Microsoft Refuses To Divulge Data Flows To Police Scotland Summary Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) are proceeding with an Office 365 rollout despite Microsoft declining to specify…
Summary Microsoft’s Copilot assistant is being integrated into Samsung’s 2025 lineup of TVs and smart monitors. The on-screen Copilot appears as a friendly, animated beige blob and can be summoned…
FFmpeg 8 Can Now Subtitle Your Videos on the Fly Summary FFmpeg 8, codenamed “Huffman”, is out. The release adds GPU-accelerated video encoding via Vulkan and—most notably—integrates whisper.cpp to offer…
Stellantis Shelves Level 3 Driver-Assistance Programme Summary Stellantis has put its fully developed Level 3 (L3) AutoDrive driver-assistance programme on hold, Reuters reports. The system — which would let drivers…
Microsoft Reveals Two In-House AI Models Summary Microsoft has unveiled two in-house AI models: MAI-Voice-1, a high-speed speech-generation system already integrated into Copilot Daily and Podcasts, and MAI-1-preview, the company’s…
Amtrak’s New 160mph Acela Trains Take Just As Long As the Old Ones Summary Amtrak has put its next‑generation Avelia Liberty Acela sets into service on the Northeast Corridor. The…
Florida Deploys Robot Rabbits To Control Invasive Burmese Python Population Summary The South Florida Water Management District, working with University of Florida researchers, has trialled 120 retrofitted toy ‘robot rabbits’…
Nanoparticles Turn Houseplants Into Night Lights Summary Researchers at South China Agricultural University have developed a light-emitting phosphor compound that can be injected into fleshy-leaved houseplants (notably succulents) to make…
Taco Bell’s AI Drive-Thru Plan Gets Caught Up On Trolls and Glitches Summary Taco Bell has rolled out AI-powered voice assistants to handle drive-thru orders at more than 500 US…
Engineers Send Quantum Signals With Standard Internet Protocol Summary Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated, for the first time on live commercial fibre, that fragile quantum signals can…
