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Firefox Merges Support For Vulkan Video Decoding

Yesterday at 19:00 PM, via Slashdot

Firefox has merged initial support for Vulkan Video decoding, giving the browser a more cross-platform path for GPU-accelerated video playback beyond Linux’s long-running reliance on VA-API. Phoronix reports: Firefox on Linux has long been focused on the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) that isn’t universally supported by Linux graphics drivers. This has left to efforts like NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver...

Italy’s Bending Spoons, Owner of AOL and Vimeo, Files For Nasdaq IPO

Yesterday at 18:25 PM, via Slashdot

Bending Spoons, the Italian app studio behind acquisitions like Eventbrite, Vimeo, WeTransfer, Evernote, and AOL, has filed to go public in the U.S. after growing into a subscription-heavy app conglomerate with more than 500 million monthly active users. TechCrunch reports: In its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Bending Spoons said it ended the year with $1.31 billion in...

Pharos Network Launches 150,000 $PROS AI Agent Carnival 

Yesterday at 17:34 PM, via Tech Financials

Hong Kong, June 8, 2026 (PinionNewswire) — On the first anniversary of the Testnet launch, Pharos Network, the financial Layer 1 blockchain for RealFi, announced a six-week global initiative to mark the PROS Summer. The “Create Like a PRO · Agent Carnival” runs from today through July 21 and deploys a total prize pool of […]

DeFi Saver announces Reward program as part of Hyperliquid integration

Yesterday at 17:21 PM, via Tech Financials

British Virgin Islands (PinionNewswire) — DeFi Saver has officially integrated Hyperliquid, the leading perpetual futures DEX and a premier high-volume trading venue. This launch brings futures trading and DeFi lending into one unified interface, making it the only place where users can manage their entire DeFi strategy in one place. About Hyperliquid x DeFi Saver […]

Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’

Yesterday at 17:00 PM, via Slashdot

Jeff Bezos is backing Flourish, a new “neuro AI” startup with $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, that aims to reinvent AI by studying the brain’s architecture and building systems that learn continuously while using far less power than today’s large language models. The company’s long-term bet is that neuroscientists and AI researchers working together can uncover...

Muscle growth drug ‘could reduce loss of lean tissue’ when using slimming jabs

Yesterday at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

Trial suggests monoclonal antibody can help retain lean body mass when losing weight with GLP-1 medicines

A drug that promotes muscle growth could significantly reduce the loss of lean body mass when using slimming jabs, research suggests.

While GLP-1 based jabs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro have proved highly effective at helping people who are overweight or obese, experts have warned it is not...

Absa goes quiet on its MVNO plans

Yesterday at 14:40 PM, via TechCentral

Banking group Absa won’t confirm a launch date, a network partner or whether the MVNO is even still happening.

Ruby Fights Supply-Chain Attacks With Filter Offering ‘Cooldown’ Before Installing New Packages

Yesterday at 13:34 PM, via Slashdot

Most supply-chain attacks using Ruby’s package hosting site “exploit a narrow window,” according to a new blog post form Ruby core maintainer Hiroshi Shibata. So its packaging-managing Bundler tool now offers a filter that blocks new version until it’s been public “for at least N days. Releases too new to have been scrutinized are passed over in favor of ones that have aged past the window.”The...

Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land

Yesterday at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

Guardian analysis finds facilities to be built in some of the driest areas as outcry grows over water needed to power AI

A record-shattering drought has racked much of the US. But the artificial intelligence industry is pushing ahead regardless, with the majority of planned datacenters set to be built in drought-ridden locations, a Guardian analysis has found.

About two-thirds of upcoming...

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