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An EEG study published in PLOS Biology shows that the human brain briefly encodes two competing voices when the focus of auditory attention shifts. The transition is accompanied by a drop in alpha power and suggests the brain resets its lexical context after the switch.

Mixfont released Decoy Font, a free TTF typeface that hides a fake message for artificial intelligence inside every letter that remains visible to humans. The technique, based on hybrid images, fooled ChatGPT and Gemini 3.5 with Thinking in its own creators’ tests.

Moonshot AI redesigned kimi.com around Kimi K3, splitting the assistant into three products: Kimi Work, Kimi Code, and Kimi Claw. There is still no public technical spec sheet for the model.

Rob Sheridan, former creative director of Nine Inch Nails, explains how Oink’s Pink Palace and What.cd built the most rigorous music curation on the internet thanks to ratio and invitation systems. Trent Reznor once called Oink ‘the world’s greatest record store’ in an interview with Vulture.

A cohort study using accelerometer data from the UK Biobank found that sleep regularity predicts mortality better than the number of hours slept. We break down the metric they used, the Sleep Regularity Index, and how to calculate it with Python.

QuadRF is a phased array radio built on a Raspberry Pi 5 that detects WiFi networks through walls and tracks drones in flight. Jeff Geerling tested it for a week and confirmed it works even in its pre-production version.