Today so far 2026-09-27 · 00:00 UTC

The major tech stories today reflect ongoing regulatory and legal challenges for major platforms alongside continued AI advancement. Apple faces a record $5.7 billion patent judgment in a haptic technology case, while TikTok agreed to pay at least $100 million in an Alabama settlement and banks are teaming up against Apple Pay fees. Meanwhile, AI continues to expand with Google making free 1080p AI video generation available to anyone, though concerns are rising as insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs.

The TTY Demystified (2008)

This article explains the history and importance of the TTY (teletype) subsystem in Linux and Unix operating systems, tracing its origins back to 1940s teletypes that were adapted as computer…

2026-05-19 · 18:40 UTC
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Google's SynthID AI watermarking tech is being adopted by OpenAI, Nvidia, and more

2026-05-19 · 18:37

AI content is getting good, but SynthID might be able to help tell truth from fiction.

Google changes its search box

2026-05-19 · 18:34

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/google-seach-bar...,…

In stunning display of stupid, secret CISA credentials found in public GitHub repo

2026-05-19 · 18:27

SSH keys, plaintext passwords, other sensitive data had been up since November 2025.

Google announces agent-optimized Gemini 3.5.Flash and a do-anything model called Omni

2026-05-19 · 18:11

Google says its more efficient Gemini 3.5 Flash is the key to your agentic AI future.

Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026

2026-05-19 · 18:03

Google is discontinuing Gemini CLI on June 18, 2026, transitioning users to its new Antigravity CLI platform, which…

Google’s Genie world model can now simulate real streets with Street View

2026-05-19 · 17:51

Google DeepMind is integrating Street View with Project Genie to create immersive, interactive world simulations for…

With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots

2026-05-19 · 17:51

Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, its most powerful coding and agentic AI model yet, at the company's annual developer…

How to use Google’s new information agents

2026-05-19 · 17:50

Google is launching AI-powered “information agents” that can monitor topics in the background and proactively alert…

Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action

2026-05-19 · 17:49

Google has introduced Gemini 3.5 Flash, an AI model designed to execute complex agentic workflows with frontier-level…

Gemini Omni

2026-05-19 · 17:46

Gemini Omni is a new AI tool that allows users to create and edit videos through natural language conversations,…

Google Search as you know it is over

2026-05-19 · 17:46

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers,…

OpenAI is making it easier to check if an image was made by their models

2026-05-19 · 17:45

OpenAI announced two new measures to help detect AI generated imagery: joining the open C2PA standard and adding…

Google’s Gemini Omni turns images, audio, and text into video — and that’s just the start

2026-05-19 · 17:45

Google's Gemini Omni is a new multimodal model that reasons across text, images, audio, and video to generate and edit…

Google launches Antigravity 2.0 with an updated desktop app and CLI tool

2026-05-19 · 17:45

Google is debuting a new AI Ultra plan priced at $100, which will give users 5x more usage limit than the AI Pro plan…

Google adds voice-based prompting to Docs and Keep

2026-05-19 · 17:45

Google is letting users create drafts, take notes, and search for email with voice with the new Workspace update

Google introduces Gemini Spark, a 24/7 agentic assistant with Gmail integration

2026-05-19 · 17:45

At the I/O developer conference, Google announced a new agentic personal assistant called Gemini Spark, built from…

Google’s new Universal Cart wants to follow you across the entire internet

2026-05-19 · 17:45

The tech giant says it's aware that most people shop across multiple devices, many retailers, and over the course of…

Agentic app coding gets an upgrade with Google’s release of Android CLI

2026-05-19 · 17:45

Google is embracing the rise of AI coding agents with new Android tools designed to work with platforms like Claude Code…

Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude

2026-05-19 · 17:45

The updates signal Google’s push to turn its Gemini Gemini app into an all-purpose AI hub rather than a standalone…

Google just declared itself a contender in AI design

2026-05-19 · 17:45

The tech giant says it's designed the app to be accessible to everyone, from teachers to small business owners.

Google’s AI Studio now lets anyone build Android apps in minutes

2026-05-19 · 17:45

Google unveiled new web-based AI tools that can generate native Android apps in minutes, as the company expands its push…

Google’s AI now lets you talk to your Gmail inbox

2026-05-19 · 17:45

Google expands Gmail’s AI Inbox with conversational voice search, letting users ask Gemini to find buried email details.

Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements

2026-05-19 · 17:42

College graduates are booing speakers at commencement ceremonies who promote artificial intelligence, viewing the…

Cursor Cloud Agents Down

2026-05-19 · 17:37

Cursor's Cloud Agents experienced a widespread outage on May 19, 2026, failing to initialize and making the product…

CopyFail: From Pod to Host

2026-05-19 · 17:25

# Summary CVE-2026-31431 (Copy Fail) is a critical Linux kernel vulnerability that enables attackers to perform…

AI, "Humanity", and Dr. Manhattan Syndrome: A Communications Intervention

2026-05-19 · 17:22

Greg Brockman, president of OpenAI, donated $25 million to a partisan political organization while publicly framing his…

Google I/O

2026-05-19 · 17:01

Google IO 26 Keynote

2026-05-19 · 16:53

People Are More Willing to Lie to AI Than Humans, Study Finds

2026-05-19 · 16:40

Consumers feel less social pressure when lying to an AI chatbot, research finds, while human-like social cues reduce…

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