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  1. Mar 2024
    1. Elon Musk says Neuralink’s first human trial participant can control a computer mouse with their brain, nearly one month after having the company’s chip implanted. But details remain sparse, and other companies working on brain-computer interfaces appear to have so far cleared more technological hurdles than Neuralink. “Progress is good, patient seems to have made a full recovery … and is able to control the mouse, move the mouse around the screen just by thinking,” Musk, who owns the controversial brain chip startup, said in a conversation in an X Spaces event Monday night. “We’re trying to get as many button presses as possible from thinking, so that’s what we’re currently working on is — can we get left mouse, right mouse, mouse down, mouse up,” he said, “which is kind of needed if you want to click and drag something, you need mouse down and to hold on mouse down.”

      My thoughts on this new highly advanced technology is that this is simply to dangerous for someone to have as it may seem like there might be a lot of side effects to it. For example, let's say if someone was having a very bad day or if they had a mental breakdown, what would happen to the chip in their heads. We're still not to certain about the abilities and skills this has to offer. If anything most people would agree that having this chip implanted into your head isn't the smartness move to go with. Star Wars might see this as the inhibitor chips that were put into all the Clones heads to then execute Order 66 on the Jedi. Mortal of the story is that something like this isn't really good idea given how much both the chip and the surgery will cost you.

  2. Feb 2024
    1. Among the disabled systems were online docket sheets and an electronic case document filing portal, although court officials said they were still taking paper court filings by paper and by mail. Court officials maintained that they had no evidence that hackers had stolen data, and appeared to have restored some disabled services Monday evening, including access to electronic dockets and an electronic document filing portal. The attack comes a few months after Kansas’ judicial branch was the victim of what it called a " sophisticated cyberattack,” from which it took months and millions of dollars to recover. That attack was blamed on a Russia-based group.Major tech companies Google Cloud, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services have been hit by such attacks in recent years, as have financial institutions. In 2022, some U.S. airport sites were hit. Some of the biggest attacks have been attributed to Russian or Chinese hackers.Neither the courts agency nor the federal cybersecurity agency, called the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, immediately identified the attackers or a motive.

      My thoughts on this part of the article is that this seems like a scary and shocking situation to be in. Hackers with this must control have all the power they have to do whatever they want and if finding some information, they can easily have access to leak that information to the public. As stated in the first paragraph where I'm making this annotation, there seemed to be a lot of important documents that managed to get hacked. Another thing to worry about in this situation is the fact that it seems that the blame behind this hacker is being being looked upon to other countries. This can easily be a bad outcome as pointing your fingers to others without any proof or evidence can led into a big feud and potential causing threats and attacks to each other. Another factor to look at is the fact that major big companies have also faced with similar issues as hackers have tried to get into their systems and release information.