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AOMedia Finalizes AV2 Video Codec Spec, Successor to AV1
The Alliance for Open Media has published the v1.0.0 specification for AV2, the royalty-free successor to AV1. The standard targets better compression efficienc
Cheese Paper: An offline, file-based text editor built for writing fiction
Cheese Paper is a GPLv3-licensed writing tool aimed at fiction authors who want their drafts and notes to live as plain files rather than inside a proprietary d
Cloudflare Turnstile Now Demands WebGL Fingerprinting, Breaking WebKitGTK Browsers
Cloudflare's Turnstile human-verification widget has started requiring WebGL-based device fingerprinting, locking out users of WebKitGTK browsers who cannot com
Creatine supplementation slows early Alzheimer's cognitive decline by 30% in trial
A multicenter placebo-controlled trial of 240 early Alzheimer's patients found that 5g daily creatine monohydrate over 12 weeks raised brain phosphocreatine lev
Dav2d: notes on a new video decoding project
The source page for this item is a blog post titled "Dav2d" on jbkempf.com, the personal site of VideoLAN/VLC founder Jean-Baptiste Kempf. Based on the title al
Identifying a Saudi Desert Fossil with PCA and a Shell Image Dataset
A hobbyist found a shell-shaped rock at the base of a cliff in Alghat, Saudi Arabia — 500 km from the nearest coast — and set out to identify it without any pal
Identifying a Saudi desert fossil with PCA on a shell shape dataset
A hobbyist found a seashell-shaped rock at the base of a cliff in Saudi Arabia's Alghat desert, 500 km from the nearest coast. The region's carbonate rocks and
Jef Raskin on the Mac's Origins and the Drift from Human-Centered Design
In this 2013 republished interview, Jef Raskin — Apple employee #31 and founder of the Macintosh project before Steve Jobs pushed him off it in 1981 — pushes ba
Microsoft to remotely cripple perpetually-licensed Office 2019/2021 for Mac in July
On July 13, 2026, a license-validation certificate baked into Microsoft Office for Mac and iOS will expire, forcing affected installs of Word, Excel, PowerPoint
OMB Rule Would Let Any Agency Kill Any Federal Grant at Any Time
The Office of Management and Budget is moving an August executive order into formal rulemaking after courts repeatedly struck down the administration's attempts
PrismML's Bonsai Image 4B Squeezes Diffusion Models to Run on iPhones
PrismML has released Bonsai Image 4B, a pair of heavily quantized diffusion models derived from FLUX.2 Klein 4B that fit within the memory budgets of phones and
Racket 9.2 Tightens Pattern Matching, Updates to Unicode 17.0
Racket 9.2 ships with several breaking correctness fixes alongside the usual polish. The match form now enforces equality between repeated variables in non-line