What were your top tech stories of May 2026? Here are mine.

Google reinvents Search. Nobody asked. At Google I/O on May 20, Google replaced the traditional search box with a Gemini-powered conversational engine. No opt-out. DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg responded directly: "Google is force-feeding AI with no way to opt out. As a result, their results are getting worse, not better." US installs of DuckDuckGo jumped 18.1% week on week on average in the days following the announcement, peaking at 30.5% on May 25. Brave saw similar numbers

WordPress 7.0 "Armstrong" is here Released May 20 after a delay caused by a critical architectural flaw the team rebuilt from scratch. Native AI integration, modernised dashboard, PHP-only block registration. Real-time collaboration pulled at the last minute. The biggest shift to the world's most used CMS since 2018. Worth understanding before you hit update.

The breach season is open Two large data breaches confirmed what is becoming a pattern. Canvas, used by 8,000+ schools, lost 230 million email addresses. Carnival confirmed 6 million customers exposed. Same group behind both. Both cases involved public extortion, not quiet theft.

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I used Google Stitch as the primary tool to design and build Sprout, a mobile habit tracker where every habit hatches a creature that grows with your streak. The entire project, five screens from onboarding to habit detail, was built using Stitch's streaming canvas generation, in-place AI editing, native HTML animation, and Netlify export.

My workflow was prompt driven. I wrote a detailed description for each screen, watched Stitch stream it to the canvas in real time, then used in-place edits to refine the creature illustrations, background colors, button shapes, and animation behaviors. The celebration screen and the dark habit detail screen went through the most iteration and the results exceeded what I expected from a single session.

On the platform experience, Stitch is genuinely fast and the streaming generation is satisfying to work with. The 3D creature illustrations it produced had real personality, I expected flat icons and got fully rendered characters. The main friction was component consistency, editing one element sometimes caused adjacent ones to regenerate, and the export works per screen rather than as a unified project. A component locking feature would make the workflow much smoother. Overall it is a strong tool and I can see it becoming a regular part of my prototyping workflow.

Project URL. https://stitch.withgoogle.com/projects/407525878633658092