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NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 13.1: Zero-Copy Transcode, AV1 B-Frames, and Frame-Accurate Seek
The demand for high-quality video continues to accelerate across industries, powering everything from immersive streaming experiences to remote collaboration,... The demand for high-quality video continues to accelerate across industries, powering everything from immersive streaming experiences to remote collaboration, generative AI media tools, and large-scale content delivery. Behind these experiences is a growing need for video pipelines that are faster, more efficient, and capable of handlin
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From generated code to trusted code with a unit-test agent
Meet the open-source polyglot testing agent that learns from a repository, writes unit tests, and checks that they build and pass. The post From generated code to trusted code with a unit-test agent appeared first on .NET Blog.
AI Slop Melodramas Are Taking Over X—and Their Creators Are Cashing In
Viral tales of good triumphing over evil are racking up millions of views. They’re almost entirely AI-generated clickbait.
Deploying a Spring Boot Microservice on AWS Fargate: Lessons From the Outage That Forced Me to Get It Right
My first attempt to deploy a Spring Boot microservice on AWS Fargate didn’t fail loudly. It failed quietly — in a loop. ECS kept launching tasks, the Application Load Balancer kept marking them unhealthy, and the service never stabilized. The logs looked fine, the container looked fine, but the ALB replaced every task within seconds. The root cause was painfully simple: Spring Boot needed 45 seconds to start, and my ALB health‑check timeout was 5 seconds. The tasks never had a chance.
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Advancing responsible AI across Europe
OpenAI shares how its safety, security, transparency, and provenance practices support responsible AI governance in Europe. The work will continue as the EU AI Act advances.
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