04-14 00:01 · 中东,局势,BBC,中东
BBC Middle East correspondent Hugo Bachega joins paramedics on duty in Nabatieh - a city that was once vibrant, but is now abandoned.
BBC joins paramedics on duty in Lebanon after Israeli strikes
The BBC's Middle East correspondent Hugo Bachega joins paramedics on duty in Nabatieh, Lebanon - a city that was once vibrant, but is now abandoned.
In Lebanon, one in five people have been forced to leave their homes since fighting renewed in March.
At one ruined ambulance station, a paramedic shows where a colleague was killed by an Israeli strike while he was talking on the phone to his wife.
Israel says some ambulances and health facilities in Lebanon are being used by Hezbollah - but paramedics say there is no evidence of this claim.
Elsewhere, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said troops had killed more than 20 Hezbollah fighters operating from a hospital compound in Bint Jbeil on Sunday, the site of fierce fighting during the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.
Lebanon's health ministry denied the claim, accusing Israel of targeting civilians and medical facilities.
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04-14 00:01 · 中东,局势,BBC,中东
The Lebanese government go into peace talks with limited influence over the group.
Lebanon enters talks with Israel but with no cards to play
With Lebanon, again, engulfed by war, I remember a meeting I had with President Joseph Aoun at the Baabda Palace, a modernist building at the top of a hill overlooking Beirut last August.
Aoun, a former army chief, took office after a devastating war between Israel and Hezbollah, a Lebanese militia and political party that is backed by Iran. At that point, Hezbollah had been weakened and was isolated at home and Aoun had vowed to disarm it. The seemingly intractable issue over Hezbollah's weapons has long divided Lebanon, but Aoun appeared to believe he could solve it. "I was born an optimist," he told me.
At the time we met, a fragile ceasefire was in place in Lebanon. This deal had ended the war between Israel and Hezbollah in November 2024, but Israel was carrying out near-daily attacks on what it described as people and targets linked to the group. In some parts of the country, the conflict had never stopped. Even from my home in east Beirut I could occasionally hear the buzz of Israeli drones circling overhead.
For Hezbollah's supporters, the group is their only protection against Israel, which they see as an enemy intent on capturing Lebanese land. Opponents accuse Hezbollah, which is a Shia Muslim group, of defending the interests of its Iranian patron, dragging the country into unwanted and unnecessary wars.
When Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Iranian supreme leader, was killed in a strike on the first day of the US-Israeli bombardment of Tehran in February, Hezbollah fired rockets into Israel. The group said this was in retaliation for his death and the constant Israeli bombing during the ceasefire; Israel responded with air strikes and another ground invasion of southern Lebanon.
President Aoun, hoping to stop the bloodshed, proposed to negotiate directly with Israel, a significant step for two countries that do not even recognise each other. Israel ignored the offer until last week, after the US agreed a ceasefire with Iran and Israel carried out widespread air strikes that killed more than 300 people in just one day in Lebanon.
A meeting between ambassadors from both countries, expected to focus on a ceasefire here, is scheduled to take place later on Tuesday in Washington. With very limited influence over Hezbollah, what can the Lebanese government do? And what are the chances of finding lasting peace?
Forged in conflict
Hezbollah, or Party of God in Arabic, was created in the 1980s during Israel's occupation of Lebanon in the Lebanese Civil War. From its beginning, the group has been financed, trained and armed by Iran, and the destruction of Israel remains one of its official goals.
In 1989, the Taif Agreement that ended Lebanon's conflict mandated the disarmament of all militias and introduced a power-sharing deal between sects in a country that is multi-cultural and multi-faith. However, Hezbollah, branding itself as a resistance movement fighting the Israeli occupation, managed to keep its weapons. Israel withdrew its troops in 2000 after an 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon, but territorial disputes remained. And the United Nations Resolution 1701, that ended the war with Israel in 2006 and demanded Hezbollah's disarmament, has never been fully implemented.
