Brain reading device implanted, hearing restored in children, and Bitcoin using 2% of US Power

PICKS ✨

1️⃣ Elon Musk's Neuralink

implanted its first 'brain-reading' device in a person, aiming to enable control of devices through thought for those with severe paralysis, amidst cautious optimism and concerns over transparency and trial details. 🧠

2️⃣ A gene therapy trial in China 

has successfully restored hearing in five deaf children with a genetic condition, showing promising early results for future applications in treating hearing loss. 🦻

3️⃣ Bitcoin 

now consumes over 2% of US electricity, equivalent to adding a new state's demand to the grid ⚡️

HIGHLIGHTS 🔍️

• 🩹 Smart skin patch tracks tumor size with nanoparticles

• 🧑‍⚕️ Health experts concerned by online no-masturbation movement

• 🖼️ AI poisoning art tool 'Nightshade' gets 250k downloads in 5 days

• 🥸 Roughly 200,000 Vision Pro headsets sold by Apple

• 🧠 High-resolution imaging unmasks new brain cells and structures

• 💊 Brain implant could be new treatment for opioid addiction

• 🖨️ 3D printing creates first viable human brain tissue in lab

• 📈 Nvidia commands 98% of data center GPU market, analysts say

• 🦠 Bacteria and self-repair tech may address UK's pothole issue

• 🔭 Space Telescope's new tech enables direct exoplanet viewing

OTHER NEWS 🚀

• 23andMe plummets from $6 billion to nearly worthless

• China's yearly solar installations surpass total U.S. installations

• Zuckerberg's yearly $700 million paycheck from Meta's dividend

• Economic boom clashes with tech sector layoffs

• Google discontinues webpage caching in search

• Microsoft to phase out WordPad after 28 years

• Spotify CEO criticizes Apple's latest App Store changes

• Amazon cancels iRobot acquisition, leading to massive layoffs

• AMD's new chip manages high Fortnite FPS without GPU

• IBM ultimatum: relocate or exit

• Zuckerberg apologizes to bereaved families, declines compensation fund

• FCC aims to ban AI voice robocalls

• Microsoft halts new Blizzard game and cuts 1,900 jobs

• US to require AI safety reports ahead of public release

• Mercedes-Benz inadvertently leaks source code and secrets

• Company caught smuggling $11.6m in US chips to China

• NSA admits buying sensitive American data

• German railway seeks admin for legacy MS-DOS, Windows 3.11 systems

• MIT, IBM uncover AI shortcuts via brute-force math

• Influx of AI spam threatens web quality

• Fake celebrity images flood Google via AI content network

• NYC stops Times Square's security robot pilot

• Google IT chief: Moore's Law ended a decade ago, confirming Huang's stance

• Mozilla criticizes Microsoft's push for Edge using misleading prompts

• Innovative 'twist' found in crystal design between substrates, beneficial to electronics

• Job loss attributed to AI's body language analysis of a makeup artist

• Legislation planned in the US against nonconsensual AI-generated deepfakes

• The rise of cult-like behavior in AI firms and circles

• Apple emphasizes 'spatial computing' with Vision Pro headset launch

• A veteran software archive bids farewell after 32 years online

• New NASA spacesuit excels in zero-gravity testing for ISS

• DNA-based particles mimic viruses for vaccine development

• ESA to experiment with metal 3D printing aboard ISS

• New biodegradable sensor detects food's pesticide safety

• Novel battery-free sensor can activate electronics using sound vibrations

• $7 DIY device with phone motor creates 3D cancer testing model

• Raytheon's CHIMERA microwave system successfully fries drones in tests

• HaLow Wi-Fi standard tested with 1.8-mile range capability

• Advanced infrared sensors achieve non-line-of-sight imaging

• Raspberry Pi gears up for over $500M London IPO

TOP REPOSITORIES 🧑‍💻

1. actions / runner-images - GitHub Actions runner images

2. usememos / memos - An open source, lightweight note-taking service. Easily capture and share your great thoughts.

3. slint-ui / slint - Slint is a declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, or JavaScript apps.

4. psf / black - The uncompromising Python code formatter

5. microsoft / playwright - Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.

6. AykutSarac / jsoncrack.com - Innovative and open-source visualization application that transforms various data formats, such as JSON, YAML, XML, CSV and more, into interactive graphs.

7. BlinkDL / RWKV-LM - An RNN with transformer-level LLM performance. It can be directly trained like a GPT (parallelizable).

8. Expensify / App - A complete re-imagination of financial collaboration, centered around chat.

9. containerd / containerd - An open and reliable container runtime |

10. f / awesome-chatgpt-prompts - ChatGPT prompt curation to use ChatGPT better.

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