Background Authors & Affiliations: Zhaoyang Jia and Linfeng Qi (USTC), Bin Li, Jiahao Li, Wenxuan Xie, Houqiang Li, and Yan Lu (Microsoft Research Asia). This project stems from an open-source effort initiated in late 2023, with code available on GitHub. The paper targets a long-standing obstacle for neural video codecs (NVCs): achieving real-time performance without sacrificing compression quality. Existing approaches …

Google just kicked the can down the road—again—on killing third-party cookies in Chrome. While much of the advertising world rejoiced at the announcement, privacy professionals and legal teams should be sweating. This isn’t a free pass. It’s a stay of execution. Specifically, in a statement released on April 22, 2025, Anthony Chavez, Vice President of the Privacy Sandbox initiative, stated:​ …

I’ve been involved in a seemingly never-ending debate that started with the dubious (to me) concept of blaming Brightcove’s recent layoffs on HEVC licensing practices. The three questions involved are: Was HEVC’s licensing structure an aberration or similar to other technologies? Was HEVC a commercial success despite these licensing practices? Why didn’t non-premium content publishers adopt it? I have strong …