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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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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

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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

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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

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