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Archives for May 2026

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Intuit is laying off around 3,000 employees.

According to a memo seen by Reuters, Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi said that the cuts will help the company focus on bets like adding AI into its services. The cuts represent about 17 percent of Intuit’s staff.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Kobo e-readers are adding support for Amazon-free Goodreads competitor, StoryGraph.

Starting in June, your progress in ebooks and audiobooks will automatically sync to your StoryGraph account, including updating reading streaks, challenges, and book clubs. Kobo is also highlighting StoryGraph’s stat-tracking and recommendation algorithm, saying:

Kobo users can leverage StoryGraph’s sophisticated analytics to understand their reading habits better. From personalized recommendations based on your unique tastes to detailed charts about your reading moods and pace.

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Now you can stock your Airbnb with food.

It’s rolling out now in partnership with Instacart to more than 25 US cities, with car rentals joining private car hires later this summer:

Have groceries waiting at your Airbnb when you arrive, or order them any time during your trip. In select cities, hosts can even receive the order and pre-stock your home before you check in. Airbnb guests get $0 delivery and $10 off an order of $50 or more.


Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Nvidia says some of its old drivers have “high severity” security vulnerabilities.

A security bulletin from Nvidia breaks down new vulnerabilities found in some of its GPU drivers for Windows and Linux and vGPU software. As Digital Foundry and Club386 point out, they affect drivers prior to 596.36 on the current branch, so if you’re running the most recently released update (596.49, which was released on May 12th), you don’t have anything to do.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
GitHub says a data breach impacted 3,800 internal repositories.

The company traced the incident to a “poisoned” VS Code extension on an employee’s device. While the hacking group TeamPCP has claimed responsibility for the breach, GitHub says it has since removed the malicious extension and that the exfiltration was limited to internal data, as reported by Bleeping Computer.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
“You all have AI — actual intelligence.”

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was a commencement speaker for Grand Valley State University a few weeks ago, and managed to mention AI without being booed or completely ruining the event.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Figma has a product design AI agent.

The new agent is initially available in Figma Design, and can be used to help with generated or editing design projects, and “automate busywork,” according to Figma’s announcement. This is the latest creative company to launch an AI assistant, following Canva and several examples from Adobe.