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Google held its Made by Google two thousand twenty six event today, unveiling the Pixel eleven series, the Pixel Watch five, a new AirTag rival called Pixel Tag, and a wave of Gemini-powered features. It's a broad hardware push from Google, signaling serious intent across every corner of your digital life.
But the timing carries a sting. Right as those devices hit preorder pages, Google's Health app AI is drawing furious complaints. Users say its premium Health Coach is fabricating workouts that never happened — hallucinating exercise data and presenting it as fact. Social media is flooded with people calling it, quote, nonstop lies from the AI. For a company trying to sell you a health-focused smartwatch, that's a credibility problem that cuts deep.
Meanwhile, a quieter but significant scare played out in the crypto world. A malformed routing configuration at a single hosting provider knocked nearly twenty-nine percent of staked Solana offline — dangerously close to the thirty-three percent threshold that would have caused the network to lose finality entirely. One misconfigured server, one blockchain nearly brought to its knees.
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