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Google Is Shattering Under Its Own Weight (The IBM-Ification of Google?)

Article URL: https://zeroshot.bearblog.dev/google-is-shattering-under-its-own-weight-the-ibm-ification-of-google/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230049 Points: 14 # Comments: 6

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Technology May 21, 2026

Anker’s new earbuds have the best call quality I’ve ever heard

Soundcore, Anker's audio brand, has mostly lived in the budget-to-midrange world, but with its new Liberty 5 Pro earbuds...

Technology May 21, 2026

Anker’s new earbuds are the first with its AI chip that boosts noise reduction

Anker has announced a new version of its Soundcore Liberty Pro earbuds: the new Liberty 5 Pro. These are the company's f...

Technology May 21, 2026

States ask judge to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster

A federal judge is officially being tasked with deciding whether to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster. More than 30 stat...

Technology May 21, 2026

IoT gadget maker AcuRite shares reasoning for killing customers’ favorite app

"The move to AcuRite NOW has not been as smooth as some customers expected ..." ...

Technology May 21, 2026

AI is killing the cheap smartphone

Article URL: https://davidoks.blog/p/ai-is-killing-the-cheap-smartphone Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

Technology May 21, 2026

Shira: Anti Phishing Training Platform

Article URL: https://shira.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48229313 Points: 5 # Comments: 1

Technology May 21, 2026

As Grok flounders, SpaceX bets future on beating Big Tech at AI

SpaceX IPO filing pitches orbital data centers as Grok lags rival AI services. ...

Technology May 21, 2026

What to Do in LA if You’re Here for Business (2025)

A tech industry guide to where to stay, eat, work, and play while visiting LA.

Technology May 21, 2026

Who will benefit most from SpaceX IPO? Mostly Elon — and a few from his inner circle

Elon Musk has the largest stake in SpaceX by billions of shares. The other biggest shareholders also have longstanding a...

Technology May 21, 2026

‘Creepy’ Listening Tool for Targeted Ads Didn’t Actually Work, FTC Says

Three firms will pay nearly $1 million for selling “Active Listening” technology that they claimed tapped people’s...

Technology May 21, 2026

Waymo halts freeway rides after robotaxis struggle in construction zones

The service suspension comes as Waymo has also paused operations in Atlanta and San Antonio after its robotaxis drove in...

Technology May 21, 2026

AT&T sues California in attempt to shut off old phone network

AT&T asks a court and the FCC to block California phone requirements.

Technology May 21, 2026

Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess

Article URL: https://www.loopwerk.io/articles/2026/uv-ux-mess/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48228...

Technology May 21, 2026

Meta Is in Crisis, Google Search’s Makeover, and AI Gets Booed by Graduates

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we unpack the mass layoffs at Meta, big announcements at Google I/O, and the latest b...

Technology May 21, 2026

There’s a real chance you will not have the same job by the end of 2027

Article URL: https://www.elenaverna.com/p/youll-lose-your-job-in-2027 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology May 21, 2026

Show HN: Open-source .docx editor library for building document apps

We are working on an open-source .docx editor library for apps that need to edit Word documents in the browser. We just...

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Best Window Air Conditioners of 2026: Midea, Zafro, GE

These are the AC units we’ve trusted to cool our homes for months, if not years.

Technology May 21, 2026

Firefox is working on a rounded redesign with easy-to-find controls for privacy and AI

Firefox is getting a drastic visual overhaul with a redesigned Settings section that will make it easier to find and use...

Technology May 21, 2026

In desperate times, graduates find hope in humiliating tech CEOs

University graduates are booing and heckling corporate executives who praise AI during their commencement ceremonies, an...

Technology May 21, 2026

Who gets to own the Luigi Mangione story?

On Monday morning, a judge overseeing the New York state case on the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO ruled that some...

Technology May 21, 2026

Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers and remixes

Spotify is partnering with Universal Music Group to let Premium subscribers create AI-generated song covers and remi...

Technology May 21, 2026

Multi-Stream LLMs: new paper on parallelizing/separating prompts, thinking, I/O

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12460 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227923 Points: 13 # ...

Technology May 21, 2026

Philips’ new display has a screen on both sides

Its name might be dull and uninspired, but the Philips 24B2D5300 Business Monitor brings a novel feature I've never seen...

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Forget ‘TechnoKing’: Elon Musk will really be king at SpaceX

Musk, who will have more than 50% of the voting power, will have a monarchical grip over the publicly-traded version of ...

Technology May 21, 2026

Law enforcement shuts down VPN service used by two dozen ransomware gangs

First VPN promised hackers complete anonymity for their cyberattacks. But Europol said it was able to notify the service...

Technology May 21, 2026

Using Kagi Search with Low Vision

Article URL: https://veroniiiica.com/using-kagi-search-with-low-vision/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

Technology May 21, 2026

JWST maps the weather on a hot gas giant 700 light-years away

The differences seen here could be throwing off how we study planetary atmospheres. ...

Technology May 21, 2026

Six search engines worth trying now that Google isn’t really Google anymore

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 l...

Technology May 21, 2026

Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

Article URL: https://crocidb.com/post/this-blog-ran-on-ubuntu-16-04-for-10-years-i-migrated-it-to-freebsd/ Comments URL...