📱 App: Beeper Relaunch Unifies Chats with On-Device AI
Beeper relaunch squeezes 18 networks into one inbox, adds offline-fast on-device AI search, and Pro-level scheduled sends—privacy intact, notification chaos tamed.
🤖 AI: Lightchain AI Mainnet Debuts—Decentralized Model Market Ignites
Lightchain AI mainnet flipped on at dawn; devs now rent and remix models with wallet clicks while GPU miners earn tokens. Fees stay pennies, and the cloud suddenly feels quaint.
Valve pushed a Day-Zero update for Steam Deck 2 that toggles its 7.4″ OLED to 90 Hz refresh and adds system-level FSR 3 with frame-gen, giving Baldur’s Gate IV an extra 45 FPS in handheld mode.
Adobe rolled out Behance Pulse—an explore tab that learns your color, type, and motion preferences, then serves daily project reels complete with one-click asset downloads and palette codes.
🔧 Hardware: AMD Unveils EPYC “Turin-X” with 1 GB 3D V-Cache Per Socket
At its Taipei Tech Day, AMD showed off EPYC Turin-X chips stacking one gigabyte of 3D V-Cache onto 192 Zen 5c cores, claiming 2× analytics throughput versus Genoa-X at the same 400 W TDP.
🖥️ Server: Azure “Phantom” Tier Unveiled—128 vCPU Arm VMs with PCIe 6.0
Microsoft introduced Azure Phantom VMs boasting 128 Neoverse-V3 cores, 2 TB DDR5, and PCIe 6.0 fabric—tailored for real-time GenAI inference while sipping 25 % less power than x86 peers.
📱 App: Apple Wallet Beta Lets You Split Bills with Tap-to-Pay Friends
iOS 19’s latest developer beta adds “Tap-to-Split”—bump two iPhones and Apple Wallet auto-divides the charge, sends Pay Later options, and logs shared receipts in both users’ ledgers.
🤖 AI: Claude 5 “Trust Layer” Goes Live with Real-Time Policy Checks
Anthropic flipped the switch on Claude 5’s new Trust Layer today, injecting real-time red-teaming and copyright filtering directly into the model’s inference pipeline. Enterprises can now dial risk tolerances on a slider and watch blocked content audit logs in seconds.
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🎮 Gaming: Donkey Kong Bananza Swings Exclusively to Switch 2 on July 17
Developed by the Super Mario Odyssey team, the voxel-infused platform-buster migrated mid-dev to harness Switch 2’s beefier hardware—promising destructible environments and classic barrel-bash fun next week.
Microsoft’s June 2025 VS Code build (released July 9) keeps devs buzzing today with an open-sourced Copilot Chat extension, middle-click scrolling, and first-class MCP server management baked right into the IDE.