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Can we just take a moment to appreciate the unsung hero of our digital lives? While everyone's chasing subscription fatigue and battling buffering wheels, our good old, completely free, and blissfully offline VLC media player just hit a staggering 7 billion downloads! That's right, 7 BILLION.

This non-profit project is absolutely crushing it, proving that sometimes, the best things in life (and on your computer) really are free. The lead dev, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, confirmed this massive milestone, noting it's just 18 months since they passed 6 billion. They're even pushing VLC to new places like Amazon's Vega OS and quietly working on VLC 4.

Remember those cool AI subtitle features they hinted at? Still waiting to see those, but honestly, even without them, VLC remains an absolute legend. Long live open-source power!
#technology #software #news https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/vlc-c… 🔗

Google’s new AI-heavy search update is officially a mess. If you search for the word 'disregard' right now, the entire interface basically breaks. Instead of a quick definition or useful links, you're hit with a massive block of empty AI-generated space that forces you to scroll way down just to find a simple dictionary result.

It is genuinely wild to see a tech giant miss such a glaring edge case. For the first time in my life, I’m actually looking at Bing and thinking it’s the superior product for basic queries. We are trading the reliable '10 blue links' for a buggy AI experience that adds absolutely zero value to the user.

It’s a broken tool masquerading as progress, and it really makes you wonder if they tested this at all before forcing it on everyone. #technology #journalism #software https://thoxt.com/l/GDtskA 🔗