IBM plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI over time, pauses hiring certain positions (arstechnica.com)
Old smartphones should be usable as single-board computers, just as this one is (arstechnica.com)
"In supposedly gauging what the 'ecosystem' wants, all Google is really doing is asking itself what Google wants." (arstechnica.com)
Nvidia’s GameStream is dead. Sunshine and Moonlight are great replacements. (arstechnica.com)
System Shock gets May 30 PC release date. (arstechnica.com)
Fond memories of the original. Happy to see it might be finally out there.
Kombucha cultures can be turned into flexible electric circuit boards (arstechnica.com)
Valve used secret memory access “honeypot” to detect 40K Dota 2 cheaters (arstechnica.com)
Mysterious leak of Booking.com reservation data is being used to scam customers (arstechnica.com)
Leonardo da Vinci noted link between gravity and acceleration centuries before Einstein (arstechnica.com)
Engineers re-created one of Leonardo’s experiments with a modern apparatus and found he produced a value for the gravitational constant, G, to around 97 percent accuracy. What makes this finding even more astonishing is that Leonardo achieved this without a means of accurate timekeeping and without the benefit of calculus,...
Google announces official Android support for RISC-V (arstechnica.com)
China bans AI-generated media without watermarks (arstechnica.com)
10 years of FTL: The making of an enduring spaceship simulator (arstechnica.com)
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
