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You can now remix other people’s YouTube Shorts with AI

Google announced a new YouTube Shorts Remix feature that lets users restyle clips or even insert themselves into other people's videos using Gemini Omni. Now, at the bottom of a YouTube Short, when yo...

The Verge • May 20, 2026 • Terrence O’Brien
Technology May 20, 2026

Hormuz closure could trigger 'agrifood shock', price crisis within a year

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hormuz-closure-could-trigger-agrifood-shock-price-crisis-within-...

Technology May 20, 2026

CEO Walks Back Comment About Replacing 'Lower-Value Human Capital' with AI

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/ceo-walks-back-comment-about-replacing-lower-value-human-capital-with-...

Technology May 20, 2026

Apparently Google hates us now

Article URL: https://twitter.com/pokemoncentral/status/2057123807404638250 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology May 20, 2026

Madison Square Garden Bans Lawyer Representing New York Cop Injured at a Boxing Match

Attorney John Scola is representing a police officer who is suing over injuries allegedly sustained while working securi...

Technology May 20, 2026

OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-is-preparing-to-file-for-an-ipo-very-soon-0ec95af5 Comments URL: https:...

Technology May 20, 2026

Xbox hires game industry analyst Matthew Ball to lead strategy

Microsoft has recruited game industry analyst Matthew Ball as Xbox chief strategy officer. Ball publishes an annual stat...

Technology May 20, 2026

Google Search’s AI evolution includes more ads

Google's AI-powered Search era apparently also extends to its ads. Now, when you search for a product, Google's Gemini A...

Technology May 20, 2026

Show HN: Lance – image/video generation and understanding in one model

The model has 3B active parameters. We put the code, homepage, paper and model links here:- Code: https://github.com/by...

Technology May 20, 2026

SBCL: The Assembly Code Breadboard (2014)

Article URL: https://pvk.ca/Blog/2014/03/15/sbcl-the-ultimate-assembly-code-breadboard/ Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

Technology May 20, 2026

Anker’s travel-friendly Laptop Power Bank has returned to its best price of the year

Whether you’re heading out for a quick Memorial Day getaway or preparing for summer travel, a reliable power bank can ...

Technology May 20, 2026

Customers say Trump Mobile is leaking their personal information

Trump Mobile is leaking customers’ email and home addresses, but has not responded to people alerting the company of t...

Technology May 20, 2026

Formal Verification Gates for AI Coding Loops

Article URL: https://reubenbrooks.dev/blog/structural-backpressure-beats-smarter-agents/ Comments URL: https://news.yco...

Technology May 20, 2026

Intuit to lay off over 3,000 employees to refocus on AI

In a memo to employees, CEO Sasan Goodarzi said the layoffs are meant to reduce complexity, simplify the company's corpo...

Technology May 20, 2026

Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk apparently used AI to write her latest novel

Article URL: https://lithub.com/nobel-laureate-olga-tokarczuk-apparently-used-ai-to-write-her-latest-novel/ Comments UR...

Technology May 20, 2026

Stable Audio 3

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17991 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48209105 Points: 6 # C...

Technology May 20, 2026

AI search startups are blowing up

AI search has quietly become one of the most attractive targets in consumer AI.

Technology May 20, 2026

It's Officially Election Season In Trumpworld

With Trump nemesis Thomas Massie vanquished, Republican strategists are now eyeing races in Texas, California, and Maine...

Technology May 20, 2026

Stability AI releases a new audio model that can create six-minute songs

Stability Audio 3.0 small model can run on-device and generate two-minute long tracks

Technology May 20, 2026

The Verge’s 2026 high school graduation gift guide

High school graduation is a time of change that might be felt more deeply by family members than by the grads themselves...

Technology May 20, 2026

Show HN: Hocuspocus 4 – self-hosted Yjs collaboration backend

Hi HN! I'm Philip, one of the founders of Tiptap. Next to our open-source rich text editor framework, we started develo...

Technology May 20, 2026

Man wins $835K after sheriff jailed him for a month over Charlie Kirk post

Sheriff loses fight with man he jailed for 37 days for posting a Trump meme on Facebook. ...

Technology May 20, 2026

Testing distributed systems with AI agents

Article URL: https://github.com/shenli/distributed-system-testing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48...

Technology May 20, 2026

Victory: Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins $835,000 settlement

Article URL: https://www.fire.org/news/victory-tennessee-man-jailed-37-days-trump-meme-wins-835000-settlement-after-fir...

Technology May 20, 2026

Russia's plan to advertise on rockets and spacecraft takes off

We now pause for a word from our sponsors.

Technology May 20, 2026

A feature-packed MagSafe power bank is 20 percent off for Memorial Day

Having personally recently tested a bunch of MagSafe power banks for an upcoming piece, let me tell you that it’s toug...

Technology May 20, 2026

It’s make or break time for AI labeling systems

We're about to find out if the systems designed to make deepfakes and AI-generated content easy to spot are actually up ...

Technology May 20, 2026

Trump Mobile may be leaking customer addresses

Just as the T1 Phone is seemingly on the verge of release, Trump Mobile has been accused of insecurely storing customer ...

Technology May 20, 2026

Insta360’s Mic Pro uses a three microphone array for improved recordings

After initially revealing its unique design at NAB 2026 last month with few technical details, Insta360 has announced an...

Technology May 20, 2026

Startup Battlefield 200 applications close in one week: Window to nominate and apply for the most promising startups ends May 27

Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27. Pitch at TechCrunch Disrupt, get investor access, win $100K, plus mor...