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Apple says COO Jeff Williams will step down in July, overseeing design and health until he retires later in 2025; SVP of Operations Sabih Khan will become COO — Apple Inc. Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams is retiring as the company's longtime No. 2, marking a major changing of the guard …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says its design team will report to Tim Cook after Jeff Williams retires; Williams was overseeing the team after Evans Hankey's departure in April 2023 — Apple today announced that COO Jeff Williams will retire later this year, with Sabih Khan set to assume the COO role later this month.
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| NBC News: |
After Elon Musk said Grok was improved “significantly”, Grok wrote many antisemitic posts; xAI says it took “action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X” — In some posts, Grok inserted antisemitic remarks into its answers without any clear prompting.
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| Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: |
Google rolls out a new Gmail feature to manage subscriptions, showing a list of emails delivered via active subscriptions, sorted by the most frequent senders — The new Manage Subscriptions view in Gmail will help you reclaim an inbox overrun with emails you don't want.| Magdalena Del Valle / Bloomberg: |
The US Treasury's OFAC sanctions individuals and companies linked to North Korea's fake tech worker scheme, including “malicious cyber actor” Song Kum Hyok — The US slapped sanctions on individuals and companies linked to a scheme that involves recruiting North Koreans to pose …
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| Jody Godoy / Reuters: |
A US appeals court blocks the FTC's “click-to-cancel” rule that would have taken effect on July 14, saying it didn't conduct a preliminary cost-benefit analysis — A U.S. appeals court blocked a rule that would have required businesses to make it as easy to cancel subscriptions …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers: the Anatsa banking trojan snuck into Google Play once again via an app disguised as a PDF viewer, which had 50K+ downloads before Google removed it — The Anatsa banking trojan has sneaked into Google Play once more via an app posing as a PDF viewer that counted more than 50,000 downloads.
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| Bloomberg: |
Analysis: Chinese companies aim to buy 115K+ US-sanctioned Nvidia H100 and H200 chips for 39 data centers across China's western deserts, mostly in Xinjiang — https://www.bloomberg.com/news/ articles/2025-07-08/latest-tariff-pause - shows-limits-of-trump-s-frenzied- dealmaking
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta has bought under 3% of Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica, a stake worth ~€3B, and is considering further investment that could build the stake to ~5% — Facebook parent Meta acquired just under 3% of Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica, a stake worth around €3 billion …
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
US federal prosecutors accuse two US men of operating and promoting OmegaPro, a crypto multi-level marketing scheme that allegedly defrauded victims of $650M+ — Federal prosecutors have charged two men in connection with a sprawling cryptocurrency investment scheme that defrauded victims out of more than $650 million.
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| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Hugging Face begins taking orders for its $449 Reachy Mini Wireless and $299 Reachy Mini Lite open source robots, which come as kits for developers to build — Hugging Face is ready for developers to start tinkering and testing its latest robotics release.| Wired: |
Internal Slack message: OpenAI has hired four high-profile engineers from Tesla, xAI, and Meta, including David Lau, former VP of software engineering at Tesla — The new hires are joining OpenAI's scaling team, according to an internal Slack message sent by cofounder Greg Brockman.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple is in talks to acquire US streaming rights for Formula 1 following the success of F1 the Movie, which has grossed ~$300M at the box office — iPhone-maker is challenging Disney's ESPN to screen car series — Apple is in talks to acquire the US rights to screen Formula 1 …
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| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
GlobalFoundries agrees to acquire MIPS, a developer of RISC-V-based solutions and IP, without disclosing financial terms, set to close in H2 2025 — For an unknown sum. — GlobalFoundries announced on Tuesday that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MIPS, a developer of RISC-V-based solutions and IP.
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Ikea plans to relaunch its smart home line with 20+ new Matter-over-Thread devices, set to release in January 2026, and updates its Dirigera smart home hub — Ikea is relaunching its smart home line in a move that will make its low-cost products work with other brands, with or without Ikea's own hub.| Matthew S. Smith / IEEE Spectrum: |
Researchers detail All-Topographic Neural Networks, claiming they better mimic human spatial biases and consume less energy than other machine vision networks — Topographic neural networks develop familiar spatial biases — AI vision models have improved dramatically over the past decade.| Peggy Ye / Nikkei Asia: |
Apple supplier Lens Technology, one of the top smartphone part makers, raised ~$608M in its Hong Kong IPO, as the Chinese company looks to expand overseas — HONG KONG — Apple supplier Lens Technology announced it has raised 4.77 billion Hong Kong dollars ($608 million) in a share listing in Hong Kong …
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| Stephanie Chalmers / ABC: |
Qantas confirms 5.7M customers' personal information was held on the system compromised in a recent cyberattack, including names, emails, and phone numbers — In short: — Qantas boss Vanessa Hudson says she does not believe the data targeted in a recent cyber attack have yet been released by cyber criminals.| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
CA State Senator Scott Wiener releases amendments to SB 53, which has transparency requirements for AI companies but omits SB 1047's provision on liability — A California lawmaker is making another effort to regulate artificial intelligence in the state after legislation … | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Replit announces a partnership with Microsoft to make its platform available in the Azure Marketplace and integrate its tech with some Microsoft cloud services — Replit on Tuesday announced a strategic partnership deal with Microsoft that should be good for business for both of them.| Karoline Kan / Bloomberg: |
Millions of China's gig workers are having to endure record heat waves without legally mandated “heat wave allowances”, cooling breaks, or adequate insurance — As the nation swelters, millions of delivery couriers brave deadly temperatures without legal protections or heat pay.Sponsor Posts
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