Compression engineer challenges JPEG XL’s case for the web
A technical analysis argues that JPEG XL’s flexibility and lossless features do not outweigh AVIF’s current advantages for common browser images.
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Solar models point to a planet the young Sun may have swallowed
A peer-reviewed study proposes that ingesting a super-Earth could explain several persistent mismatches between solar models and observations.
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Matt Mullenweg says he has returned as Automattic chief executive
The founder’s reported reinstatement came two days after Automattic’s board placed him on paid leave and named its finance chief interim CEO.
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Revolut says impostor government requests exposed customer records
The fintech says a limited number of customers were affected after fraudulent data requests arrived from a legitimate government-agency email domain.
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US border supervisor charged over hardware removed from government PCs
Investigators allege processors, memory and drives were swapped out of 46 Homeland Security computers at three facilities in Maine.
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AI safety warnings meet sharper skepticism across Silicon Valley
Public alarms from current and former AI researchers are colliding with executives who question both the scale of the risk and the motives behind the warnings.
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Police stop reporter documenting installation of Flock license-plate camera
The Georgia encounter renewed scrutiny of public recording and privacy around a rapidly expanding automated camera network.
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Homebrew 7 adds vulnerability checks, stronger sandboxing and a native Mac app
The package manager’s major release also ends macOS Catalina support and moves Intel Macs into its least-supported hardware tier.
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JetKVM introduces smaller Mini remote-management devices starting at $39
The company says its Ethernet and wireless KVM-over-IP models use new open-source firmware, an ESP32-based design and the same browser interface as its existing hardware.
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Recurrent Looped Transformer proposal links every generated token in one continuing computation
A newly published architecture proposal combines a causal encoder with a recurrent decoder, aiming to extend a model's reasoning path as a sequence grows while keeping per-token work fixed.
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Apple Details Five-Model AI Family Built Around On-Device and Private Cloud Computing
The third generation of Apple Foundation Models uses on-device systems, Private Cloud Compute and specialized architectures while excluding private user data from training, Apple says.
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Researchers Observe Hexagonal Superionic Ice Under Extreme Pressure and Heat
Diamond-anvil and X-ray experiments produced a predicted atomic arrangement that may help refine models of Uranus and Neptune.
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Sergey Brin Contributions to California Tax Fight Reach $102 Million
State records cited by the Los Angeles Times show the Google co-founder financing a group backing two measures that could override a proposed billionaire tax.
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Compiler Optimizations Can Remove Security Protections From C Programs, Researcher Warns
A Black Hat discussion highlights how valid transformations can erase memory clearing or create timing gaps, reinforcing the need to test optimized release binaries.
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Target Tech-Elite Power in New Book
In an interview about End Times Fascism, Klein describes the book's argument that concentrated wealth, crisis politics and private technology power are reinforcing authoritarian systems.
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Scientists Warn a 1.5C Overshoot Could Trigger Irreversible Climate Shifts
Three exceptionally hot years have intensified concern that weakening carbon sinks and Earth-system tipping points could make a later return below the Paris threshold much harder.
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ACSM Review Refines the Formula for Strength, Muscle Growth and Power
A synthesis of 137 systematic reviews finds that resistance training reliably improves multiple measures of muscle function, while only a limited set of program variables consistently changes the result.
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M1 Neural Engine Reverse-Engineering Maps Apple's CNN-Era Design Choices
A new technical teardown describes the compute and dataflow architecture of Apple's original M1 Neural Engine and why transformer workloads changed accelerator design priorities.
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Anthropic CEO Calls for Slower Frontier AI Capability Growth
Dario Amodei says leading developers should pace model advances so safety research, external evaluation and public oversight have time to catch up.
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ITV's 70 Up Brings Landmark British Documentary Series to a Close
The final installment follows participants first filmed as seven-year-olds in 1964, ending a project that examined class, opportunity and the ethics of filming lives over decades.
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Researchers Demonstrate Zero-Click WeChat Worm Across iOS and Android
Security researchers say a now-mitigated flaw allowed a call to seize a WeChat account and use it to attack trusted contacts without the recipient answering.
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Community Guide Catalogs Hidden macOS Defaults Commands
The macOS-defaults project documents preference commands with demonstrations, explaining how application domains, keys and shared settings fit together.
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Clay Institute Says Navier-Stokes Problem May Have Been Settled
The Clay Mathematics Institute has welcomed an apparent solution to its fluid-motion Millennium Prize Problem while stressing that formal evaluation will be deliberate.
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Minitap Accuses Google's Artemis Project of Removing Open-Source Credit
Minitap says code, prompts and author names from its Apache-licensed mobile-use project appeared in Google's Artemis repository without clear attribution.
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