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Internal memo: Paramount Global is cutting its US-based staff by 3.5% and may also reduce its workforce outside of the US over time (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/paramount-to-cut-3percent-of-us-workfo…

Paramount to cut 3% of U.S. workforce as it deepens cost-cutting
It's the latest round of layoffs at Paramount as it contends with cord-cutting and prepares to merge with Skydance Media.

People keep making the same mistake, again and again and again and again forever, of thinking that it is syntax that makes software development hard.
Oh honey.
Re this from @mathaetaes:
https://infosec.exchange/@mathaetaes/114656764053846137
(P.S. Visual coding is actually really cool, and IMO an underexplored PL design space — but is very much coding, and very much tricky for the same reasons as any other kind of coding.)

Fine-Grained Motion Compression and Selective Temporal Fusion for Neural B-Frame Video Coding
Xihua Sheng, Peilin Chen, Meng Wang, Li Zhang, Shiqi Wang, Dapeng Oliver Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07709

Fine-Grained Motion Compression and Selective Temporal Fusion for Neural B-Frame Video Coding
With the remarkable progress in neural P-frame video coding, neural B-frame coding has recently emerged as a critical research direction. However, most existing neural B-frame codecs directly adopt P-frame coding tools without adequately addressing the unique challenges of B-frame compression, leading to suboptimal performance. To bridge this gap, we propose novel enhancements for motion compression and temporal fusion for neural B-frame coding. First, we design a fine-grained motion compressio…

Bengals cutting leading tackler from 2024: Who might be taking over and how this impacts Trey Hendrickson

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/beng…

Apple unveils Xcode 26, which will integrate ChatGPT for coding, doc generation, and more, and says devs can use API keys to add AI models from other providers (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/09/apple-brings-chatgpt-and-o…

Apple brings ChatGPT and other AI models to Xcode | TechCrunch
At WWDC 2025, Apple released a new version of Xcode, its app development suite, that integrates OpenAI's ChatGPT for coding, doc generation, and more. The company also announced that developers can use API keys to bring AI models from other providers to Xcode for AI-powered programming suggestions.

Distributed Image Semantic Communication via Nonlinear Transform Coding
Yufei Bo, Meixia Tao, Kai Niu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07391 https://

Distributed Image Semantic Communication via Nonlinear Transform Coding
This paper investigates distributed source-channel coding for correlated image semantic transmission over wireless channels. In this setup, correlated images at different transmitters are separately encoded and transmitted through dedicated channels for joint recovery at the receiver. We propose a general approach for distributed image semantic communication that applies to both separate source and channel coding (SSCC) and joint source-channel coding (JSCC). Unlike existing learning-based appr…

Here’s a person, Baldur Bjarnason, @…, who thinks I’m really wrong about LLMs and coding. I mostly don’t agree but the argument is well-presented: https://www.baldurbjarna…

Trusting your own judgement on 'AI' is a huge risk
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

does this need to say “professional vibe coding” or “vibe coding at work” or do we understand it without those qualifiers

Bango: subscription providers are reducing their reliance on direct acquisition strategies like social media ads due to rising costs and diminishing returns (Daniel Frankel/StreamTV Insider)
https://www.streamtvinsider.com/advertisin…

Bango: Subscription providers turn to bundling as direct acquisition marketing falters
Marketers of subscription services including those themed around streaming video and music are cutting back on once reliable direct acquisition strategies, including display and social media advert | A new Bango study concludes that subscription service providers are cutting back on once reliable direct acquisition strategies, including display and social media advertising, for customer growth and are turning to indirect marketing mechanisms like bundling.

Similarweb: Google's AI tools are significantly cutting organic search traffic to news publishers; traffic to BI, HuffPost, and WaPo is down 50% in three years (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-ai-news