Wes Davis

Google News surfaced a (now corrected) Hoodline article for TechDirt’s Mike Masnick with a headline reading, in part, “San Mateo County DA charged with murder,” and a tiny “AI” badge next to the author’s name.

The headline was false. A BlueSky user speculated that the AI chatbot being used had just poorly parsed a post from the DA’s office and hallucinated the news.

If you’re worried about damaging your Pixel Watch’s glass screen, Google now sells a Zagg “flexible polymer hybrid” screen protector, as 9to5Google spotted.

It works for all three generations of the watch, the glass of which held up poorly in Victoria Song’s Pixel Watch and Watch 2 reviews.

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A Reddit user spotted a Microsoft Surface Laptop outfitted with Intel’s next-gen ARM competitor on a Chinese website called Goofish, Windows Central reports.

The outlet says its sources confirmed that Microsoft is testing the chip in a Surface, but that it’s not clear if it’s the Surface Laptop 7 or a future version of the machine.

That’s according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who writes today that he is “certain these machines are the real deal.” The machines from last week’s leaks seem to be base model M4 MacBook Pros with 16GB of memory and 10-core CPUs and GPUs, he adds.

Apple is expected to announce the laptops along with a smaller Mac Mini, a refreshed iPad Mini, and more soon.