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 Chinese ship spotted 'lurking' near Taiwan's subsea internet cables linking it to the US
As PC makers start using CXMT RAM chips, Apple is testing them too, but it needs a custom version for its devices, and US rules block Apple from sharing designs (Wall Street Journal)
 Gmail is killing off one of its best features —and now I can't use it as my favorite email hub
A profile of Russia's A7, a payment network that helps Russia bypass Western sanctions, handling ~20% of payments in Russian foreign trade, or $100B+ annually (Alexander Osipovich/Wall Street Journal)
 4 new 4K Blu-rays from July 2026 to add to your collection
Cloudflare debuts Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser for AI agents built on top of its Workers serverless service, available for free while in beta in Browser Run (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
 The AirPods Pro 3 haven't been this cheap since Prime Day — the 'near-perfect' buds are $60 off today
Google and data: hackers used phone calls, phishing websites, and "meticulous" tactics to target dozens of US PE firms and other businesses over the past month (Reuters)
 Chinese military reportedly uses American AI models to train its defense systems - tools from OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly among those affected
Hark, founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, previews Handoff, a computer use agent it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Opus 4.8, and plans for a summer release (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
 Disney+ brings 4K streaming back to European customers, but HDR is still on the to-do list
US satellite internet provider Hughesnet files for Chapter 11 after losing subscribers to Starlink and plans to focus on business and government customers (Michael Kan/PCMag)
 Palantir debuts 'war' data center in a container, full of Nvidia's B300 AI accelerators and open-weight models