Monthly Archives: May 2026

Google’s Android-powered laptops are called Googlebooks, and they’re coming this year

Posted on 2026-05-12 by pappp

Source: Ars Technica

Article note: The ChromeOS to Android as general purpose OS transition will be interesting. I wonder what the bootloader and driver situation will be like, I've had good luck with flashing normal-ass UEFI + Linux onto junker Chromebooks as a source of beaters and appliances.

Google took its first swing at laptops with Chromebooks way back in 2011. These web-first laptops have seen success over the years, mostly in enterprise and education. Google insists Chromebooks aren't going away, but the company's focus has shifted to something new: Googlebooks. That's what Google has decided to call the new line of Android-powered laptops, which will begin shipping later this year.

If you thought other Google products were steeped in Gemini, you haven't seen anything yet.

Google says it designed Googlebooks from the ground up with Gemini Intelligence, and it all starts with the cursor. Google calls this the Magic Pointer. Just wiggle the cursor back and forth, and it will activate a full-screen Gemini experience. The AI will see what's on your screen so it can make contextual suggestions and pull in data from multiple apps.

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Canvas is online again after ShinyHunters threaten to leak schools’ data

Posted on 2026-05-07 by pappp

Source: The Verge - All Posts

Article note: Instructure got hacked twice this week, and now Canvas is down nationally during many colleges finals week. Fabulous.
Graphic illustration of students walking down a hallway in school.

The Instructure-owned learning management platform, Canvas, is now online again after it went down following a massive data breach that impacted student names, email addresses, ID numbers, and messages. Before systems were restored, students who attempted to access the system on Thursday saw a message from the hacking group ShinyHunters, which claimed responsibility for the attack:

ShinyHunters has breached Instructure (again). Instead of contacting us to resolve it they ignored us and did some "security patches." If any of the schools in the affected list are interested in preventing the release of their data, please consult with a cyber …

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Aramark, University of Kentucky to end partnership, eliminating more than 900 jobs

Posted on 2026-05-06 by pappp

Source: Published articles

I mean, fuck Aramark, UK's food quality has been declining since they privatized out to them. But also, I don't think that's why they were dropped. Compass, rumored to be the replacement, is currently doing UK Healthcare and Athletics food (because, as we know, UK is a hospital network with a sports franchise who also operates a university on the side), so there's probably some dealing.

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