{"slug": "meta-s-non-surgical-mind-reading-machine-improves-on-prior-projects-but-still-t", "title": "Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great", "summary": "Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine achieves 61% word accuracy, an improvement over prior projects, but still lags behind implanted brain-computer interfaces and cannot support real-time communication, as it relies on users typing.", "body_md": "### MOST POPULAR\n\n[AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n-\nsystems\n\n#### Qualcomm's proposed solution to catch up in AI infra: Bury the compute under the DRAM\n\nWith its next-gen AI accelerators, the SoC vendor aims to fly high above the memory wall\n\n-\nAI and ML\n\n#### Changing AI math could reduce the hardware burden, researchers show\n\nSEMQ promises an abstraction layer for separating semantics from embeddings\n\n-\nsecurity\n\n#### Infosec professionals sour on automated pentesting tools\n\n29% of security pros were open to fully autonomous pentesting last year; now only 9% are\n\n-\noffbeat\n\n#### Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great\n\n61% word accuracy is progress, but the system still relies on users typing and can't yet support real-time communication. Implanted BCIs remain well ahead\n\n-\nai and ml\n\n#### AI agents: Cause of database sprawl. And also the proposed solution\n\nDB wrangling tech needs to meet demands of AI agents, Cockroach Labs CEO Spencer Kimball tells El Reg\n\n[Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks\n\nPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack\n\nPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n\n-\nBlack Hat and DEF CON\n\n#### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure\n\nVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis\n\nWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n\n-\nMalware Month\n\n#### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight\n\nOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n[FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n-\n#### Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up\n\nNow with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default\n\n-\n#### Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form\n\nRetro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK\n\n-\n#### Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'\n\nMore Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too\n\n-\n#### France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well\n\nNextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another\n\n-\n#### History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system\n\nWhen a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product'\n\n-\n#### Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it\n\nProject Headroom could save you big money, too", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-s-non-surgical-mind-reading-machine-improves-on-prior-projects-but-still-t", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/06/30/metas-non-surgical-mind-reading-machine-improves-on-prior-projects-but-still-isnt-great/5264500", "published_at": "2026-06-30 16:25:26+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-30 20:53:41.543434+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Meta"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-s-non-surgical-mind-reading-machine-improves-on-prior-projects-but-still-t", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-s-non-surgical-mind-reading-machine-improves-on-prior-projects-but-still-t.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-s-non-surgical-mind-reading-machine-improves-on-prior-projects-but-still-t.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-s-non-surgical-mind-reading-machine-improves-on-prior-projects-but-still-t.jsonld"}}