The group is designated as a terrorist organisation by countries including the UK and the US. But, in Lebanon, Hezbollah is more than a militia. It is a political party represented in parliament and in the government, and a social movement that runs services including schools and hospitals in areas where the state has been absent. It is the country's most powerful group.
Since coming to power, President Aoun has defended a policy he calls the "state monopoly on arms". As part of the ceasefire deal in 2024, Hezbollah had agreed to remove its fighters and weapons from southern Lebanon which, for decades, had effectively been under the group's control. Hezbollah also holds sway over Beirut's southern suburbs, known as Dahieh, and the eastern Bekaa Valley, where part of its arsenal is located, but Naim Qassem, its secretary-general, has rejected discussing a full, nationwide disarmament.
Aoun, however, has warned that action to remove Hezbollah's weapons without its consent could lead to violence. "We can't let the country descend into another civil war," he said when we met in August. Amid continued Israeli attacks and Hezbollah's refusal to negotiate, I asked Aoun what his plan was. He said there was almost nothing else he could do.
A government without cards
Lebanon, a tiny country measuring just 4,000 square miles on the eastern Mediterranean, has a population of around 5.8 million and officially recognises 18 religious sects. Two thirds of its people are thought to be Muslim – Sunni and Shia populations are relatively equal in size – and a third is Christian. In December, a Gallup poll suggested that nearly four in five Lebanese were in favour of only the country's army bein
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04-14 00:01 · 国际,新闻,BBC,国际
The singer voluntarily checks herself into a treatment facility, three weeks before her court date.
Britney Spears goes into rehab after driving under the influence arrest
Britney Spears has gone into rehab, a month after she was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
The singer voluntarily checked herself into a treatment facility, her representative told multiple US media outlets on Sunday.
Following her arrest on 4 March, the star's representative called the incident "completely inexcusable" and said her loved ones would "come up with an overdue needed plan to set her up for success for well being".
Her entry into treatment comes three weeks before the 44-year-old is due to appear in court in California to face the DUI charge.
Last month, Spears was reported to authorities for driving her BMW "erratically at a high rate of speed" on a motorway, California Highway Patrol said.
She "showed signs of impairment" and submitted to a series of field sobriety tests after she was pulled over.
Afterwards, her representative told the BBC: "Britney is going to take the right steps and comply with the law and hopefully this can be the first step in long overdue change that needs to occur in Britney's life.
"Hopefully, she can get the help and support she needs during this difficult time.
"Her boys are going to be spending time with her. Her loved ones are going to come up with an overdue needed plan to set her up for success for well being."
Spears is one of the most successful pop stars of all time, with hits such as Baby One More Time, Toxic, Everytime, Gimme More, Womanizer, and Stronger.
For 13 years until 2021, Spears was in a conservatorship – a legal guardianship that saw her finances and personal life controlled by her father.
He has said it was necessary because her life was "in shambles and she was in physical, emotional, mental and financial distress".
"Through the conservatorship, Britney has been able to return to a path towards stability in all of these phases of her life. The mission has been successful and it is now time for Britney to re-take control of her life."
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04-14 00:01 · 国际,新闻,BBC,国际
Italy's prime minister and the US president are close allies, but Trump has refused to apologise to the "very weak" Pope Leo XIV.
Italian PM condemns ally Trump over 'unacceptable' Pope criticism
Donald Trump's remarks about Pope Leo XIV were "unacceptable", Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said.
The US president accused the pontiff of being "WEAK on Crime and terrible for Foreign Policy" in a long Truth Social post, later telling reporters he was "not a big fan".
"The Pope is the head of the Catholic Church, and it is right and normal for him to call for peace and to condemn every form of war," Meloni said in a statement.
Italian opposition parties have criticised Meloni for failing to speak out promptly.
Her coalition partner Matteo Salvini, the leader of the populist League party, said that "attacking the Pope... doesn't seem like a useful or intelligent thing to do."
