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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
GitHub confirms ~3,800 internal repositories were breached after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension; TeamPCP claims responsibility — GitHub has confirmed that roughly 3,800 internal repositories were breached after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension.
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Bluesky: @baldurbjarnason.com, @ddsd.dolsen.net, @oysta.au, and @simoneb
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Gemini Omni, a multimodal model it says can “create anything from any input”, starting with video generation, for Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra — Although it was already discovered by intrepid AI power users weeks ahead of the official unveiling today …
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| Macy Meyer / CNET: |
Google updates Flow and Flow Music with Gemini Omni Flash support, mobile apps, the ability to create custom tools like a video resizer or shaders, and more — Google Flow's family of products gets agentic updates, mobile apps and the Omni Flash treatment.
More: The Keyword. X: @flowbygoogle, @googlelabs, @flowbygoogle, @flowbygoogle, @google, and @googledeepmind
| Sanuj Bhatia / Android Central: |
| The Keyword: |
Google rolls out Gemini 3.5 Flash, its “strongest agentic and coding model yet”, for tackling long-horizon agentic tasks, in the Gemini app and Search's AI Mode — Gemini 3.5 is built to help you execute complex, agentic workflows. — Today, we're introducing Gemini 3.5 …
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LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski, Gael Grosch, and Ashish Gupta
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Gemini 3.5 Flash costs $1.50 per 1M input tokens and $9 per 1M output tokens, 3x the price of Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 6x the price of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite — Today at Google I/O, Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash. This one skipped the -preview modifier and went straight to general availability …
More: The Verge, Spyglass, and TechCrunch
| New York Times: |
Google overhauls its search box, letting users input longer queries, including with photos and videos, and automate searches with Gemini 3.5 Flash-based agents — Powered by a new Gemini A.I. model, the tech giant is overhauling its search box to answer longer queries …
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LinkedIn: Paris Marx, Nick Fox, John Mazur, Reshav Singh, and Dale Askey
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| New York Times: |
Meta begins laying off 8,000 employees, or 10% of its staff, in a push to become an AI-first company; another 7,000 workers will be reassigned to AI initiatives — Meta told employees last month that it would carry out mass layoffs on May 20, as the Silicon Valley giant tries to transform into an A.I.-first company.
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| Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
Google adds Street View integration to Project Genie, its interactive world builder, and expands Genie from the US to adult Google AI Ultra subscribers globally — Ground your snow-globe worlds in real-world locations from Google Maps. — Project Genie is rolling out today …
More: The Keyword, WinBuzzer, The Decoder, and Digit
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LinkedIn: Jonathan Herbert and Hongjie Wang
| Jackson Chen / Engadget: |
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google introduces Antigravity 2.0, featuring an updated desktop app that lets users orchestrate agents, an Antigravity CLI tool, and an SDK for custom workflows — Google is introducing a new version of its agentic coding app, Google Antigravity 2.0, with an updated desktop app, a CLI tool, and an SDK for custom workflows.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Kickstarter retracts its stricter rules on mature content after creator backlash, and says it adopted the tougher rules because of its payment processor Stripe — It explained that it created the new rules due to Stripe's policy. — Kickstarter has retracted the new set of rules around mature content …
More: Kickstarter Blog, Kotaku, TheGamer, TheGamer, Kotaku, The Verge, and Graphic Policy
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Mastodon: @lilithsaintcrow …, @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk, and @BenRiceM@mastodon.social
Forums: r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/boardgames, and r/otomegames
| Jess Kinghorn / PC Gamer: |
Discord says voice and video calls outside of stage channels are now end-to-end encrypted by default, after launching its encryption protocol in September 2024 — “Likely one of the internet's most platform-diverse E2EE voice and video implementations.”
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Bluesky: @patak.cat and @durumcrustulum.com
| Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says the App Store prevented over $2.2B in potentially fraudulent transactions in 2025, rejected over 2M problematic app submissions, and more — Ahead of Apple's annual developer conference next month, Apple has shared an update on how the App Store serves users and developers alike with numerous protections.
More: Apple, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, and MacTech.com
| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
Sources: an attack exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Huawei router software caused a three-hour nationwide telecoms outage in Luxembourg in 2025 — An attack exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Huawei enterprise router software caused a nationwide telecoms outage … | Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba's chipmaking unit T-Head unveils the Zhenwu M890 for AI training and inference, saying it is well-suited for agentic tasks, and plans annual upgrades — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. added a new processor to its expanding AI technology stack, enhancing a push to cover every aspect of artificial intelligence development.
More: Reuters, Qwen, Wall Street Journal, DigiTimes, Blockonomi, Dow Jones Newswires, Alizila, The Information, Benzinga, and Tech in Asia. Forums: Hacker News
| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
The Take It Down Act, a US law forcing social networks to remove nonconsensual intimate images within 48 hours of reporting or face fines, took effect on May 19 — The Take It Down Act is in full force, but it could be a gift to government censors — not victims of image-based sexual abuse.
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Bluesky: @socialmedialab.ca and @eff.org
| Wired: |
Hands-on with Google and Samsung's Android XR smart glasses, with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster frames, and with Xreal's Project Aura, all coming this fall — Here's your first look at smart glasses coming from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, powered by Google and Samsung's XR platform.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google unveils Universal Cart, a shopping assistant that works “across merchants”, built on its open-standard Universal Commerce Protocol, rolling out in the US — At I/O on Tuesday, Google introduced Universal Cart, its so-called agentic hub for managing shopping in one place.
