Trump wants $1B to protect White House ballroom from drones and other threats President asks $1B from taxpayers to secure his $400M privately funded ballroom. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/…
Hulu set to keep existing as standalone streaming service and app (for now) Disney still has a lot of tech to unite and bundles to push. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/hulu-set-to-keep-existi…
Chickens without eggs? De-extinction company creates artificial egg. In the process, Colossal may have handed a useful tool to developmental biology. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/chickens-w…
Microsoft has announced a new, Fedora-based Linux distro for Azure VMs, while Fedora has consigned the Deepin desktop to the bin. Fedora decided to remove a component maintained outside Red Hat. In th…
Minnesota prohibits prediction markets, promptly gets sued by Trump admin State law makes it a felony to create, operate, or advertise prediction markets. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/m…
I’ve tested the latest Switch 2 controllers, and this one is the best https://www.theverge.com/tech/791574/best-switch-2-controllers
Seagate Sparks Memory Sell-Off As CEO Says It Would 'Take Too Long' To Build New Factories https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/05/20/1637247/seagate-sparks-memory-sell-off-as-ceo-says-it-would-take…
Anthropic and OpenAI take their beef to the midterm elections https://www.theverge.com/column/934684/anthropic-openai-super-pac-beef-alex-bores
Vibe coding is coming to your phone https://www.theverge.com/tech/934628/google-io-2026-android-ai-studio-widgets-shortcuts
Volvo is trying to put its EV stumbles in the rearview https://www.theverge.com/transportation/932805/volvo-ex60-ceo-interview-ev-strategy
Pour one out for the Gemini Command Line Interface. Come June 18, the open source development agent will stop serving most users in favor of the new Antigravity CLI, and developers aren’t happy that t…
Buckle up: Google is set to remake search with agentic AI in 2026 Google's AI search evolution is accelerating at I/O 2026. https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/05/buckle-up-google-is-set-to-remake-sea…
Yearslong Fight Over Users' Right To Tweak Smart TV Software Heads To Trial https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/05/20/1625205/yearslong-fight-over-users-right-to-tweak-smart-tv-software-heads-to-trial?u…
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. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/…
Firefox 153 Nightly Rolls Out New Settings UI The latest nightly builds of Firefox 153 have rolled out a new appearance for the browser's settings area... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Nightly…
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You can now remix other people’s YouTube Shorts with AI https://www.theverge.com/tech/934704/google-gemini-omni-youtub-shorts-remix-ai
Software platform Plex is killing its buy-once-use-forever model with an eye-watering hike of its Lifetime Plex Pass from $249.99 to $749.99. The increase will take effect on July 1, but does not appl…
Xbox hires game industry analyst Matthew Ball to lead strategy https://www.theverge.com/report/934687/xbox-matthew-ball-strategy-officer-hire
Google Search’s AI evolution includes more ads https://www.theverge.com/tech/934585/google-ai-shopping-ads-search
Regional Winners of Prestigious Literary Prize Suspected of Using Chatbots https://slashdot.org/story/26/05/20/0636240/regional-winners-of-prestigious-literary-prize-suspected-of-using-chatbots?utm_so…
