Troy Jackson, Maine's Democratic Senate candidate, faces bipartisan backlash over a viral boba tea ad targeting Susan Collins and Elon Musk in the Maine Senate race.

Jon Ossoff faces calls from Rep. Mike Collins to return a campaign donation from billionaire donor Reid Hoffman, who has ties to Jeffrey Epstein, in the Georgia Senate race.

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César de la Fuente is on a mission to combat antimicrobial resistance by looking at nature's own solutions. César de la Fuente is an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he leads the Machine Biology Group. When he was just a teenager trying to decide what to do with his life, César de la Fuente compiled a list of the world's biggest problems. He ranked them inversely by how much money governments were spending to solve them. Antimicrobial resistance topped the list. Twenty years on, the problem has not gone away.

Stimulus-drivenbrain-computer interfaces (BCIs), such astheP300 speller,rely onusing asequence ofsensory stimuli toelicit specific neural responses ascontrol signals, while a user attends to relevant target stimuli that occur within the sequence. In current BCIs, the stimulus presentation schedule is typically generated in a pseudo-random fashion. Given the non-stationarity of brain electrical signals, a better strategy could be to adapt the stimulus presentation schedule in real-time by selecting the optimal stimuli that will maximize the signal-to-noise ratios of the elicited neural responses and provide the most information about the user's intent based on the uncertainties of the data being measured. However, the high-dimensional stimulus space limits the development of algorithms with tractable solutions for optimized stimulus selection to allow for real-time decision-making within the stringent time requirements of BCI processing.

Is "Six Seven" Really Brain Rot? The viral phrase is easy to dismiss, but its ubiquity suggests something crucial about human nature. Recently, my wife was texting with a friend who lives in Singapore. The news from the other side of the world turned out to be that kids there had discovered "six seven." On Halloween, our friend reported, a boy with a handmade "six seven" jersey had earned applause as he made his way through her neighborhood--a place that's a long way from Sixty-seventh Street in Philadelphia, which the rapper Skrilla may have been referencing in his song "Doot Doot (6 7)," which came out last December.

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In the current media landscape, it's a wonder it even got made. In a world where hallowed news organizations transform into conservative mouthpieces and milquetoast late-night jokes are grounds for suspension, satirical headlines from the Onion can feel closer to real life than parody. Now the site is taking on one of the most taboo subjects of all--disgraced sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein--in mockumentary form. It launches in theaters in New York City, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and San Francisco for one day only on October 2; after that it will be available online. You can watch the trailer right here.