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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.
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May 19, 2026
The future of Google is a search box that does everything
Last year, after watching Google's I/O keynote, I wrote that it felt like Google's future was Google googling. After wat...
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May 19, 2026
Discord enables end-to-end encrypted voice and video calling for every user
Good news! Discord's hundreds of millions of users now have their communications scrambled, so not even Discord can see ...
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May 19, 2026
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 th...
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May 19, 2026
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.
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May 19, 2026
Google’s AI future demands trust — and your personal data
Google has big promises for its AI-powered future - and a lot of it depends on your trust. At I/O 2026, Google described...
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May 19, 2026
Nintendo’s $500 Switch 2 bundle includes a game, and it’s available now
Nintendo recently teased the “Choose Your Game” Switch 2 console and digital game bundle, coming in early June. Howe...
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May 19, 2026
Spider-Noir final trailer gives us a classic villain
It's never too late to become a hero.
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May 19, 2026
"I'll buy 10 of those"—NASA science chief yearns for mass-produced satellites
"How in the hell do I get more science into space? That is my goal."
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May 19, 2026
Here are our favorite Memorial Day tech deals so far
Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer, and the holiday’s sales include plenty of deals on gadgets that can...
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May 19, 2026
Democrats preview how they’d go after the Ticketmaster settlement if they regain power
A handful of Democrats called an unofficial hearing on Capitol Hill Monday to slam the Department of Justice's "trivial"...
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May 19, 2026
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.”
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May 19, 2026
Everything Announced at Google I/O 2026: Gemini, Search, Smart Glasses
Google is sprucing up its Gemini models, revamping search, and enabling AI agents in everything. There are also some spi...
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May 19, 2026
Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day
Article URL: https://www.autonocion.com/us/tesla-lithium-refinery-texas/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...
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May 19, 2026
Plex's 200% Lifetime Pass price hike tries forcing users to another subscription
Plex says that it has considered getting rid of Lifetime Passes.
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May 19, 2026
Ugreen’s new soccer ball-shaped tracker has up to 7 years of battery life
Ugreen has announced a new Apple Find My-compatible tracker with a novel design that limits where you can hide it, but g...
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May 19, 2026
Crossview 4.4.0 is now available
Article URL: https://github.com/crossplane-contrib/crossview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4819830...
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May 19, 2026
Era: From Nature publication to catalyzing Computational Discovery
Article URL: https://research.google/blog/empirical-research-assistance-era-from-nature-publication-to-catalyzing-compu...
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May 19, 2026
OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/advancing-content-provenance/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...
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May 19, 2026
Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die
Article URL: https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/19/dumb-ways-for-an-open-source-project-to-die.html Comments URL: https://news....
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May 19, 2026
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.
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May 19, 2026
Mistral AI Acquires Emmi AI to Create the Leading AI Stack
Article URL: https://www.emmi.ai/news/mistral-ai-acquires-emmi-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48...
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May 19, 2026
Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets
Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/05/19/nx-s1-5821265/minnesota-ban-prediction-markets Comments URL: https://news.y...
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May 19, 2026
Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic
Article URL: https://www.thevccorner.com/p/breaking-andrej-karpathy-joins-anthropic Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...
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May 19, 2026
Meta Employees Are Scrambling to Use Up Benefits Ahead of Layoffs
On the eve of about 8,000 jobs being cut, employees are cashing in on headphone stipends and other perks while they stil...
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May 19, 2026
Disney erased FiveThirtyEight
Article URL: https://www.natesilver.net/p/disney-erased-fivethirtyeight Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...
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May 19, 2026
Two AI-based science assistants succeed with drug-retargeting tasks
Both tools generate hypotheses; one goes on to analyze some of the data.
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May 19, 2026
The TTY Demystified (2008)
Article URL: https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/index.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...
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May 19, 2026
Google's SynthID AI watermarking tech is being adopted by OpenAI, Nvidia, and more
AI content is getting good, but SynthID might be able to help tell truth from fiction. ...
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May 19, 2026
Google changes its search box
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/google-seach-bar..., https://archive.ph/XI1sQhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/05...