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Shelter review: Jason Statham delivers yet again

The Beekeeper and Working Man formula is back in Shelter, another movie with lots of action that'll be huge on Prime Video streaming in six months.

Hands-on with Google's Auto Browse for Chrome: it performs multistep tasks noticeably better than similar tools but struggles with complex tasks (Reece Rogers/Wired)

Reece Rogers / Wired:
Hands-on with Google's Auto Browse for Chrome: it performs multistep tasks noticeably better than similar tools but struggles with complex tasks  —  Auto Browse can shop for clothes, plan a trip, and buy tickets for you.  Or at least, that's the idea.  —  I'll admit it.  I like clicking around.

Anthropic details an experiment on whether AI coding tools shape developer skills: the biggest performance decline for developers occurred in debugging tasks (Anthropic)

Anthropic:
Anthropic details an experiment on whether AI coding tools shape developer skills: the biggest performance decline for developers occurred in debugging tasks  —  Read the paper  —  Research shows AI helps people do parts of their job faster.  In an observational study of Claude.ai data, we found AI can speed up some tasks by 80%.

Sonos’ Super Bowl sale knocks hundreds off its audio gear

Sonos isn’t exactly synonymous with the Super Bowl, although the brand discounts its gear every year around this time like clockwork. It’s knocking 20 percent off many of its marquee products, including soundbars and standalone speakers — all of which can be paired together to improve sound quality and to put audio in more places […]

Sources: OnlyFans is in talks to sell a nearly 60% stake to Architect Capital in a deal that values the company at around $5.5B, including debt (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OnlyFans is in talks to sell a nearly 60% stake to Architect Capital in a deal that values the company at around $5.5B, including debt  —  Deal with Architect Capital would value the adult social-media platform at $3.5 billion  —  OnlyFans, the British online platform popular …