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// Tech news at terminal velocity
cat 2026-05-22.md
$ cat TLDR.md
▸ • Waymo suspends robotaxi services in four cities after its cars develop a concerning habit of driving into flooded streets.
▸ • Microsoft finally lets Office users hide the obnoxious floating Copilot button that's been terrorizing Excel spreadsheets.
▸ • A massive supply chain attack by 'TeamPCP' is poisoning open-source code at an unprecedented scale.
Waymo has paused its autonomous taxi service in four cities, including Atlanta and San Antonio. Why? Because the cars keep confidently driving straight into flooded roads. Turns out, training data for 'is this a puddle or a lake' is harder to come by than expected.
After weeks of user outrage, Microsoft is rolling out an update that lets you disable the floating Copilot button in Office apps. The AI assistant had been hovering over the bottom right of documents, blocking crucial spreadsheet cells and testing the sanity of accountants everywhere.
Anker's Soundcore brand is taking a swing at the premium audio market with the Liberty 5 Pro. They're packing a new 'Thus AI' audio chip specifically designed to boost noise reduction and call quality, proving that slapping 'AI' on hardware is still the trend of the year.
SpaceX fueled up its third-generation Starship rocket and was moments away from liftoff before a ground system issue forced a scrub. They're expected to try again soon, keeping all eyes on South Texas for the massive test flight.
A hacker collective known as TeamPCP is executing a massive software supply chain attack, poisoning open-source code at a scale we haven't seen before. It's a stark reminder that the modern internet is held together by duct tape, hope, and the unpaid labor of random developers.
Beyond the massive engines like Unreal and Unity, there's a whole ecosystem of open-source tools keeping game development afloat. GitHub highlights ten crucial projects that handle everything from dialogue trees to UI debugging, showing the unsung heroes of your favorite titles.
A fascinating new paper in Nature Machine Intelligence introduces a universal framework for solving free boundary problems using neural operators. By leveraging topological conjugacy, it overcomes the limitations of predefined domains, opening new doors for quantum physics and biomedical simulations.
The latest release candidate for Trigger.dev introduces AI Prompts, allowing you to define prompt templates as code alongside your tasks. It integrates smoothly with the Vercel AI SDK and lets you override text or models from the dashboard without a redeploy.
Vercel's AI SDK version 6.0.188 adds an `allowSystemInMessages` option to the ToolLoopAgent. This gives developers explicit control over whether system messages are allowed in prompts, helping mitigate prompt injection attack risks.
Researchers have identified a neural population in the primate frontal cortex that encodes 'action symbols'—recombinable representations of discrete motor behaviors. It's a massive step in understanding the biological substrate of how we generate novel ideas and solve new problems.
Back in 2001, the FBI raided O.J. Simpson's house and found smartcards and bootloaders used for satellite TV piracy. DirecTV slapped him with a $58,000 bill, proving that while you might beat the trial of the century, you can't escape the cable company.
Yusuf Mehdi, the executive who launched Copilot Plus PCs and spent 35 years at Microsoft, is leaving the company next year. He survived the Windows 8 era, which honestly deserves a medal of its own.