Industry
Bookshop.org Partners With Kobo to Give Indie Bookstores a Native E-Reader Channel
Bookshop.org partnered with Kobo to bring indie bookstore ebooks to Kobo devices natively. Amazon's DRM walls and retail stake mean Kindle won't follow.
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Industry
Microsoft Cuts 4,800 Jobs Today - Xbox Loses 20% of Staff and Four Studios
Microsoft cut 4,800 jobs today. Xbox loses 3,200 positions this fiscal year, with four studios sold or spun off and the sales division rebuilt around engineers.
Apps
WhatsApp Is Rolling Out a Green Dot on iPhone to Show When Contacts Are Online
WhatsApp iPhone beta is adding a green dot for active contacts. Clears when they close the app, and respects your existing online status privacy setting.
AI
TwelveLabs Raises $100M and Signs AWS Trainium Deal to Scale Video AI
TwelveLabs raised $100M Series B with Amazon signing on as preferred cloud partner - new models will optimize for AWS Trainium and launch there first.
AI
UN Convenes 193 Countries in Geneva for First Global AI Governance Dialogue
UN AI governance talks opened July 6 in Geneva. 193 countries. Big Tech CEOs. A scientist warning of catastrophic harm. No binding rules from this week.
Security
Best Free VPN for 2026: 5 Services That Don't Sell Your Data
Five free VPNs that protect your data instead of selling it - verified data caps, server counts, and the catches each provider won't mention.
AI
Amazon Mechanical Turk Closes to New Customers July 30 After 21 Years
Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk to new customers July 30. No new features planned. Existing users keep access to the 21-year-old crowdsourcing platform.
AI
Google's Declaration of Independence Ad Puts Gemini in 1776. Bluesky Calls It Tone Deaf.
Google's July 4 ad imagines the Founding Fathers drafting the Declaration in Workspace with Gemini's help. YouTube cheered. Bluesky called it tone deaf.
AI
Google Maps Is Testing a Gemini Feature That Places Your Dinner Order Before You Arrive
Google Maps is building a Gemini food ordering mode inside Ask Maps. An APK teardown found UI strings describing the feature. No launch date confirmed.
AI
Alibaba Bans Claude Code After Reverse Engineers Find User-Detection Code in April Release
Alibaba classified Claude Code as high-risk software and will ban it from July 10, after researchers found code that could identify Chinese users of the tool.
AI
LongCat-2.0: Meituan Open-Sources a 1.6T Coding Model Trained Entirely on Chinese Chips
LongCat-2.0 is a 1.6T open-source coding model from Meituan, trained on 50,000 domestic Chinese ASICs. MIT license, 1M context, SWE-bench Pro 59.5.
AI
GLM-5.2: 1M Tokens, MIT License, and Better Coding Scores Than GPT-5.5 at One-Sixth the Cost
GLM-5.2 is the best open-weight AI model on earth right now. MIT license, 1M-token context, and coding benchmarks that beat GPT-5.5 at one-sixth the cost.