Imgur’s Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner
Imgur’s Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner Summary Imgur users have deliberately flooded the site’s front page with images of John Oliver giving the middle finger to parent…
Microsoft Refuses To Divulge Data Flows To Police Scotland
Microsoft Refuses To Divulge Data Flows To Police Scotland Summary Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) are continuing with an Office 365 rollout despite serious data‑sovereignty concerns revealed…
Microsoft’s Copilot AI is Now Inside Samsung TVs and Monitors
Microsoft’s Copilot AI is Now Inside Samsung TVs and Monitors Summary Microsoft is bringing its Copilot AI assistant to Samsung’s 2025 lineup of smart TVs and monitors. On-screen Copilot appears…
FFmpeg 8 Can Now Subtitle Your Videos on the Fly
FFmpeg 8 Can Now Subtitle Your Videos on the Fly Summary FFmpeg 8.0 (codename “Huffman”) is out. The release bundles about 30 notable changes, the headline being integration with Whisper…
Stellantis Shelves Level 3 Driver-Assistance Program
Stellantis Shelves Level 3 Driver-Assistance Programme Summary Stellantis has put its in-house Level 3 driver-assistance programme (part of its AutoDrive initiative) on hold. Reuters reporting says the decision stems from…
Microsoft Reveals Two In-House AI Models
Microsoft Reveals Two In-House AI Models Key Points • MAI-Voice-1 is a high-speed, high-fidelity speech-generation model now live in Copilot Daily and Podcasts, with a Copilot Labs preview called Copilot…
UK Unions Want ‘Worker First’ Plan For AI as People Fear For Their Jobs
UK Unions Want ‘Worker First’ Plan For AI as People Fear For Their Jobs Summary The Trades Union Congress (TUC) warns that more than half of the British public are…
Typepad is Shutting Down
Typepad is Shutting Down Summary Typepad, the blogging platform launched in 2003 to make blogging accessible to the masses, is closing. The company announced it will discontinue Typepad effective 30…
Solo Founders Are Battling Silicon Valley’s Biggest Bias
Solo Founders Are Battling Silicon Valley’s Biggest Bias Summary An analysis by venture capitalist Sajith Pai, cited on Slashdot, highlights a growing gap between the rise of solo-founded startups and…
Anthropic Will Start Training Its AI Models on Chat Transcripts
Anthropic Will Start Training Its AI Models on Chat Transcripts Summary Anthropic has announced it will begin using user data — specifically new chat transcripts and coding sessions — to…