Tech

Sources: the US considers housing the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve at Commerce instead of Treasury amid concerns over Treasury's legal authority to manage it (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-7 Real Estate Bitcoin

Zombie 'Who Owns Unix?' Lawsuit Comes Alive Again (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-7

Vietnam arrests suspects behind HiAnime anime piracy service (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-7 Vietnam

Secret Claude Tracker Shocks Users After Anthropic's Anti-Surveillance Stance (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-7-7

Microsoft Lays Off Nearly 5,000 Employees Across Xbox, Commercial Sales (games.slashdot.org)
2026-7-7 Microsoft Xbox

Xbox appoints Helen Chiang as its first COO; Chiang was previously corporate vice president for the Minecraft Franchise and the studio head of Minecraft (gamesbeat.com)
2026-7-7 Xbox

Source: Xbox Game Pass currently has about 30M subscriptions; document: Microsoft had projected Game Pass subscriptions would reach around 77M this year (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-7 Microsoft Xbox

A term sheet shows Tencent is seeking to raise as much as $1.55B in a selldown of part of its stake in short-video app operator Kuaishou through a block trade (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-7 Tencent

Nintendo Switch 2 Is Getting a Replaceable Battery in Europe (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-7 Europe Nintendo Battery

Tencent releases Hy3, a 295B-parameter model that it says is competitive with GLM-5.1 and 5.2, under the Apache 2.0 license, following a preview launch in April (venturebeat.com)
2026-7-7 Tencent

Americans of All Ages Are Spending Less Time Socializing (news.slashdot.org)
2026-7-7 U.S.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signs SB 315, a bill requiring annual third-party safety audits of leading AI companies; OpenAI and Anthropic backed the bill (www.cbsnews.com)
2026-7-7 AI

Source: Mercor hit over $2B in gross revenue run rate in June, double its pace in April, and is profitable on a free cash flow basis (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-7

New Costco Gold Star Members—Join for $65 and Receive a $50 Digital Costco Shop Card (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-7

Max severity Adobe ColdFusion flaw now exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-7 Adobe

Software Is Now Written at the Speed of Thought. Security Isn't. (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-7

Fines Doubled As Teens Outsmart Australia's Social Media Ban (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-7 Australia Ban Social Media

Nintendo plans to stop selling the original Switch, Lite, and OLED in Europe from mid-February 2027 and update the Switch 2 to comply with new EU battery rules (www.theverge.com)
2026-7-7 Europe Nintendo Battery

Filing: Strategy sold 3,588 bitcoin for ~$216M between June 29 and July 5 to replenish its USD reserve; its holdings have an $11.4B paper loss at current prices (www.theblock.co)
2026-7-7 Bitcoin

10 Wild Stories About America's Most Fascinating Founding Father (listverse.com)
2026-7-7 U.S.

10 Amazing Lost Films That Were Found Again (listverse.com)
2026-7-7

Memo: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says the unit will divest five studios, including Ninja Theory, alongside 3,200 job cuts, to streamline the business, in a “reset” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-6 Xbox

Memo: Microsoft is laying off ~4,800 employees, or ~2.1% of its workforce; most layoffs are in Xbox, where ~8% are being cut, rising to 15% in this fiscal year (www.theverge.com)
2026-7-6 Microsoft Layoffs Xbox

Reddit says its AI-powered content moderation systems caught 25K “spammy posts and comments” per day in Q1, reducing users exposure to such content by 20% YoY (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-6 AI Reddit

Broadcom agrees to expand its Apple partnership through 2031 to develop and supply custom chips; in 2023, the companies announced a multibillion-dollar deal (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-6 Apple

Anthropic signs a 20-year, $19B lease to use a TeraWulf data center in Kentucky, set to have a ~400MW capacity, with the first power delivery in H2 2027 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-7-6

AI agent training platform Bespoke Labs raised $40M across a seed led by 8VC and a Series A led by Wing, saying the funding gives it almost two years of runway (www.axios.com)
2026-7-6 AI

Filing: Brookfield-backed data center company Csquare seeks to raise up to $1.35B in an IPO, selling 50M shares at $23 to $27 each for an up to $4.18B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-6 IPO

Google Ordered to Pay $2 Billion For Anti-Competitive Practices By Swedish Court (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-6 Google Sweden

How Masayoshi Son is remaking SoftBank in his own image, betting on AI; SoftBank trades at a ~50% discount to its net asset value, as some question the strategy (www.ft.com)
2026-7-6 AI Asset

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