Anyone who’s used the Internet for a long time has probably noticed that, contrary to widespread belief, the web actually does forget. This finding is echoed by the Pew Research Center in their piece “When Online Content Disappears” by Athena Chapekis, Samuel Bestvater, Emma Remy, and Gonzalo Rivero. They call for more sustainable ways of preserving content, because even the Internet Archive can’t capture every page. ...
The project blog FFmpeg has fantastic news to announce. The FFmpeg community is excited to announce that Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund has become its first governmental sponsor. Their support will help sustain the maintenance of the FFmpeg project, a critical open-source multimedia software component essential to delivering audio and video to billions of people around the world every day. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...
With Flash fading away, browser games have become rarer, but the game “Equinox” is a refreshing exception, since it runs in the browser without Flash. It works flawlessly in virtually every modern browser. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.
Interesting fact: OpenAI’s Whisper was developed only because the company had already copied, analyzed, and used every usable text on the internet to train its LLM. With Whisper they were able to transcribe the audio tracks of YouTube videos and use those for training as well. indiatimes.com writes in “How tech giants cut corners to harvest data for AI” The artificial intelligence lab had exhausted every reservoir of reputable English-language text on the internet as it developed its latest AI system. It needed more data to train the next version of its technology – lots more. ...
For anyone who’s lost track: User Makkara126 maintains a list of available iOS emulators in the post “Available iOS Emulators”. The subreddit r/EmulationOniOS is generally a good place to go if you want to stay well informed or have questions. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.