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AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

Flipper One – we need your help

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension

Previous thread in sequence:<p><i>GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201316">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201316</a> - May 2026 (321 comments)

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

<a href="https://x.com/wtgowers/status/2057175727271800912" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/wtgowers/status/2057175727271800912</a>, <a href="https://xcancel.com/wtgowers/status/2057175727271800912" rel="nofollow">https://xcancel.com/wtgowers/status/2057175727271800912</a>

Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE

Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment

Google changes its search box

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/google-seach-bar-ai-gemini.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jlA.95yh.ptfBUHf-rBtB&smid=url-share" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/google-seach-bar...</a>, <a href="https://archive.ph/XI1sQ" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/XI1sQ</a><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-...</a><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/932970/google-search-ai-update-io-2026" rel="nofollow">https://www.theverge.com/tech/932970/google-search-ai-update...</a>

Gemini 3.5 Flash

<a href="https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.5-flash" rel="nofollow">https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.5-flas...</a>

I’ve joined Anthropic

<a href="https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312" rel="nofollow">https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312</a><p><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/05/19/anthropic-openai-karpathy-andrej-claude" rel="nofollow">https://www.axios.com/2026/05/19/anthropic-openai-karpathy-a...</a>, <a href="https://archive.ph/h6T3X" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/h6T3X</a>

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

<a href="https://xcancel.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578" rel="nofollow">https://xcancel.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578</a><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh/116580433508108130" rel="nofollow">https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh/116580433508108130</a>

Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid

Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features

I moved my digital stack to Europe

Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

Googlebook

<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1tb8xls/introducing_googlebook_a_new_category_of_laptops/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1tb8xls/introducin...</a>

If AI writes your code, why use Python?

I'm going back to writing code by hand

Local AI needs to be the norm

Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler