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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.
More: Intel, Tom's Hardware, PCWorld, TechCrunch, CTech, CNN, Capital Brief, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, and Motley Fool
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X: @firstadopter, @force_to_black, @ljkawa, @gurgavin, and @joshdwalrath
Forums: r/business and r/hardware
| 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 …
More: Intel, The Verge, More Than Moore, Phoenix Business Journal, More Than Moore, Columbus Business Journal, SiliconANGLE, Thurrott, Engadget, New York Times, CTech, Wall Street Pit, Bloomberg, Barron's Online, and Yahoo Finance
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Forums: Hacker News, r/wallstreetbets, r/hardware, and r/intel
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, and tvOS 26, with its new Liquid Glass design language — The public betas for iOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, and more are here. … Apple has officially released the first public betas for its next major software updates.
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X: @gregjoz and @betaprofiles
Forums: r/technews, r/watchOSBeta, and Slashdot
| Dan Moren / Six Colors: |
Hands-on with iOS 26: Liquid Glass is impressive but can also be distracting, Camera redesign is solid, Call Filtering feature in the Phone app is great, more — iOS 26! It feels like just last year we were here discussing iOS 18. How time flies. — After a year that saw the debut …
More: TechCrunch, Pocket-lint, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, zollotech on YouTube, Engadget, CNET, iDrop News, Mashable, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget, Tom's Guide, Engadget, Lifehacker, MacRumors, WiFi Planet, and Stuff. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
Hands-on with iPadOS 26: new windowing system is great and other enhancements like smarter Shortcuts and Files app make the iPad better for professional use — iPadOS 26, now available as a public beta, is one of the biggest updates in iPad history. There's a new design that changes …
More: Ars Technica, Gizmodo, CNET, ZDNET, Tom's Guide, The Verge, The Shortcut, and Engadget. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
More: 9to5Mac, PCMag, TidBITS, Pixel Envy, Daring Fireball, Ars Technica, Engadget, 9to5Mac, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, ZDNET, Macworld, and Thurrott. Mastodon: @lapcatsoftware@mastodon …
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
In a memo, Satya Nadella addresses the “enigma” of layoffs while “Microsoft is thriving”, saying the transition into the AI era “might feel messy at times” — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella addressed the growing internal unease inside the tech giant Thursday morning …
More: Microsoft, Business Insider, The Register, Windows Report, The Information, Dexerto, Fortune, CNBC, Entrepreneur, Neowin, WinBuzzer, Thurrott, Windows Central, The Verge, and GamesRadar
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X: @brettroberts, @jenn_elias, @thedealdirector, @borrowed_ideas, and @tomwarren. LinkedIn: Ashley Stewart. Forums: r/SeattleWA
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: OpenAI plans to launch GPT-5 in early August, with the main and mini versions available via ChatGPT and the API, and the nano version via the API only — OpenAI's open language model is still arriving ahead of GPT-5. … Earlier this year, I heard that Microsoft engineers …
More: Reuters, PhoneArena, TestingCatalog, Android Authority, PYMNTS.com, Cryptopolitan, The Economic Times, Mashable, Axios, Android Headlines, iPhone in Canada, WinBuzzer, implicator.ai, and Crypto Briefing
Bluesky: @timkellogg.me, @alexeheath.com, @tomwarren.co.uk, and @coolhand
Forums: Hacker News, r/accelerate, and r/singularity
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Web Guide, an AI-powered Search Labs experiment that organizes Google Search results by grouping pages related to specific aspects of the query — Google on Thursday is launching a new AI-powered feature called Web Guide for organizing Google Search results.| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
More: The Guardian, The New Stack, The American Bazaar, KnowTechie, Mashable, BGR, stupidDOPE, Fortune, Pivot to AI, The Indian Express, The Verge, and Search Engine Roundtable
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Mastodon: @nixCraft@mastodon.social, @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org, and @malwaretech@infosec.exchange
Forums: r/degoogle, r/technology, and r/ukpolitics
| 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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Forums: r/Starlink, r/Starlink, r/worldnews, and r/technology
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google's lead for Home and Nest Anish Kattukaran apologizes for Assistant reliability issues on home devices and announces “major improvements” later this year — Google Assistant has, especially in the context of the smart home, been crumbling over the past couple of years.
More: PCWorld, Android Headlines, Pocketables, Android Central, iPhone in Canada, Droid Life, T3, HotHardware, and PCMag
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google launches its virtual clothes try-on feature, letting users upload photos of themselves, in the US and updates price alerts to let users specify an amount — Google announced on Thursday that it's launching a new AI feature that lets users virtually try on clothes.
