A French engineer has declared war on AWS, Google and Microsoft using AI-generated sea shanties, satirical poetry, and a multilingual protest campaign
Google Search used to direct users to web sites; AI Mode will keep them in Google's garden
Chi Xu, the founder and CEO of XREAL, thinks the smart glasses business has finally reached a turning point.
We're in the transition period -- all of us.
Could the Chocolate Factory's mission to reshape the web backfire?
The Premier League has requested a DMCA subpoena in an attempt to unmask the operators of 25 pirate sports streaming sites. The domain names were registered through Tucows, which is asked to hand over all personal details of the operators. Interestingly, the football league's own evidence shows the âŠ
The governmentâs A.I. Security Institute, staffed by alumni from OpenAI and Google, is becoming a model for countries grappling with A.I.âs emerging risks.
Google's overhaul of the search bar this week washes away one of the last vestiges of the internet's halcyon era â when search tools felt empowering, social media and swiping were novel, and popular disillusionment had yet to set in.Why it matters: The AI era and the TikTok-ification of social mediaâŠ
Apple, Meta, and Google offer special security modes that provide your devices more secure against targeted spyware attacks. Here are how those modes work, what they do, and how to switch them on.
Plus: Google publishes a live exploit for an unpatched flaw, the feds arrest two men accused of creating thousands of nonconsensual deepfake nudes, and more.
You can now disco ball-ify your entire Pixel home screen, says Google.
Google tells Ars it fixed the first-gen Chromecast bug.
Google demoed prototype Android XR glasses that overlay Gemini-powered translation, navigation, and other information directly into your field of view.
After Google Search's AI update, the word "disregard" now effectively breaks the search interface.
The textbook publishers that sued Google over pirated ebook ads have responded to the company's effort to dismiss their case. The publishers argue that Google's specific ads for pirate books qualify as contributory copyright infringement under the Supreme Court's Cox ruling. Google's ban on ebook adâŠ
The search giantâs AI-crafted answers are so convenient, youâll be sucked inâto the detriment of the web and the artists and thinkers behind it.
The challenges of conducting open-source research in China are well-documented. Consistently named one of the most digitally oppressive countries in the world, China blocks some of the worldâs largest social media platforms, such as Facebook, Google, and YouTube. Those that are still accessible are âŠ
During Tuesdayâs Google I/O keynote, Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, proclaimed that we are currently âstanding in the foothills of the singularity.â It was a striking statementâthe singularity is the theoretical future moment when AI rapidly exceeds human intelligence and dramatically tâŠ
The company says its SynthID verification tool has been used 50 million times in Gemini and is now expanding to more of its products
Boost your productivity and save with exclusive Google Workspace coupons from WIRED. Get up to 14% off plans for three months, including Starter, Standard, and Plus tiers.
Artificial intelligence platforms may be just as susceptible to social engineering as human beings, but they are proving remarkably good at finding security vulnerabilities in human-made computer code. That reality is on full display this month with some of the more widely-used software makers -- inâŠ
A deal would give Microsoft a win in the race to supply AI companies with custom silicon, where it trails Amazon and Google
Google is about to look really different, and if you're not a fan of the AI overview feature, then you're not going to like what's coming.
Plenty of time for bad actors to grab data or hit you with a giant bill
Just like in The Truman Show
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we unpack the mass layoffs at Meta, big announcements at Google I/O, and the latest backlash against AI.
This week, Apple released iOS 26.5, an update that supports end-to-end encryption for Rich Communication Services (RCS), meaning conversations between Android and iPhone will soon be encrypted in the default chat apps. This has been a long time coming, and is a welcome delivery on a promise both GooâŠ
A security researcher discovered the API keys can still be used for 23 minutes after deletion, even though the cloud provider claims deletion is immediate.
Google has accidentally leaked details about an unfixed issue in Chromium that keeps JavaScript running in the background even when the browser is closed, allowing remote code execution on the device. [...]
The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, Anthropicâs two-day event for software developers in London that kicked off on May 19, the same day as Googleâs I/O in Palo Alto. (A coincidence, not a flex, Anthropic staffers assured me.) âWho here has shipped a pull request in the last week that was compâŠ
The move completes Canva's integration across all four major AI assistants: Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Gemini
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One of the most promising introductions at Googleâs I/O developer conference on Tuesday was a new way for consumers to use the web: AI agents. Unfortunately, it was also the most confusing.
Spotify is releasing the new desktop app as a research preview in more than 20 markets.
I used the Gemini app to generate lifelike videos featuring a digital clone of myself. Google sees this as the future of creation. Iâm still creeped out.
Microsoft today pushed software updates to fix a staggering 167 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software, including a SharePoint Server zero-day and a publicly disclosed weakness in Windows Defender dubbed "BlueHammer." Separately, Google Chrome fixed its fourthâŠ
Article URL: https://tante.cc/2026/05/20/on-google-declaring-war-on-the-web/
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Google is trying to pull off one of the trickiest balancing acts in tech: aggressively disrupting its own products with AI while protecting the businesses that generate tens of billions in profit.Why it matters: Unlike OpenAI and Anthropic, Google enters the AI race with enormous scale, distributionâŠ
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More than 200 vulnerabilities patched in recent Chrome releases are marked as âreported by Googleâ.
