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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel cancelled planned fab projects in Germany and Poland, and will consolidate its testing and assembly operations in Vietnam and Malaysia — Intel reported second-quarter results on Thursday that beat Wall Street expectations on revenue, as the company's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan announced significant cuts in chip factory construction.
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| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Intel reports Q2 revenue flat YoY at $12.9B, vs. $11.9B est., a $2.9B loss due to restructuring and impairment charges, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates — US chipmaker posts positive revenue and forecast as it cuts jobs — Intel chief executive Lip-Bu Tan pushed ahead …
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| Reuters: |
Intel says it may exit cutting-edge manufacturing if it can't secure customers for its 14A process, a major shift for the long-time steward of Moore's Law — Intel (INTC.O) warned investors on Thursday that it may have to get out of the chip manufacturing business if it does not land external customers to make chips in its factories.| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Meta will end political, election, or social issue ads in the EU from October, like Google, with both citing incoming regulation — Meta on Friday said starting in October it will no longer accept political, election or social issue ads in the European Union, in response to new regulation … | Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
Hands-on with macOS 26: the interface is a mess, like a poorly imported iOS design, but the power of Spotlight and Shortcuts will delight many longtime users — For many years, Apple's annual operating-system cycle seemed to be all about the iPhone, with the occasional bone thrown to the Mac or iPad.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google is testing a vibe-coding tool called Opal that lets users create mini web apps using text prompts or remix existing apps, available in the US via Labs — AI-powered coding tools have become so popular over the past few months that almost every major tech company is either using one or making its own.
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| The Information: |
Sources: the number of Optimus humanoid robots Tesla has made this year is in the hundreds, well behind the pace needed to meet Musk's goal of producing 5K+ — Elon Musk says humanoid robots will be the future of Tesla. The company has a long way to go. — Tesla is well behind … | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Sources: GPT-5 shows improved performance in coding, particularly in practical software engineering tasks, outperforming prior OpenAI models and Claude Sonnet 4 — GPT-5 is almost here, and we're hearing good things. The early reaction from at least one person who's used the unreleased version was extremely positive.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Financial Times: |
Public companies are loading up on crypto tokens, including $TRUMP, HYPE, and litecoin, as they expand beyond bitcoin to boost their own share prices — Listed firms load up on ether, litecoin and $TRUMP as they bid to emulate Michael Saylor's Strategy — Public companies are loading … | Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Starlink experienced a network outage for about 2.5 hours on Thursday; NetBlocks reports that connectivity dropped to “16% of ordinary levels” — SpaceX's satellite internet service experienced a ‘network outage’ that cut off internet for users around the world.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's Recall is meeting a lot of resistance from app developers, with Brave and AdGuard joining Signal in blocking the controversial Windows AI tool — Brave and AdGuard are both following Signal's lead in blocking Microsoft's AI tool. … Microsoft's controversial Recall feature … | Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Anysphere launches Bugbot, an AI-powered tool that integrates with GitHub to detect coding errors introduced by humans or AI agents, for $40 per month per user — One of the most popular platforms for AI-assisted programming says the next era of vibe coding is all about supercharging error detection.
More: The Register and WinBuzzer
| Shane Hickey / The Guardian: |
A UK court sentences a 21-year-old student who created phishing kits that mimicked government, bank, and charity websites, linked to £100M of fraud — Ollie Holman created kits that mimicked charity and bank webpages so criminals could harvest victims' personal details
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
The US Treasury sanctions three senior North Korean officials accused of tricking companies into hiring North Koreans using stolen identities as IT workers — Three senior North Korean officials involved in IT schemes have been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department.| Financial Times: |
Analysis: US and UK entry-level graduate job listings have plunged since 2022, but there's only tentative evidence of AI-related disruption in some occupations — Tech is blamed for destroying entry-level roles but economic uncertainty and offshoring are playing a partSponsor Posts
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