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Thursday August 28, 2025. 07:29 PM
Media multitool taps Vulkan for GPU encoding, adds VVC support, and dusts off some ancient formats FFmpeg 8.0 brings GPU-accelerated video encoding via Vulkan – and can now subtitle your videos automatically using integrated speech recognition.…
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Marco M. Mariani has announced the availability of a major update of MODICIA O.S., a Debian-based multimedia distribution designed primarily for musicians, graphic designers and video makers. This is the...
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Solo entrepreneurs now launch 35% of all startups, double the rate from a decade ago, yet venture capital funding patterns remain virtually unchanged, according to an analysis by venture capitalist Sajith Pai. Carta's equity management data reveals that while solo-founded...
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Alibaba has released a new open-source speech-to-video model capable of generating animated digital humans from a single portrait and an audio clip. The tool is aimed at content creators and researchers who are looking for a way to produce lifelike avatars capable of...
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The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services is worried that people receiving long-studied and proven-effective prescribed medications to aid in mental healthcare are why schools are constantly turned into war zones. It is never the guns. Conservatives refuse...
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Also, not one but two new models of the classic 1200 The new native 68K AmigaOS web browser leans on the machines' underlying emulation system to offer modern facilities on a retro OS.…
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America's top health official has discovered a revolutionary diagnostic technique called 'looking at kids in airports.' As reported in The Independent, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — whose medical credentials include having 'about 70 of cousins' – announced he can...
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Killed while assaulting the United States Capitol during a failed attempt to block the certification of Joe Biden's electoral college win, Ashli Babbitt will now be honored by Trump's Air Force. After the failed Moron's Rebellion on January 6th, Ashli Babbitt's family...
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When you install an app, the chances are that you’re going to want to fire up straight away. To help with this, Google is in the process of rolling out a handy auto-open feature to Android users. If this sounds familiar, that is because it is something Google was spotted...
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Typepad, which launched in 2003 to make it easier for the masses to start their blogging journey, is shutting down. From a blog post: We have made the difficult decision to discontinue Typepad, effective September 30, 2025. After September 30, 2025, access to Typepad --...
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Queen Victoria, the long-reigning British monarch, had a surprising side hustle: she was arguably the biggest drug dealer in history. A new book by Sam Kelly, Human History on Drugs, reveals the young queen's pivotal role in the opium trade that dwarfed modern cartels. —...
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A sophisticated supply chain attack has compromised the widely-used Nx build system package and exposed thousands of enterprise developer credentials. The campaign weaponized artificial intelligence tools to enhance data theft operations across enterprise development...
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Think BYOC will solve all your sovereignty and privacy worries? You might be missing the point INTERVIEW Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) is a concept gaining traction as companies seek ways to resolve sovereignty and privacy issues, but its implementation can vary widely...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Over half of the British public are worried about the impact of AI on their jobs, according to employment unions, which want the UK government to adopt a 'worker first' strategy rather than simply allowing corporations to ditch employees...
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Out of the blue, Typepad has announced that it is closing down. The stalwart blogging service says it was a 'difficult decision to discontinue” operations, but does not give any details about the reasons behind it. Users of Typepad have a little over a month until the...
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Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.16.4, 6.12.44, 6.6.103, 6.1.149, 5.15.190, 5.10.241, and 5.4.297 stable Linux kernels. Each one contains important fixes.
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Because not every bot wants to live inside Microsoft's walled garden Google and code editor company Zed Industries have introduced the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) as a standard way for AI agents to integrate with an IDE, with the idea that this will prevent developers...
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Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves.
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Apple has warned that 'EU-style rules' proposed by the UK competition watchdog 'are bad for users and bad for developers.' From a report: It says EU laws -- which have sought to make it easier for smaller firms to compete with big tech -- have resulted in some Apple features ...
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Those tracking how many countries have suspended shipments to the U.S. count 25 now. The list includes key services including DHL, Britain's Royal Mail and its counterparts in France, Germany and Japan. All blame the Trump administration's tariffs. The United Nations'...
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