US To Publish Economic Data On Blockchain, Commerce Chief Says Summary The U.S. Department of Commerce, led by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, announced plans to publish GDP statistics on a…
Japanese Town Proposes Two-Hour Daily Limit on Smartphones Summary Toyoake, a central town in Aichi prefecture, has proposed a guideline asking its roughly 69,000 residents to limit smartphone use to…
Imgur’s Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner Summary Imgur users have inundated the site’s front page with images of John Oliver gesturing at parent company MediaLab AI after…
Microsoft Refuses To Divulge Data Flows To Police Scotland Summary Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) are pressing ahead with a Microsoft Office 365 rollout despite Microsoft refusing…
Microsoft’s Copilot AI is Now Inside Samsung TVs and Monitors Summary Microsoft’s Copilot assistant is being integrated into Samsung’s 2025 range of smart TVs and monitors. The feature lets viewers…
FFmpeg 8 Can Now Subtitle Your Videos on the Fly Summary FFmpeg 8.0, codenamed ‘Huffman’, introduces Vulkan GPU-accelerated video encoding and integrates whisper.cpp — Georgi Gerganov’s local/offline implementation of OpenAI’s…
Stellantis Shelves Level 3 Driver-Assistance Program Summary Stellantis has put its fully developed Level 3 AutoDrive programme on hold, citing high costs, technical hurdles and weak consumer demand. The company…
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 system already integrated into Copilot experiences, and MAI-1-Preview, the company’s first…
Amtrak’s New 160mph Acela Trains Take Just As Long As the Old Ones Summary Amtrak has launched next‑generation Acela trainsets on the Northeast Corridor with a top service speed of…
Florida Deploys Robot Rabbits To Control Invasive Burmese Python Population Summary The South Florida Water Management District, with researchers from the University of Florida, deployed about 120 retrofitted toy rabbits…
