US To Publish Economic Data On Blockchain, Commerce Chief Says Summary The U.S. Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, announced during a White House cabinet meeting that the Department of Commerce will…
Japanese Town Proposes Two-Hour Daily Limit on Smartphones Summary Toyoake, a central town in Aichi prefecture with about 69,000 residents, has proposed a guideline limiting smartphone use to two hours…
Imgur’s Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner Summary Imgur’s community has staged a visible protest on the site’s front page by flooding it with images of John Oliver…
Microsoft Refuses To Divulge Data Flows To Police Scotland Summary Freedom of Information material and a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) from the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) reveal Microsoft will…
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 TVs and smart monitors. The feature lets viewers…
FFmpeg 8 Can Now Subtitle Your Videos on the Fly Summary FFmpeg 8.0, codenamed “Huffman”, brings Vulkan GPU-accelerated video encoding and integrates whisper.cpp — Georgi Gerganov’s local/offline implementation of OpenAI’s…
Stellantis Shelves Level 3 Driver-Assistance Programme Summary Stellantis has put its in-house Level 3 AutoDrive programme on hold. Although the company demonstrated a hands-off, eyes-off system earlier in 2025 and…
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 already appearing in Copilot features, 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 rolled out next‑generation Acela trainsets on the Northeast Corridor. The new trains boast a…
Florida Deploys Robot Rabbits To Control Invasive Burmese Python Population Summary The South Florida Water Management District, with University of Florida researchers, has deployed 120 retrofitted toy “robot rabbits” in…
