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Compression engineer challenges JPEG XL’s case for the web
A technical analysis argues that JPEG XL’s flexibility and lossless features do not outweigh AVIF’s current advantages for common browser images.
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Matt Mullenweg says he has returned as Automattic chief executive
The founder’s reported reinstatement came two days after Automattic’s board placed him on paid leave and named its finance chief interim CEO.
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Revolut says impostor government requests exposed customer records
The fintech says a limited number of customers were affected after fraudulent data requests arrived from a legitimate government-agency email domain.
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US border supervisor charged over hardware removed from government PCs
Investigators allege processors, memory and drives were swapped out of 46 Homeland Security computers at three facilities in Maine.
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Search expands after Indonesian ferry capsizes in Java Sea
Authorities reported six deaths and 107 rescues as ships, a helicopter and hundreds of personnel searched for 130 people still missing.
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Sweden votes in close election with far right seeking cabinet role
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s bloc faces a center-left alliance led by former premier Magdalena Andersson in a contest over all 349 Riksdag seats.
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AI safety warnings meet sharper skepticism across Silicon Valley
Public alarms from current and former AI researchers are colliding with executives who question both the scale of the risk and the motives behind the warnings.
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Police stop reporter documenting installation of Flock license-plate camera
The Georgia encounter renewed scrutiny of public recording and privacy around a rapidly expanding automated camera network.
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Homebrew 7 adds vulnerability checks, stronger sandboxing and a native Mac app
The package manager’s major release also ends macOS Catalina support and moves Intel Macs into its least-supported hardware tier.
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JetKVM introduces smaller Mini remote-management devices starting at $39
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Recurrent Looped Transformer proposal links every generated token in one continuing computation
A newly published architecture proposal combines a causal encoder with a recurrent decoder, aiming to extend a model's reasoning path as a sequence grows while keeping per-token work fixed.
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Apple Details Five-Model AI Family Built Around On-Device and Private Cloud Computing
The third generation of Apple Foundation Models uses on-device systems, Private Cloud Compute and specialized architectures while excluding private user data from training, Apple says.