The post Googleâs Surge in Chrome Vulnerability Discoveries Likely Driven by AI appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Org that represents Meta, Google and Microsoft plans more heat reuse guidelines as debate over bit barn social license burns red hot
Google publishes exploit code before patch, reported 29 months earlier, is fixed.
Subsequent thread: Incident Report: May 19, 2026 â GCP Account Suspension - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48204770
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The Gemini for Science suite includes three experimental tools covering hypothesis generation, computational testing, and literature review
The glasses, built on Google's Android XR platform, will use Gemini to answer questions, give directions, and handle tasks hands-free
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260519-google-tackles-attempts-to-hack-its-ai-results
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https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-may-19-2026-gcp-account-outageEverytime I read something like this , I get nervous about the cloud providers and Google. Since this is a relatively high profile customer standards, shouldn't they explain what caused them to suspend the account ?
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Most users lose access June 18 - unless youâve got enterprise creds or paid API keys
Google's AI search evolution is accelerating at I/O 2026.
Google is reinventing the product that made it one of the richest companies in history: search.Why it matters: Search is the cash cow that funds Google's sprawling empire. But it faces an existential threat from AI chatbots, so the company is moving proactively to upend its own core business before âŠ
https://status.railway.com/incident/I23M92U0
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Gemini Spark works 24/7 on behalf of users across Gmail, Google Docs, and other Workspace apps, with a broader rollout coming next week
As artificial intelligence forces students to rethink their majors and reshapes the job market, it's clear that graduates don't want to hear about the technology on their big day. The big picture: Several commencement ceremonies have been interrupted by boos and jeers when speakers have brought up AâŠ
https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.5-flas...
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/google-seach-bar..., https://archive.ph/XI1sQhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-...https://www.theverge.com/tech/932970/google-search-ai-update...
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Google is debuting a new AI Ultra plan priced at $100, which will give users 5x more usage limit than the AI Pro plan alongside the Antigravity 2.0 launch.
Most people shop across multiple devices, many retailers, and over the course of many days, which is why Google is launching Universal Cart.
The updates signal Googleâs push to turn its Gemini app into an all-purpose AI hub rather than a stand-alone chatbot.
Google is calling the new devices "audio glasses," in that users will be able to issue verbal commands to them and get things done via its ecosystem of apps and services, including Gemini.
Google is launching AI-powered âinformation agentsâ that can monitor topics in the background and proactively alert users to updates and changes.
Google expands Gmailâs AI Inbox with conversational voice search, letting users ask Gemini to find buried email details.
Google says it's designed the app to be accessible to everyone, from teachers to small business owners.
Google is completely revamping its search experience, and that doesn't stop at YouTube.
Chocolate Factory readies always-on agents for searchers
Users claim personal family domains are being falsely flagged for commercial use, leaving long-time G Suite Legacy customers facing a pay-up-or-lose-access ultimatum
This is the service we get when we spend $10m plus? asks automated code deployment outfit
Google is sprucing up its Gemini models, revamping search, and enabling AI agents in everything. There are also some spiffy new smart glasses coming this fall.
Google says its more efficient Gemini 3.5 Flash is the key to your agentic AI future.
AI content is getting good, but SynthID might be able to help tell truth from fiction.
For years, civil society organizations, workers, journalists, and human rights experts have warned that major technology companies risk enabling grave human rights abuses when they provide cloud computing, AI, and surveillance infrastructure to governments implicated in violations of international aâŠ
The SHub Reaper stealer, which hides behind fake WeChat and Miro installers, marks a shift from ClickFix social engineering to Apple script-based execution.
This is todayâs edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of whatâs going on in the world of technology. Hereâs why Elon Musk lost his suit against OpenAI Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against OpenAI, which centered on whether the company breached its founding contrâŠ
The new U.S.-based company will sell access to Google's Tensor Processing Unit chips as a compute-as-a-service offering, with 500 MW of capacity targeted for 2027
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OpenAI announced two new measures to help detect AI generated imagery: joining the open C2PA standard and adding Google's SynthID to its products.
Google's Gemini Omni is a new multimodal model that reasons across text, images, audio, and video to generate and edit videos through simple conversation â starting with Omni Flash.
Google is debuting a new AI Ultra plan priced at $100, which will give users 5x more usage limit than the AI Pro plan alongside Antigravity 2.0 launch.
Google is letting users create drafts, take notes, and search for email with voice with the new Workspace update
At the I/O developer conference, Google announced a new agentic personal assistant called Gemini Spark, built from Gemini's base models and an agentic harness from Google Antigravity.
The tech giant says it's aware that most people shop across multiple devices, many retailers, and over the course of many days, which is why it's launching Universal Cart.
