A notification from Google acknowledges “an ongoing issue with serving some features in Google Search” without specifying which ones. Presumably, they’re not linked to AI Overviews, which appear to be here to stay.
Google later confirmed this reflected reports of blank results in Google News and Discover earlier, but now it’s all working again.
Update: Google now says the problem is resolved.
Samsung’s Fitbit-like new Energy Score and Wellness Tips insights are apparently powered by “Galaxy AI,” even if it’s unclear exactly how. The sleep algorithm also adds tracking for “movement during sleep, sleep latency, heart rate and respiratory rate during sleep.”
Next-gen Galaxy Watches will get these as part of One UI 6 Watch, which arrives later this year, but a beta program starts next month.
A blog post says the attack has gone on intermittently for three days, making access to the archives inconsistent. However, founder Brewster Kahle says patrons should worry more about lawsuits from book publishers and the recording industry that “are trying to destroy this library entirely and hobble all libraries everywhere.”
If last week’s big revamp and the launch of the Canva Enterprise package didn’t convince you, hang on one minute.
Perhaps the power of hip-hop dance and Hamilton-style rhymes can prove that Canva’s suite is soulless enough (or “safe and securrre” enough, if you prefer) to have a place in your corporation alongside Microsoft 365, Zoom, Google Workspace, and Slack.
The Wall Street Journal describes how the June 18th, 2023 disaster that killed five people on a trip to the Titanic hasn’t entirely stalled the industry:
As [Triton Submarines CEO Patrick Lahey] and his peers see it, OceanGate’s problems weren’t broader submersible problems. They say classed subs are considered exceptionally safe modes of transportation thanks to rigorous testing of designs and materials.
“In that sense, OceanGate didn’t make the industry look bad,” says McCallum. “It made us look good.”
Following an outage that started early Thursday, Microsoft reported “mitigation efforts” successfully brought some Copilot services back online (along with those of third parties like DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT’s internet search feature) as of noon that day.
As for the rest, its 365 Status account on X now reports that “all Copilot features are functioning as expected.”
The feds have filed an antitrust lawsuit seeking to break up Live Nation, the parent company of event ticketing giant Ticketmaster, and we’re about to hear more details from the government’s side in this press conference.
Update, May 27th: Replaced live stream link with archive copy from YouTube.
