J. Higgs 7.75-ounce loaded bacon and cheddar potato chips were recalled on September 18 due to undeclared soy allergens. The affected products, distributed to Save A Lot grocery stores across Kentucky and other states, have specific bar codes and best-by dates of December 11 and 18.
A user reports that despite disabling Siri through multiple settings and services on macOS 27, the Siri AI process continues running in Activity Monitor. They question whether it is possible to fully disable Siri and Apple Intelligence features, comparing them to Microsoft's Recall.
Intercon Chemical Co. recalled six hand soap brands distributed across 15 U.S. states due to potential contamination with unspecified bacteria or antibiotic-resistant Pseudomonas and Serratia species. The affected products, sold under Laura Lynn, Summit, Vestis, and Intercon brands, may cause serious infections including blood infections, pneumonia, and urinary tract infections if used.
This paper introduces Effective State-Size (ESS), a metric measuring how well sequence models utilize their memory by analyzing the rank of input-dependent transformation matrices. ESS reveals that models with high memory utilization are harder to distill, and that effective ESS modulation correlates with better performance on recall-intensive tasks.