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France is already moving on from Zoom and Microsoft Teams in favor of homegrown alternatives. Other countries are quickly following suit.

Wednesday, May 20, 2026 Saying Bluesky is part of the web is like saying Spotify or YouTube own podcasting. They say it, but that doesn't mean it's true. # I couldn't not say anything about the Knicks win last night in the opening game of the NBA Eastern Conference final...

Dashlane's CTO pulls back the curtain on how password managers are actually using AI, why it's more complicated than hype suggests, and what the rise of AI-powered code review means for the next wave of digital security. Nvidia Rides Blistering Chip Sales to Another Recor...

Demosthenes lost his first appearance before the Athenian assembly. His voice came out thin and failed him mid-sentence, and the crowd laughed him off the platform. Plutarch tells us he walked home with his cloak pulled over his face, certain his public life had ended before it started.

What he

Andrew Liszewski and Stevie Bonifield, writing for The Verge (gift link):

Google’s I/O 2026 keynote today was once again full of AI-related announcements including a new family of Gemini 3.5 AI models, new features for Search and Gmail, and updates about its Project Aura smart glasses.

If you weren’t able to tune into the event’s livestream today or follow along with our live blog, you can catch up on everything you missed in our roundup below.

This roundup was the only way I could really make sense out of Google I/O.

Katherine Blunt and Rolfe Winkler, reporting for The Wall Street Journal from Google I/O (gift link): Google is supercharging its Gemini artificial-intelligence model to become more competitive in the era of agentic AI. The company has started rolling out what it calls ...

The rocket company has set aside more than $500 million for potential litigation losses, in part to account for complaints alleging Grok created sexualized images.

“In the end, only one will remain and will leave the island with one million dollars in cash as their reward.” — Jeff Probst, host of Survivor

“For the moment, the fund has been capped at the patriotically symbolic sum of $1.776 billion, and many Jan. 6ers have already done the math in an effort to determine the maximum amount that each of them could get. If all of them sought money and received the same amount, the payouts would be around $1.125 million each.” — New York Times

*-“Paramount Is Rolling Back DEI Initiatives to Align With Trump Mandates.” — Variety

Windows Insider Program Release Preview channel updates (including 26H1 for the first time? - A preview of the June Patch Tuesday updates - Shared audio, NPU usage in Task Manager, multi-app camera support, Magnifier improvements. Taskbar updates come to Insiders! Also i...

In the 24 hours before I started writing this post, Plausible told me joost.blog had 254 visitors. My server logs told me 536 fetches over the same window came from on-demand AI bots like ChatGPT-User and Claude-User. Those bots only fire because a human, in real time, asked an AI a question. Is the real number 254, 790, or something else? I genuinely don't know, and I think that's the more interesting story.

The investment comes as Musk’s AI unit faces complaints about the carbon-emitting units and looks to become a big player in cloud computing.

In Yesterday’s IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web. (See longer description on their website.) TL;DR: They are pushing Search more into the “here’s your processed answer” direction that “AI Overviews” have established (you know, those AI snippets in current Search that are wrong about 10% of the time). So they are mostly giving up on the paradigm of providing links to information.

One line tucked into a federal highway bill would strip funds from cities and states unless they kill their automated plate tracking programs—effectively banning the tech for all but toll collection.

Tripp Mickle, Kate Conger, and Brian X. Chen, opening The New York Times’s report on yesterday’s Google I/O keynote (gift link): For 25 years, Google’s iconic search box was a long, slender bar where people typed in keywords like “World Cup.” But over the past three yea...

The long-awaited documents SpaceX filed with US regulators Wednesday included details about a lucrative deal to lend GPUs to a major AI rival.

Interesting observation by Mitchell Hashimoto (creator of Vagrant and Ghostty) on how a company’s or product’s choice of programming language matters less in the age of agentic programming: On the interesting side is how fungible programming languages are nowadays. Programm...

NanoCo, the Tel Aviv startup behind the open source NanoClaw agent framework, on Wednesday launched a managed enterprise service that

The post NanoCo bets the future of enterprise AI is one sandboxed agent per employee appeared first on The New Stack.

22-year-old pop singer-songwriter Brye, on TikTok: “Lemons”, my biggest song ever, that went like super viral during quarantine back in 2020, was actually produced, if you can believe it, in GarageBand on my school iPad. My high school gave us all iPads and I produced “...

This scan isn’t very good (best I could find), but these are all the lightsabers used by Jedi and Sith in the various Star Wars shows and movies. I think this is from a few years ago, so I’m not sure how up to date it is.

In the SW universe, making your own saber is a Jedi and Sith rite of passage, which accounts for the diversity in design. No shortcuts allowed…Babu Frik wasn’t out there selling Ancient Laser Sword™ kits to young padawans (kyber crystal sold separately). (via dennis crowley)

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