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Telegram's t.me Suspended Globally — Montenegro Registry Hits ServerHold, Durov Publicly Asks Why
Telegram's t.me shortlink domain suspended globally via serverHold by Montenegro .me registry; Durov asks for explanation on X.
2026 Fields Medal Winners Allegedly Leak from ICM Site Code — Two Peking University Alumni in Same Year
2026 Fields Medal winners allegedly leaked from ICM website source code; two Peking University alumni in same class.
X Puts Mutuals Back Into Reply Feed — Bier Admits That Signal Was Never in the Algo
X tweaks algorithm to boost mutual-follow replies in visibility; Nikita Bier admits mutual data was missing from ranking.
EU drafts under-13 social media ban for September — largest child limit to date, and Meta's second regulatory hit in a week
EU drafting September bill banning under-13 social media, 13-18 restricted to platforms with safety features — the largest child limitation to date if passed.
xAI kills Grok CLI's silent codebase upload from the server side — no client patch, no notice, no data revocation
Less than 24 hours after a researcher found Grok Build CLI silently uploads entire codebases and key files, xAI killed it server-side.
Durov grilled 6+ hours in Paris — fourth interrogation, 22 months in, defence says still no evidence
Durov faced his fourth Paris interrogation for over 6 hours on July 8; 22 months into the Telegram case, defence says no evidence has surfaced.
TypeScript 7.0 Ships in Go: VSCode Full Build Falls From 125s to 10s
Microsoft ships TypeScript 7.0 with tsc rewritten in Go; VSCode full build drops from 125.7s to 10.6s, an 11.9x speedup.
A Game About Pirates, Pirated — Black Flag Resynced Leaked Two Days Before Launch
Ubisoft's Black Flag Resynced ships today, but a fully playable pirated build has been circulating since July 7 after DenuvOwO bypassed Denuvo.
Plug In a Monitor, Get a McAfee Ad — Windows Silently Sideloads LG and Alienware Apps
Plugging in an LG or Alienware monitor silently installs a Windows Store app that pops up McAfee antivirus ads on boot.
Windows 11's Privacy Log File Ate 513 GB of One Reddit User's C: Drive — Microsoft Sat on the Bug for Four Months
Microsoft admitted on June 29 that Windows 11's privacy log file CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal has ballooned since February — one Reddit user lost 513 GB to a single file. KB5095093 patches it.
Claude Sonnet 5 Fumbles Week One — Near-Opus Benchmarks, But It's Accusing Users of Fraud and Telling Them to Sleep
Anthropic's new Claude Sonnet 5 scores near Opus on benchmarks — but one week of Reddit and Neowin complaints call it out for refusing commands, accusing users of fraud, telling them to sleep, and leaking system prompts.
White House Deletes ~6,000 Energy-Saving Pages Mid-Heatwave — NYC Mayor's 78°F AC Plea Called "Socialism"
As a heat dome batters the US East, the DOE quietly pulls about 6,000 energy-conservation pages; NYC mayor Mamdani's 78°F thermostat plea drew "socialism" attacks — same guidance the DOE itself had published for years.
iPhone 18 Pro US units keep Qualcomm X80 — Apple's C2 modem ships everywhere else, stuck on mmWave
A 630GB leak from Tata Electronics shows iPhone 18 Pro will ship two logic boards: US units keep Qualcomm's Snapdragon X80; the rest of the world moves to Apple's in-house C2 modem — because C2 doesn't do mmWave.
Google's new hand-gesture reCAPTCHA — 21 keypoints, defeated by a stock photo
Google launched a hand-gesture reCAPTCHA on June 19, using 21 MediaPipe hand keypoints for liveness. Neowin bypassed it on first try by holding a stock photo of a hand in front of the camera.