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Australia announced sweeping AI regulations requiring firms to generate more energy than they consume and stop content theft, likening the rules to landmark labor achievements. Google and Epic withdrew their joint motion, forcing Google to allow third-party app stores in Google Play from July 22 for a $5,000 annual fee. A critical Tailscale vulnerability allowed root access via a dash-prefixed SSH username; fixed in version 1.98.9. The Army spent $469M on a Texas ammo factory using converted old machines, yet it has produced zero shells in two years. Data centers have driven $23B in electricity price hikes through 2028, with complex utility pricing shifting costs to ratepayers. The UAE secured expanded US AI chip access after aiding Iran-related operations, allowing its firm G42 to buy freely for nine months.
TerraFirma, a construction tech startup founded by former SpaceX engineers, raised $115M for remotely operated equipment. Uber is in advanced talks to acquire Delivery Hero for over €11.2B. Google Images launched a Pinterest-like redesign with AI image creation in Search. Switch hired banks for a US IPO that could raise up to $10B, valuing it at $80B. IBM shares plunged over 20% after Q2 revenue missed estimates at $17.2B. New York Governor Hochul signed a one-year moratorium on hyperscale data centers over 50MW. OpenAI partnered with Kalshi to show World Cup predictions in ChatGPT.
Lidl warned customers in Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands that a third-party security failure exposed names, emails, and potentially passwords and bank details, though no data misuse has been found. Lenovo denied using banned Chinese SSDs in restricted regions. Asha Sharma, appointed by Satya Nadella to lead Xbox, made sweeping job cuts and shed game studios. Meanwhile, FIFA’s official prediction-market partner ADI Predictstreet faced a troubled launch with tiny volumes and withdrawal bugs, leaving a promised World Cup ticket undelivered.
Hackers hijacked Argentina’s football federation email account to demand “justice” for Egypt over a controversial World Cup loss, escalating sports disputes into cyberattacks. Separately, security researchers exploited a critical SQL injection in Apple’s Book Travel portal to achieve remote code execution. Motorola MR2600 routers are also vulnerable to unauthenticated RCE via malicious firmware uploads, lacking cryptographic signing. Meanwhile, the AI boom is driving extreme boom-bust cycles in memory manufacturing, with warnings of a potential “RAMpocalypse” as demand strains supply.
Trump administration pressured Apple to use Intel’s fabs and pushed the chipmaker to expand domestic capacity. Irish datacenters now consume 23% of the country’s electricity, despite grid restrictions. Psychologist Peter Gray argues school stress and lack of unstructured play, not smartphones, are the primary drivers of the teen mental health crisis, challenging Jonathan Haidt. Activist investor Elliott took a large stake in CCC Intelligent Solutions, which is exploring a sale. Meanwhile, Chinese voice actor Shen Anyu struggles to prove his humanity as AI clones flood platforms, costing him income.
China dropped its urban jobs target for the first time since the 1990s in its five-year plan, citing AI-driven economic shifts. In tech, Scarf moved away from Haskell after seven years, blaming long compilation times as a bottleneck. A performance regression in Open MPI on Slingshot interconnects was traced to libcxi errors causing a fallback to TCP/IP, reducing bandwidth from 25 GB/s to 2.3 GB/s.