Wednesday, July 16, 2025

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Intel swings the axe again as it looks to lose 5,000 staff

Iain Thomson / theregister - Our sources tell us mostly back office staff were let go, and that the mood in the office is very pessimistic Intel has filed documents that reveal plans to fire around 5,000 staff, mostly in California and Oregon.…

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Steam's Wildly Unclear New Rules On 'Adult Content' Have Already Seen Hundreds Of Games Delisted

John Walker / kotaku - If you’re a regular user of Steam, you’ll know that Valve’s industry-dominating PC games store is absolutely buried in adult-themed games. Sex stuff. Porn. So much of it. Scrolling the new release lists reveals the astonishing number of both crap and qual…

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Foldable iPhone's Thickness and Price Range Detailed in New Reports

Joe Rossignol / macrumors - Apple's long-rumored foldable iPhone will likely have a starting price between $1,800 and $2,000 in the U.S., analysts at investment banking firm UBS said this week. If so, the foldable iPhone would cost more than a MacBook Pro, which starts at $1,599.Wit…

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The final season of Stranger Things now has an action-packed trailer

Lawrence Bonk / engadget - It's time to break out that 1980s playlist. The last season of the Netflix hit Stranger Things finally has a trailer. It's been nearly a decade since the show premiered and it looks like it's going out with a bang. This trailer is absolutely packed with a…

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AWS debuts Bedrock AgentCore to move AI agents from pilot to production

Chad Wilson / siliconangle - Amazon Web Services Inc. is accelerating the shift from artificial intelligence pilots to production with the launch of AWS Bedrock AgentCore, a new runtime built to deploy AI agents at scale with memory, orchestration and enterprise-grade security. As en…

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Pixel 10 Event Confirmed for August—Google Jumps Ahead of iPhone 17

John Quintet / iphoneincanada - Google has sent out invites to the media for its Made by Google event, set for August 20, 2025. The invite says the in-person event will “introduce the latest additions to our Pixel portfolio of devices,” with the keynote set for 10am PDT/1pm EDT. So far,…

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Google Search Deploys AI Calling Agent, Upgrades AI Mode with Gemini 2.5 Pro and Deep Search

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Google rolls out an AI agent to call businesses and enhances its Search AI Mode for subscribers with the powerful Gemini 2.5 Pro model and Deep Search.The post Google Search Deploys AI Calling Agent, Upgrades AI Mode with Gemini 2.5 Pro and Deep Search ap…

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Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.3 Notes: New Auto-Driving Cars, Improved Photo Mode, And More

Darryn Bonthuys / gamespot - CD Projekt Red has lifted the lid on Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.3, revealing several of the big features coming to its open-world game. In a livestream featuring Cyberpunk 2 associate game director Paweł Sasko and several other members of the team, the studi…

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Donkey Kong Bananza is a worthy successor to Super Mario Odyssey’s legacy

Kyle Orland / arstechnica - Cathartic, punch-fueled land destruction is a great showcase for Switch 2 hardware.

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SonicWall SMA devices hacked with OVERSTEP rootkit tied to ransomware

Ionut Ilascu / bleepingcomputer - A threat actor has been deploying a previously unseen malware called OVERSTEP that modifies the boot process of fully-patched but no longer supported SonicWall Secure Mobile Access appliances. [...]

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Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition Launches on Mac on July 17

Steve Vegvari / iphoneincanada - Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition is making its way to macOS this week, available on Apple's M-series devices.The post Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition Launches on Mac on July 17 first appeared on iPhone in Canada.

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Razer unveils Core X V2 eGPU enclosure with TB5 bandwidth — costs $400, but no longer has a power supply and I/O expansion requires a separate Thunderbolt 5 Dock

tomshardware - Razer’s new Core X V2 eGPU supports quad-slot cards, 140W charging, and Thunderbolt 5 bandwidth—but drops I/O, PSU, and macOS support. The matching Dock fills the gaps, but at $390, the full setup gets expensive. It’s modular, sleek, but not quite the upg…

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All 15 New iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro Colors Revealed in Latest Leak

Joe Rossignol / macrumors - We may finally have a definitive list of all color options for the iPhone 17 series, ahead of the devices launching in September.A few of the alleged iPhone 17 Pro color options (MacRumors concept)In a report for Macworld today, Filipe Espósito said he ob…

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wants to sell more advanced chips to China after H20 ban is lifted

cnbc - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang visited Beijing after the U.S. allowed its H20 chip to be sold in China.

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Nintendo reveals cast and release date for live-action Legend of Zelda movie

José Adorno / bgr - Following the announcement of the live-action “The Legend of Zelda” movie a couple of years ago, Nintendo producer Shigeru Miyamoto took to the company’s social …The post Nintendo reveals cast and release date for live-action Legend of Zelda movie appeare…

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Grok 4 benchmark results: Tops math, ranks second in coding

Mayank Parmar / bleepingcomputer - Grok 4 is a huge leap from Grok 3, but how good is it compared to other models in the market, such as Gemini 2.5 Pro? We now have answers, thanks to new independent benchmarks. [...]

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Chinese-made iPhones could be banned in US over theft of trade secrets

appleinsider - US regulator ITC is recommending that BOE smartphone displays, such as those in some iPhones, should be banned, following a preliminary ruling in Samsung's case against its rival.BOE makes displays for the iPhone 16eBack in 2023, both Samsung Display and …

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