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India's Fertility Drop Arrives Decades Ahead of Forecasts
India's birth rate has fallen faster than demographers predicted, slipping below replacement level while the country is still poor and largely rural. The shift
Linux kernel eyes a native posix_spawn() to retire fork()+exec()
Li Chen proposed a "spawn templates" mechanism for the Linux kernel to speed up workloads that repeatedly launch the same executable, such as tools that invoke
LLMs Crack 98 of 100 Research-Level Math Problems at Leipzig Benchmark
Forty-nine mathematicians, mostly working during a three-day workshop at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig this spring, assembled a fresh benchmark of 100 res
Netherlands restricts DigiD operator to European firms, citing US legal reach
The Dutch government will require any future operator of DigiD, the national digital identity platform, to be a European company. State Secretary Eric van der B
Nvidia floats high-powered ARM CPU platform aimed at Windows PCs
The linked source is an X/Twitter post that could not be retrieved — the page returned only a JavaScript-required error rather than article content. The headlin
Pokemon Emerald Compiled to WebAssembly Hits 100k FPS in Browser
A developer has ported Pokemon Emerald to WebAssembly, allowing the classic Game Boy Advance title to run directly in a browser without an emulator wrapper. The
Publisher's C++ textbook recycles generic blurb across food science, metallurgy books
Raymond Chen's follow-up on a suspect C++ textbook turns from the cover to the back. The blurb promises "incredible insights" into "diverse topics" without ever
Reverse-engineering a dead Sigma 45mm: lens repair as PCB forensics
A hardware hobbyist walks through restoring a Sigma 45mm f/2.8 I-series lens bought broken on eBay, using the teardown as a case study in diagnosing modern elec
Rochester lab's solar desalination skips brine, harvests lithium from seawater
Researchers at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics have built a solar-thermal desalination system that sidesteps the two biggest headaches of conv
Social Cache Busting: Forcing Fresh Previews on Shared Links
The piece introduces "social cache busting," a technique for sidestepping the aggressive caching that platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Slack, and iMessage appl
S&P 500 refuses to bend rules for SpaceX, blocking fast-track for OpenAI and Anthropic
S&P Dow Jones Indices declined on June 4 to waive its standard listing requirements for SpaceX ahead of the company's planned IPO, killing a path that would hav
Statistical Analysis Finds No Evidence Claude Introduced Bugs into rsync
After a Mastodon post in late May 2026 ignited a viral campaign accusing rsync's maintainers of degrading the tool through Claude-assisted development, an indep