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GOOGLE'S ANDROID-POWERED LAPTOPS ARE CALLED GOOGLEBOOKS, AND THEY'RE COMING THIS YEAR

Googlebooks are designed from the ground up with Gemini intelligence. Wiggling the cursor on a Googlebook activates a full-screen Gemini experience. The AI can view screen content to make contextual suggestions, and it can pull in data from multiple apps. Googlebook devices will run Android and have access to the Play Store. Most manufacturers that make Chromebooks will also offer Googlebooks when they launch.

ANDROID IS GETTING A BIG AI OVERHAUL IN 2026

Google is expected to make several AI-related announcements at its I/O conference next week. App automation will be a major element of Android going forward. Gemini will power several new convenience features, including a custom widget feature. Almost everything new will arrive via Play Services, app updates, or on specific devices through partnerships rather than as a part of Android 17, which is slated to launch in June.

ONCE AGAIN, SPACEX HAS SET A NEW RECORD FOR THE TALLEST ROCKET EVER BUILT

Starship Version 3, taller and more powerful than previous iterations, comes with numerous upgrades, including higher thrust, more efficient Raptor engines, a new reusable lattice-like structure at the top of the booster for hot staging, and three modified grid fins to help bring the first stage back to Earth for recovery and reuse. This version should be capable of in-orbit refueling. At a height of 408 feet, the rocket's upcoming flight (date yet to be determined) will mark the first liftoff from a new launch pad at Starbase.

SPACEX AND GOOGLE ARE IN TALKS TO LAUNCH DATA CENTERS IN ORBIT

Google is in talks with SpaceX and other rocket-launch companies for a rocket launch deal. Last year, Google announced Project Suncatcher, a moonshot initiative aimed at launching orbital data centers. Many industry leaders see orbit computing as a solution to the limitations of Earthbound data centers. SpaceX is also looking to launch orbital data centers. The speculative technology was the center of SpaceX's pitch to investors ahead of its planned IPO.

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REDIS AND THE COST OF AMBITION

Projects developed as personal challenges and learning exercises are wonderful. However, without a solid use case, the maintainer will likely lose interest in the project and eventually abandon it. There's nothing wrong with the ambition to solve problems. Just don't lose sight of what made you successful in the first place.

WHY SENIOR DEVELOPERS FAIL TO COMMUNICATE THEIR EXPERTISE

Good senior developers aim to lower complexity. Adding to a system is risking more complexity, which creates instability. The rest of the company is focused on reducing uncertainty. Senior developers fail to communicate their expertise as they express their problems in terms of complexity management when they should be expressing their solutions in terms of uncertainty reduction.

APPLE PLANS CUSTOMIZABLE CAMERA FOR PROS, SIRI DESIGN CHANGES IN IOS 27

Apple plans to upgrade its Camera app to make it fully customizable. Users will be able to choose which features appear and where they're placed. The next major iPhone update will include other design changes, including system-wide changes such as new animations and redesigned tab bars. The update, which will include a revamped Siri, will be unveiled on June 8 at WWDC.

AMAZON EMPLOYEES ARE “TOKENMAXXING” DUE TO PRESSURE TO USE AI TOOLS

Amazon's MeshClaw product allows employees to create AI agents that connect to workplace software and carry out tasks on their behalf. It can initiate code deployments, triage emails, and interact with apps such as Slack. Some employees are using the software to complete unnecessary tasks to increase their consumption of tokens as the company is tracking their usage on internal leaderboards. Many employees have raised concerns about the security risks of AI tools that can act on users' behalf.

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AI ECONOMICS

Every lab is playing this same game: squeeze more tokens per watt, price highly, and acquire more power.

MASSIVE LEAK REVEALS GOOGLE'S ALUMINIUM OS WITH A 16-MINUTE VIDEO

Google's Aluminium OS is essentially plain Android with several desktop experience features.

WHAT IS CODE?

The future of coding is building better conceptual models, vocabularies, and foundations on top of which both humans and LLMs can work.

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AMAZON LAUNCHES 30-MINUTE DELIVERY ACROSS THE US

EBAY REJECTS GAMESTOP'S $56 BILLION TAKEOVER BID, CALLING IT ‘NEITHER CREDIBLE NOR ATTRACTIVE'

eBay has several concerns with the offer, including uncertainty around GameStop's financing, operational risks, and the debt load that would result from the proposed transaction.

SPACEX EYES GLOBAL SPACEPORTS AS STARSHIP LAUNCH AMBITIONS GROW AHEAD OF IPO

SpaceX is targeting thousands of Starship launches per year, a cadence that will require many different launch locations.

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GOOGLE'S GEMINI OMNI VIDEO MODEL SURFACES AHEAD OF I/O DEBUT

Screenshots of a revised user interface showing a model card for Google's upcoming Gemini Omni video model were posted on Reddit over the weekend. Early user testing indicates the model has impressive prompt adherence, but video generation burned through credits quickly. Omni will likely be shipped in tiered variants (Flash and Pro).

MICROSOFT'S CEO INTERVENED WHEN OPENAI FIRED SAM ALTMAN, MUSK'S LAWYER CLAIMS

Elon Musk has accused Microsoft of aiding and abetting OpenAI as the lab abandoned its founding contract as a nonprofit. His lawyers have submitted evidence that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella played a role in Sam Altman's efforts to return to OpenAI just five days after he was ousted as CEO. This was aimed at demonstrating Microsoft's significant control over OpenAI. Microsoft had earlier claimed that it should not have been drawn into the legal squabble between Musk and OpenAI.

