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VLC media player, the popular open-source software developed by nonprofit VideoLAN, has topped 6 billion downloads worldwide and teased an AI-powered subtitle system. The new feature automatically generates real-time subtitles — which can then also be translated in many languages — for any video using open-source AI models that run locally on users’ devices, eliminating the need for internet connectivity or cloud services, VideoLAN demoed at CES. ↫ Manish Singh at TechCrunch VLC is choosing to throw users who rely on subtitles for accessibility or translation reasons under the bus. Using speech-to-text and even “AI” as a starting point for a proper accessibility expert of translator is fine, and can greatly reduce the workload. However, as anyone who works with STT and “AI” translation software knows, their output is highly variable and wildly unreliable, especially once English isn’t involved. Dumping the raw output of these tools onto people who rely on closed captions and subtitles to even be able to view videos is not only lazy, it’s deeply irresponsible and demonstrates a complete lack of respect and understanding. I was a translator for almost 15 years, with two university degrees on the subject to show for it. This is obviously a subject close to my heart, and the complete and utter lack of respect and understanding from Silicon Valley and the wider technology world for proper localisation and translation has been a thorn in my side for decades. We all know about bad translations, but it goes much deeper than that – with Silicon Valley’s utter disregard for multilingual people drawing most of my ire. Despite about 60 million people in the US alone using both English and Spanish daily, software still almost universally assumes you speak only one language at all times, often forcing fresh installs for something as simple as changing a single application’s language, or not even allowing autocorrect on a touch keyboard to work with multiple languages simultaneously. I can’t even imagine how bad things are for people who, for instance, require closed-captions for accessibility reasons. Imagine just how bad the “AI”-translated Croation closed-captions on an Italian video are going to be – that’s two levels of “AI” brainrot between the source and the ears of the Croation user. It seems subtitles and closed captions are going to be the next area where technology companies are going to slash costs, without realising – or, more likely, without giving a shit – that this will hurt users who require accessibility or translations more than anything. Seeing even an open source project like VLC jump onto this bandwagon is disheartening, but not entirely unexpected – the hype bubble is inescapable, and a lot more respected projects are going to throw their users under the bus before this bubble pops. …wait a second. Why is VLC at CES in the first place?

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The CrowPanel ESP32 4.2” E-Paper HMI Display offers a high-resolution 400×300 pixel display in black and white. Powered by the ESP32-S3 chip, it ensures efficient performance and fast data transmission through the SPI interface. This display is perfect for various applications, including electronic labels, e-readers, and smart home devices.

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Men’s doubles shuttlers Ong Yew Sin-Teo Ee Yi continued their fine run in the Malaysia Open by smashing into the quarter-finals.

After their 23-21, 16-21, 21-18 second round win over South Korea’s 2023 world champion Kang Min-hyuk and his new partner Jin Yong on Jan 9, the Malaysians said modestly: “We’re not the fifth seed (favourite pairs) to win (after the early round exit for the top four pairs). But we’ll try our best. All 32 pairs are strong, except for us.”

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In a virtual conversation with The DropTimes sub-editor Alka Elizabeth, Gareth Alexander, Senior Drupal Developer at Zoocha and Accessibility Tools Track Lead for Drupal Starshot, discusses the pivotal role of accessibility in the upcoming DrupalCMS version 1, set for release on January 15, 2025. The interview delves into the challenges and strategies behind integrating accessibility tools like EditoriA11y, the community’s contributions, and the evolving priorities of inclusive web development. Gareth shares his vision for how DrupalCMS can empower developers and content creators to build accessible and user-friendly websites.

Honeybadger recently migrated our background job processing from Sidekiq to Karafka. Here’s what we learned.

On Monday at CES 2025, Nvidia unveiled a desktop computer called Project DIGITS. The machine uses Nvidia’s latest “Blackwell” AI chip and will cost $3,000. It contains a new central processor, or CPU, which Nvidia and MediaTek worked to create. Responding to an analyst’s question during an investor presentation, Huang said Nvidia tapped MediaTek to co-design an energy-efficient CPU that could be sold more widely. “Now they could provide that to us, and they could keep that for themselves and serve the market. And so it was a great win-win,” Huang said. Previously, Reuters reported that Nvidia was working on a CPU for personal computers to challenge the consumer and business computer market dominance of Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and Qualcomm. ↫ Stephen Nellis at Reuters I’ve long wondered why NVIDIA wasn’t entering the general purpose processor market in a more substantial way than it did a few years ago with the Tegra, especially now that ARM has cemented itself as an architecture choice for more than just mobile devices. Much like Intel, AMD, and now Qualcomm, NVIDIA could easily deliver the whole package to laptop, tablet, and desktop makers: processor, chipset, GPU, of course glued together with special NVIDIA magic the other companies opting to use NVIDIA GPUs won’t get. There’s a lot of money to be made there, and it’s the move that could help NVIDIA survive the inevitable crash of the “AI” wave it’s currently riding, which has pushed the company to become one of the most valuable companies in the world. I’m also sure OEMs would love nothing more than to have more than just Qualcomm to choose from for ARM laptops and desktops, if only to aid in bringing costs down through competition, and to potentially offer ARM devices with the same kind of powerful GPUs currently mostly reserved for x86 machines. I’m personally always for more competition, but this time with the asterisk that NVIDIA really doesn’t need to get any bigger than it already is. The company has a long history of screwing over consumers, and I doubt that would change if they also conquered a chunky slice of the general purpose processor market.

A man is loving his striking resemblance to teenage darts sensation Luke Littler – as mates jokingly ask what he plans to do with the prize money.

Sarah Marshall, 31, posted a video of her partner, Christopher Roger, 33, watching the darts – but less eagled-eyed viewers could have easily mistaken him for the world number 2.

While Christopher sat watching the two-time World Darts Championship finalist before his third-round tie on the 29th December, Sarah casually panned round to her partner who shares a remarkably similar side profile.

Sarah jokingly quipped “how is Luke Littler on my TV and sat in my living room?” as Christopher – who doesn’t see the resemblance – shook his head.

The video has since racked up over three million views and over 250,000 likes with many also seeing the similarities.