After Trump's remarks, the Pope told reporters en route to Algeria that he did not want to get into a debate with Trump but would continue to promote peace.
Pope Leo has said he has "no fear" of the Trump administration and will continue to speak out against war after the US president launched an unusual and scathing attack over his stance on the Iran conflict.
On Monday, Trump doubled down on his criticism, saying he would not apologise to the "very weak" Pope.
In general, it is rare for a Pope to directly address statements by world leaders.
There are more than 70 million Catholics in the US, about 20% of the population. They include Trump's Vice-President JD Vance.
The US president wrote in Sunday's post that the Pope "should get his act together" and said he was "weak on nuclear weapons", apparently referring to Tehran's attempts to become a nuclear power, cited as one of the reasons for the US and Israel going to war with Iran.
He also suggested that the pontiff was elected "because he was American, and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J Trump".
"If I wasn't in the White House, Leo wouldn't be in the Vatican."
Asked by reporters to explain the post, he later said: "I don't think he's doing a very good job, he likes crime, I guess."
Trump added: "He's a very liberal person, and he's a man who doesn't believe in stopping crime, he's a man who doesn't believe we should be toying with a country that wants a nuclear weapon so they can blow up the world."
In response, the Pope told reporters on board his plane to Algiers that he did not see his role as that of a politician but as one of spreading the message of peace.
"I have no fear of the Trump administration, or speaking out loudly of the message of the gospel, which is what I believe I am here to do, what the Church is here to do," he told reporters.
"I don't want to get into a debate with [Trump]," he added.
"Too many people are suffering in the world today. Too many innocent people are being killed. And I think someone has to stand up and say: there's a better way to do this."
The pontiff later used a speech to criticise "continuous violations of international law and neocolonial tendencies", urging leaders to embrace principles of justice and solidarity.
Trump's remarks also drew criticism from Catholics around the world, with one expert comparing the comments to the Pope's relationship with fascist dictators in World War Two.
"Not even Hitler or Mussolini attacked the Pope so directly and publicly," said prominent Italian Catholic commentator Massimo Faggioli.
The Pope has used numerous public addresses to denounce global conflicts and urge de-escalation in the Middle East.
When Trump threatened Iran, saying that "a whole civilisation will die tonight", he responded by saying the statement was "truly unacceptable".
The Pope has also criticised Trump's hard-line immigration policy, questioning whether it was possible for someone to be "pro-life" - a term normally associated with opponents of abortion - if they agreed with what he described as the "inhuman treatment of immigrants".
Pope Leo is seen as continuing the humanitarian tradition of his predecessor Pope Francis, who said Trump was "not Christian" during the 2016 election campaign because of his anti-immigrant language. Trump described the late Pope as "disgraceful".
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04-14 00:01 · 国际政治,地缘冲突,外交关系,欧洲,战争
Russia has offered "pragmatic" relations, but Péter Magyar says he will not call Vladimir Putin himself.
Hungary's next PM would pick up if Putin calls and tell him to stop Ukraine war
Péter Magyar has said he has already spoken to 10 European leaders, a day after his landslide victory brought an end to Viktor Orbán's 16-year continuous rule in Hungary.
But he said he would not be calling Vladimir Putin, a close partner of Orbán, even though he would speak to him if the Russian leader rang.
"If Vladimir Putin calls I'll pick up the phone," he told reporters during a three-hour marathon press conference to mark his Tisza party's election success on Sunday.
"I don't think it'll happen," he stressed, "but if we did talk I'd tell him to please, after four years, put an end to the killing and end this war."
Moscow has said it respects Magyar's victory and expects to retain "pragmatic" relations with Budapest.
Orbán has also been a key ally of US President Donald Trump, who backed him to win Sunday's election, and Vice-President JD Vance reinforced that with a two-day campaign visit last week.
Magyar told journalists that he would not be phoning Trump either, but if Trump phoned him, he would say he was glad as they were "strong allies in Nato", and he would invite him to attend the 70th anniversary of the Hungarian uprising against Soviet occupation next October.
