The rent is too dang high in Cities: Skylines 2, so the devs nuked the landlords (arstechnica.com)
New Stable Diffusion 3 release excels at AI-generated body horror (arstechnica.com)
The Google Pay app is dead (arstechnica.com)
HMD’s first self-branded phones are all under $200 (arstechnica.com)
Feds appoint “AI doomer” to run AI safety at US institute (arstechnica.com)
Anthropic’s Claude 3 causes stir by seeming to realize when it was being tested (arstechnica.com)
HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver (arstechnica.com)
Pixel phones are broken again with critical storage permission bug (arstechnica.com)
Android 15 might bring back lock screen widgets (arstechnica.com)
US agency tasked with curbing risks of AI lacks funding to do the job (arstechnica.com)
Lawmakers fear the NIST will have to rely on companies developing the technology.
We bought Walmart’s $140 laptop so you wouldn’t have to (arstechnica.com)
Some random article that I found through searx’ing. I found it pretty amusing. I tried going on ebay to see how much these laptops are because I wanted to own a very bad laptop just for the novelty. They’re not even worth the $45 that sellers are demanding.
Google might already be replacing some Ad sales jobs with AI (arstechnica.com)
Google is wrapping its head around the idea of being a generative AI company. The "code red" called in response to ChatGPT has had Googlers scrambling to come up with AI features and ideas. Once all the dust settles on that work, Google might turn inward and try to "optimize" the company with some of its new AI capabilities....
Samsung expands repair program to more devices, now in 43 countries (arstechnica.com)
Samsung says it's doing a big expansion to its self-repair program this month. The repair program launched last year in partnership with iFixit, and now Samsung will be offering parts and repair manuals for more phones in more countries.
Web browser suspended because it can browse the web is back on Google Play (arstechnica.com)
Waze will now warn drivers about crash dangers using historical data (arstechnica.com)
Android phones can now tell you if there’s an AirTag following you (arstechnica.com)
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