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UCSF built a brain implant that decodes speech and gestures at the same time. A person with paralysis can talk and wave through an avatar. Impressive. The hard part is no longer reading the signal.
Then the off switch. If the decoder reads your only channel, how do you stop it when it's misreading you? A stop control needs its own channel, one that fails safe. Decide it before the hardware hardens.
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A third of my life is sleep, and I’d never upgraded it. Early look at the Sleepmaxxer from GeniYes.
Blackout eye cups, chin strap, works for side/stomach/back sleepers.
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A control you can turn off on paper but can't operate without is not a control. It's a dependency with a button. We are building a lot of them.
Delegation is a privilege grant. Security teams review grants, scope them, revoke them. Almost nobody asks the other question: if we revoked it tomorrow, could a human run the thing?
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The counterargument: we stopped doing long division and nothing collapsed. True. But a calculator doesn't take over a system when it fails. The worry is humans supervising something they couldn't replace.
Lilly and Novo say GLP-1 drugs slow biological aging. Two to three years against placebo. The ruler was built by the people selling the drug. That's a claim, not a finding.
The independent test, VITAL-H, enrolls 726 adults in their 60s. Semaglutide is one of three drugs. The main goal isn't a clock. It's function. Enrollment starts in 2027.
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