Major Launches and Announcements (July 23–24) (No other major global phone launches were reported in this two-day span, as most big brands’ summer launches – such as Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 7/Flip 7 reveal – occurred earlier in July. However, the new devices above underscore the week’s theme of long battery life and specialized designs.) Software Updates…
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Python 3.14 RC1 introduces an opt-in no-GIL build and an experimental JIT compiler, plus a smarter Windows installer, with single-thread performance in free-threaded mode about 5–10% slower. Java JDK 25 enters Rampdown Phase Two with no new JEPs ahead of its September release. Spring Framework 7.0 reaches its 7th milestone, aligning with JDK 21+ and…
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Storm-2603, a China-linked cyber-espionage group, exploited a zero-day in Microsoft SharePoint Server (Toolshell) and by July 23 had breached at least 400 organizations, including DHS, DOE’s NNSA, the Department of Education, and NIH, with some hacked servers later seeded with LockBit and Warlock ransomware. The FBI, CISA, HHS, and MS-ISAC issued a joint alert about…
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched NASA’s TRACERS mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base on July 23 at 2:13 p.m. EDT. The Falcon 9 first stage was on its 16th flight and performed a pinpoint landing at Vandenberg, marking SpaceX’s 479th booster recovery. TRACERS, Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, consists of two 200-kg satellites to…
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Google released a 13-second teaser of the Pixel 10 Pro ahead of its August 21 launch, showing a “10” morphing into a camera bar and revealing a new third rear telephoto lens with a gray-blue finish. A federal appeals court rejected a class-action claim against Apple over iCloud storage, ruling users received exactly 200GB when…
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On July 23, 2025, President Donald Trump unveiled the U.S. AI Action Plan to pursue “global dominance” by promoting open-source AI models worldwide and slashing regulatory barriers to innovation. The plan includes tracking advanced AI chips to prevent exports to “countries of concern” such as China and links export controls to national security. OpenAI and…
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On July 23, 2025, President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with Japan that cut auto import tariffs to 15% from 25% and includes a $500 billion Japanese investment package. U.S. stocks surged to intraday records as the S&P 500 reached about 6,353, the Dow hit 44,958, the Nasdaq rose 0.5%, and the VIX fell…
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Nvidia (NVDA) became the world’s most valuable semiconductor firm and rose about 4% after the U.S. reversed the export ban on advanced AI chips to China, with Nvidia applying for licenses to resume selling its H20 GPUs and noting the April ban could cost up to $15 billion in revenue. The Nvidia H20 GPU is…
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ChatGPT launched in late 2022 and quickly gained hundreds of millions of users, while Google released Gemini (then Bard) in 2023 as its competing AI assistant. ChatGPT runs on the GPT-4 model and is renowned for strong text reasoning and coding, whereas Gemini is natively multimodal (text, images, audio, video) and can use live Google…
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Google and OpenAI won gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad by solving 5 of 6 problems with new general-purpose reasoning based on natural language understanding. OpenAI disclosed its experimental model scaled up test-time compute to think longer and in parallel, a very expensive undertaking. Google DeepMind’s Gemini Deep Think, unveiled in May, solved IMO…
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