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IrisGo, a startup backed by Andrew Ng, looks to become the AI desktop buddy you never knew you needed

Initially billed as an "AI butler," Iris watches what happens on a user's desktop and automatically learns how to do tasks for them, its co-founder says.

TechCrunch • May 20, 2026 • Lucas Ropek
Technology May 20, 2026

Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/not-alive-not-dead-disembodied-human-brains-used-drug-testing Comm...

Technology May 20, 2026

"Ryzen 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition" may help you avoid paying for a new PC

It could be one way to make your old PC play nicely with a high-end GPU.

Technology May 20, 2026

Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users

Google publishes exploit code before patch, reported 29 months earlier, is fixed. ...

Technology May 20, 2026

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology May 20, 2026

Trump wants $1B to protect White House ballroom from drones and other threats

President asks $1B from taxpayers to secure his $400M privately funded ballroom. ...

Technology May 20, 2026

Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling

Article URL: https://www.beyondplastics.org/press-releases/starbucks-cups-recyclable-report Comments URL: https://news....

Technology May 20, 2026

Hulu set to keep existing as standalone streaming service and app (for now)

Disney still has a lot of tech to unite and bundles to push.

Technology May 20, 2026

Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal)

Article URL: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v26.0.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212242 Poi...

Technology May 20, 2026

Chickens without eggs? De-extinction company creates artificial egg.

In the process, Colossal may have handed a useful tool to developmental biology. ...

Technology May 20, 2026

Flipper One Tech Specs

Article URL: https://docs.flipper.net/one/general/tech-specs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4821204...

Technology May 20, 2026

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software is creeping into Europe

First came the Netherlands, now it's Lithuania. And more European countries appear to be in the queue for Tesla's driver...

Technology May 20, 2026

Minnesota prohibits prediction markets, promptly gets sued by Trump admin

State law makes it a felony to create, operate, or advertise prediction markets. ...

Technology May 20, 2026

Airbnb gets into hotels, expands AI for host onboarding and customer support

Airbnb will soon let you book luggage storage and car rental services on its app

Technology May 20, 2026

I Gave My OpenClaw Agent a Physical Body

The coding skills of AI models are about to make it much easier to build and deploy robots.

Technology May 20, 2026

How Wet Weather in Argentina Helped Fuel the Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak

Climate change is helping create conditions that are driving the rodent boom—dubbed a ratada—in Argentina.

Technology May 20, 2026

Truecaller gets into the eSIM business to diversify its revenue streams

Truecaller's eSIM product will initially launch in 29 countries

Technology May 20, 2026

Anthropic and OpenAI take their beef to the midterm elections

Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about the car crashes piling up on a daily basis at t...

Technology May 20, 2026

Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025)

Article URL: https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history/2025/december/missile-genius-america-lost-and-china-gained Co...

Technology May 20, 2026

Vibe coding is coming to your phone

"There's an app for that" was the promise of the App Store from the very beginning. The app that will get your phone to ...

Technology May 20, 2026

Global EV market goes K-shaped as the U.S. gets left behind

EV sales have surged worldwide in every region but the U.S., posing risks for legacy and startup automakers.

Technology May 20, 2026

Buckle up: Google is set to remake search with agentic AI in 2026

Google's AI search evolution is accelerating at I/O 2026.

Technology May 20, 2026

Volvo is trying to put its EV stumbles in the rearview

Volvo once had ambitions to fully exit the gas car business. Now it's trying to keep its tenuous foothold in the EV mark...

Technology May 20, 2026

Why is Inkwell stuck in review

Article URL: https://www.manton.org/2026/05/19/why-is-inkwell-stuck-in.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...

Technology May 20, 2026

OpenAI barrels towards IPO that may happen in September

A day after Elon Musk lost his lawsuit that threatened OpenAI's structure, leadership and finances, OpenAI is reportedly...

Technology May 20, 2026

Jeff Bezos, you were so close to making a good point

"Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75,000 a year paying more than $1,000 a month in taxes?" Bezos said Wednesday morni...

Technology May 20, 2026

I Don't Vibe Code

Article URL: https://jacobharr.is/personal/i-dont-vibe-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48210667...

Technology May 20, 2026

After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/after-town-bans-flock-councilmember-crashes-out-proposes-internet-and-phone-ban/ C...

Technology May 20, 2026

Show HN: Dari-docs – Optimize your docs using parallel coding agents

It’s well known at this point that documentation needs to be optimized for AI agents - we’re all pointing our Claud...

Technology May 20, 2026

Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?

https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-may-19-2026-gcp-account-outageEverytime I read something like this , I get n...