A former insider from Orbán's own Fidesz party, Magyar launched a grassroots movement to put an end to corruption and cronyism in the government.
Latest preliminary results give Tisza 136 seats, down from an earlier figure of 138 but still a comfortable "super majority" of two-thirds of the seats in parliament, enabling the party to change the constitution.
Magyar said some 400,000 votes had yet to be counted and he was optimistic his party would gain some of the remaining seats.
He said Hungarian voters had not voted just for a change of government but for "complete regime change".
Magyar was clearly a man in demand among European leaders on Monday, after voters had swung behind his party in dramatic fashion on Sunday.
"Hungary has chosen Europe," was the assessment of Ursula von der Leyen the European Commission president. Von der Leyen was one of the leaders he had already spoken to, he told assembled Hungarian and international journalists.
Hungary belonged in the EU no matter what the outgoing government was planning, Magyar stressed, adding that it was his country's interests to join the eurozone. He has already mapped out his first diplomatic visits, to Poland, Austria and Germany, countries that he emphasised Hungary's close affinity to.
The 45-year-old Tisza leader struck a very different tone from Hungary's defeated prime minister, who had long pinned the blame on the EU and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky for the continuing war in Ukraine.
Orbán's campaign claimed they were prolonging Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine, and he blocked a €90bn (£78bn) EU loan of aid to Kyiv last month, prompting European accusations of disloyalty.
Magyar told reporters that every Hungarian knew that Ukraine was the victim of the war with Russia.
The war made no sense from a Russian perspective too, he said, "as tens of thousands of Russians have lost their lives, and tens or even hundreds of thousands of Russian families have been destroyed", including Russian-speaking people living in Ukraine.
"It would probably be a short phone call [with Putin], and I don't think he'd end the war on my advice."
Although Orbán did have allies in the EU, he was the only leader who sought to veto a loan that he had previously agreed to, after Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic secured an opt-out at a December summit.
His government's ties to Russia came under increasing scrutiny after Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó admitted sharing information with Russian officials before and after EU meetings on sanctions.
At one point Szijjártó is alleged to have told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov "I am at your service", a leak that prompted Orbán to order a wiretapping investigation.
Hungary's prime minister-elect was handed a note during Monday's press conference and went on to allege that the outgoing foreign minister had been shredding confidential documents relating to sanctions with Russia in the ministry building that day.
There was no comment from the ministry.
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04-14 00:00 · 芯片,开源,嵌入式系统,硬件支持,驱动开发
Initial mainline video capture and camera support for Rockchip RK3588
Michael Riesch
April 13, 2026
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As many System-on-a-Chips (SoCs) do these days, recent Rockchip SoCs (namely, those of the RK35 generation) integrate dedicated IP blocks for video capture and image signal processing. These additions open the door to a wide range of interesting multimedia applications. However, support for these blocks in mainline Linux remains one of the last missing pieces in an otherwise well-supported SoC lineup. It is time to close that gap!
Over the last few years, Collabora has invested significant efforts into mainline support for the Rockchip RK3588 SoC. Our RK3588 upstream status matrix and the recent review blog post Running Mainline Linux, U-Boot, and Mesa on Rockchip: A year in review show the success of this mission. It is fair to say that together with the vibrant linux-rockchip community and Rockchip themselves, we were able to provide upstream support for most of the features of the RK3588. On the other hand, there are still a few unsupported hardware blocks that need to be taken care of.
Video capture blocks and image signal processors (ISPs) notoriously fall into the category of hardware blocks that gain mainline support at a late stage (if at all). The reasons for this are manifold: while the user base is substantial, it's smaller than that of other features, such as video output for instance. The hardware documentation is often not available, at least for ISPs, which seem to be considered special in terms of intellectual property. Then, the underlying hardware is not exactly trivial, making it difficult (if not impossible) for a hobbyist contributor to tackle in their free time. Even for companies, the initial efforts required to bring up that sort of hardware are a time-consuming and hence costly endeavor. As a consequence, users of these powerful hardware blocks tend to resort to a vendor Linux kernel, which can lead to regulatory compliance issues, such as under the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).
