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Kin Health raises $9M to build an AI notetaker for patients

The app is similar to a meeting notetaker: you can record doctor visits, and it will return an AI summary of the…

We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag

A GitHub repository was overwhelmed by low-quality AI-generated comments, pull requests, and issues that drowned out…

Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting

Garry Tan, CEO of Y Combinator, posted on X accusing journalist Radley Balko of unethical reporting for asking San…

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed by graduates at mention of AI

The reaction underscores a growing anxiety among students over AI's impact on jobs and their future careers.

What "Amazon Supply Chain Services" Tells Us About What Amazon Is

# Summary Amazon launched Amazon Supply Chain Services in May 2026, opening its logistics network to external…

Amazon’s new Alexa+ powered feature can generate podcast episodes

Amazon’s Alexa+ can now generate custom AI podcasts on demand, as the company expands its assistant into a personalized…

I'm a Normie. Can Normies Vibe Code?

# Summary A writer with no coding experience attempts to build their first software application using "vibe…

BMW sends off the 6th-gen M3 CS with a manual gearbox, rear-wheel drive

The 2027 M3 CS Handschalter is lighter and comes with three pedals instead of two.

1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries

A group of Minecraft enthusiasts completed the largest-ever world download project of the 2b2t server, preserving 15 TB…

Open source tool maker Grafana Labs says hackers stole its code, refuses to pay ransom

The open source project said hackers stole its codebase and threatened to publish its source code if the company did not…

Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us

Mythos Preview, a security-focused LLM from Anthropic tested through Project Glasswing, represents a significant…

Show HN: Files.md – open-source alternative to Obsidian

Files.md is an open-source, privacy-focused note-taking app that stores data as plain markdown files locally on your…

Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI

University of Washington researchers planned to record preschool teachers wearing first-person cameras to develop AI…

Bug bounty businesses bombarded with AI slop

"Never-ending" AI slop strains corporate hacking reward schemes.

Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO

Chris Willis, Domo's chief design officer, argues that AI companies have created unnecessary anxiety through fear-based…

Benedict Evans: AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]

Hershey Bets on Agentic AI to Rethink $2B in Marketing Spend

Hershey is modernizing marketing mix modeling—a traditional tool for measuring how marketing spending drives sales—by…

Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'

Linus Torvalds has declared Linux's security mailing list "almost entirely unmanageable" due to AI-powered bug hunters…

Learn Harness Engineering

Learn Harness Engineering is a course that teaches how to build reliable AI coding agents through systematic environment…

Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks

# Summary Voice AI systems are susceptible to adversarial attacks using ultrasonic and inaudible sounds that humans…

Lock.com Enters Early Access With Isolated Signing and Post-Quantum Architecture

London, United Kingdom, 18th May 2026, Chainwire

I automated opt-outs for 500 data broker sites (open source)

A developer created an open-source tool that automatically removes personal information from 500+ data broker and…

South Korea’s LetinAR is building optics behind AI glasses

A lens the size of a thumbnail — and the South Korean startup that makes it could become the optical backbone of the AI…

Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed multiple times during a University of Arizona commencement speech when he drew…

The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf]

Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

The author argues that accusations of "vibecoding" (using AI to create work without genuine effort) lack evidence and…

Don't Answer the First Question

# Summary When users ask unusual questions about Perfetto, a performance debugging tool, the author avoids answering…

Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and other commencement speakers were booed during graduation ceremonies for discussing…

Raoul Pal: The US-China AI Race 2026 Is a War No One Can Win

Real Vision co-founder Raoul Pal says the artificial intelligence competition between the U.S.