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811.

Discord now encrypts every voice and video call by default (techspot.com)

2026-05-19 | get Discord Voice Encryption Kit → | tags: discord, tls, microsoft teams

812.

Plex's 200% Lifetime Pass price hike tries forcing users to another subscription (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-19 | get Plex Pass Lifetime Subscription → | tags: plex, media server, lifetime pass

813.

Stealer Spoofs Google, Microsoft & Apple, Then Backdoors macOS (darkreading.com)

2026-05-19 | get MacOS Security Toolkit → | tags: shub reaper, wechat, miro

814.

New Microsoft Surface for Business PCs pair Panther Lake chips with as little as 8GB of RAM — 13-inch Surface Laptop goes light on memory but still starts at $1,299 (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-19 | by Hassam Nasir | get Microsoft Surface Laptop → | tags: microsoft surface, panther lake, surface laptop

815.

Plex is tripling the price of a lifetime pass to $750 after doubling it last year (theverge.com)

2026-05-19 | by Sean Hollister | get Plex Lifetime Pass → | tags: plex, the verge, gizmodo

816.

Students keep booing AI at graduation speeches this year (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-19 | get AI Graduation Speech Assistant → | tags: graduation speeches, white-collar disruption, commencement speakers

817.

Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude at IO 2026 (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-19 | by Aisha Malik | get Google Pixel Smartphone → | tags: google, gemini app, google io 2026

818.

Google adds voice-based prompting to Docs and Keep (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-19 | by Ivan Mehta | get Google Voice Typing Keyboard → | tags: google docs, google keep, voice prompting

819.

Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-19 | by Aisha Malik | get Google Pixel Smartphone → | tags: google, gemini app, google io

820.

AI Search Is Growing — But Most Companies Aren’t Tracking It. Here’s How to Turn That Gap Into a Real Advantage. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-19 | by Al Sefati | get AI Search Monitoring Tool → | tags: ai search, google analytics 4, chatgpt

821.

Microsoft Launches Surface Pro 12, Surface Laptop 8 With Intel Chips (slashdot.org)

2026-05-19 | get Microsoft Surface Pro 12 → | tags: microsoft, surface pro 12, surface laptop 8

822.

Plex's lifetime subscription cost is tripling to $750 (engadget.com)

2026-05-19 | by Jackson Chen | get Plex Pass Lifetime Subscription → | tags: plex, plex pass, media server

823.

Discord rolls out end-to-end encryption on voice, video calls (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-05-19 | get Discord End-to-End Encryption Kit → | tags: discord, end-to-end encryption, dave protocol

824.

FBI: Americans lost over $388 million to scams using crypto ATMs in 2025 (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-05-19 | get Crypto ATM Security Kit → | tags: fbi, cryptocurrency kiosks, bitcoin atm

825.

I’ve joined Anthropic (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-19 | get Anthropic AI Chatbot → | tags: anthropic, javascript, x.com

826.

Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-19 | get AI Researcher Notebook → | tags: andrej karpathy, anthropic, javascript

827.

Physical attacks against crypto holders, including kidnap and assault, up 75% in 2025 — 72 confirmed incidents see $41 million lost, real number likely higher (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-19 | by Jowi Morales | get Crypto Security Safe → | tags: crypto wallets, hardware wallets, on-chain analytics

828.

Red Lobster’s Endless Shrimp Turned Servers Into ‘Shrimp Police’ And Bankrupted the Chain. Now It’s Back — Here’s How They Changed It. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-19 | by Jonathan Small | get Red Lobster Endless Shrimp Cookbook → | tags: red lobster, endless shrimp, shrimp police

829.

I Shifted My Budget Mindset From Control to Collaboration — and Nearly Tripled My Revenue (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-19 | by Georgi Nikolov | get Collaboration Productivity Planner → | tags: collaborative budgeting, financial planning, enterprise cost optimization

830.

Plex increasing Lifetime Plex Pass cost to whopping $750 (9to5mac.com)

2026-05-19 | by Chance Miller | get Plex Pass Lifetime Subscription → | tags: plex, plex pass, lifetime subscription

831.

Taiwanese memory manufacturers are borrowing millions to rebuild chip inventories (techspot.com)

2026-05-19 | get Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM → | tags: taiwanese memory manufacturers, dram, supply chain disruptions

832.

Forget the feed: Status AI raises $17M to turn social media into interactive entertainment (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-19 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | get AI-powered Social Media Tool → | tags: chatgpt, status ai, minecraft

833.

Book About AI’s Effects on the “Future of Truth” Found to Contain Slew of AI-Hallucinated Quotations (futurism.com)

2026-05-19 | by Maggie Harrison Dupré | get AI Ethics and Future Book → | tags: chatgpt, claude, new york times

834.

The <Noscript> Element as a Trap (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-19 | tags: noscript, html, web development

835.

Microsoft Finally Made the Surface Laptop You Wanted, but It’s Not for You (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-19 | get Surface Laptop 5 → | tags: microsoft, surface laptop, intel

836.

Microsoft's new Surface Laptop for Business has a privacy screen and quirky haptics (engadget.com)

2026-05-19 | by Cherlynn Low | get Microsoft Surface Privacy Screen → | tags: surface laptop, microsoft, privacy screen

837.

Carl’s Jr. stores closing in franchisee bankruptcy? See a list of locations that have been identified as burdensome (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-19 | tags: carls jr, franchisee, california

838.

Slash nearly $300 off a two-year ExpressVPN subscription and grab four extra months for free — massive 82% saving on this privacy-focused VPN service with servers across 105 different countries, down to just $64 (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-19 | by Ben Stockton | get ExpressVPN 2-Year Subscription → | tags: expressvpn, vpn subscription, privacy

839.

Marshall’s new Milton headphones promise 80-hour battery life, and they actually look good too (androidauthority.com)

2026-05-19 | get Marshall Milton Headphones → | tags: marshall, milton headphones, ldac

840.

Triangle Tessellation with Clamped Parallelograms (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-19 | get Tessellation Puzzle Set → | tags: dx11, tessellation, pixar reyes