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Guatemala announced this week that the FBI will help local authorities find Barrio 18 gang leaders who escaped prison. Only four of the 20 escapees have been recaptured since the breakout was reported last month.
Barrio 18 began as a 1960s Los Angeles street gang of young Salvadoran immigrants and spread across Central America after members were deported. The Trump administration designated the group a terrorist organization in September, and Guatemala followed suit after the prison break. Three top security officials—including the interior minister—also resigned as reports emerged that the escapes occurred over several days and went unnoticed until a recount of prisoners. Guatemala’s new interior minister requested the FBI’s assistance.
Joint Task Force Vulcan, the FBI unit assigned to help Guatemala, was established under the first Trump administration to dismantle MS-13, another gang founded by Salvadoran immigrants in LA. Salvadoran authorities estimate MS-13 and Barrio 18 are responsible for roughly 200,000 deaths over three decades. |
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At least 28 air safety officials arrived in Louisville, Kentucky, yesterday to begin investigating the cause of Tuesday's UPS Flight 2976 crash. At least 12 people were killed and others were wounded, with the death toll expected to rise.
The Honolulu-bound cargo plane (an MD-11) departed from Muhammad Ali International Airport at 5:02 pm local time but careened off the runway and hit two buildings—Kentucky Petroleum Recycling and Grade A Auto Parts—while reportedly on fire. The plane’s last recorded transmitted location came at 5:13 pm. Eighteen fire departments responded to the resulting fire, which ignited roughly 38,000 gallons of jet fuel.
Separately, the Federal Aviation Administration said yesterday it will reduce flight capacity by 10% at 40 major US airports starting tomorrow, impacting an estimated 3,500 to 4,000 flights. The decision is due to a shortage of air traffic controllers amid the ongoing federal government shutdown—now the longest on record. It was not clear as of this writing which airports will be impacted. |
A new technique can translate brain activity into written text and predict which video a person is seeing, according to a new paper from Science Advances.
The “mind computing” approach—developed by computational neuroscientist Tomoyasu Horikawa—involves using a deep-language AI model to analyze text captions from more than 2,000 short videos. Researchers then trained a separate AI system on fMRI brain scans from six participants as they watched the videos. Because the model was sensitive to language order and semantics instead of just keywords, it was able to better decode the brain scan and match it to an existing caption, correctly interpreting what the person had seen.
The system is not the first to use brain activity to "read" people's thoughts (see previous write-up). However, analyzing brain activity as people consume complex visual content—including videos—has proved challenging. Researchers hope this technique could be used to help people with language difficulties communicate. |
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