Smartkarma’s July 13 hardware roundup puts TSMC at #1, forecasting 5-10 % Q3 revenue growth and confirming N3P nodes are queued for volume production to meet the AI chip surge.

Redmond released an emergency OOB update (Windows 11 Build 26100.4656) addressing Secure Boot certificate expiry and bundling critical fixes beyond July 8’s Patch Tuesday—sysadmins should patch ASAP.

Miami startup BAY Miner rolled out a cloud-mining app that turns ordinary smartphones into AI-optimized BTC miners, settling rewards daily and running on renewable energy—making entry-level crypto earning literally pocket-sized.

Sam Altman slammed the brakes on OpenAI’s first fully open-weight model for an extra safety audit, even as China’s Moonshot AI dropped a trillion-parameter rival. Meanwhile, Elon Musk livestreamed Grok 4’s launch and revealed SpaceX will pour $2 B into xAI—valuing the merged X/xAI colossus at $113 B.

A 50-second clip shows a post-Civil-War Galveston battered by hurricanes and rail tycoons, confirming a 2027 launch window for Red Dead Redemption 3 on PS6, Xbox Next, and PC.

Adobe’s mid-cycle Illustrator update adds a “3-D Logo” panel that spins text and shapes into fully lit, depth-mapped marks you can tweak in real time—exportable straight to After Effects.

NVIDIA’s Jetson Orion dev kit crams a Blackwell-Nano GPU, a 12-core Arm Cortex-X925 cluster, and a 60 TOPS sparse-friendly NPU into a credit-card form factor—aimed at autonomous drones and smart-factory bots.

Cloudflare EdgeGPU lets customers deploy Triton containers on A100-comparable cards sited fewer than 50 ms from 90 % of the planet, slashing inference latency for chatbots, vision, and custom search.

Telegram’s July 11 beta (build 11.0) introduces Live-Translate voice calls supporting 30 languages plus auto-summaries that condense group note threads into bite-size briefs—perfect for catching up after a long flight.

Gemini Pro 2 lands with a new 40-B-parameter speech front-end that performs on-device voice transcription, instant agentic reasoning, and cross-app task automation―all inside Pixel 9’s TPU-lite. Privacy hawks cheer: your words never leave the handset.