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Date: 2026-06-29
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Leaked iPhone 18 Pro photos reportedly wound up on the dark web

Leaked iPhone 18 Pro photos and parts lists appeared on the dark web following a data breach affecting one of Apple’s key suppliers, according to a report from Reuters . The leaked images show a drop test of what a source tells Reuters is the iPhone 18 Pro, equipped with a three-camera layout and Apple logo.

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T-Mobile is booting customers from its oldest plans

We’re retiring our oldest plans, some of which were built nearly 15 years ago – in the 3G and 4G eras, and well before our 5G network was fully deployed. Customers will transition to modern plans that provide access to America’s best wireless technology, enhanced features and a 5-year price guarantee for peace of mind.

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Sony’s next-gen PlayStation will go ‘beyond the living room’

Q: Considering consumer behavior, could you update us on your current thinking regarding hardware pricing and profitability? For the next-generation platform, is it reasonable to assume that your pricing will continue to prioritize profitability of the hardware, as it does today?

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Tidal won’t pay royalties on AI-generated music but isn’t banning it outright

Tidal shared its new policies regarding AI-generated music today and how the platform plans to “protect artists” and “inform listeners.” Instead of banning it outright, starting on July 15th Tidal will label tracks it has identified as being 100 percent AI-generated with an icon. But starting today those tracks will no longer be monetizable.

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South Korean tech giants commit over $550B to ease 'RAMageddon'

The world’s two largest memory chip companies plan to invest $518 billion (~800 trillion won) to build four new memory fabs in southwestern South Korea, a region that has historically attracted little semiconductor investment. The announcement is part of the country’s sweeping national investment plan spanning semiconductors, AI data centers, and physical…

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OpenAI is teasing new hardware… for Codex

OpenAI is releasing some sort of device related to its AI-powered coding tool, Codex, on July 15th. In a video posted to X on Monday, OpenAI shows a square-shaped device with several buttons, alongside the caption, “Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade.” This isn’t the mysterious AI-powered device OpenAI is working on with former Apple…

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Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a $100M business

Just eight months after launching its commercial service, AI leaderboard provider Arena , which originated as a research project at UC Berkeley in 2023, has reached $100 million in annualized run-rate revenue. Arena is best known for its popular crowdsourced AI model performance leaderboard, generated from over 10 million user evaluations.

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DiScoFormer: One transformer for density and score, across distributions

DiScoFormer: One transformer for density and score, across distributions 📄 Tech report: arxiv.org/abs/2511.05924 Many problems in machine learning and the sciences come down to the same task: you have a collection of data points and want to recover the distribution they came from—which values are common, and which are rare. Pinning down that distribution…

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At $499, Apple’s M3-powered iPad Air is a good deal

Most of Apple’s price increases have gone into effect, resulting in iPads and other products costing hundreds more than they did a few days ago. If last week’s Prime Day sale wasn’t a good time to consider buying an iPad, we found a deal worth considering that’s just under $500 right now.

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China’s Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurity

China’s Zhipu AI ( Z.ai ) released its open-weight GLM-5.2, and some researchers have claimed that it matches Mythos in certain bug-finding and cybersecurity scenarios. While GLM lags behind models from Anthropic and OpenAI in other, more general tasks, it seems that China has dramatically reduced the gap in the capabilities between its models and those of…

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Prosecutors used ChatGPT logs as evidence in the Palisades fire trial

Jonathan Rinderknecht was facing arson charges for setting a fire on New Year’s Day in 2025, which became one of the deadliest wildfires in LA history . To make their case, prosecutors turned to location data from his iPhone, security camera footage, and witness testimony.

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TIDAL cracks down on AI music by cutting off monetization

Music streaming service TIDAL is the latest to take aim at AI-generated music with the introduction of a new policy that will prevent fully AI-generated music from making money on its platform. In addition, TIDAL will use automated tools to remove AI-generated music that attempts to impersonate an artist or a group, the company said.

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Dbrand cancels Companion Cube because it didn’t actually ask Valve for permission

Dbrand announced Monday that it’s refunding everyone who bought its Steam Machine Companion Cube, which it said it made “without a license from Valve.” Dbrand announced the Portal -themed Steam Machine accessory in November and took preorders for it last Monday . But a few days later, the product had disappeared from the company’s website and the teaser…

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Lawmakers want to ban AI companies from selling your health data

A new proposal would ban the sale of Americans’ health and location information to data brokers — including information people reveal to an AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude. In the coming weeks, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) are planning to debut a new version of the Health and Location Data Protection Act…

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WhatsApp is launching usernames: here’s how to reserve yours

WhatsApp is introducing a new way to add and chat with contacts, without having to share your phone number. Usernames will launch “later this year,” in a move to make the communications platform “even more private,” allowing you to keep your phone number concealed from people who aren’t already in your contacts.

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The best July 4th sales we found so far

July 4th sales are typically a precursor to what we’d see during a mid-July Prime Day, but obviously things are flipped around this year. Last week’s big Prime Day sale is over, yet there are a number of familiar deals still poking around in the week leading up to the nation’s birthday.

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These camera-free smart glasses made me feel like Tony Stark

Xgimi, the Chinese company known for its all-in-one smart projectors , is expanding its portfolio with a new line of screen-equipped smart glasses that first debuted at CES 2026. Unlike AR glasses from companies like Meta and Snap , Xgimi’s new privacy-focused MemoMind One skip cameras for a lighter and more discreet design that helps hide their AI-powered…

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He changed outdoor cooking forever - then took over Weber

It’s time for our annual Fourth of July grill episode here at Decoder . This is when we invite the CEOs of outdoor cooking companies onto the show to explain just how their businesses kind of look like every other business.

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