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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.

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.

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.

She’ll be speaking to them as part of an ABC special, titled “AI and the Future of Us,” that will debut on September 12th at 8ET and be available on Hulu the next day, TheWrap reports.

The Senate was widely expected to pass the bill, which has now officially cleared every hurdle except a final signature from Governor Gavin Newsom. Newsom has until the end of September to make his call.

As Ars Technica notes, the AI image generator company was founded by former Leap Motion CTO David Holz and recently hired former Apple Vision Pro engineer Ahmad Abbas, so it’s got some hardware design veterans on board. And apparently it’s not making an AI pendant. Beyond that, your guess is as good as ours.

Ridley Scott’s Napoleon was already huge (runtime-wise) when it hit Apple TV Plus back in March, but with “48 minutes of new, never-before-seen footage,” the new Director’s Cut that has just hit the streamer (right on time for Labor Day weekend) is even bigger.

Mike Uyama has handed things off to director of operations Matt Merkle, who is now the majority owner of Games Done Quick, per a press release.

Uyama said last year that he planned to step away due to health reasons — he discussed that decision with my colleague Ash Parrish — but that plan was put on hold in part because of a health scare Merkle experienced.

We know the PS5 Pro is real and developers have been getting ready for it for months, but now Dealabs claims to have seen the packaging for the new console. It has created a sketch that shows it’s similar to the PS5 Slim, and this particular PS5 Pro model lacks a disc drive. An announcement is rumored for next month.

If you know anything about the PS5 Pro you can reach me confidentially on the Signal messaging app, where I’m tomwarren.01