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152025-07

📱 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.

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🤖 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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132025-07

🎮 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.

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💻 Development: VS Code 1.102 Ships—Opens Copilot Chat Source & Adds MCP Servers

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.

📱 App: BAY Miner App Lets Any Phone Mine Bitcoin—No Rig, No Fuss

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.

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🤖 AI: OpenAI Pauses Open-Source Model While Musk’s Grok 4 Bags $5 B Funding

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.

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112025-07

🎮 Gaming: Rockstar Drops First Red Dead Redemption 3 Teaser—Frontier of Texas

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.

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🎨 Graphic Design: Illustrator 2025.2 Introduces Generative 3-D Logo Builder

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.

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