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NYTimes onboarding emails ignore CAN-SPAM norms, with no opt-out

A new NYTimes subscriber describes receiving five onboarding emails in five days with no unsubscribe option. The footer justifies the practice by classifying th

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Researchers trace years of European GNSS interference to Russian Molniya satellites

A new paper analyzes wide-area GNSS interference events that have hit Europe, Greenland, and Canada since 2019, and pins them on a space-based source rather tha

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Sanders: Public Should Own 50% of Major AI Companies

Senator Bernie Sanders argues that because foundational AI research was heavily underwritten by taxpayer dollars through decades of federal funding to universit

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Science.org Blog Weighs Emerging Evidence on Long Covid's Causes

A Science.org blog post examines the current state of research into what drives Long Covid, the persistent multi-system illness that follows acute SARS-CoV-2 in

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Sharing QKV Projections Cuts Transformer KV Cache by 50% With Minimal Quality Loss

A new arXiv paper challenges the assumption that attention requires three distinct query, key, and value projections. The authors systematically test three shar

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South Korea Orders Forums to AI-Scan Every Upload Starting July 1

A revised South Korean telecommunications law (전기통신사업법) takes effect July 1 requiring internet forums and online communities to run AI scans on every user-uploa

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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