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Supercharging Immune Cells May Help Control HIV Long-Term

WIRED

CAR-T cell therapy is already a potent treatment for certain cancers. Now, a small study is showing early promise for managing HIV. A Miracle cancer therapy that involves engineering a patient's own immune cells is being repurposed for HIV, and early results from two individuals hint at its promise for long-term control of the virus. As part of a clinical trial, scientists took people's own immune cells and reprogrammed them in a lab to recognize and attack HIV in the body. After a single infusion of the modified cells, two individuals with HIV now have undetectable levels of the virus--one for nearly two years and the other for almost a year.


Maytronics Dolphin Nautilus CC Supreme review: This pool cleaner kept the cord

PCWorld

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. But cords are still a hassle. Endless run time lets you clean as often as you'd like. App is slow to respond; remote control is useless. This corded robot has good cleaning capabilities and is free from the tyranny of a dying battery, but it's tough to maneuver out of the pool and cleanup is a real chore.


Agentic AI for Robot Teams

IEEE Spectrum Robotics

This presentation highlights recent efforts at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory to advance agentic AI for collaborative robotic teams. It begins by framing the core challenges of enabling autonomy, coordination, and adaptability across heterogeneous systems, then introduces a scalable architecture designed to support agentic behaviors in multi-robot environments. The talk concludes with key challenges encountered and practical lessons learned from ongoing research and development.


AI has invaded the L.A. mayor's race. Some fear it's just the beginning

Los Angeles Times

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. AI has invaded the L.A. mayor's race. Spencer Pratt poses for a portrait where his home once stood on Jan. 12 in Pacific Palisades. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here .


Tech leaders funding Matt Mahan's campaign for California governor say it's not about tech

Los Angeles Times

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. Tech leaders funding Matt Mahan's campaign for California governor say it's not about tech This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . San José Mayor Matt Mahan's late-entry bid for California governor has been supercharged by millions from Silicon Valley billionaires. Critics say that will make Mahan beholden to Big Tech if he wins, but several of his funders from the tech sector said their backing isn't about deregulation or favors, but Mahan's centrist focus on crime, homelessness, housing and education.


I'm a Normie. Can Normies Really Vibe Code?

WIRED

So Claude and I tried to make a database for tracking the petty grievances of the masses. The dog that ushered me into the technological future was "low and thick." That's all my mother registered before it T-boned her in a city park earlier this year: dense, heavy, and traveling fast enough to fracture her right tibia. Let's discuss what this set in motion in my life: Having successfully learned nothing about coding for two and a half decades, I would soon be attempting my very first software development project. If you've ever had a low and thick dog break your mom's shin bone, you know the stream of lesser indignities that follows.


The Prehistory of A.I. Slop

The New Yorker

Jill Lepore chronicles the rise of machine-generated writing, from a Hollywood plot-writing grift and Cold War computer poetry to the age of ChatGPT.


An ICE Firearms Trainer Was Involved in At Least 4 Deadly Shootings

WIRED

David Norman, a former Phoenix police officer who's described himself as "a fucking savage," now runs a company that provided training to Homeland Security's Special Response Teams. The owner of a company that trained paramilitary Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents testified that he was involved in at least four lethal shootings, according to a 2021 deposition related to a lawsuit reviewed by WIRED. David S. Norman, the founder and proprietor of law enforcement training firm TruKinetics LLC, served as a Phoenix Police officer from the late 1990s until his retirement in 2020. Prior to founding TruKinetics the same year, according to records reviewed by WIRED, Norman was involved in six shootings while on duty that left four people dead and two more wounded. In every instance, the Phoenix Police Department said Norman fired on an armed suspect and exchanged volleys of gunfire in at least two of the shootings. Based in Gilbert, Arizona, TruKinetics offers training on small-team tactics, hostage rescues, close-quarters combat, building searches, night-vision firearms proficiency, pistol and rifle courses, "vehicle interdiction," breaching with explosives, and sniper tactics, according to the company's website.


Classical education and AI could reshape how America prepares its children

FOX News

Melania Trump's Foster the Future summit and the classical education movement converge, arguing that grammar, logic and rhetoric can prepare children for an AI-dominated future.