A MacRumors roundup claims Apple will unleash an avalanche of gear later this year: ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air, M5-powered Macs, Apple Watch Ultra 3 with satellite texting, and more. If half of it lands, this fall could rival 2020’s “three-event” bonanza.

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The latest “A Week of Symfony” recap spotlights heavy pruning ahead of Symfony 8.0: deprecated helpers are gone, more classes are final, and fresh case studies (Audi France, Vente-unique) show the PHP framework flexing at scale.

Facing a looming divestiture deadline, ByteDance is coding a parallel TikTok build that will live on U.S. servers and roll out September 5. The existing app remains online until March, but insiders say the code split clears a path for a sale to an American investor consortium now in late-stage talks.

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Leaders of the BRICS bloc meeting in Rio de Janeiro backed tough new guardrails against unlicensed data-scraping by Big Tech and floated “equitable compensation” for creators whose work trains generative models. The draft communique frames AI governance as a sovereignty issue—and a bargaining chip in coming WTO copyright talks.

Sony kicked off its annual July Savings event slashing first-party blockbusters and indies alike—many PlayStation PS5 titles hitting historic lows under $25, live through July 15.

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Figma quietly filed its S-1 on July 5, revealing 46 % revenue growth and sharpening its AI roadmap—setting the stage for one of 2025’s biggest tech listings under ticker “FIG.”

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Shown at HPE Discover, Intel’s E610 network card slashes typical 10Gbase-T draw to sub-5 W while adding native 2.5 GbE lanes—ideal for edge boxes and silent workstations.

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Identity-management vendor Avatier published a July-5 DevOps guide showing how to bake regulatory checks into CI/CD pipelines—claiming 76 % fewer audit findings where the pattern is adopted.

Tesla’s July-5 app refresh lets riders drag a pin to fine-tune their pick-up spot and see real-time ETA estimates before they confirm the hail—one more step toward friction-free robo-rides.

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Washington is drafting new rules to block advanced GPUs from reaching assembly hubs in Malaysia and Thailand, aiming to stop a back-door flow of cutting-edge silicon into China. If signed, the restrictions could reshuffle global supply chains and push regional fabs to seek local alternatives.

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