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Huawei's KVarN squeezes 3-5x more KV-cache into vLLM without losing FP16 accuracy
Huawei's CSL group released KVarN, a vLLM attention backend that quantizes the KV cache aggressively while keeping FP16-level accuracy and throughput. On Qwen3-
ISS crew shelters in spacecraft as cosmonauts patch fresh Zvezda module leaks
Five crew members aboard the International Space Station were ordered into an elevated safety posture and took shelter in their docked spacecraft while two Russ
Ladybird Closes Public PRs, Citing AI-Era Trust Collapse Ahead of Alpha
The Ladybird browser project will stop accepting public pull requests, restricting code changes to project maintainers only. All currently open external PRs wil
Marjane Satrapi, 'Persepolis' author, dies at 56
Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian graphic novelist and filmmaker best known for the autobiographical comic 'Persepolis,' has died at 56. Her work chronicled g
Meta unlocks ADB on retired Portal devices, opening door to community reuse
Meta has enabled Android Debug Bridge access on its discontinued Portal video-calling devices, giving owners a path to repurpose hardware that would otherwise b
Meta's smart-glasses app ships a complete face-recognition stack, dormant by default
A teardown of version 273.0.0.21 of Stella, the Android companion app for Meta's smart glasses, found a fully assembled on-device face-recognition pipeline sitt
Microsoft open-sources pg_durable, a Postgres extension for durable workflows
Microsoft has released pg_durable, a PostgreSQL extension that brings durable execution—the pattern popularized by Temporal, Airflow, and Step Functions—directl
Microsoft's Azure Linux 4.0 Goes General-Purpose, Pivots to Fedora Base
Microsoft used Build 2026 to push Azure Linux 4.0 into public preview, marking the first time its in-house distribution can run on any Azure VM rather than serv
Mouseless promises full keyboard-driven control across macOS, Linux, and Windows
Mouseless is a cross-platform utility aimed at users who want to operate their computers entirely from the keyboard, eliminating the context switch to a pointin
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
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
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