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I use this clever workaround to lock files and folders on my PC

I did not download a file locker. I repurposed a tool I already had.

PDF standard gets Brotli compression for 20 percent smaller files

The PDF Association is introducing Brotli as a new compression filter for PDF 2.0. Tests show an average of 20 percent ...

Thousands of Companies Are Driving China’s AI Boom. A Government Registry Tracks Them All

How the Cyberspace Administration of China inadvertently made a guide to the country’s homegrown AI revolution.
GitHub

Support for JPEG XL save/export

RawTherapee has been able to export to file formats PNG, JPG 8 bit, and TIFF for many years. While these formats enjoy wide industry support they are old, slow to compress and expand, and do not enjoy ...
IEEE

JPEG compression factor control: a new algorithm

Abstract: We propose a new algorithm for the compression factor control (CF-CTRL) when the JPEG compression algorithm is used. It can be used, for example, in the digital still cameras (DSCs), where a ...
GitHub

Automatically compress images to approximate target file size using binary search algorithm.

Modern applications should handle image size constraints transparently, creating seamless user interactions. imgcap implements intelligent auto-compression that respects file size limits while ...
PC Gamer

Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today

Spell checking is such a ubiquitous feature of today's software that we expect to see it in browsers and basic text editors, and on just about every computing device. However, 50 years ago, it was a ...