Monica Chin / The Verge: MacBook Air (15-inch) review: thin and relatively light chassis, excellent trackpad, keyboard, performance, and battery, but limited ports and no upgradability  —  Apple’s first big-screened MacBook Air addresses a long-standing need in the company’s laptop lineup.  And it comes with zero surprises and no sticker shock. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tristan Cross / The Guardian: A writer who learned to code after losing his job reflects on AI chatbots, which make misakes and lack lateral thinking, and why human skills are irreplaceable  —  Silicon Valley wants to make us believe humans are predictable and our skills replaceable.  I’ve learned that’s nonsense Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Over 7,000 subreddits have gone private or read-only to protest Reddit’s API pricing changes, and the site experienced issues for about two hours on June 12  —  Reddit went through some issues for many on Monday, with the outage happening the same day as thousands of subreddits going dark to protest the site’s new API pricing terms. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: M2 Ultra Mac Studio review: a small, fast, efficient, and quiet desktop Mac that has decent ports and is a much better deal than the new Mac Pro for most users  —  The realities of Apple Silicon make the Studio the best bet for most pros.  —  The original Mac Studio, despite the absence of … Lees verder op Tech Meme