Solo Founders Are Battling Silicon Valley’s Biggest Bias Summary Sajith Pai’s analysis, reported on Slashdot, finds solo entrepreneurs now launch roughly 35% of startups — double the rate from a…
Humans Inhale as Much as 68,000 Microplastic Particles Daily, Study Finds Summary New peer-reviewed research reported via The Guardian and published in PLOS ONE estimates that people may inhale up…
Anthropic Will Start Training Its AI Models on Chat Transcripts Summary Anthropic has announced it will begin using user chat transcripts and coding sessions to train its AI models unless…
TransUnion Says Hackers Stole 4.4 Million Customers’ Personal Information Summary Credit bureau TransUnion disclosed a data breach tied to unauthorised access of a third-party application used for its U.S. consumer…
US To Publish Economic Data On Blockchain, Commerce Chief Says Summary The US Department of Commerce, led by Secretary Howard Lutnick, announced at a White House cabinet meeting that it…
Japanese Town Proposes Two-Hour Daily Limit on Smartphones Content Summary Toyoake, a municipal town in Aichi prefecture, Japan, has submitted a proposal to limit smartphone use outside work and study…
Imgur’s Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner Summary Imgur’s user base has staged a visible revolt against parent company MediaLab AI after a wave of staff layoffs and…
Microsoft Refuses To Divulge Data Flows To Police Scotland Summary Freedom of Information documents 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 AI assistant is being added to Samsung’s 2025 range of TVs and smart monitors. Viewers will be…
FFmpeg 8 Can Now Subtitle Your Videos on the Fly Summary FFmpeg 8 (codename “Huffman”) adds GPU-accelerated video encoding via Vulkan and, notably, integrates whisper.cpp — Georgi Gerganov’s local/offline implementation…
