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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
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
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
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
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