New FFmpeg AVX-512 Optimizations Hit Up To 36x The Performance Of Plain C Code

Some commits merged today to FFmpeg Git provide additional hand-tuned Assembly code for AVX-512 with capable Intel and AMD processors...
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That ‘90s fighter you like is going to come back in style.

The first trailer for Mortal Kombat II — yes, there was a first one — is heavy on meta humor and, as you’d expect, on action. And it doesn’t look like it’s skimping on the gore. The good news is that the new movie will focus on the titular tournament when it hits theaters in October. Even better: Karl Urban is shaping up to be an excellent Johnny Cage.

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The Mortal Kombat movie is at its best when it mimics the games

Mortal Kombat is a 2021 cinematic reboot of the long-running fighting game series, and it mashes together fantasy, sci-fi, and martial arts into one action movie.

^{Andrew Webster (The Verge)}

Trump's National Guard Troops Are Questioning Their Mission in L.A. (Shawn Hubler/New York Times)

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Trump's National Guard Troops Are Questioning Their Mission in L.A.

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From Project Gutenberg:

Histoire Anecdotique de l'Ancien Théâtre en France, Tome SecondThéâtre-Français, Opéra, Opéra-Comique, Théâtre-Italien, Vaudeville, Théâtres forains, etc...

by Albert Du Casse

Get it at: gutenberg.org/ebooks/40049

Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients' personal data, including addresses, to ICE (Associated Press)

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Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador (404 Media)

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Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador

Hacked data obtained by 404 Media reveals dozens more people on deportation flights to El Salvador who are unaccounted for. “We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even they don’t know," one lawyer said.

^{Jason Koebler (404 Media)}

OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you

One employee uses it to automate his weekly parking requests at OpenAI’s San Francisco office.

OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you

OpenAI debuted ChatGPT Agent, a tool that can complete work on your behalf using its own “virtual computer” and is a continuation of its Operator and Deep Research tools. 

^{Hayden Field (The Verge)}

#sensual : relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit

- French: sensuel

- German: sinnlich

- Italian: sensuale

- Portuguese: sensual

- Spanish: sensual

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Pirate Site Blockades Get Judicial Scrutiny in Germany, But No Transparency?

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Germany's voluntary pirate site blocking regime has undergone a fundamental change, now requiring judicial oversight for all blocking actions. The participants will rely on court orders going forward, instead of their own recommendations. While the change…

Pirate Site Blockades Get Judicial Scrutiny in Germany, But No Transparency? * TorrentFreak

Germany's voluntary pirate site blocking regime has undergone a fundamental change, now requiring judicial oversight for all blocking action.

^{Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)}

Tecno gives us our best look yet at Samsung’s trifold.

The Phantom Ultimate G Fold is only a concept phone, so don’t expect it to ever go on sale, but it’s the most complete trifold we’ve seen yet that folds inward on both sides — the same design we think Samsung is going to use for its upcoming trifold.

Tecno says it’ll show off the G Fold at Mobile World Congress in February 2026, but by then Samsung’s trifold should already be out.

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Samsung says its trifold phone should launch ‘this year’

Samsung’s hardware executive TM Roh told press at Unpacked that the company’s trifold phone is planned for a launch in 2025, though it doesn’t have a name yet.

^{Dominic Preston (The Verge)}

Trump Scores DOGE Win in Senate; Clock's Ticking in House (Ed Morrissey/HotAir)

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Trump Scores DOGE Win in Senate; Clock's Ticking in House

How difficult can it be to cut government spending in Washington? It took the Senate until 2:30 this morning to...

^{Ed Morrissey (HotAir)}

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Leo The Lion in London, England

A statue for a zoo that was never built.#bronze #sculptures #zoos #statues #section-Atlas

Leo The Lion

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Anthropic will face a class-action lawsuit from US authors

The filing alleges “Napster-style downloading of millions of works.”

Anthropic will face a class-action lawsuit from US authors

A California federal judge ruled Thursday that three authors suing Anthropic over copyright infringement can bring a class action lawsuit representing all U.S. writers whose work was allegedly downloaded from libraries of pirated works.

^{Hayden Field (The Verge)}

The next batch of emoji includes Bigfoot

Bigfoot is (a) real (emoji).

The next batch of emoji includes Bigfoot

Unicode 17.0 will include new emoji like a “hairy creature,” “apple core,” “ballet dancers,” and more.

^{Jay Peters (The Verge)}

Senate approves cuts to NPR, PBS and foreign aid programs (NPR)

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Senate approves cuts to NPR, PBS and foreign aid programs

From NPR. View the full context on memeorandum.

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