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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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 …
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.
NBC News:
After Elon Musk said xAI improved Grok “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 for managing subscriptions that shows a list of emails delivered via active subscriptions, sorted by most frequent sender  —  The new Manage Subscriptions view in Gmail will help you reclaim an inbox overrun with emails you don't want.
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 …
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.
Bloomberg:
Analysis: Chinese companies aim to install 115K+ US-sanctioned Nvidia H100 and H200 chips in 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
Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch:
Hugging Face begins taking orders for its $449 Reachy Mini Wireless and $299 Reachy Mini Lite open-source robots, which come in a kit for developers to build  —  Hugging Face is ready for developers to start tinkering and testing its latest robotics release.
Financial Times:
Sources: Apple is in talks to acquire the US streaming rights for Formula 1, following the success of F1 the Movie, which has generated ~$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 …
Wired:
Internal Slack message: OpenAI has hired four high-profile engineers from Tesla, xAI, and Meta, including David Lau, a former Tesla VP of software engineering  —  The new hires are joining OpenAI's scaling team, according to an internal Slack message sent by cofounder Greg Brockman.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta bought just under 3% of Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica, a stake worth ~€3B, and is considering more investment to build its stake to ~5% over time  —  Facebook parent Meta acquired just under 3% of Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica, a stake worth around €3 billion …
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:
GlobalFoundries agrees to acquire MIPS, a developer of RISC-V-based solutions and IP, without disclosing financial terms of the deal, 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.
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.
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.
More: NBC News

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Peter Walker / The Guardian:
UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy says she and her department will stop using X because the site favors “abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate”

Matthew Weaver / The Guardian:
Three men have been found not guilty of murdering the journalist Lyra McKee in 2019; the New IRA claimed responsibility for the killing

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at ABC News' 24-hour Fourth of July programming marathon for the US' 250th anniversary, which it calls “the longest commercial broadcast in history”

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Financial Times:
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Source: Activision pulled Call of Duty: WWII after hackers exploited a flaw in a PC version, which led to some players getting their computers hacked

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Jack Ryan / Bloomberg:
El Salvador-based Tether says it holds nearly 80 tons of gold, worth ~$8B, in a vault in Switzerland; precious metals made up nearly 5% of its reserves in March
Washington Post:
Sources: an impostor used AI to mimic Marco Rubio's voice and writing style and contacted foreign ministers, a US governor, and a member of Congress
Niket Nishant / Reuters:
ReserveOne, a cryptocurrency holding company with bitcoin, ethereum, and Solana, plans to list on the Nasdaq through a SPAC deal expected to raise $1B+
Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
IBM unveils Power11, its first major update to the chips since 2020, available from July 25, and says they can detect and respond to ransomware within a minute
Financial Times:
Italy arrests Chinese citizen Xu Zewei; a source says Xu is linked to hacking group Hafnium that breached Microsoft in 2021 to steal COVID-19 vaccine secrets
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