Daily Tech News 22 September 2026

• Google's new Googlebooks are here, powered by Googlebook OS, with models starting at $899 from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo, and here are all the hardware specs which I know are the only thing you'll be interested in. (WCCFTech)
  
  Wait. Powered by what?
  
  
  
• Powered by the all new Googlebook OS, which they didn't bother to cover at all because Google announced it yesterday. On Reddit. (Reddit)
  
  There's also a home page on Google itself which contains less than no information.
  
  Except for Australian prices - it's region-sensitive - which are fuck-off-expensive.
  
  Anyway, Googlebook OS is Android which is Linux, in this case Debian under the hood, updated with a user interface that doesn't look like a Subaru that hasn't been washed for forty years.
  
  
  
• Here's the Acer model which is the cheapest of the bunch and doesn't get a mention on the Australian version of the Googlebook home page. (Notebook Check)
  
  Pretty good hardware specs especially the 2880x1600 120Hz 14" OLED panel. But I got a laptop with one of those six months ago, with twice the memory and storage, and cheaper too.
  
  
  
• Can you just download - or even buy - and install Googlebook OS on your own hardware?
  
  What?! No. Eww, gross. Get away.

• Apple's new M5 Ultra Mac Studio outperforms even a 64 core AMD Threadripper until you run anything other than Geekbench 7 whereupon it immediately doesn't. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  I'm not saying it's bad. I'm just saying it's annoying to watch idiots trumpet its speed based on one obviously broken benchmark. At least Tom's Hardware ran one realistic multicore benchmark which immediately left the Mac Studio face down in the dirt - slower even than Intel's miserable workstation offerings - but they didn't bother to put that in the headline.
  
  
  
• The Mac Mini is also a thing that exists, apparently. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Such enthuse. Many wow.
  
  
  
• You wouldn't download a polyhedron, would you? (Polyhedra)
  
  Oh. Maybe you would.
  
  
  
• Old and busted: You can use your AI agent to do your shopping. New hotness: Blocked and reported. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Guess Amazon and Facebook aren't friends anymore.
  
  
  

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