Tech

• US gives local police a face-scanning app similar to one used by ICE agents – Ars Technica
• FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site
• YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
• Two Windows vulnerabilities, one a 0-day, are under active exploitation – Ars Technica
• Elon Musk wins Tesla pay vote that could make him a $1 trillion man – Ars Technica
• iOS 26.1 and iPadOS 26.1 bring multiple critical security fixes – 9to5Mac
• iOS 26.2 to Allow Third-Party App Stores in Japan Ahead of Regulatory Deadline – MacRumors
• Ayaneo’s first smartphone could have physical shoulder buttons

Gaming

• Nintendo Store App Launches on iPhone With a Feature Fans Will Love – MacRumors
• YouTuber Who Trolled Nintendo Now Owes $17,500 In Switch Piracy Lawsuit
•  US patent office director orders re-examination of Nintendo’s patent on summoning characters to make them battle
• SouljaBoy’s New Game Console Is A Rebranded Retroid Being Sold “Without Permission” – GameSpot
• You can now stream PS5 games you own over the cloud on the PlayStation Portal
• Rockstar Games accused of union busting in the UK
  • GTA 6 Dev Says It Fired Workers For Leaking Secrets, Not For Trying To Unionize – GameSpot
• GTA 6 Delayed To November 2026, Take-Two Stock Tanks – GameSpot
• Square Enix Wants GenAI To Automate 70% Of Game QA By 2027 – GameSpot
• Square Enix announces more layoffs as part of US and Europe restructuring | VGC
• Majority Of Devs Say Steam Has Monopoly On PC Gaming In New Poll – GameSpot

Hardware/Software Updates

• Apple Releases iOS 26.1 With Liquid Glass Toggle, Slide to Stop Alarm, New Apple Intelligence Languages and More – MacRumors
• iOS 18.7.2 now available for iPhone, here’s what’s new – 9to5Mac
• Apple Releases iPadOS 26.1 With Slide Over Multitasking – MacRumors
• Apple Releases macOS Tahoe 26.1 With New Liquid Glass Setting and More – MacRumors

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Tech

• SAG-AFTRA deal will let advertisers replicate actors’ voices with AI
• Google’s Pixel 9 series has arrived with a new Pro model size – The Verge
• Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP, hire lawyers to “clean up the mess” – The Verge
• US DOJ might ask for breakup of Google, like spinning off Android and/or Chrome
• 5th Circuit rules geofence warrants illegal in win for phone users’ privacy | Ars Technica
• US Homeland Security will reportedly collect face scans of migrant kids
• Disney wants to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit because of a Disney Plus agreement – The Verge
• Sonos lays off 100 employees as its app crisis continues – The Verge
• Ex-Twitter staffer wins $600K over Musk’s click-yes-or-resign ultimatum | Ars Technica
• UAW files labor charges against Elon Musk and Donald Trump for alleged union-busting talk – The Verge
• Texas judge who owns Tesla stock recuses himself from X’s advertiser lawsuit – The Verge
• Now it’s Democrats who want the House to investigate X for political censorship
• Flipboard is going to let you follow fediverse accounts right inside the app – The Verge
• Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by honking at each other | Ars Technica
• Microsoft secretly updated Windows Security to fix an important issue | PCWorld
• Microsoft is enabling BitLocker device encryption by default on Windows 11 – The Verge
• Massive data leak may include the personal data of every person in the US, UK, and Canada
• Report: Google Pixel phones sold with hidden surveillance software – The Verge
• High-end racing bikes are now vulnerable to hacking – The Verge
• Apple is finally going to open up iPhone tap-to-pay – The Verge
• Realme’s 320W fast charging can fully charge a smartphone in four and a half minutes – The Verge
• T-Mobile fined $60M for data breaches, the largest fine of its type – 9to5Mac
• Kim Dotcom is being Megauploaded to the US for trial – The Verge

Gaming

• Black Myth: Wukong PC Benchmark Tool Released–Can You Run It? – GameSpot
• Doom 3 VR Developer Archiact Is Shutting Down
• Valve confirms it’ll support the ROG Ally with its Steam Deck operating system – The Verge
• Microsoft is making its Windows Game Bar more handheld-friendly – The Verge
• PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for August: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Wild Hearts, Cult of the Lamb and more
• Activision is finally doing something about Call of Duty’s giant downloads – The Verge
• Civilization 7 Won’t Require 2K Launcher On PC – GameSpot

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• The ROG Ally is $200 off at Best Buy right now

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Soniya Jobanputra, the director of product management at Google, told Android Authority,

Parts will be available for seven years. That’s part of our commitment as we go to the seven years (sic) that we need to make our parts available so you can keep your hardware alive for that long.

A right-to-repair bill in California will require companies to do this once it becomes law, so it’s good to se Google get ahead of the game with the Pixel 8.

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