Microsoft Refuses To Divulge Data Flows To Police Scotland Summary Freedom of Information papers and a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) show Microsoft declined to disclose where Police Scotland and…
Microsoft’s Copilot AI is Now Inside Samsung TVs and Monitors Summary Microsoft’s Copilot assistant is being integrated into Samsung’s 2025 lineup of smart TVs and monitors. The feature lets viewers…
FFmpeg 8 Can Now Subtitle Your Videos on the Fly Summary FFmpeg 8.0 (codename ‘Huffman’) has been released. The update adds GPU-accelerated video encoding via Vulkan and integrates whisper.cpp —…
Stellantis Shelves Level 3 Driver-Assistance Program Summary Stellantis has put its fully developed Level 3 driver-assistance system (part of the AutoDrive programme) on hold. Reuters reports the move was driven…
Microsoft Expands Xbox Cloud Gaming to Cheaper Game Pass Tiers Summary Microsoft is testing expanded Xbox Cloud Gaming features with Xbox Insiders that bring cloud streaming to cheaper Game Pass…
Microsoft Reveals Two In-House AI Models Summary Microsoft has unveiled two new in-house AI models: MAI-Voice-1, a high-speed speech-generation model now integrated into Copilot, and MAI-1-preview, the company’s first end-to-end…
Florida Deploys Robot Rabbits To Control Invasive Burmese Python Population Summary The South Florida Water Management District, together with researchers from the University of Florida, deployed about 120 retrofitted toy…
Nanoparticles Turn Houseplants Into Night Lights Summary Researchers at South China Agricultural University have developed a simple, low‑cost method to make succulents glow by injecting a light‑emitting afterglow phosphor into…
Taco Bell’s AI Drive-Thru Plan Gets Caught Up On Trolls and Glitches Summary Taco Bell has rolled out AI voice assistants to more than 500 drive-thru locations in the 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…
