Tuesday, June 24, 2025

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Google donates the Agent2Agent Protocol to the Linux Foundation

Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - Google LLC’s cloud unit has donated the Agent2Agent Protocol, a technology that facilitates interactions between artificial intelligence agents, to the Linux Foundation. The search giant announced the move on Monday at the Open Source Summit North America…

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Netflix gaming continues to crash and burn with 20 games on the chopping block

Craig Donaldson / pocket-lint - 20 games are leaving Netflix soon, another sign that the streaming giant's gaming efforts are faltering.

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Nomad debuts MagSafe-compatible Leather Mag Wallet with Apple Find My tracking built right in

Anthony Bouchard / idownloadblog - Nomad have launched an all-new MagSafe-compatible Leather Mag Wallet that features built-in Find My tracking capabilities.

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Apple Wallet notifications for an F1 movie promotion ticked off iPhone owners

Cameron Faulkner / theverge - Apple poured some good money into making F1 – a Formula 1 racing movie starring Brad Pitt – and it wants its customers to know that. To that end, many people, including some Verge staffers, noticed an unusual Apple Wallet notification this morning that’s …

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Key fair use ruling clarifies when books can be used for AI training

Ashley Belanger / arstechnica - In landmark ruling, judge likens AI training to schoolchildren learning to write.

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Philips Hue says US prices will go up in July because of tariffs

Will Shanklin / engadget - When Philips Hue’s US prices go up next month, you can officially know who to blame. (Hint: It rhymes with "rump.") Parent company Signify told Hueblog (via The Verge) that its price increases are "a direct result of tariffs." See how easy that was, Amazo…

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iPhone Users Upset About Apple Promoting F1 Movie With Wallet App Notification

Joe Rossignol / macrumors - Apple today sent out an ad to some iPhone users in the form of a Wallet app push notification, and not everyone is happy about it.An unknown number of iPhone users in the U.S. today received the push notification, which promotes a limited-time Apple Pay d…

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Google finally lets Android users put Chrome’s address bar on the bottom

Jay Peters / theverge - Google is starting to roll out a feature for Chrome on Android that lets users move the address bar to the bottom of the screen. It’s something that iOS Chrome users have been able to do since 2023, and it could help make the address bar more easily acces…

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Jurassic World Evolution 3 Devs Remove AI-Generated Art After Fans Yell At Them A Lot

Zack Zwiezen / kotaku - When Jurassic World Evolution 3 was announced earlier this month, many fans were disappointed to learn that Frontier Developments was planning to include AI-generated artwork in the park sim. Now, after some “feedback” from fans, the studio is backing dow…

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Microsoft extends free Windows 10 security updates into 2026, with strings attached

Andrew Cunningham / arstechnica - End-of-support date isn’t changing, but extra year will be functionally free.

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Nvidia launches $249 RTX 5050, putting Blackwell within reach of more gamers — entry-level 50-series arrives in late July

tomshardware - Nvidia finally unveils the RTX 5050, sporting 2,560 Blackwell CUDA cores, 8GB of GDDR6, and a 130W TGP. The new GPU represents Nvidia's first new xx50-class desktop card since the RTX 3050

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Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not

Jason Koebler / 404media - A judge rules that Anthropic's training on copyrighted works without authors' permission was a legal fair use, but that stealing the books in the first place is illegal.

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Amazon to spend over $4B to expand Prime delivery to rural communities in the US

Lauren Forristal / techcrunch - Amazon expands its Same-Day and Next-Day delivery services to 4K small cities and towns in the U.S.

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Google rolls out new Gemini model that can run on robots locally

Ivan Mehta / techcrunch - Google DeepMind has released a new language model called Gemini Robotics On-Device that can run tasks locally on robots without an internet connection.

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Microsoft planning ‘major’ Xbox layoffs next week

Tom Warren / theverge - Microsoft is planning to cut jobs in the company’s Xbox gaming business, as early as next week. I first reported in Notepad earlier this month that Microsoft was planning Xbox layoffs “potentially by the end of the month,” and now Bloomberg says a round o…

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The Meta Quest 3S Xbox Edition is out now and it costs $400

Kris Holt / engadget - The limited-edition, Xbox-branded Meta Quest 3S headset has arrived. Reports over the weekend suggested that this model, which Meta announced a little over a year ago, would become available on June 24 and that turned out to be the case. This version of t…

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The Morning After: Samsung’s big foldable Unpacked event takes place on July 9

Mat Smith / engadget - The third Unpacked of 2025 (following installments in January and May) will be on July 9 at 10AM ET, kicking off in Brooklyn, New York. The company usually debuts its latest foldables in the summer, so we’re expecting to see the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Flip 7…

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iOS 26 Beta 2 Makes Changes to Liquid Glass Control Center Amidst Complaints

Steve Vegvari / iphoneincanada - Apple's iOS 26 Liquid Glass UI is now more opaque when using Control Center, thanks to the second software beta.The post iOS 26 Beta 2 Makes Changes to Liquid Glass Control Center Amidst Complaints first appeared on iPhone in Canada.

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Google Earth celebrates 20th birthday with new features

Dean Daley / mobilesyrup - Google is celebrating Google Earth’s 20th birthday with some new features. One of the new features is the addition of Street View imagery to Google Earth. This allows users to explore the planet from more viewpoints, such as a bird’s-eye view or street vi…

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Waymo and Uber launch robotaxi service in Atlanta

Sarah Fielding / engadget - Uber and Waymo's robotaxi services are officially available in Atlanta. Now, Uber users who request an UberX, Comfort or Comfort Electric could have Waymo's all-electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicle pull up for the same cost. Notably, customers will receive a no…

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US bans WhatsApp from House of Representatives staff devices

Ram Iyer, Ivan Mehta / techcrunch - The U.S. government has banned WhatsApp from devices used by U.S. House of Representatives staff, saying the app poses potential security risks.

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