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Google's AI Studio Now Lets Anyone Build Android Apps In Minutes (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-21 Android Google AI

NanoClaw creator NanoCo raised a $12M seed led by Valley Capital and says it is booking enterprise customers; co-founders say they rejected a $20M buyout offer (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-21

Samsung Electronics and its South Korean labor union reach a preliminary pay deal; the union says it has decided to suspend a general strike (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-21 Korea Samsung

Variational, which has built a protocol for decentralized derivatives trading aimed at gathering liquidity from traditional markets, raised a $50M Series A (fortune.com)
2026-5-21 Decentralize

Socket, which helps companies safeguard open-source code against hackers, raised $60M led by Thrive Capital at a $1B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-21

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 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-21 Startup

Identity Alone Isn't Enough: Why Device Security Has to Share the Load (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-21

Apple says the App Store prevented over $2.2B in potentially fraudulent transactions in 2025, rejected over 2M problematic app submissions, and more (9to5mac.com)
2026-5-21 Apple

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 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-20 AI

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-20 AI

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 (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-20

Owl & Co. report: the podcast industry generated $9.2B in sales globally in 2025, up 23% YoY; 73% of the growth in the US came from video-related revenue (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-20

Drupal critical update to fix bug with high exploitation risk (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-20

Circle cofounder Sean Neville's Catena Labs, which lets users set financial guardrails for AI agents, raised a $30M Series A and applies for a US bank charter (fortune.com)
2026-5-20 AI

Prelude, which helps companies with digital onboarding, raised a $20M Series A led by podcaster Harry Stebbings' 20VC, bringing its total funding to $27M (tech.eu)
2026-5-20

Cloud provider Railway says Google Cloud temporarily suspended its account without cause; in 2024, GCP deleted the account of an Australian pension fund (www.theregister.com)
2026-5-20 Australia Google

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 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-20 Google

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 (www.geekwire.com)
2026-5-20 Microsoft

Google Accused of Pushing 'Free For Life' G Suite Users Onto Paid Plans (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-20 Google

London-based Primer, which helps e-commerce merchants connect and manage multiple payment providers, raised a $100M Series C led by Sofina (sifted.eu)
2026-5-20 London

Ditch monthly fees and get this PDF editor for life for $35 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-20

Kickstarter retracts stricter rules on mature content after creator backlash, and says it adopted the tougher rules because of its payment processor Stripe (www.engadget.com)
2026-5-20

Exploit released for new PinTheft Arch Linux root escalation flaw (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-20 Linux

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 (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-20 Russia China AI

Document and sources: China banned Nvidia's RTX 5090D V2 chip, aimed at gamers and animators, while Jensen Huang was visiting China with Donald Trump last week (www.ft.com)
2026-5-20 Trump China Nvidia

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 SAFE (www.theinformation.com)
2026-5-20 Startup Equity

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-20 GitHub

Webb Discovers One of the Universe's First Galaxies (science.slashdot.org)
2026-5-20

Microsoft shares mitigation for YellowKey Windows zero-day (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-20 Microsoft

GitHub investigates internal repositories breach claimed by TeamPCP (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-20 GitHub

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