In a quest to overcome this deadlock, Collabora decided to start with the first step: bringing up the RK3588 video capture (VICAP) unit. It was obvious from the very start that this would not be a sprint, but a marathon. The plan was for the rkcif
driver to support the RK3588 VICAP, and this driver had been under discussion on the respective mailing lists since 2020!
Collabora joined the mainlining discussion in early 2022 and the patch series went through nine iterations driven by Bootlin. Then, a major rework towards a media-controller centric V4L2 driver was requested. This led to a complete refactoring of the driver and a renewed push towards inclusion in mainline Linux.
After another seven iterations of the resulting patch series and renaming the driver twice, the work was presented at Open Source Summit Europe 2025 in Amsterdam. The talk "Towards Mainline Video Capture and Camera Support for Recent Rockchip SoCs" provided an overview of the software stack for modern multimedia SoCs and covered the contributions that had already landed in mainline and were currently in flight, respectively.
A few iterations of the rkcif
driver later, the basic driver providing support for the PX30 VIP and the RK3568 VICAP was accepted (October 2025). After more than five years of development, including 25 iterations and three renamings, this was a major milestone. On the other hand, there was still a lot to do, of course. For instance, the Rockchip MIPI CSI-2 receiver unit that is coupled closely to the VICAP required a mainline driver as well. Again, the hardest part in software development proved to be naming things. After several iterations and three renamings and/or relocations, the driver found its name and place in the mainline Linux kernel (January 2026).
This came to pass right in time for FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels, where Collabora presented "Upstreaming Progress: Video Capture and Camera Support for Recent Rockchip SoCs" Apart from the refined and updated status matrix (see slides 15 and 17), the talk featured a first picture made with a Sony IMX415 sensor attached to the RK3588 VICAP. Of course, in this setup the raw image data from the sensor was debayered in software (which yielded an abysmal frame rate of 1 fps) and there was no image processing such as auto white balance (which explained the greenish image), but at that time it represented a significant stage of this journey.
A few extension patches to the rkcif
driver were required to add RK3588 support. Those patches had been in development for some time, and were recently sent out for review.
Naturally, we all would like to use the RK3588 ISP to process the images from the camera sensor in the dedicated hardware. To that end, we essentially need three things.
The first of the remaining issues is the support for the RK3588 VICAP MUX-TOISP unit, which constitutes a direct hardware connection that passes the data from the VICAP to the ISP(s). Technically, this is not strictly needed. As of now the RK3588 VICAP is abl
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04-14 00:00 · 芯片,硬件创新,显示技术,微型化,HackerNews
MEMS Array Chip Can Project Video the Size of a Grain of Sand
By many estimates, quantum computers will need millions of qubits to realize their potential applications in cybersecurity, drug development, and other industries. The problem is, anyone who has wanted to simultaneously control millions of a certain kind of qubits has run into the problem of trying to control millions of laser beams.
That’s exactly the challenge that was faced by scientists working on the MITRE Quantum Moonshot project, which brought together scientists from MITRE, MIT, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Sandia National Laboratories. The solution they developed came in the form of an image projection technology that they realized could also be the fix for a host of other challenges in augmented reality, biomedical imaging, and elsewhere. The device is a one-square-millimeter photonic chip capable of projecting the Mona Lisa onto an area smaller than the size of two human egg cells.
“When we started, we certainly never would have anticipated that we would be making a technology that might revolutionize imaging,” says Matt Eichenfield, one of the leaders of the Quantum Moonshot project, a collaborative research effort focused on developing a scalable diamond-based quantum computer, and a professor of quantum engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Each second, their chip is capable of projecting 68.6 million individual spots of light—called scannable pixels to differentiate them from physical pixels. That’s more than fifty times the capability of previous technology, such as micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) micromirror arrays.
