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Windows 10 KB5055612 preview update fixes a GPU bug in WSL2

Microsoft has released the optional KB5055612 preview cumulative update for Windows 10 22H2 with two changes, including a fix for a GPU paravirtualization bug in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2).

The KB5055612 cumulative update preview is part of Microsoft’s “optional non-security preview updates” schedule, typically released at the end of every month. This update allows Windows admins to test upcoming fixes and features that will be released in the upcoming May Patch Tuesday.

Unlike Patch Tuesday cumulative updates, this preview update does not include security updates.

Researchers attain coherent control of a hybrid quantum network node

Quantum technologies, which operate leveraging quantum mechanical phenomena, have the potential to outperform their classical counterparts in some optimization and computational tasks. These technologies include so-called quantum networks, systems designed to transmit information between interconnected nodes and process it, using quantum phenomena such as entanglement and superposition.

Quantum networks could eventually contribute to the advancement of communications, sensing and computing. Before this can happen, however, existing systems will need to be improved and perfected, to ensure that they can transfer and process data both reliably and efficiently, minimizing errors.

Researchers at Tsinghua University, Hefei National Laboratory and the Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences recently demonstrated the coherent control of a hybrid and scalable quantum network node. Their demonstration, outlined in Nature Physics, was realized by combining solutions and techniques that they developed as part of their earlier work.

It’s a quantum zoo out there, and scientists just found a dozen new ‘species’

There are a seemingly endless number of quantum states that describe quantum matter and the strange phenomena that emerge when large numbers of electrons interact. For decades, many of these states have been theoretical: mathematical and computational predictions potentially hiding among real-life materials—a zoo, as many scientists are coming to refer to it, with new “species” just waiting to be discovered and described.

In a new study published on April 3 in Nature, researchers added over a dozen states to the growing quantum zoo.

“Some of these states have never been seen before,” said lead author Xiaoyang Zhu, Howard Family Professor of Nanoscience at Columbia. “And we didn’t expect to see so many either.”

In kids, EEG monitoring of consciousness can safely reduce anesthetic use

Results of a randomized, controlled clinical trial in Japan among more than 170 children aged 1 to 6 who underwent surgery show that by using EEG readings of brain waves to monitor unconsciousness, an anesthesiologist can significantly reduce the amount of the anesthesia administered to safely induce and sustain each patient’s anesthetized state.

On average, the patients experienced significant improvements in several post-operative outcomes, including quicker recovery and reduced incidence of delirium.

“I think the main takeaway is that in kids, using the EEG, we can reduce the amount of anesthesia we give them and maintain the same level of unconsciousness,” said study co-author Emery N. Brown, Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience at MIT and an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. The study appears in JAMA Pediatrics.

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