that researchers working with animals to perform the same task had not noticed in their data before, says a team of scientists at Dartmouth College, MIT, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. […]

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See my friend Annie edit videos with her eyes

See my friend Annie edit videos with her eyes

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I first met Annie through her work with Muttville, a local non-profit for adopting senior dogs where we found our MinPin. My wife started editing videos to help get more dogs adopted, and Annie was another volunteer doing the same work. I initially got to know her through her videos, where she did an amazing job bringing out the personalities of all the pups she was showcasing. All of her work has a happy energy, and when I […]

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Instagram Creators Should Check If Their Posts Are Being Deemed Political

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The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public good. Sign up for Klaxon, a newsletter that delivers our stories and tools directly to your inbox. If you opened Instagram last week, you may have seen one of many tutorials on how to opt out of a setting that was quietly released in February: Instagram and Threads users will no longer be recommended political content […]

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US officially out of WHO, leaving hundreds of millions of dollars unpaid

US officially out of WHO, leaving hundreds of millions of dollars unpaid

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As of today, the US is no longer a member of the World Health Organization—and it leaves the United Nations health agency with hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid bills, according to reporting by Stat News. A year ago today, the US informed the WHO of its intent to exit, setting the clock for a one-year withdrawal period mandated in a 1948 joint resolution of Congress. But, in practice, the withdrawal was immediate, with the Trump administration […]

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Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"

Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure “intact mental health”

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The project developer for one of the Internet’s most popular networking tools is scrapping its vulnerability reward program after being overrun by a spike in the submission of low-quality reports, much of it AI-generated slop. “We are just a small single open source project with a small number of active maintainers,” Daniel Stenberg, the founder and lead developer of the open source app cURL, said Thursday. “It is not in our power to change how all these people […]

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Hacker who stole 120,000 bitcoins wants a second chance—and a security job

Hacker who stole 120,000 bitcoins wants a second chance—and a security job

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On Thursday, Ilya Lichtenstein, who was at the center of a massive 2016 crypto heist worth billions at the time, wrote online that he is now out of prison and has changed his ways. “Ten years ago, I decided that I would hack the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world,” Lichtenstein wrote on LinkedIn, detailing a time when his startup was barely making money and he decided to steal some instead. “This was a terrible idea. It was […]

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How to Make Your Legacy Exception-Throwing Code Compatible With Lambdas

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Java’s checked exceptions were a massive improvement over C’s error-handling mechanism. As time passed and experience accumulated, we collectively concluded that we weren’t there yet. However, Java’s focus on stability has kept checked exceptions in its existing API. Java 8 brought lambdas after the “checked exceptions are great” trend. None of the functional interface methods accepts a checked exception. In this post, I will demonstrate three different approaches to making your legacy exception-throwing code compatible with lambdas. The […]

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AlphaTON Launches Claude Connector Powered By TON And Telegram

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DAVOS Today marks the launch of AlphaTON Claude Connector, a groundbreaking platform that combines Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence with TON blockchain technology, delivered through the Telegram messaging application. The solution enables users to manage digital assets, execute transactions, and interact with blockchain services using natural language conversation. The platform addresses a critical barrier to cryptocurrency adoption: complexity. Traditional blockchain interfaces require technical knowledge and navigation through complicated dashboards. AlphaTON Claude Connector eliminates these obstacles by allowing users to […]

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Efficient Gaussian process learning via subspace projections

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We propose a novel training objective for GPs constructed using lower-dimensional linear projections of the data, referred to as emph{projected likelihood} (PL). We provide a closed-form expression for the information loss related to the PL and empirically show that it can be reduced with random projections on the unit sphere. We show the superiority of the PL, in terms of accuracy and computational efficiency, over the exact GP training and the variational free energy approach to sparse GPs […]

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Report: Apple plans to launch AI-powered wearable pin device as soon as 2027

Report: Apple plans to launch AI-powered wearable pin device as soon as 2027

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Apple is working on a wearable device that will allow the user to take advantage of AI models, according to sources familiar with the product who spoke with tech publication The Information. The product is said to be “the same size as an AirTag, only slightly thicker,” and will be worn as a pin, inviting comparisons to the failed Humane AI pin that launched to bad reviews and lackluster sales in 2024. The Humane product was criticized for […]

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