“We have now made a scannable pixel that is at the absolute limit of what diffraction allows,” says Henry Wen, a visiting researcher at MIT and a photonics engineer at QuEra Computing.
The chip’s distinguishing feature is an array of tiny micro-scale cantilevers, which curve away from the plane of the chip in response to voltage and act as miniature “ski-jumps” for light. Light is channeled along the length of each cantilever via a waveguide, and exits at its tip. The cantilevers contain a thin layer of aluminum nitride, a piezoelectric which expands or contracts under voltage, thus moving the micromachine up and down and enabling the array to scan beams of light over a two-dimensional area.
Despite the magnitude of the team’s achievement, Eichenfield says that the process of engineering the cantilevers was “pretty smooth.” Each cantilever is composed of a stack of several submicrometer layers of material and curls approximately 90 degrees out of the plane at rest. To achieve such a high curvature, the team took advantage of differences in the contraction and expansion of individual layers caused by physical stresses in the material resulting from the fabrication process. The materials are first deposited flat onto the chip. Then, a layer in the chip below the cantilever is removed, allowing the material stresses to take effect, releasing the cantilever from the chip and allowing it to curl out. The top layer of each cantilever also features a series of silicon dioxide bars running perpendicular to the waveguide, which keep the cantilever from curling along its width while also improving its length-wise curvature.
What was more of a challenge than engineering the chip itself was figuring out the details of actually making the chip project images and videos. Working out the process of synchronizing and timing the cantilevers’ motion and light beams to generate the right colors at the right time was a substantial effort, according to Andy Greenspon, a researcher at MITRE who also worked on the project. Now, the team has successfully projected a variety of videos from a single cantilever, including clips from the movie A Charlie Brown Christmas.
The chip projected a roughly 125-micrometer image of the Mona Lisa.Matt Saha, Y. Henry Wen, et al.
Because the chip can project so many more spots in any given time interval than any previous beam scanners, it could also be used to control many more qubits in quantum computers. The Quantum Moonshot program’s mission is to build a quantum computer that can be scaled to millions of qubits. So clearly, it needs a scalable way of controlling each one, explains Wen. Instead of using one laser per qubit, the team realized that not every qubit needed to be controlled at every given moment. The chip’s ability to move light beams over a two-dimensional area, would allow them to control all of the qubits with many fewer lasers.
Another process that Wen thinks the chip could improve is scanning objects for 3D printing. Today, that typically involves using a single laser to scan over the entire surface of an object. The new chip, however, could potentially employ thousands of laser beams. “I think now you can take a process that would have taken hours and maybe bring it down to minutes,” says Wen.
Wen is also excited to explore the potential of different cantilever shapes. By changing the orientations of the bars pe
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04-14 00:00 · AI伦理,公众认知,技术鸿沟,市场信任,行业报告
Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone
AI experts and the public’s opinion on the technology are increasingly diverging, according to Stanford University’s annual report on the AI industry, which was released Monday. In particular, the report noted a growing trend of anxiety around AI and, in the U.S., concerns about how the technology will impact key societal areas, such as jobs, medical care, and the economy.
The report’s findings follow growing negative sentiment about AI, with Gen Z reportedly leading the way, according to a recent Gallup poll. The study found that young people were growing less hopeful and more angry about the technology, even though around half of the demographic was using AI either daily or weekly.
For some working in tech, the AI backlash has come as a surprise. AI leaders have focused on managing the possibility of Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI — a theoretical form of AI superintelligence that could perform any task a human could do and think for itself. But everyday folks are more concerned about AI’s impact on their paycheck and whether or not their power bills will go up as energy-hungry data centers are built.