FIGURE'S HUMANOID ROBOTS ORGANIZE ROOM, HANG CLOTHES, AND MAKE BED WITHOUT HUMANS

Figure has released a new video showing two robots performing household tasks in a coordinated bedroom-cleaning demonstration. The video (available in the article) highlights advances in humanoid collaboration, object handling, and domestic automation. Figure claims to have increased Figure O3 humanoid production from one robot daily to one hourly at its BotQ production facility in California.

GOOGLE SAYS CRIMINAL HACKERS USED AI TO FIND A MAJOR SOFTWARE FLAW

A criminal hacking group recently attempted to launch a widespread cyberattack using a previously unknown bug in a popular open-source web-based system administration tool. There is strong evidence that the actor likely leveraged an AI model to support the discovery and weaponization of the vulnerability. The software maker was notified quickly enough to allow for a patch before the attack could do damage. This is the first known example of a zero-day bug being put to malicious use by hackers enabled chiefly by AI.

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INTRODUCING CLAUDE PLATFORM ON AWS: ANTHROPIC'S NATIVE PLATFORM, THROUGH YOUR AWS ACCOUNT

Claude Platform is now generally available on AWS. The new service gives customers direct access to Anthropic's native Claude Platform experience through an AWS account. It allows users to work on the same APIs, features, and console experience available through Anthropic directly, but on AWS. Claude Platform on AWS is operated by Anthropic, and the underlying requests and data are processed outside the AWS security boundary.

TANSTACK NPM PACKAGES COMPROMISED IN ONGOING MINI SHAI-HULUD SUPPLY-CHAIN ATTACK

84 TanStack npm packages have been compromised in an ongoing supply-chain attack. Several of these packages have over 12 million weekly downloads, making the compromise especially significant from a software supply-chain perspective. TanStack has deprecated the affected versions, engaged npm security to pull the malicious tarballs, purged GitHub Actions cache entries, and merged hardening changes to restructure the affected workflow, add repository-owner guards, and pin third-party action references. A list of recommended actions for affected systems is available in the article.

THE INFERENCE SHIFT

The most important aspect for agentic inference is memory. Agents need context, state, and history, which requires a memory hierarchy wrapped around a model. This implies a necessary trade-off of speed for capacity, but agentic tasks don't really need to be that fast if a human isn't involved.

THE WU TAPES

Scott Wu is the founder and CEO of Cognition, an AI agent coding lab and one of the fastest-growing companies of any kind in history. He is also known for his math prowess: Wu is the greatest American gold-medalist of all time at the International Olympiad in Informatics. His career began when he was just in second grade, when he competed in a middle-school math competition at just seven years old. This article contains an interview with Wu where he discusses his early childhood and life, AI, Cognition, humanity, his fears, and more.

GITLAB PROMISES A DIFFERENT KIND OF LAYOFF AS BIZ PIVOTS TOWARD AI

GitLab plans to reinvest most of the money it is saving on wages back into its business.

THE LAST COMPANY

Future businesses will have to compete with AI lab-owned firms, where every knowledge-intensive function has been replaced by AI.

AI VERSUS MICROSERVICES

Every technology shift changes the dominant architecture, and often the languages and platforms, that are employed.

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MYTHOS FINDS A CURL VULNERABILITY

While Mythos can discover vulnerabilities, it does not seem to perform any better than other already existing and readily available tools.

LAPTOPS ALL HAVE BUILT-IN SECURITY TOKENS THESE DAYS

This post talks about how to configure a laptop's secure element to be used as a security token.

IOS, MACOS, AND IPADOS 26.5 UPDATES ARRIVE WITH ENCRYPTED RCS MESSAGING AND MORE

Other additions in the 26.5 releases are new Pride-themed wallpapers and some of the initial work needed to support ads in the Apple Maps app.

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META'S EMBRACE OF AI IS MAKING ITS EMPLOYEES MISERABLE

Meta tracks its employees' keyboard inputs and mouse movements to train its AI models. Many workers are uncomfortable with the scheme, which they are unable to opt out of on their corporate laptops. The company says there are safeguards in place to protect sensitive content and that the data is not used for any other purpose, but many workers have expressed anger at the policy. Many employees no longer see Meta as a place for a long career.

HOW A JOB AT OPENAI BECAME THE GREATEST LOTTERY TICKET OF THE AI BOOM

OpenAI recently allowed employees to sell up to $30 million worth of shares each. The sale offers a peek into the flood of money that will soon hit America's tech capitals. OpenAI and Anthropic are gearing up for what will likely be some of the largest IPOs in history. The newfound wealth is driving up rental prices in San Francisco and sparking concerns about a growing class divide within the city.

SURPRISING SIGNS OF AN ATMOSPHERE AROUND A TINY WORLD, BILLIONS OF MILES AWAY

Japanese astronomers have discovered a small world about 3.5 billion miles from the Sun that appears to be swaddled in a layer of air. The discovery of an atmosphere is surprising, as the 300-mile-wide celestial body shouldn't have a strong enough gravitational pull to keep it in place. Also, temperatures in that quadrant are so cold that most of the molecules that exist as gases in Earth's atmosphere freeze solid. The atmosphere is very thin, with only a few gas molecules to exert any pressure.

DO YOU TAKE AFTER YOUR DAD'S RNA?

Sperm may be more than just vessels for DNA. Scientists have detected microRNAs and other types of RNA fragments in sperm cells that respond to various environmental factors, such as stress, exercise, and mental health. There is mounting evidence that sperm may be transmitting environmental information to offspring. There are many unanswered questions that scientists are still exploring, but there is enough evidence to rebalance parental responsibility.

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