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Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac:
WhatsApp rolls out username reservations globally, allowing users to claim a unique name before the privacy-focused feature launches later this year  —  Following years of anticipation and months of preparation, WhatsApp today began rolling out username reservations worldwide …
TechCrunch:
SCOTUS limits the law enforcement use of “geofence” warrants, saying people have “a reasonable expectation of privacy” in their cell-phone location data  —  Zack Whittaker Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai  —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday limited the law enforcement use of …
Song Jung-a / Financial Times:
South Korea, Samsung, and SK Hynix say they plan to invest ~$590B to build a new chip complex, including four chipmaking plants and a chip packaging cluster  —  Companies to invest alongside South Korean government in factories to meet surging demand for memory chips
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Soaring memory costs are posing existential threats to small electronics makers, amid thin margins, low supply chain leverage, and little room for price hikes  —  Earlier this year, Mono Technologies assembled and shipped nearly 1,000 units of its flagship product, a $600 router development kit.
Ming-Chi Kuo:
Kuo: the memory supply-demand gap will widen through 2027, with an estimated 15%-20% of 2026 consumer electronics capacity shifting to data centers in 2027
Hassan Mujtaba / Wccftech:
Jefferies: memory prices are expected to rise 40%-50% in Q3 2026 and 30%-40% in Q4, as Chinese memory makers are unlikely to provide meaningful near-term relief
James Hunt / The Block:
Filing: Strategy paused its bitcoin acquisitions last week, instead topping up its USD reserve to $2.55B and announcing a $1B digital credit buyback program  —  Quick Take  — Strategy paused its bitcoin acquisition last week despite raising $1.15 billion in MSTR proceeds, with its total holdings remaining at 847,363 BTC.
Reuters:
Sources: component and supplier lists, and photos of iPhone 18 Pro models, are among files a ransomware group stole from Apple's Indian supplier Tata  —  Sensitive lists of components and suppliers, and photos of Apple's upcoming iPhone 18 Pro models are part of files posted on the dark web …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Rocket Lab plans to acquire Iridium for $8B and combine Rocket Lab's launch services with Iridium's satellite-based communications network to rival SpaceX  —  Iridium's constellation of 66 satellites provides communications for 2.5 million subscribers.
Christine Mui / Politico:
California strikes a deal with Anthropic to expand the use of Claude products across state agencies and local governments at a 50% discount  —  “A lot of departments are going to switch their usage to this contract, and that's very much our intent,” Chris Given, California's chief information officer …
Max Miller / Engadget:
A look at security flaws, police misuse, and other concerns over the 100K+ AI-enabled automated license plate readers installed across the US, mostly from Flock  —  “You can't get a breath of fresh air ... without us knowing.”  —  Thanks to the rise of AI, a new kind of surveillance camera …
Jyoti Mann / The Information:
Internal documents: Meta is placing strict limits on how engineers in its applied AI division can use Claude Code and Codex, fearing inadvertent distillation  —  As Meta Platforms tries to wean itself off expensive AI coding applications from Anthropic and OpenAI, it is confronting a difficult challenge …
Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News:
In Q2, there were thirteen $1B+ US venture-backed startup exits, either through acquisition or IPO, the most exits since the 2021 market peak  —  Startup exits valued at $1 billion or more are now more numerous than at any point since the 2021 market peak, Crunchbase data shows.
NPR:
SCOTUS finds that Trump's 2025 firing of FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter without cause was lawful, placing independence of several agencies in doubt  —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday further overturned a 91-year-old precedent that has prevented presidents from removing members of independent agencies at will.
Reuters:
Sources: CXMT and Tencent sign a ~$3B, three-year DRAM supply agreement for servers ahead of CXMT's IPO; CXMT is in talks with other major Chinese companies  —  Chinese memory chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has signed a long-term supply agreement with Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) …
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Baz releases Baz Planner, which uses four specialized AI agents to analyze code at the planning stage, and extends its seed funding by $9M to $17M  —  Agentic coding startup Baz Technologies Inc. said today it's launching a new platform that sits between developers and the code bases they're working …
Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
Tidal adopts an AI policy that blocks wholly AI-generated music from earning royalties and removes AI-generated music that impersonates artists  —  TIDAL is introducing an AI policy that will automatically tag wholly AI-generated music in its app and block it from earning royalties.

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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Sources: Paramount's board approved David Ellison's plan to possibly leave California, selling its 65-acre lot in Hollywood and the Warner Bros. Burbank campus

Dan Mangan / CNBC:
President Trump announces that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave her post by the end of August to spend more time with her family

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Sources: Forbes fired Chief Content Officer Randall Lane last month after finding he received ~$6M from R.J. Shook, founder of Forbes partner Shook Research

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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The US DOJ seizes nearly 400 domains for illegally streaming 2026 FIFA World Cup matches; last week, ACE, UEFA, and more shut down 44 domains linked to PirloTV

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Bloomberg:
Verizon and the UK's BT agree to create a joint venture for their international businesses with ~$4B in combined yearly revenue; Verizon will pay $625M to BT
Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post:
DeepSeek details DSpark, a speculative decoding framework for its V4 models, saying it speeds up AI inference by up to 85% and was tested on Gemma and Qwen
New York Times:
Google's Earthquake Alerts system reached 11.4M+ Android users ahead of Venezuela's June 24 earthquakes, providing seconds or up to two minutes of prior notice
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