Roundtables: Brain-Computer Interfaces: From Promise to Product

Speakers: David Rotman, editor at large, and Antonio Regalado, senior editor for biomedicine. Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have been crowned the 11th Breakthrough Technology of 2025 by MIT Technology Review‘s readers. BCIs are electrodes implanted into the brain to send neural commands to computers, primarily to assist paralyzed people. Hear from MIT Technology Review editor at large David Rotman and […]

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Iran-Linked Hackers Target Israel with MURKYTOUR Malware via Fake Job Campaign

The Iran-nexus threat actor known as UNC2428 has been observed delivering a backdoor known as MURKYTOUR as part of a job-themed social engineering campaign aimed at Israel in October 2024. Google-owned Mandiant described UNC2428 as a threat actor aligned with Iran that engages in cyber espionage-related operations. The intrusion set is said to have distributed […]

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Adversarial Reprogramming of Neural Cellular Automata

Contents This article is part of the Differentiable Self-organizing Systems Thread, an experimental format collecting invited short articles delving into differentiable self-organizing systems, interspersed with critical commentary from several experts in adjacent fields. Self-Organising Textures This article makes strong use of colors in figures and demos. Click here to adjust the color palette. In a […]

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RIP John Roberts’s Summer Vacation

from the supreme-court-cancel-culture dept At 1:15am early Saturday morning the Supreme Court, in just a few lines of text, did something that was both small and huge: It “directed” the government not to remove anyone detained in the Northern District of Texas (or, more specifically, “All noncitizens in custody in the Northern District of Texas […]

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Refreshed StaffEng.com and a few other sites

Ahead of announcing the title and publisher of my thus-far-untitled book on engineering strategy in the next week or two, I put together a website for its content. That site is pretty much the same format as this blog, but with some improvements like better mobile rendering on / than this blog has historically had. […]

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