Manchester Evening News

Code Vein 2 is going viral - PS5 players can get it for just £38 in Argos deal

With just a few days left until Code Vein 2 launches worldwide, many people anticipating the new release could grab a pre-prder for just £38. The new action RPG is set to launch on all platforms on ...
The Mirror

Code Vein 2 release time across PlayStation, Xbox and PC

Gamers looking for a new soulslike to sink their teeth into will no doubt be anticipating the release of Code Vein 2 later this week. A sequel to the well-received original title from Bandai Namco ...
the-decoder

Google Deepmind gives Gemini 3 Flash the ability to actively explore images through code

Google Deepmind extends Gemini 3 Flash with "Agentic Vision": The model can actively zoom, crop, and manipulate images by generating and executing Python code - instead of just passively processing ...
TechRadar

Google restores much-missed JPEG XL format to Chromium code base - better image compression and better bandwidth are on the way

JPEG XL decoding is now part of Chromium’s core rendering pipeline Rust-based decoding addresses long-standing browser memory safety concerns JPEG XL support arrives without extensions or external ...
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 ...
Geeky Gadgets

Using Claude Code Subagents to Turn Images into a Working Build Guides

What if you could turn a simple image into fully functional code, without lifting a finger to write it yourself? The rise of AI-powered tools like Claude Code is making this a reality, and it’s not ...
Bleeping Computer

GhostPoster attacks hide malicious JavaScript in Firefox addon logos

A new campaign dubbed 'GhostPoster' is hiding JavaScript code in the image logo of malicious Firefox extensions with more than 50,000 downloads, to monitor browser activity and plant a backdoor. The ...
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 ...
Wall Street Journal

Sam Altman’s Sprint to Correct OpenAI’s Direction and Fend Off Google

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made the dramatic call for a “code red” last week to beat back a rising threat from Google, he put a notable priority at the top of his list of fixes. The world’s most ...
NextBigFuture

Deep Seek OCR Condenses Charts and Code and Reduces Tokens Per Image by 20X

DeepSeek’s announced OCR (Optical Character Recognition) model compresses text-heavy data into images and reduces vision tokens per image by up to 20x while retaining 97% accuracy (10x compression) or ...
IEEE

Automated Refactoring of Non-Idiomatic Python Code With Pythonic Idioms

Abstract: Compared to other programming languages (e.g., Java), Python has more idioms to make Python code concise and efficient. Although Pythonic idioms are well accepted in the Python community, ...