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Netflix says its open AV1 video codec now powers about 30% of all streaming on the platform and is rapidly becoming its primary delivery format thanks to major gains in compression, bandwidth efficiency, HDR support, and film-grain rendering. TVTechnology reports: The blog by Liwei Guo, Zhi Li, Sheldon Radford and Jeff Watts comes at a time when AV2 is on the horizon. [...] The blog revisits Netflix's AV1 journey to date, highlights emerging use cases, and shares adoption trends across the device ecosystem.
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Kate Middleton and Princess Charlotte often wear coordinating outfits at public events, from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding to Wimbledon. Read more ›
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TikTokers have been debating two jobs: $120,000 for virtual work, or $240,000 for five days in-person. It's time to cast your vote. Read more ›
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I have a great relationship with my mom, who's in her 60s. Over the years, she's given me great advice about happiness, friendship, and gratitude. Read more ›
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Elon Musk claimed on X that xAI will have more computing power than everyone else combined in less than five years. Read more ›
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As someone who's been to all 63, I think Death Valley, Dry Tortugas, and Joshua Tree are some of the best US national parks to visit in the winter. Read more ›
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Rhea Seehorn also reveals what surprised her about romantasy books—and why 'The Golden Girls' is Carol’s comfort binge. Read more ›
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China's foreign ministry said the sanctioned firms and individuals would have their assets within China frozen. Read more ›
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AMD is preparing a new flagship gaming chip, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, which is said to have 192MB of L3 cache thanks to its dual-cache design that will add 3D V-Cache across both CCDs. The CPU originally leaked months ago, but it has finally appeared on benchmarking databases PassMark and Geekbench, with amicable scores to boot. Read more ›
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Hundreds of old film cameras are available, and this starter's guide covers everything from how to buy one to what rolls of film to use. Read more ›
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The election was divisive, pitting an established moderate against an upstart progressive in the large, Democratic city. For a while it seemed like it would be close, but in the end the progressive won definitively, powered by a relentless focus on affordability and adept use of short-form video. Mamdani? New York? You must be confused […] Read more ›
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The talk show host appeared on British TV station Channel 4 to deliver its annual "alternative Christmas message." Read more ›
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Western militaries are looking at interceptor drones — proven in combat in Ukraine — as an ideal low-cost air defense. Read more ›
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Swiss scientists have demonstrated the use of dead lobster tails as robotic appendages. Read more ›
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Young American women, it seems, want out of America. A Gallup poll in November found that 40 percent of US women ages 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. That percentage is up 10 times since 2014, and it is shared by neither other American demographic groups nor […] Read more ›
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Intel Foundry has released a video of a multi-chiplet 2.5D/3D processor with a 10,296 mm^2 silicon footprint, including leading-edge technologies such as 14A and 18A. Read more ›
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Google is finally adding a much-awaited feature to Gmail, allowing to change your old @gmail addresses without needing to create a new account. After switching to a new Gmail, you'll receive emails on both addresses, and all your existing data will remain intact. Read more ›
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Meta poached at least seven OpenAI researchers over summer. Here are some big names who left the startup in 2025. Read more ›
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Stylists said dad sneakers are going out of style in 2026, in favor of slim, sporty silhouettes, like ballet-inspired sneakers and retro runners. Read more ›
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In what could only be described as an extremely timely Christmas miracle, a Redditor has received two full boxes of expensive, flagship SSDs worth $5,100, even though they paid for just two. A tale of Amazon's packaging error turned into relief amidst the ongoing component crisis. Read more ›
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The Cybertruck has been on sale in the US for nearly two years, but Tesla has shown no signs of brining its most divisive EV across the Atlantic. Read more ›
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Microsoft plans to eliminate all C and C++ code across its major codebases by 2030, replacing it with Rust using AI-assisted, large-scale refactoring. "My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030," Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt writes in a post on LinkedIn. "Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft's largest codebases. Our North Star is '1 engineer, 1 month,... Read more ›
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A group of activists has scraped Spotify's entire library, accessing 256 million rows of track metadata and 86 million audio files totaling roughly 300TB of data. The metadata has been released via Anna's Archive, a search engine for "shadow libraries" that previously focused on books. Spotify described the activists as "anti-copyright extremists who've previously pirated content from YouTube and other platforms" and confirmed it is actively investigating the incident. The... Read more ›
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Archive.org now has a page with "the raw analog waveform and the reconstructed digital tape image (analog.tap), read at the Computer History Museum's Shustek Research Archives on 19 December 2025 by Al Kossow using a modified tape reader and analyzed with Len Shustek's readtape tool." A Berlin-based retrocomputing enthusiast has created a page with the contents of the tape ready for bootstrapping, "including a tar file of the filesystem," and... Read more ›
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European public institutions are quietly migrating away from American cloud providers and office software, driven less by policy ambitions in Brussels than by the mundane legal reality that GDPR-mandated risk assessments keep flagging the US CLOUD Act as an unacceptable threat to citizen data. Austria's Federal Ministry for Economy, Energy and Tourism moved 1,200 employees to the open-source platform Nextcloud in four months. Germany's Schleswig-Holstein has already transitioned 24,000 of... Read more ›
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Phoronix's Michael Larabel writes: An interesting anecdote from this month's Linux Plumbers Conference in Tokyo is that Meta (Facebook) is using the Linux scheduler originally designed for the needs of Valve's Steam Deck... On Meta Servers. Meta has found that the scheduler can actually adapt and work very well on the hyperscaler's large servers. [...] The presentation at LPC 2025 by Meta engineers was in fact titled "How do we... Read more ›
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echo123 shares a report from PBS: The Trump administration is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, moving to dissolve a research lab that a top White House official described as "one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country." White House budget director Russ Vought criticized the lab in a social media post Tuesday night and said a comprehensive review of the lab is underway.... Read more ›
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iRobot, the Bedford, Massachusetts-based company that brought the Roomba vacuum cleaner into American homes over its 35-year history, filed for bankruptcy on Sunday and will be acquired by Picea, its Chinese contract manufacturer that also produces competing household devices. The Wall Street Journal's editorial board placed blame for the company's demise on the Federal Trade Commission under Chair Lina Khan, which opposed Amazon's $1.7 billion bid to acquire iRobot. That... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from 9to5Linux: After the controversial news shared earlier this week by Mozilla's new CEO that Firefox will evolve into "a modern AI browser," the company now revealed it is working on an AI kill switch for the open-source web browser... What was not made clear [in Tuesday's comments by new Mozilla CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo] is that Firefox will also ship with an AI kill... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: CBS cannot contain the online spread of a "60 Minutes" segment that its editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, tried to block from airing. The episode, "Inside CECOT," featured testimonies from US deportees who were tortured or suffered physical or sexual abuse at a notorious Salvadoran prison, the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism. "Welcome to hell," one former inmate was told upon arriving,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: At this point, most competitive online multiplayer games on the PC come with some kind of kernel-level anti-cheat software. As we've written before, this is software that runs with more elevated privileges than most other apps and games you run on your PC, allowing it to load in earlier and detect advanced methods of cheating. More recently, anti-cheat software has started... Read more ›
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