Collaborate Disseminate
I had the opportunity to interview esteemed programmer Steve Yegge for the SourceForge Podcast to ask him all about AI-powered coding assistants and the future of programming. “We’re moving from where you have to write the code to where the LLM will wr… Continue reading Interview with Programmer Steve Yegge On the Future of AI Coding
Anton Shilov reports via Tom’s Hardware: FFmpeg is an open-source video decoding project developed by volunteers who contribute to its codebase, fix bugs, and add new features. The project is led by a small group of core developers and maintainers who … Continue reading FFmpeg Devs Boast of Up To 94x Performance Boost After Implementing Handwritten AVX-512 Assembly Code
AFP news agency suffers a cyberattack disrupting its content delivery systems. News coverage continues as experts investigate, with… Continue reading AFP News Agency’s Content Delivery Systems Hit by Cyberattack
Bluesky, the decentralized social networking startup, has introduced support for videos up to 60 seconds long in its latest update, version 1.91. The Verge reports: The videos will autoplay by default, but Bluesky says you can turn this feature off in … Continue reading Bluesky Lets You Post Videos Now
Media formats have come a long way since the early days of computing. Once upon a time, the very idea of even playing live audio was considered a lofty goal, …read more Continue reading Supercon 2023: Ben Combee And The Hacker’s Guide To Audio/Video Formats
In a newsletter for Bloomberg, Ashley Carman discusses the rising trend of long podcasts and their surprising popularity among listeners. “By today’s standards of interminable podcast discussions, a nearly three-hour recording isn’t even particularly n… Continue reading Podcasters Ditch Short Episodes in Favor of Four-Hour Conversations
Longtime Slashdot reader sandbagger shares a blog post from Meta Engineer Jordan Eldredge, with the caption: A biography of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, weird images, a worm.exe, random images, encrypted files, a gift a dad in Thailand had made for his t… Continue reading Bizarre Secrets Found Investigating Corrupt Winamp Skins
More than a dozen new Immersive Videos are coming to Vision Pro, with the first, titled Boundless, launching last night. “The announcement follows a long, slow period for new Vision Pro-specific video content from Apple,” writes Ars Technica’s Samuel A… Continue reading Apple Vision Pro’s Content Drought Improves With New 3D Videos
Netflix has started booting subscribers off its cheapest ad-free subscription tier, “starting with the UK and Canada, with more countries inevitably to follow,” reports MacRumors. From the report: The streaming giant has reportedly begun notifying user… Continue reading Netflix Phasing Out Basic Ads-Free Plan
An anonymous reader shared a report: Amazon has agreed to acquire key assets of Indian video streaming service MX Player from the local media powerhouse Times Internet, the latest step by the e-commerce giant to make its services and brand popular in s… Continue reading Amazon Acquires MX Player