FFmpeg 9.0 is a major release with a major ABI break, new swscale architecture, more Vulkan work, Dolby Vision Profile 7 handling, and a few fun surprises.

Simple equations and a color picker to inclusively select simplified skin tones in a custom color space for digital art or game development.

Many programming "best practices" taught today are performance disasters waiting to happen.

Germany set a record by feeding 12 billion kWh of solar power into the grid in July 2026, highlighting photovoltaics' growing role and the IWR's clarification of EEG support costs.

The hacked digital advertiser was caught serving malicious ads that allowed hackers to steal a victim's cryptocurrency.

The complete Chiaro methodology for SOC 2 readiness and audit. Controls, criteria, evidence standards, and every judgment call, published so you can check it. - Chiaro-HQ/methodology

Artificial intelligence benchmarks are an important mechanism for measuring model progress and guiding deployment decisions. However, benchmarks quickly "saturate", making it difficult to...

Apple says its trade secrets investigation into OpenAI has widened. In a new court filing, Apple claims additional former staff may have retained or accessed confidential information.

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A retired U.S. Forest Service employee explains how federal funding cuts and staff reductions hindered prescribed burns in the BWCA.

Keep the decision without keeping the tab. A practical field guide from Tably.

Benchmark your local LLMs: speed, memory, and quality, in one command. TUI leaderboard for Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, and vLLM. - david-g-3654/homebench

Stable client release and general availability of hosted registries & ecosystem mirrors.

The open dataset behind the mental health startup graveyard report: 542 digital mental health companies that left the market, coded on 18 fields and four classification axes, with the written reasoning behind every label. CSV and JSON, CC BY 4.0.

The Warp Agent is now available as a standalone CLI that you can use anywhere – Ghostty, iTerm 2, VS Code, built-in Windows and Mac Terminals – and provides a superior experience for developers who do heavy terminal workflows

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Your teams are shipping faster than ever and learning less than they have in years. That is not a training problem. It is a structural one.

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Long before October 2023, Gaza’s people suffered international sanctions, a humiliating occupation, and periodic Israeli bombardments. Few could leave the