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New TIMSS data shows girls' math progress erased post-pandemic, with fourth- and eighth-grade gender gaps widening sharply despite prior gains.
One in seven teachers won't return next fall due to poor conditions, safety fears, and budget cuts. Wisconsin and Portland face crisis.
ISTE+ASCD has named six educators as 2026-27 Voices of Change Fellows, empowering them to lead conversations on AI and tech in education.
Three states propose mandatory vetting for edtech software as screen time backlash grows, targeting school-issued devices and software safety.
New survey: 10% of LGBTQ+ youth attempted suicide; over 1/3 considered it. Schools can reduce risk through affirmation, GSAs, and anti-harassment policies.
Battlefield 6 Season 3 arrives May 12 with vehicle overhaul, netcode fixes, Golmud Railway map, and Ranked mode for battle royale.
Three games score 9/10 early in 2026: Cairn, Diablo 4 expansion, and Esoteric Ebb lead must-play list. Strong start for gaming year.
Preorders for Magic: The Gathering's Reality Fracture set are open at Amazon and Best Buy, launching October 2, 2026. The set introduces the Echoverse alternate reality and a villainous Jace Beleren.
Housemarque's Saros is technically a roguelike, but creators resist the label, signaling a conflicted sequel to Returnal. Background and implications detailed.
Take-Two CEO warns GTA 6 budget unsustainable, explores AI to cut costs. Industry faces tough choices as production expenses soar.
CloakBrowser, an open-source Python tool using stealth Chromium, persistent profiles, and signal inspection, launches to help developers evade bot detection in web automation.
OpenAI releases three real-time audio models (GPT-Realtime-2, Translate, Whisper) in its Realtime API, now GA. Flagship model offers reasoning, translation, transcription with adjustable effort.
Anthropic introduces Natural Language Autoencoders, converting Claude's internal activations into readable text. Breakthrough enables understanding model reasoning, detecting deception, and improving AI safety.
New Scanpy-based pipeline for single-cell RNA-seq analysis of PBMCs integrates doublet detection, clustering, annotation, and trajectory inference, enabling reproducible immune cell profiling.
OpenAI launches Codex Chrome extension for signed-in browser tasks, enabling AI agent to access LinkedIn, Salesforce, Gmail, and internal tools using real user sessions.
Major Linux distributions release emergency security patches for over 40 packages. Urgent updates required within 24 hours to prevent exploitation.
At 2026 Linux Summit, DAMON creator unveils memory tiering, THP monitoring, and data attributes. New features signal shift to proactive kernel memory management.
Sasha Levin's killswitch proposal would temporarily disable vulnerable kernel paths to mitigate security flaws until official patches are ready.
A controversial 'carrot disclosure' of an RCE flaw in Forgejo sparks debate over security ethics, project policies, and open-source vulnerability handling.
New stable kernels fix one Dirty Frag CVE; second CVE (CVE-2026-43500) still unpatched, patches in development.