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Users are reporting that the Google Photos editor's Share, Edit, Add to, and Trash buttons stop responding once a photo has been cropped or rotated. The issue appears across multiple Pixel generations, including the 8, 9, 10 and 11 series, and does not occur if the photo hasn't been edited. Google has been contacted for comment but has not yet responded publicly.
Google is updating Chrome so that tabs sent between devices now retain the exact scroll position and any partially filled forms, letting users resume reading or complete forms seamlessly across desktop and mobile. Gemini in Chrome is also expanding its ability to analyze, summarize, and quiz users on podcasts and non-YouTube videos, in addition to documents and webpages it already supports.
A report addressing labor gaps in automotive, heavy equipment, construction and manufacturing sectors highlights an annual shortfall of about 37,000 skilled technicians in the U.S. automotive and heavy equipment field alone, even after counting technical school graduates. It lays out five recommendations for building AI tools designed to capture and transfer the expertise of retiring veteran workers to less experienced staff.
Geocodio, a small geocoding API company, describes evolving from scattered bash scripts and Laravel commands into full internal applications with mobile-friendly interfaces and strong test coverage. The company credits recent AI coding tools with enabling this jump in ambition for building software to support its own operations, including an existing custom deployment visualization tool.
A Show HN project lets users create distorted, glitch-style fonts—dubbed 'bastard fonts'—that are exported as standard OpenType files. The visual distortion is achieved through contextual ligature substitutions embedded in the font file, which most browsers and design tools enable by default.
At its Made on YouTube event, the company unveiled updates to its 2025 creator dashboard, adding an AI 'agent' that scans a creator's back catalog for videos gaining new relevance and suggests updated titles or thumbnails. The tool can also generate sponsor pitches using channel demographic data, and creators can now get AI feedback on thumbnails or have the system auto-generate them, alongside a dynamic thumbnail A/B testing feature that assigns different images to different audience segments.
A software engineer using the handle v0xium described in a viral X post working 12-13 hour days at an unnamed large company where nearly all coding is done via Anthropic's Claude Code tool. The engineer said staff across seniority levels mostly approve AI-generated code rather than write or debug it themselves, calling the process "soul-sucking" and noting that no one seems to understand the resulting software.
A survey by academic mentoring platform Nova Learning found that the share of middle and high school students naming Computer Science and AI as their top academic interest dropped from 42.3% in 2025 to 27.9% in 2026, while Engineering's share nearly doubled, rising from 11.9% to 23%, led largely by Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Separately, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reported an 8.1% drop in undergraduate Computer and Information Science enrollment at four-year institutions, to about 606,000 students, even as Engineering enrollment grew.
The JavaScript ecosystem is undergoing a broad shift as developers replace long-standing JavaScript-based build tools with newer alternatives written in languages like Rust and Go, prized for their speed. Despite decades of attempts to sideline or replace JavaScript itself, the language remains dominant across browsers, servers and devices, even as its supporting toolchain changes underneath it.
A QR code hides its destination until you have already opened it. susQR is a free web tool that checks the link first, and it is worth keeping one tap away.
A software engineering commentator argues that teams increasingly skipping code writing and code review in favor of AI-generated 'vibe coding' are storing up long-term trouble. The piece contends that the harm from poor architecture and unreadable code isn't visible immediately, but surfaces months or years later as systems become fragile and hard to change.
Dartmouth College is developing its own AI-based systems, modeled partly on approaches used by companies like Google, to help students and alumni navigate career decisions as artificial intelligence reshapes hiring. The tools are meant to help people identify suitable career paths and job opportunities amid growing uncertainty in the entry-level labor market caused by automation and AI-driven recruiting.