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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.

Imagine a glossy future in which your survival depends on the quality of a smartphone app. In such a scenario, a small software bug would no longer be merely a security flaw but would mutate into an existential threat. Although it sounds futuristic, this is already our reality. For example, the t:connect app drained the battery of the associated insulin pump t:slim X2 overnight, turning the life‑sustaining device into an almost deadly trap. ...