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Ex-Apple engineer says Apple deliberately slows older phones via updates

‘Ask YouTube’ brings AI-powered conversational search to video, adds Gemini Omni to Shorts

Google is completely revamping its search experience, and that doesn't stop at YouTube.

Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy

On May 13, 2026, Infomaniak founder Boris Siegenthaler transferred majority voting rights to a newly established Swiss…

Testing MiniMax M2.7 via API on three real ML and coding workflows

The author tested MiniMax M2.7 across three real-world workflows (refactoring a PyTorch project, drafting Obsidian…

GitHub Compromised

Evals Will Break and You Won't See It Coming

Current AI evaluation infrastructure is fundamentally reactive, measuring capabilities that have already emerged rather…

Ben Welsh made an index of all FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive

Ben Welsh created a comprehensive index of FiveThirtyEight content preserved on the Internet Archive, cataloging…

Railway Blocked by Google Cloud

This appears to be a status page for Railway, a cloud deployment platform, showing service uptime metrics rather than a…

GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories

HTML-in-Canvas Demos

HTML-in-Canvas is a collection of resources and demos that enable developers to render HTML content within canvas…

Railway Is Having a Major Outage

Railway's status page shows the platform is currently "Fully Operational," with 99.74% uptime over the last 90 days.

Remove AI Watermarks

A tool called remove-ai-watermarks allows users to strip AI provenance marks, invisible watermarks, and metadata from…

FBI seeks US-wide access to license plate cameras, wants "data in near real time"

FBI will pay vendors to help it track and search for vehicles nationwide.

Discord enables end-to-end encrypted voice and video calling for every user

Good news!

Mach Industries just spent $50M to solve a major defense tech problem

Mach says the acquisition meaningfully improves unit economics across its five vehicle programs at exactly the moment…

From teen hacker to Iron Dome researcher, this founder raised $28M to fight AI phishing

Ocean, an agentic email security platform, raised funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Spider-Noir final trailer gives us a classic villain

It's never too late to become a hero.

Elon Musk said Sam Altman “stole” a non-profit — but the trial showed he had similar aims

“By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America.”

Plex's 200% Lifetime Pass price hike tries forcing users to another subscription

Plex says that it has considered getting rid of Lifetime Passes.

Crossview 4.4.0 is now available

Crossview 4.4.0, a React-based dashboard for managing Crossplane resources in Kubernetes, is now available.

Era: From Nature publication to catalyzing Computational Discovery

Google has published Empirical Research Assistance (ERA), an AI tool powered by Gemini that automates expert-level…

OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool

Google Unveils Gemini Omni—A Next-Gen AI Video Builder That Can 'Simulate the World'

Google's new multimodal AI model powers updates to Flow and Flow Music, including conversational video editing and…

Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die

Open source projects die through various mechanisms: maintainer abandonment (the most common cause, where projects are…

Google takes a page out of Meta’s book, announces new audio-powered smart glasses

Google is back in the glasses game with "audio glasses" out this fall.

Mistral AI Acquires Emmi AI to Create the Leading AI Stack

Mistral AI is acquiring Emmi AI, an Austrian engineering AI company specializing in Physics AI models for industrial…

Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic

Two AI-based science assistants succeed with drug-retargeting tasks

Both tools generate hypotheses; one goes on to analyze some of the data.

Google Launches Gemini Spark: A 24/7 AI Agent That Wants to Make You Ditch OpenClaw

Announced at Google I/O 2026, Spark is Google's most ambitious Gemini feature yet—a personal agent that manages your…