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www.twz.com 16h ago

Typhoons Paired with CCA Fighter Drones Armed with Meteor Missiles Eyed by UK

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newatlas.com 16h ago

3D printing breakthrough produces custom contact lenses in 20 minutes

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www.theatlantic.com 2d ago

Fighter Jets Are Passé

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github.com 3d ago

MemoryPack: Zero encoding extreme performance binary serializer for C#

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www.autocar.co.uk 4d ago

Toyota pump tech could be key to hydrogen-combustion practicality

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www.bbc.com 4d ago

Vikram-1: India's first private space rocket by Skyroot to carry diamond flower

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electrek.co 5d ago

In the birthplace of the car, EVs are now king: BEVs outsell gas cars in Germany

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www.wsj.com 6d ago

The Fight over Humanoid Robots Has Shut Down a Car Factory for the First Time

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electrek.co 6d ago

CATL's 30-year sodium-ion battery takes over grid storage

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arstechnica.com 6d ago

HP fined 1.4B rupees for "cartelization" of ink cartridges, toner, PCs

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www.cnn.com 8d ago

Argentina court recognizes two goldfish as sentient beings with rights

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www.scmp.com 9d ago

BYD surpasses Tesla in global race; 'do-or-die' crisis in China's market

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www.washingtonpost.com 10d ago

Inside the secret AI war between Silicon Valley and China

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www.bbc.com 11d ago

EU threatens Meta with fines over 'addictive' Facebook and Instagram

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www.bbc.com 11d ago

Weak hands and blurry vision: Is your tech giving you 'phone body'?

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electrek.co 12d ago

Australia's 7 best-selling EVs are now all Chinese – even Tesla's

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www.cnn.com 13d ago

Russia bans diesel exports after Ukrainian attacks, straining global market

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www.space.com 14d ago

'Acceleration without fuel:' superconducting thruster in first orbital test

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www.phoronix.com 14d ago

Microsoft Lands Initial AV1 Encoding Using DirectX 12 and HMFT Within Mesa 26.2

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www.theguardian.com 16d ago

Short story accused of being AI-written wins overall Commonwealth prize

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www.cnn.com 17d ago

Why New Jersey's balcony solar bill is a huge deal for renters

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electrek.co 18d ago

CATL is building more than 200 battery swap stations every month

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www.phoronix.com 18d ago

Vibe Coded X11 Server Written in Rust Adds Xinerama, FreeBSD Support

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newatlas.com 18d ago

India's largest eVTOL demonstrator completes flight tests

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www.reuters.com 19d ago

Russia buys gasoline from India to tackle shortages

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newatlas.com 19d ago

Robotic bird targets drones' biggest aerodynamic shortcoming

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www.cnn.com 20d ago

China tells its ethnic minorities to integrate or face consequences

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electrek.co 22d ago

New Tesla 'Full Self-Driving' class action hilariously cites Electrek

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www.cnn.com 22d ago

China's humanoid robots captivated the world, a rental market shows their limits

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www.cnn.com 23d ago

Artifacts dating back 400,000 years show ‘complex and rich’ pre-human society

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BYD sells EV and hybrid vehicles. Tesla only sells EVs, and BYD sells more EVs than Tesla.

In 2025 BYD sold 4.6 million vehicles. Tesla sold 1.66 million. That particular war is already over. Tesla lost it.

Toyota has been the best selling automaker for the last 6 years straight. In 2025 Toyota had record sales with 11.3 million vehicles sold: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/toyota...

BYD was 6th: https://carnewschina.com/2026/02/26/three-chinese-automakers...

Tesla isn't in the top ten.

To quote Agent Smith, "Have you ever stood and stared at it, marveled at it’s beauty, it’s genius? Billions of people just living out their lives, oblivious. Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world. Where none suffered. Where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed that we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization which is of course what this is all about. Evolution, Morpheus, evolution. Like the dinosaur. Look out that window. You had your time. The future is our world, Morpheus. The future is our time."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrBdYmStZJ4

Copyright issues don't seem to be addressed by any large language model provider.

If an LLM is trained on GPL code then that code has become an intrinsic part of the model (because if it hasn't then what was the value of training on it). So shouldn't that model now also be licensed GPL?

And how do I know the LLM output is not reproducing substantial chunks of GPL'd code, making my code GPL?

It's worse for our users, but easier for our developers

What's easiest for both users and developers is royalty-free video formats.

AV1 is solution to these video format licensing problems. Microsoft is part of the Alliance for Open Media: https://aomedia.org/about/members/

Dolby has made direct threats to the royalty-free status of AV1: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/av1s-open-royalty-fr...

So Microsoft and all the AOMedia members will need to defend AV1 if they want it to remain royalty-free.

What are AI companies doing to respect open source licenses and copyright?

I'm sure they train their models on open source software, so how do I know that LLM generated code doesn't reproduce substantial chunks of, for example, GPL licensed code? If indeed there are GPL violations, what are AI companies doing to police themselves?

I wonder if open source licenses will start to include "not to be used for LLM training" clauses.

For instance the Mozilla DOM experiments seems to use a special JS variant with a 'use component' header

As per the article, that's temporary until Component Model 1.0 is implemented natively in the browser. In the meantime, jco can be used:

The groundwork for browser implementations is being laid today: jco’s transpile command already converts any component into equivalent core Wasm and JavaScript glue, making components runnable in any browser without native support.

That's no longer needed once native support is there.

Users don’t care whether the code was written by AI or by hand, or which framework you used.

But users also include users of the code. There's no value in self-flagellation via terrible code or pointlessly complicated frameworks.

Bryan Cantrill warns, "Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn. You stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- the lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, the lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle.":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=1981s

Dav2d 2 months ago

When you host videos with near 17 billion views you're going to want to stream those videos in as few bits as possible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w

That extra 25% becomes worth it.

Nothing will become obsolete. AV1 will stick around for a long time. And YouTube still does H.264 encodes to support old devices.

Dav2d 2 months ago

Hardly niche. My laptop isn't new and it has hardware AV1 decoding and encoding. My 10 year old iPhone 7 can play 1080p AV1 video in software for over 200 minutes with VLC. The iPhone 7 was released in 2016, a year and a half before AV1. The dav1d decoder is mighty.

Netflix uses AV1: https://netflixtechblog.com/av1-now-powering-30-of-netflix-s...

YouTube uses AV1. It's tough to be more mainstream than that.

Right click on a YouTube video and select Stats for Nerds. If your system is capable of it, chances are it will be playing back in AV1.

Most of the YouTube videos I watch these days are AV1 encodes. Sometimes it's in VP9 and occasionally it's H.264.