FFmpeg 8.1 Released With Experimental xHE-AAC MPS212, More Vulkan Acceleration
FFmpeg 8.1 is out today as the newest stable release of this widely-used, open-source multimedia library…
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Trump and his FCC chair demand more positive news coverage of Iran war
President Trump and the Federal Communications Commission chairman are demanding more positive media coverage of the Iran war. On Saturday, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr issued yet...
Read moreBlocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record
Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last...
Read moreSave Almost 20 Percent on Our Favorite Portable Bluetooth Speaker
The Tribit Stormbox Mini+ is as affordable as it is compact.
Read moreStanding up for the open Internet: why we appealed Italy’s “Piracy Shield” fine
At Cloudflare, our mission is to help build a better Internet. Usually, that means rolling out new services to our millions of users or defending the...
Read moreGoogle Open-Sources the Common Expression Language for Python
Google has open sourced CEL-expr-python, a Python implementation of the Common Expression Language (CEL), a non-Turing complete embedded policy and expression language designed for simplicity, speed,...
Read moreLinux 7.1 sched_ext To Add “SCX_ENQ_IMMED” For Tighter Control When Tasks Land On A CPU
The Linux kernel’s extensible scheduler class “sched_ext” to allow for custom CPU scheduling policies as BPF programs continues enabling new functionality. Queued up in the sched_ext...
Read moreMarknote 1.5 released
Version 1.5 of Marknote, a Markdown-based note-management application, has been released. Notable features in this release include Source Mode for working directly with Markdown instead of...
Read moreOpenAI’s own mental health experts unanimously opposed “naughty” ChatGPT launch
OpenAI cannot escape the doom cloud swirling around its rollout of a text-based “adult mode” in ChatGPT. Late Sunday, The Wall Street Journal reported that insiders...
Read moreMaking a Better Kitchen Scale out of Junk Parts
Kitchen scales are plentiful and cheap, but their accuracy and measuring speed often leave a lot to be desired. In particular the filtering out of noise...
Read moreHow to Build an AI-Powered Research Automation System with n8n, Groq, and Academic APIs
As a researcher and developer, I found myself spending hours manually searching academic databases, reading abstracts, and trying to synthesize findings across multiple sources. For my...
Read moreCursor built a fleet of security agents to solve a familiar frustration
Cursor‘s security team has built a fleet of AI agents that continuously monitor and secure the company’s codebase, and it is releasing the templates and Terraform...
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