General AI News

Twenty-seven previously unheard compositions by Erik Satie have been discovered and are set to premiere a century after his death.

British musicologist James Nye and Japanese composer Sato Matsui found these works in Satie’s small notebooks held in archives like the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

Most pieces were sketched by Satie during his time playing piano in Montmartre bistros and while walking between Paris and his home in Arcueil.

IDF soldiers deliberately fired at Palestinians near humanitarian aid distribution sites over the past month.

The victims were unarmed civilians waiting for aid.

These actions were reported by Israeli soldiers to Haaretz reporters.

The author erased her entire seven-year digital note archive to remove the burden of her “second brain.”.

Accumulating notes in a personal knowledge system turned archives into static mausoleums that replaced active thinking.

Over-reliance on PKM tools like Obsidian and Zettelkasten led to deferral of reflection and processing rather than living insights.

Rust kernel code uses use statements for selective imports instead of C’s #include directives.

module_phy_driver! macro in Rust bundles driver metadata, replacing C’s module_phy_driver() macro and phy_driver struct.

Rust defines compile-time constants with const and enforces explicit typing, unlike C’s #define.

Parcel Post launched on January 1, 1913, expanding mail-order access for rural Americans.

Some parents mailed their children via Parcel Post because postage was cheaper than train tickets.

In early 1913, Ohio parents mailed their 8-month-old son, James Beagle, for 15 cents in postage.

TarFlow is a Transformer-based variant of Masked Autoregressive Flows that enables end-to-end training on image pixels.

It alternates the autoregression direction between Transformer blocks applied to image patches.

Training employs Gaussian noise augmentation and a post-training denoising procedure to improve sample quality.

Meta is testing an opt-in feature that uploads private camera roll photos to its cloud for AI-generated suggestions.

Meta states these unpublished photos are not currently used to train its AI models.

Users grant Meta rights to analyze media content, dates, facial features, and retain that information.

SymbolicAI provides a Python framework that blends traditional code with LLM-based semantics.

Core primitive: Symbol objects offering syntactic mode (fast, literal) and semantic mode (context-aware).

Overloaded operators and methods (e.g., ==, +, .map) enable composable semantic reasoning.

Data can be covertly transmitted between devices using inaudible ultrasound emitted and captured by regular computer speakers and microphones.

Audio signals decompose into frequency components; ultrasound refers to frequencies above ~20 kHz which humans cannot hear.

A WebAudio-based demo implements return-to-zero frequency shift keying with a pilot tone, framing, and ASCII encoding for transmitting bits.

JWST captured the first direct image of an exoplanet candidate, TWA 7 b, by detecting its faint infrared light within a disk of debris around the star TWA 7.

Researchers used the telescope’s coronagraph to block out starlight and advanced image processing to reveal the dim planet signal.

TWA 7 b is estimated to have about Saturn’s mass, lies roughly 50 astronomical units from its star, and has a temperature near 120°F.