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Last updated: May 16, 2026, 11:39 PM ET

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A developer demonstrated hosting a full website on an 8-bit microcontroller, serving static content from a 1980s-era processor with under 1KB of RAM — sparking debate over whether this signals an era of extreme resource efficiency or pure novelty. Meanwhile, researchers published a new self-distillation framework enabling neural networks to learn continuously without catastrophic forgetting, a long-standing bottleneck in machine learning deployment. The work draws comparisons to progressive training but reportedly reduces forgetting by 34% on benchmark suites.