AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

Now, AI coding tools are raising new issues with how that “clean room” rewrite process plays out both legally, ethically, and practically. Dan Blanchard took over maintenance of the repository in 2012 ...
IEEE

VP-JND:Visual Perception Assisted Deep Picture-Wise Just Noticeable Difference Prediction Model for Image Compression

Abstract: The Picture-Wise Just Noticeable Difference (PW-JND) represents the visibility threshold of human vision when viewing distorted images. The PW-JND plays an important role in perceptual image ...
GitHub

Multi‐Project Testing in VS Code

The Python extension now supports multi-project workspaces, where each Python project within a workspace gets its own test tree and Python environment. This document explains how multi-project testing ...
The New York Times

A.I. Loves Fake Images. But They’ve Been a Thing Since Photography Began.

An exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam reminds us that photography has always had a complicated relationship with the truth. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam On the cover of a German ...
Wall Street Journal

Meta Is Developing a New AI Image and Video Model Code-Named ‘Mango’

AI tools like Google’s Veo 3 and Runway can now create strikingly realistic video. WSJ’s Joanna Stern and Jarrard Cole put them to the test in a film made almost entirely with AI. Watch the film and ...
InfoWorld

PythoC: A new way to generate C code from Python

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...
IEEE

Learned Image Compression With Efficient Cross-Platform Entropy Coding

Abstract: Learned image compression has shown remarkable compression efficiency gain over the traditional image compression solutions, which is partially attributed to the learned entropy models and ...
Hackaday

Simple Tricks To Make Your Python Code Faster

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...
MIT Technology Review

DeepSeek may have found a new way to improve AI’s ability to remember

Instead of using text tokens, the Chinese AI company is packing information into images. An AI model released by the Chinese AI company DeepSeek uses new techniques that could significantly improve AI ...
maketecheasier.com

Google Colab Allows You to Write and Run Python Code in Your Browser – Getting Started Guide

Google Colab, also known as Colaboratory, is a free online tool from Google that lets you write and run Python code directly in your browser. It works like Jupyter Notebook but without the hassle of ...
Windows Report

Excel Now Lets You Run Python Code to Analyze Images Within Sheets

Microsoft has just announced a major upgrade to Python in Excel, allowing you to directly analyze and manipulate images within your spreadsheets. The feature is available for Excel on Windows, Mac, ...