The company announced today it would extend restrictions on election-related queries to more AI services including AI Overviews in Search, YouTube Live Chat summaries, and image generation in Gemini. It’s an expansion of the policy Google announced last December.
Why is OpenAI paying publishers if it already took their work?
The creator of “One Million Checkboxes” has shared some heartwarming stories about the creative ways that teens interacted with the now-shuttered website. Check out the below video, this X thread, or Eieio’s blog for some feel-good Friday vibes about concealing URLs in binary and creating pixelated Rick-Rolls.
Reliable leaker Evan Blass says Qualcomm is getting ready to launch cheaper Windows laptops at the IFA tradeshow next month. Blass says a new Snapdragon X Plus variant with eight cores will push Copilot Plus PCs down to just $800. Currently, the cheapest Copilot Plus PC is Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 7 at $999.
We already knew video was on the roadmap, but it seems like it’s the next big feature headed to the app. The app’s 1.90 update just added a bunch of useful-seeming “anti-toxicity” features.
In a post on X, Nintendo’s Japanese support account says the company will no longer offer New 3DS repairs because it has “run out of parts necessary for repairs.”
Nintendo Japan also plans to stop repairing the regular 3DS and 2DS once it runs out of parts. It recently stopped fixing the Wii U as well.
The EU is looking at Telegram after it didn’t provide a specific user number this month, the Financial Times reports. If Telegram has more than 45 million monthly users, it would be defined as a very large online platform under the Digital Services Act, which comes with certain rules; in February, it apparently reported 41 million monthly EU users.
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Seattle’s international airport was thrown into chaos over the weekend as authorities responded to a cyber attack. It’s like, bad: the website is down, screens throughout the terminal are dark, and there’s no timeline for getting any of it back. Devin Coldewey has a great firsthand account of the situation for TechCrunch. And if you’re flying through SeaTac anytime soon, well, godspeed.
