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Clarifying HEVC licensing fees, royalties, and why vendors kill HEVC support
How does HEVC implementation really work these days?
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Pentagon wants $54B for drones, more than most nations’ military budgets
The proposed Pentagon drone investment rivals Ukraine’s entire military budget.
Jeremy Hsu
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Mozilla: Anthropic’s Mythos found 271 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 150
CTO says new AI model is “every bit as capable” as world’s best security researchers.
Kyle Orland
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Supreme Court arguments make it clear that FCC fines are “nonbinding”
FCC tells Supreme Court its fines are nonbinding unless a jury upholds penalty.
Jon Brodkin
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Silo S3 teaser hints at the wasteland’s origins
“Before we can know how it will all end, we need to understand how it all began.”
Jennifer Ouellette
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Pentagon wants $54B for drones, more than most nations’ military budgets
The proposed Pentagon drone investment rivals Ukraine’s entire military budget.
Jeremy Hsu
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Mozilla: Anthropic’s Mythos found 271 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 150
CTO says new AI model is “every bit as capable” as world’s best security researchers.
Kyle Orland
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Supreme Court arguments make it clear that FCC fines are “nonbinding”
FCC tells Supreme Court its fines are nonbinding unless a jury upholds penalty.
Jon Brodkin
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Silo S3 teaser hints at the wasteland’s origins
“Before we can know how it will all end, we need to understand how it all began.”
Jennifer Ouellette
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Framework’s CEO on the RAM crisis and creating a “MacBook Pro for Linux users”
“We actually have slightly more Linux users than Windows users.”
Andrew Cunningham
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Florida probes ChatGPT role in mass shooting. OpenAI says bot “not responsible.”
Can ChatGPT be blamed for a mass shooting? Florida is investigating.
Ashley Belanger
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Report: Meta will train AI agents by tracking employees’ mouse, keyboard use
Move highlights the difficulty of finding high-quality interactive training data.
Kyle Orland
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Microsoft removes Call of Duty from Game Pass, lowers subscription pricing
New Xbox CEO says subscription “has become too expensive for too many players.”
Kyle Orland
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Framework Laptop 13 Pro is a major overhaul for the modular, upgradeable laptop
Laptop includes Core Ultra Series 3 CPUs, a bigger battery, and a touchscreen.
Andrew Cunningham
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Framework Laptop 16 upgrades make it look less like an unfinished prototype
A lower-end Ryzen AI 340 CPU option will also bring the price down, for now.
Andrew Cunningham
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Those who don’t remember the past…
Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone
Here’s which players are winning the race to transition to post-quantum crypto.
Dan Goodin
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Internal emails show how Amazon raises prices across the Internet, lawsuit says
“It’s working!“: Amazon emails with vendors show pattern of disappearing deals.
Ashley Belanger
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Anthropic gets $5B investment from Amazon, will use it to buy Amazon chips
Anthropic secures 5 gigawatts of Amazon’s custom silicon as Claude demand soars.
Jeremy Hsu
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CATL’s new LFP battery can charge from 10 to 98% in less than 7 minutes
The self-heating Shenxing battery still performs even in Arctic temperatures.
Jonathan M. Gitlin
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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition review: Tons of cache for tons of dollars
There are some practical benefits to this $899 chip, but not many.
Andrew Cunningham
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What’s the deal with spacesuits for the Moon? Will they be ready in time?
NASA is down to a single provider for a critical link in its lunar architecture.
Eric Berger
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Loneliness in older adults can often lead to memory impairment
A longitudinal study finds links to lapses in immediate and delayed recall.
WIRED
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Contrary to popular superstition, AES 128 is just fine in a post-quantum world
A stubborn misconception is hampering the already hard work of quantum readiness.
Dan Goodin
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Global growth in solar “the largest ever observed for any source”
The International Energy Agency says we’ve entered the Age of Electricity.
John Timmer
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Pentagon pulls the plug on one of the military’s most troubled space programs
Problems with the ground system would have “put current GPS military and civilian capabilities at risk.”
Stephen Clark
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John Ternus will replace Tim Cook as Apple CEO
Cook will be executive chairman but will no longer run the company day to day.
Samuel Axon
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Absurd study suggests eating fruits and vegetables leads to cancer
Experts point out a series of flaws, including small size and no control group.
Beth Mole
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US opens refund portal to start paying back Trump’s illegal tariffs
Importers can now request refunds, two months after Trump’s Supreme Court loss.
Jon Brodkin
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Here’s how F1 is tweaking its hybrid systems to try to save the show
Energy management and speed differentials are the problems of the day.
Jonathan M. Gitlin
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Robot runner handily beats humans in half-marathon, setting new record
A humanoid robot’s record half-marathon run shows China’s speed in robotics.
Jeremy Hsu
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Deezer says 44% of new music uploads are AI-generated, most streams are fraudulent
AI tracks account for a small fraction of Deezer streams, and most are demonetized for fraud.
Ryan Whitwam
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Rogue Trooper brings the Genetic Infantry to the silver screen
The future war film, from the director of Moon, is adapted from 2000 AD’s comic series.
Jonathan M. Gitlin
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Meet Bruce, the “beak-jousting” parrot
Kea parrot missing his upper beak “has rewritten what disability means for behaviorally complex species.”
Jennifer Ouellette
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Anthropic’s Mythos AI model sparks fears of turbocharged hacking
Cyberdefenses could be exposed faster than fixes could be deployed.
Financial Times
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Blue Origin’s rocket reuse achievement marred by upper stage failure
Blue Origin’s reused first stage hit its targets, but New Glenn’s upper stage did not.
Stephen Clark
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I’ve fired one of America’s most powerful lasers—here’s what a shot day looks like
The laser was used to study the physics of stellar interiors and fusion energy, among other things.
The Conversation
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Great white sharks are overheating
The sharks might also be the most physiologically vulnerable to warming waters.
Inside Climate News
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US-sanctioned currency exchange says $15 million heist done by “unfriendly states”
Grinex says needed hacking resources “available exclusively to… unfriendly states.”
Dan Goodin
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Man with @ihackedthegovernment Instagram account tells judge, “I made a mistake”
Probation for man who used stolen logins and posted private info on social media.
Jon Brodkin
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Trump picks qualified, normal health leader to head CDC; experts still cautious
She’s well qualified but will need to navigate RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine agenda.
Beth Mole
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