DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search

by News Feed Editor | May 26, 2026 | Technology

Last week, after Google announced its huge overhaul to Search, I overheard a woman on the phone saying she was switching to DuckDuckGo because you can “opt out of using AI.” “Google just isn’t Google anymore,” she said. It seems that others had the same idea. At I/O,...

DeepSWE blows up the AI coding leaderboard, crowns GPT-5.5, and finds Claude Opus exploiting a benchmark loophole

by News Feed Editor | May 26, 2026 | Technology

For months, the leading AI coding benchmarks have told enterprise buyers a comforting but misleading story: the top models are all roughly the same. OpenAI’s GPT-5 family, Anthropic’s Claude Opus, and Google’s Gemini Pro have clustered within a...

Starship’s path to reusability looks murky after SpaceX’s S-1

by News Feed Editor | May 26, 2026 | Technology

SpaceX’s recent IPO and Starship rocket test flight delivered two big data points that offer a realistic vision for the coming years — and one that may disappoint both the company’s boosters and its critics. Hidden behind the fantastic expectations for AI enterprise...

The attack dominating financial services doesn’t steal passwords. It resets MFA and steals the token.

by News Feed Editor | May 26, 2026 | Technology

The attacker who hit the most financial services organizations over the past 12 months never phished a password. They called an IT support line, convinced an employee to reset their MFA, and registered their own device on the network.CrowdStrike’s 2026 Financial...

SpaceX’s Starlink nabs American Airlines contract, another win for its IPO

by News Feed Editor | May 26, 2026 | Technology

American Airlines said Tuesday it plans to install Starlink on more than 500 narrow-body Airbus aircraft beginning early next year, the latest carrier to pick the SpaceX unit for inflight Wi-Fi service. The deal provides more than just financial lift for Starlink, the...

OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year

by News Feed Editor | May 26, 2026 | Technology

Popular AI gateway maker OpenRouter, founded in 2023, has raised a hefty $113 million Series B led by CapitalG, the growth venture fund of Google parent company Alphabet. While the startup didn’t disclose its new valuation, The New York Times reports that it landed at...