ICYMI: A few recent headlines — of interest to anyone who likes thinking about the future of IT, the Internet of Things, and ethics.

• Neuralink’s monkey can play Pong with its mind. Imagine what humans could do with the same technology The Conversation

• The big advance in Elon Musk’s Pong-playing monkey is what you can’t see. The company’s demo looks impressive, but most aspects have been done before Ars Technica

• A skeptic’s take on Neuralink and other consumer neurotech Stat/UPenn