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[constanza @conyfentyyy]

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[Bloomberg @business]

The Pentagon identified some of China’s biggest companies including Alibaba, BYD and Baidu as entities that support the Chinese military, in a move that risks provoking new friction with the government in Beijing https://t.co/XM5NcMC3LP

[CGTN @CGTNOfficial]

Chinese President #XiJinping: I am delighted to visit the beautiful city of Pyongyang again after seven years

[Spencer Baggins @bigaiguy]

A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name.

He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual servers underneath AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. He calculated more digits of pi than anyone in history. He has no Twitter. He has no marketing. He just keeps shipping.

His name is Fabrice Bellard.

Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the systems programming world knows what one man has built.

Fabrice was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France. He studied at École Polytechnique, the top French engineering school. He never went to Silicon Valley. He never built a startup empire. He just wrote code.

In 2000 he started a project called FFmpeg, an open-source multimedia framework for encoding, decoding, and streaming video. He was 28. The project did one thing nobody else had done well. It handled every video and audio format that existed, in one library, on every operating system. He led it himself for years.

Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet. YouTube uses it. Netflix uses it. VLC uses it. Chrome and Firefox use parts of it. Every Android phone, every iPhone, every smart TV, every video editing tool you have ever touched runs FFmpeg somewhere underneath. If you have watched a video on a screen in the last 20 years, Fabrice's code processed it.

He was not done.

In 2003 he started QEMU, a machine emulator and virtualizer. He wrote it solo until version 0.7.1 in 2005. QEMU lets you run any operating system on any other operating system. It became the foundation of modern virtualization. KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, runs on top of QEMU. Every major cloud provider, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, runs virtual machines on infrastructure built around it. The Quick Emulator is the most cited piece of cloud infrastructure code on Earth.

He kept going.

In 2001 he won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest with a small C compiler that grew into TCC, the Tiny C Compiler. TCC can compile and boot a Linux kernel from source in under 15 seconds. In 2004 he calculated the most digits of pi ever computed at the time, using a personal desktop computer and an algorithm he derived himself called Bellard's formula. In 2011 he wrote a complete PC emulator in pure JavaScript that runs Linux in your browser, a project called JSLinux that engineers still cannot believe is real.

In 2019 he released QuickJS, a small but complete JavaScript engine that fits where V8 cannot. In 2021 he released NNCP, a neural network based lossless data compressor that immediately took the lead on the Large Text Compression Benchmark.

Then he turned his attention to large language models. He built TextSynth Server, a web server with a REST API for running LLMs locally. He released ts_zip and ts_sms, compression utilities that use language models to compress text and short messages at ratios traditional algorithms cannot reach. He released TSAC, a very low bitrate audio compression system. In December 2025 he released Micro QuickJS, a new JavaScript engine for microcontrollers, separate from QuickJS, designed for environments with almost no memory.

Fabrice co-founded a telecom company called Amarisoft in 2012, where he serves as CTO. Amarisoft builds 4G and 5G base station software used by carriers and labs around the world. He has been running it for over a decade while continuing to ship personal projects from his own home page at bellard dot org

He has no Twitter. He has no Instagram. He gives almost no interviews. His personal website is a flat list of projects with no styling, no fonts, no marketing copy. Just titles and links.

A quiet French engineer who never moved to Silicon Valley wrote the code that quietly runs the internet.

He is still shipping.

[Hüseyin Örskaya @orskyai]

@mikepompeo MI6 doesn't usually send hand-delivered notes for mere nominations. It's more likely a diplomatic courtesy than a sign of inner-circle access, especially since the "C" signature's been a standardized brand for decades.

[Mike Pompeo @mikepompeo]

Within hours of being announced as the nominee to be the U.S. Director of the CIA, I received a hand-delivered message on MI6 stationery congratulating me on my nomination. It was signed simply "C" in green ink. Legendary. I shared it with my son and even he thought I was now cool!

More than that, this note, from Sir Alex Younger, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service of the United Kingdom, confirmed what I already believed: the work that the CIA and MI6 did together mattered, that the partnership was critical, and that two leaders focused on the mission could save lives and provide tools for our nations to deter our adversaries.

