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Luigi Mangione’s state murder trial postponed indefinitely amid double jeopardy fight

Citynews | Aug. 17, 2026, 4:16 p.m. | Original

NEW YORK (AP) — Luigi Mangione’s state murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, which was slated to begin Sept. 8, has been postponed indefinitely as his lawyers seek to have the case thrown out on double jeopardy grounds following his guilty plea last week to federal charges.

FFmpeg Lands H.265 Vulkan Encode Performance Optimizations

Phoronix | Aug. 17, 2026, 4:14 p.m. | Original

The FFmpeg multimedia library can now enjoy faster H.265/HEVC video encoding with the Vulkan-powered encode path. With the optimizations merged today, the H.265 encode performance should be roughly at parity to the H.264 encode speed.

An optimization patch was merged to FFmpeg Git today for speeding up hevc_vulkan in following some of the same tuning as h264_vulkan. The commit message explains as well as providing some performance numbers:

"Without ALLOW_

九龍城私家車電單車相撞釀2傷電單車乘客一度昏迷送院後恢復清醒

Singtao | Aug. 17, 2026, 4:12 p.m. | Original

土瓜灣發生交通意外。今日（18日）凌晨約2時11分，一輛私家車沿馬頭角道往炮仗街方向行駛，當駛至九龍城道交界時與一輛綿羊仔電單車相撞。電單車司機和男乘客人仰車翻倒地。

警員及救護員趕至現場，電單車22歲

Epic responds to Apple’s bid for settlement talks in App Store case

9to5mac | Aug. 17, 2026, 4:10 p.m. | Original

Epic Games has filed its response to Apple’s request for the court to order settlement talks in the long-running App Store lawsuit. Here are the details.

Japan Inc. raises full-year profit forecast to 14% jump on AI and chips

Nikkei Asia | Aug. 17, 2026, 4:09 p.m. | Original

Won and yen: 2 currencies, 2 very different problems

Nikkei Asia | Aug. 17, 2026, 4:09 p.m. | Original

Supreme Court asked to review Texas law requiring the Ten Commandments in public schools

Citynews | Aug. 17, 2026, 4:07 p.m. | Original

WASHINGTON (AP) — Civil rights advocates on Monday said they asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Texas law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments, teeing up a case that could set a new national standard for the limits of state-sponsored religious expression in classrooms.