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.
🛠️ Hardware: TSMC Outlook Tops Weekly Semiconductor Hotlist as N3P Ramps Up
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.
🗄️ Server: Microsoft Pushes Out-of-Band Patch KB5064489 for Windows 11 24H2
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.