Alex's passing this week brought back so many memories of our time in service together. He flew to Langley to see me the day I was confirmed. We brought our two senior teams together in the UK to plan and coordinate and build in the first several weeks of my time on duty: making clear to them all that this relationship was more than special - it was critical for the security of our two countries.

Alex was a remarkable intelligence partner. When we needed help, it wasn't "let me see;" it was "this matters to you and America we'll get it done." And he and his team always did. I think he knew we would do the same for him and his team and his nation. Many Americans are alive today because of his leadership of MI6, I never knew how to thank him enough.

Alex became a friend as well. In the years since we both left office we would see each other from time to time. He was always so kind, so thoughtful, so smart. His deep love of his country was surpassed only by his deep commitment and love of his family. Decent and proper - and funny as hell - Alex was "C." As espionage requires, he was quiet, not attention seeking. He knew what evil was and he was ruthless in his efforts to crush it with every legal tool at his command. And he knew who his friends were and committed himself to supporting them.

I miss Sir Alex Younger. He was a role model for me and a man with whom every minute I spent was valued and savored. Blessings to you Alex. Praying for you and for your family. Well done and may you rest in peace in His hands.

[Atlantic Spirit @Atlantic_Sprt]

Lula e Vinicius de Moraes na Greve do ABC (1979) | 🇧🇷

[Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen]

One of the less talked about signals of China's ascent is the fact that black people are now starting to take credit for it

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

Au Centre hospitalier universitaire d’Amiens, auprès des enfants, des familles, des soignants et des chercheurs, avec une conviction : repérer tôt les troubles du neurodéveloppement, autisme, troubles dys, TDAH, TDI, c’est ouvrir plus grand le champ des possibles.

En 2019, j’ai pris l’engagement de déployer 100 plateformes de coordination et d’orientation. Aujourd’hui, 182 maillent tous nos départements et plus de 186 000 enfants ont déjà été repérés et accompagnés précocement, sans reste à charge pour les familles.

C’est un changement d’échelle. Nous devons aller plus vite, plus tôt, partout.

Ici à Amiens, l’Institut des troubles du neurodéveloppement montre la voie : au même endroit, le soin, le diagnostic précoce, l’accompagnement médico-social et le soutien aux familles. Une approche globale, humaine, efficace.

Avec l’université de Picardie, Atypie-Friendly prolonge cette ambition jusque dans l’enseignement supérieur. Elle accompagne les étudiants concernés, forme les équipes, rend la pédagogie plus accessible et change le regard.

Pour chaque enfant, chaque étudiant, chaque famille : faire de la différence une force, jamais une solitude. Reconnaître chacun, accompagner chacun, donner à chacun sa place, c’est cela la République.

[Jamaica Observer @JamaicaObserver]

Every question answered. Every reason to come home. 🙌

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[GraceAi @learn_ai_daily]

@TerenceLeungSF @mvollmer1 @morgfair @ChuckDBrooks @Nicochan33 @NancySinatra @alvinfoo @Hana_ElSayyed @Shi4Tech @antgrasso @PawlowskiMario Not sure if joy for all is even doable lol

[𐙚⋆ @voidwithverses]

“With money in your pocket, you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing well too.”

— Jewish Proverb

[Mario Lopez @mariolopezviva]

Arrest whoever believed her too…

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

A straight, married father of three wears skirts and high heels to his engineering work every day.

Mark Bryan (an American robotics engineer living in Germany) says clothing has no gender and he prefers the variety of styles.

[Mario Lopez @mariolopezviva]

This study was performed by overweight scientists…

[Black Media Hub ✊🏿 @BlackMediaHub]

Aaliyah Graduated With A 4.0 Gpa & 2 Double Platinum Albums At 18.

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Qween Jean, costume designer of Broadway’s 'Cats: The Jellicle Ball,' made history as the first openly trans person to win a Tony Award.

https://t.co/DcKILFccQW