Google is embracing the rise of AI coding agents with new Android tools designed to work with platforms like Claude Code and OpenAIâs Codex, allowing developers â or their AI assistants â to build Android apps faster from the command line.
The updates signal Googleâs push to turn its Gemini Gemini app into an all-purpose AI hub rather than a standalone chatbot.
The tech giant says it's designed the app to be accessible to everyone, from teachers to small business owners.
Google unveiled new web-based AI tools that can generate native Android apps in minutes, as the company expands its push into AI-powered software development.
Google expands Gmailâs AI Inbox with conversational voice search, letting users ask Gemini to find buried email details.
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces â a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.
Google is launching AI-powered âinformation agentsâ that can monitor topics in the background and proactively alert users to updates and changes.
Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, its most powerful coding and agentic AI model yet, at the company's annual developer conference. It is capable of autonomously executing complex tasks and building software from scratch.
Google DeepMind is integrating Street View with Project Genie to create immersive, interactive world simulations for robotics, gaming, and travel, allowing users to explore environments, weather changes, and rare scenarios.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (libpng and nginx), Debian (erlang, netatalk, and nginx), Fedora (mod_md and SDL2_image), Mageia (perl-libwww-perl, perl-HTTP-Message, perl-WWW-Mechanize-Cached, perl-File-XDG, perl-Path-Tiny, perl-YAML-Syck, postgresql15, and rclone), SUSE (agama, alloâŠ
Follow our live coverage of Googleâs annual developer keynote, where the company will announce updates to its Gemini suite of AI tools and more details about Android XR smart glasses.
Googleâs always-running, data-hungry AI agent is designed to spend your money and send your emails.
Googleâs overhaul of its AI creation software, Flow, includes a new video model and a tool for generating selfie videos called avatars.
The CEO of Google DeepMind tells WIRED that companies should use the productivity gains of AI to do more, not lay people off.
Here's your first look at smart glasses coming from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, powered by Google and Samsung's XR platform.
Vibe-coded results! Super widgets! Bots that never sleep! Googleâs vision for the future of Search is hyper-personalized, automated, and extremely AI.
Last week, we released apkeep version 1.0.0, the latest edition of our command-line Android package downloading software. Rather than indicating major changes for the project, this milestone instead signifies arriving at a relatively stable and mature place after gradual iteration on the project oveâŠ
Greg Abel exited positions including Visa, Mastercard, Amazon, and UnitedHealth while boosting Berkshire's Alphabet stake to almost 58 million shares
Stainless, a New York-based startup, founded in 2022, rose to prominence in the emerging AI industry for automating the creation and maintenance of software development kits, or SDKs â the libraries developers use to interact with APIs.
While also spoofing all the trusted domains - Apple, Microsoft, and Google - in the same attack
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This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. When Google opens its doors tomorrow for its annual developer conference, I/O, it will do so as a clear third place in the foundation model race. A year ago, at GâŠ
Greg Abel exited positions including Visa, Mastercard, Amazon, and UnitedHealth while boosting Berkshire's Alphabet stake to almost 58 million shares
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Cloud giant says humans remain accountable, even when code gets an assist from the machines
Google I/O is back with updates to Search, Android, Gemini, and a fresh peek at upcoming Android XR smart glasses. Here's how to watch the announcements live and what to expect.
Stuck with an AI bill for tens of thousands of dollars? You're not alone by a long shot
On this weekâs show, Patrick Gray, Adam Boileau and James WIlson discuss the weekâs cybersecurity news. They cover:
Palo Alto threat researchers want to attribute to China, but management says shush
An increasing proportion of ransomware is data extortion. Is this good?
Cambodia says itâs goâŠ
An insufficient validation input flaw, one of 11 patched in an update this week, could allow for arbitrary code execution and is under active attack.
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/05/01/where-to-buy-a-non-apple-non-google-smartphone/5219681
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But it's holding fast on auto-expanding customers' budgets
Googleâs YouTube and Snap reached agreements to settle the first lawsuit headed to trial over claims that addiction to top social media platforms has disrupted learning and pushed public schools to spend massive sums fighting a mental health crisis, according to court filings.
TikTok and Meta PlatfoâŠ
Google is trying to put an end to the copyright liability claim in its textbook piracy battle with several academic publishers. In a motion for partial judgment filed in a New York federal court, Google argues that the recent Supreme Court ruling in Cox v. Sony has effectively killed the copyright lâŠ
The debut yen bond sale by Google's parent surpasses the previous record of „430 billion set by Berkshire Hathaway in 2019
Article URL: https://projectzero.google/2026/05/pixel-10-exploit.html
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Article URL: https://macdailynews.com/2026/05/15/u-s-doj-demands-apple-and-google-unmask-over-100000-users-of-popular-car-tinkering-app-in-emissions-crackdown/
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AI video-generation startup Runway is betting that video generation is the path to world models. And that being an AI outsider is an advantage, not a liability.
You may only get 5GB of storage instead of 15GB if you don't share your digits with the Chocolate Factory