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S&P Keeps 12-Month IPO Seasoning Rule, Blocking Fast Track for SpaceX
S&P Dow Jones Indices will not relax its eligibility rules for flagship benchmarks like the S&P 500, after a consultation on whether mega-cap newcomers should g
Why 'Reinventing School' Usually Makes Things Worse
Scott Young pushes back on the popular instinct that schools should ditch desks, drills, and memorization in favor of critical thinking, projects, and discovery
Wind and Solar Outproduced Gas Globally for First Full Month in April 2026
Wind and solar generated 22% of global electricity in April 2026 versus 20% from gas, the first time renewables have beaten gas across a full month, according t
WSL 2 Speeds Up Windows File Access with Per-Device DMA Pools for Virtiofs
A May 2026 change to WSL 2 gives each virtio device its own dedicated SWIOTLB bounce-buffer pool, eliminating contention that previously forced all virtiofs mou
A Technologist Parent's Case for CDs, Landlines, and Whitelisted PCs
A self-described technologist explains how he's deliberately reaching back two decades to give his kids the enriching parts of computing without exposing them t
Ableton Ships Extensions SDK in Live 12.4.5 for User-Built Tools
Ableton has opened up Live to third-party tooling with its new Extensions SDK, shipped as part of the 12.4.5 release. The framework lets users write code that h
Apple Doubles MacBook Neo Production to 10M Units After Demand Surge
Apple has reportedly doubled its 2026 MacBook Neo shipment target from 5 million to 10 million units, according to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The budget
Berkeley CS failure rates triple as students lean on LLMs and skip the math
UC Berkeley's spring 2026 computer science courses posted failure rates far outside department norms: 35.3% of CS 10 students and 10.6% of CS 61A students recei
Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero, Pledges $1M to Keep Vite Vendor-Neutral
Cloudflare is absorbing VoidZero, the company built around Evan You's Vite ecosystem (Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and the commercial Vite+ toolchain). The enti
Creative Katana V2X soundbar can be turned into a remote BadUSB over Bluetooth
Security researcher nns reverse-engineered the Creative Sound Blaster Katana V2X and found a chain of weaknesses that lets anyone within roughly 15 meters fully
DaVinci Resolve 21 adds Photo page and AI tools for de-aging, voice cloning, search
Blackmagic Design's DaVinci Resolve 21 extends the editor well beyond video, adding a dedicated Photo page that brings the software's node-based color grading,
DDR5 32GB Floor Hits $375 as AI Demand Drains PC Memory Supply
DDR5 pricing has spiraled into territory that's reshaping what a reasonable gaming build looks like. The cheapest 32GB kit tracked on PCPartPicker now sits at $