The divide has been most apparent in the online reaction to the recent attacks on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home. In posts on X , for instance, AI insiders voiced surprise at a series of Instagram comments that seemed to praise the attack on Altman’s home. Some of the online comments have a similar vibe to those that circulated online after the shooting of the United Healthcare CEO in 2024 and the more recent burning of a Kimberly-Clark warehouse by a worker angry about not receiving a “livable wage” — with some comments even going so far as to suggest that even more action, akin to a revolution, is needed.
Stanford’s report provides more insight into where all this negativity is coming from, as it summarizes data around public sentiment of AI across various sources.
For instance, it pointed to a report from Pew Research published last month, which noted that only 10% of Americans said they were more excited than concerned about the increased use of AI in daily life. Meanwhile, 56% of AI experts said they believed AI would have a positive impact on the U.S. over the next 20 years.
Expert opinion and public sentiment also greatly diverged in particular areas where AI could have a societal impact. Indeed, 84% of experts, the report authors noted, said that AI would have a largely positive impact on medical care over the next 20 years, but only 44% of the U.S. general public said the same.
Plus, a majority (73%) of experts felt positive about AI’s impact on how people do their jobs, compared with just 23% of the public. And 69% of experts felt that AI would have a positive impact on the economy. Given the supposed AI-fueled layoffs and disruptions to the workplace, it’s not surprising that only 21% of the public felt similarly.
Other data from Pew Research, cited by the report, noted that AI experts were less pessimistic on AI’s impact on the job market, while nearly two-thirds of Americans (or 64%) said they think AI will lead to fewer jobs over the next 20 years.
The U.S. also reported the lowest trust in its government to regulate AI responsibly, compared with other nations, at 31%. Singapore ranked highest at 81%, per data pulled from Ipsos found in Stanford’s report.
Another source looked at regulation concerns on a state-by-state level and concluded that, nationwide, 41% of respondents said federal AI regulation will not go far enough, while only 27% said it would go “too far.”
Despite the fears and concerns, AI did get one accolade: Globally, those who feel like AI products and services offer more benefits than drawbacks slightly rose from 55% in 2024 to 59% in 2025.
But at the same time, those respondents who said that AI makes them “nervous” grew from 50% to 52% during the same period, per data cited by the report’s authors.
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04-14 00:00 · 开源,技术发布,开发者生态,浏览器引擎,Rust
Servo is now available on crates.io
Today the Servo team has released v0.1.0 of the servo crate.
This is our first crates.io release of the servo
crate that allows Servo to be used as a library.
We currently do not have any plans of publishing our demo browser servoshell to crates.io. In the 5 releases since our initial GitHub release in October 2025, our release process has matured, with the main “bottleneck” now being the human-written monthly blog post. Since we’re quite excited about this release, we decided to not wait for the monthly blog post to be finished, but promise to deliver the monthly update in the coming weeks.
As you can see from the version number, this release is not a 1.0 release. In fact, we still haven’t finished discussing what 1.0 means for Servo. Nevertheless, the increased version number reflects our growing confidence in Servo’s embedding API and its ability to meet some users’ needs.
In the meantime we also decided to offer a long-term support (LTS) version of Servo, since breaking changes in the regular monthly releases are expected and some embedders might prefer doing major upgrades on a scheduled half-yearly basis while still receiving security updates and (hopefully!) some migration guides. For more details on the LTS release, see the respective section in the Servo book.
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04-14 00:00 · 芯片,边缘计算,AI硬件,开源,技术竞争
(AMD) Build AI Agents That Run Locally
GAIA is an open-source framework for building AI agents in Python and C++ that run entirely on local hardware. Agents reason, call tools, search documents, and take action — with no cloud dependency and no data leaving the device.
Local Inference
All processing stays on-device
No Cloud Dependency
No API keys or external services required
Python & C++
Full SDK in both languages
AMD Optimized
NPU and GPU acceleration on Ryzen AI
Python
C++
from gaia.agents.base.agent import Agentagent = Agent()response = agent.process_query("Summarize my meeting notes")
#include <gaia/agent.h>gaia::Agent agent;auto result = agent.processQuery("Summarize my meeting notes");
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