More: The Keyword, The Verge, 9to5Google, Social Media Today, WinBuzzer, How-To Geek, Digital Commerce 360, PCMag, Android Police, Engadget, Android Authority, and Search Engine Journal. Bluesky: @davelee.me
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google will officially deprecate links generated with its goo.gl URL shortener on August 25, 2025; the company stopped generating goo.gl URLs in March 2019 — Links created with Google's URL shortener will return a 404 error starting August 25th. … Google will officially deprecate links generated … | Deadline: |
At an All-In Podcast summit, President Trump said forcing AI firms to pay for each copyrighted work is “not doable”, calling for “common sense” AI and IP rules — Donald Trump said that AI companies can't be expected to pay for the use of copyrighted content in their systems …
More: New York Times, The Information, eWeek, TorrentFreak, Wired, Politico, Digital Music News, Publishers Weekly, CMU, The Decoder, Variety, TVNewsCheck, Politico, The Wrap, and Financial Times
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X: @acyn, @thezvi, @eastdakota, @rabois, @brendengallager, @brianlfrye, @ikrietzberg, and @benbrodydc. LinkedIn: Peter Csathy
Forums: r/Piracy, r/france, r/singularity, and r/inthenews
| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
Walmart consolidates its AI agents into four “super agents”, for customers, staff, engineers, and sellers/suppliers, using Anthropic's Model Context Protocol — Walmart built so many AI agents, things started to get confusing. Now the retail giant is looking to simplify.
More: Reuters, AfroTech, Sourcing Journal, Fortune, Barron's Online, and PYMNTS.com
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: |
Sources: Elad Gil is raising a fund of ~$1.5B that could grow to $2B based on investor interest, making it one of the largest fundraising hauls for a solo GP — Venture capital firms are under pressure to make rapid-fire decisions about big checks in the frenzied world of artificial intelligence investing …
X: @nmasc_
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Amazon updates its color screen Kindle Colorsoft with a cheaper 16GB model for $250 and a kids-focused bundle with one year of Kids Plus for $270, available now — The new Colorsoft costs $30 less and comes with half the storage than the model Amazon released last year.
More: About Amazon, PCWorld, Good e-Reader, Phandroid, Android Authority, How-To Geek, Gizmodo, PCMag, 9to5Toys, Liliputing, Neowin, Pocket-lint, TalkAndroid.com, Android Headlines, Engadget, The eBook Reader, T3, Android Police, and Thurrott. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com
| Financial Times: |
Analysis and sources: $1B+ of Nvidia's AI chips were shipped to China in the three months after President Trump tightened chip export controls in May — Roaring black market for US semiconductors operates despite efforts to curb Beijing's high-tech ambitions
More: The Register, New York Post, Blaze Media, Cryptopolitan, Tom's Hardware, CNBC, Benzinga, and Analytics India Magazine
Bluesky: @robertscotthorton. X: @jukanlosreve, @andrewcurran_, @hsu_steve, and @kristinaparts. Forums: r/China_News
| Hanh Truong / Silicon Valley Business Journal: |
C3.ai founder and CEO Thomas Siebel steps down due to health issues related to an autoimmune disease that resulted in visual impairment in early 2025 — C3.ai is seeking the next leader to steer its ship, as CEO and founder Thomas Siebel steps down due to health-related concerns.| 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| 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.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
X is testing using Community Notes to highlight posts that are liked by users with different perspectives — Elon Musk's X will begin experimenting with a new way to use Community Notes, its crowdsourcing fact-checking system, to highlight well-liked posts from users with different perspectives.| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Trunk Tools, which provides AI services to organize construction documentation, raised a $40M Series B led by Insight, bringing its total funding to $70M — Trunk Tools Inc., an artificial intelligence-powered platform for construction teams, today announced it has raised $40 million …
More: Trunk.Tools, Unite.AI, Commercial Observer, and Business Insider
| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
In Yuga Labs v. Ryder Ripps, a US appeals court rules that NFTs are “goods” that can get trademark protection but sends the case back to a lower court — - The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a mixed ruling in the longstanding case between Yuga Labs, creators of the Bored Ape Yacht Club … | Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Microsoft says the “Storm-2603” group is now deploying ransomware via vulnerable SharePoint server versions, as the estimated number of victims hits 400+ — A cyber-espionage campaign centered on vulnerable versions of Microsoft's (MSFT.O) server software now involves the deployment …
More: WeLiveSecurity, The Record, Bloomberg, Help Net Security, Tom's Hardware, WeeTracker, The Register, Nextgov/FCW, ComputerWeekly.com, PCMag, ITPro, Metacurity, The Cyber Express, Wired, Windows Report, BleepingComputer, WinBuzzer, and Bloomberg. Forums: Slashdot
| Reuters: |
Sources and a document: China aims to build a national network to sell surplus computing power and address an oversupply caused by a three-year data center boom — China is taking steps to build a network to sell computing power and curb the unwieldy growth of data centres after thousands …
More: Tom's Hardware
| Bethan Staton / Financial Times: |
Pinterest is increasingly filled with AI interior design images, often featuring unrealistic or impossible details, complicating users' search for inspiration — In a world on high alert for fake news, AI-designed interiors seem small fry. But they are fuelling the fire of everyday paranoia| Iain Martin / Forbes: |
A profile of Swedish AI coding startup Lovable, which became the fastest-growing software startup ever, reaching $100M+ in annualized revenue in eight months — ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE | For decades coders have rushed to ship the minimum viable product. Lovable CEO Anton Osika (right) …
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