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Chrome will be able to decode JPEG XL (.jxl) images from version 155. The decoder is written in Rust to avoid memory-safety bugs, and the team says it is also built to be fast.
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai. They are recognised for discoveries that help explain how life's one-sided chemistry can arise.
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A junior software engineer at Criteo says AI agents can write code but cannot teach you to be senior. He lists four habits he used to keep learning: curiosity, emulation, autonomy and collaboration.
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The shader-effects-inc/shaders project offers more than 200 GPU-rendered effects as components across major web frameworks. A free design editor exports ready-to-use code, and a paid Pro tier adds presets and extra tools.
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A new project called nanoMuse, is a free, open-source personal agent that works across Android, iPhone, iPad, desktop and the web. It acts on tasks, keeps running when the app is closed, and asks before anything that can't be undone.
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Microsoft has reportedly landed exclusive streaming rights to Grand Theft Auto VI for Xbox Cloud Gaming, according to sources familiar with its plans. The deal arrives as the service is capped and opened to pay-as-you-go access in November.
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Strands Labs has released Strands Decider 2B, a 2-billion-parameter open source model that picks among options and scores its confidence rather than generating text. The team says it runs locally with median decisions in around 115ms.
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The esp32-c3-adblock project stores blocklisted domains as sorted 40-bit hashes in flash and binary-searches them, letting a PSRAM-less ESP32-C3 act as a DNS sinkhole with a web dashboard. The developer says it uses about 50 KB of RAM.
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President Lee Jae Myung says signs of AI use have emerged in recent cyberattacks on South Korean banks, which led to a breach of customers' personal information. Police have opened a full-scale investigation, but authorities have not said which AI tools were involved or how large the breaches were.
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