More: The Keyword, Business Standard, Phandroid, Engadget, and Google on YouTube
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
| The Register: |
Cloud provider Railway says Google Cloud suspended its account without cause, resulting in an outage; in 2024, GCP deleted an Australian pension fund's account — PaaS platform Railway says Google temporarily suspended its account on Wednesday without cause, inducing a major outage.
More: Railway Blog, The Pragmatic Engineer, and The Stack
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Threat actors published 600+ malicious versions to npm as part of the Shai-Hulud supply chain campaign; most of the affected packages are in the @antv ecosystem — Threat actors earlier today published more than 600 malicious packages to the Node Package Manager (npm) index as part of a new Shai-Hulud supply-chain campaign.| Reuters: |
Trump signs an EO calling on regulators and the Fed to review policies that could support fintech growth, including expanding fintech access to payment accounts — U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday calling on regulators and the Federal Reserve to review rules … | Reuters: |
Russia's Sberbank says it hopes to use Chinese chips to power its flagship GigaChat AI model, as sanctions continue to block the country's access to hardware — Russia hopes to power its flagship GigaChat AI model with Chinese-made chips, Sberbank's CEO said during President Vladimir Putin's visit to China …
More: Tom's Hardware
| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
Singapore announces a National AI Partnership with Google and an MoU with OpenAI, which will set up an AI lab and commit $234M+ to the city-state's AI ecosystem — Singapore has inked separate agreements with Google and OpenAI to strengthen its position as a global artificial intelligence hub …
More: CNBC, Benzinga, Yahoo Finance, MarketWatch, Investing.com, The Next Web, TNGlobal, Blockchain.News, Bloomberg, and Blockonomi
| Reuters: |
Samsung Electronics and its South Korean labor union reach a preliminary pay deal; the union says it has decided to suspend a general strike — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) and its South Korean labour union reached a preliminary pay deal on Wednesday, potentially averting a planned lengthy strike …
More: Bloomberg, The Asia Business Daily, Technical.ly, Seoul Economic Daily, Digit, UPI, Blockonomi, and SammyGuru
| Reuters: |
Internal memo: Intuit is laying off about 17% of its workforce, or about 3,000 employees worldwide, to streamline operations and focus on its key bets — Intuit (INTU.O) is laying off about 17% of its workforce, or about 3,000 employees worldwide, to streamline operations and sharpen focus …
More: Bloomberg, Blockonomi, and ZeroHedge News
| Jack Kubinec / Fortune: |
Variational, which has built a protocol for decentralized derivatives trading aimed at gathering liquidity from traditional markets, raised a $50M Series A — The crypto industry has long defined itself in opposition to traditional finance but, in recent years, the two worlds are on a path to convergence.| Jemima McEvoy / The Information: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI offered to invest $2M in tokens in each startup in the current YC batch; a source says the offer is in exchange for equity via a SAFE — OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman late Tuesday offered to invest $2 million in every startup currently in the Y Combinator startup …
More: The Economic Times and Blockchain.News
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| Bloomberg: |
Exa, which offers a search engine that is designed for AI agents, raised $250M led by a16z at a $2.2B valuation, up from $700M in September 2025 — Exa Labs Inc., a San Francisco-based startup that wants to build a search engine tailor-made for the age of artificial intelligence … | Nan Ransohoff / Nan's Substack: |
An analysis based on OpenAI's and Anthropic's current valuations suggests ~$370B of philanthropic assets tied to the two AI companies could soon become liquid — AI is about to generate hundreds of billions in new philanthropic funding. We have a huge amount of work to do to make the most of it.| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Mercury, which provides banking services to startups, raised a $200M Series D led by TCV at a $5.2B valuation, up from $3.5B in March 2025 — Mercury, a fintech firm that provides banking services to startups, has raised $200 million in funding at a $5.2 billion valuation, CNBC has learned exclusively.| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
S. “Soma” Somasegar, who led Microsoft's Developer Division for 12 years as part of his 27-year tenure at the company before leaving in 2015, has died at age 59 — S. “Soma” Somasegar, a fixture in the Seattle tech community who led Microsoft's Developer Division as part …
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LinkedIn: Stefan Weitz, Vijaye Raji, and Diego Oppenheimer
| Damisola Sulaiman / Sifted: |
London-based Primer, which helps e-commerce merchants connect and manage multiple payment providers, raised a $100M Series C led by Sofina — The London-based fintech is doubling down on AI in payments — London-based payments infrastructure provider Primer has raised $100m …
More: FinSMEs, Business Wire, TNGlobal, VCCircle, Tech in Asia, The Economic Times, and Tech Funding News
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Socket, which helps companies safeguard open-source code against hackers, raised $60M led by Thrive Capital at a $1B valuation — Socket, a cybersecurity startup that sells technology to help safeguard open-source code against hackers, has raised a new round of funding that values the company at $1 billion.| Nikkei Asia: |
SkyeChip becomes the first Malaysian chip design company to IPO on the Bursa Malaysia exchange, surging 300%+; the company was valued at ~$397M at its IPO price — KUALA LUMPUR — SkyeChip became the first Malaysian chip design company to debut on Bursa Malaysia's main market on Wednesday …
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