Death to passwords: Beta passkey support comes to Chrome and Android - But there are still unanswered questions about lock-ins (arstechnica.com)
Big Tech wants to kill the password, with “Passkeys” being the hot, new password replacement standard on the block. Passkeys are backed by Google, Apple, Microsoft, and the FIDO Alliance, so expect to see them everywhere soon. iOS picked up the standard in version 16, and now Google is launching passkey betas on Chrome and...
GeForce GPUs are 80% of EVGA’s revenue—but it’s cutting ties with Nvidia anyway (arstechnica.com)
How sustainable are fake meats? (Spoiler: much better than real meat/dairy) (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/458886...
Review: Playdate earns its $179 price tag with cute design, memorable games (arstechnica.com)
The cute, portable, and banana yellow $179 Playdate console is now shipping to its first batch of preorder customers, so we’re now free to review the quirkiest gaming system in years.
Is Firefox OK? Mozilla’s privacy-heavy browser is flatlining but still crucial to future of the web. (arstechnica.com)
100 million and counting: Nintendo affirms that Switch is still mid-cycle (arstechnica.com)
Members of Activision’s Raven Software QA team form a union (arstechnica.com)
Fairphone still updating old handsets (arstechnica.com)
Fair play; I don’t own a Fairphone, and I’m hoping to keep my current Android alive long enough to be able to go straight to a Linux phone. But this is another demonstration of why it’s good to support outliers
iPhone keyboard for blind to shut down as maker cites Apple “abuse” of developers (arstechnica.com)
Quantum computer performs error-resistant operations with logical qubits (arstechnica.com)
QuEra gets ready for error correction, runs operations with over 40 logical qubits.
1960s chatbot ELIZA beat OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 in a recent Turing test study (arstechnica.com)
AI chatbot deception paper suggests that some bots (and people) aren't very persuasive.
Owner of Tumblr confirms site’s shift from “surging” to “small and focused” (arstechnica.com)
CEO confirms Tumblr has lost "well north of $100M" since acquisition.
Android 14’s storage disaster gets patched, but your data might be gone (arstechnica.com)
Google's "solution" can't do anything for bootlooping devices.
Android 14’s user-profile data bug seems indistinguishable from ransomware (arstechnica.com)
Users with multiple profiles are getting locked out of local storage and losing data....
Android 14’s user-profile data bug seems indistinguishable from ransomware (arstechnica.com)
An Apple malware-flagging tool is “trivially” easy to bypass. (arstechnica.com)
Background Task Manager can potentially miss malicious software on your machine....
How developers will test their apps before Vision Pro launches (arstechnica.com)
Apple opened up access to three ways to test apps on real hardware.
Exploring the ingenious science and science fiction of making things invisible (arstechnica.com)
Greg Gbur chats about his book Invisibility: The History and Science of How Not to be Seen.
Apple forced to make major cuts to Vision Pro headset production plans (arstechnica.com)
Initial hopes of 1 million shipments in 2024 dashed by manufacturing problems.
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11 review: Two steps forward, one step back (arstechnica.com)
New Gen 11 model fixes the worst of Gen 10's flaws, but not without compromises.