😾 Meta joined the subscription era

Meta has launched paid Plus subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp starting at $3 per month.

How Meta Plus works — and what users actually get for the money:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/meta-plus-subscriptions-launch

🤐 People are googling less Google

DuckDuckGo installs jumped → after Google rolled out its AI-heavy search update.

In the U.S., downloads of the privacy-focused search app grew by as much as 30% over the past week.

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🤔 Durov on freedom

Telegram founder Pavel Durov spoke at the Oslo Freedom Forum about censorship, mass surveillance, VPN bans, age verification, and what he sees as growing pressure on personal freedoms around the world.

Durov also explained why attempts to block platforms often fail and why forcing teenagers onto VPNs can have unintended consequences.

The key takeaways from his speech:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/pavel-durov-oslo-freedom-forum-speech

😏 Back to Gram

Pavel Durov has confirmed that TON's native cryptocurrency will be renamed from Toncoin back to Gram, its original name from the early days of the project.

What happens next:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/ton-toncoin-renamed-gram

🤐 Not very GoPro of them

GoPro, the company that helped popularize action cameras, has warned → that it may not be able to continue operating over the next year.

The company is now exploring strategic options, including attracting investors, a sale, or a merger.

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❤️ Love in the blockchain era

TON Dating is offering free Premium subscriptions to Toncoin holders as part of the token's transition to Gram.

How many "grams" you need to hold to unlock free dating:

📌 https://durovscode.com/ton-users-free-premium-ton-dating

🍏 Preparing for the fold

Apple is reportedly working on → a feature that will automatically adapt iPhone apps for larger displays.

The move is likely tied to the company's upcoming foldable iPhone.

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🛸 Meet Scout

Microsoft has launched Scout, an agentic AI assistant for Microsoft 365.

What makes it different — and how it works:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/microsoft-launches-scout-ai-agent-365

🤗 TikTok needs chips too

Qualcomm has signed a deal → to supply millions of AI chips to ByteDance, the Chinese company behind TikTok.

The agreement makes ByteDance the first publicly named major customer for Qualcomm's AI data center chips.

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🦴 Your move, publishers

Google has introduced a new setting → that lets publishers decide whether their websites can appear in and be used by AI-powered Search features.

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💻 Cloud not required

Google has released Gemma 4 12B, an open multimodal AI model that can run → locally on a regular laptop with 16 GB of memory.

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😎 Apple picked its favorites

Apple has announced the winners of the 2026 Apple Design Awards, selecting 12 apps and games from a shortlist of 36 finalists.

Who made the list this year:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/apple-design-awards-2026-winners

😄 Subscription not found

An enthusiast has developed → an app for the Whoop fitness band that lets users access their health data without paying for the official subscription.

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🦴 New icons just dropped

Google has completed → a global redesign of its Workspace app icons across Android, iOS, and the web.

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❤️ This weekend in #TECH

The weekend was full of leaks and design reveals:

📌 6 reported features coming to Apple's MacBook Ultra.

📌 First leaked photo of the Samsung Galaxy S26 FE with a redesigned camera module.

📌 Final design of Apple's foldable iPhone Ultra revealed.

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🤐 Chat is dead

OpenAI is reportedly planning → to turn ChatGPT into a full-fledged super app.

The company wants to build a universal AI agent capable of handling real-world tasks on a user's behalf.

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🍏 WWDC 26 in one place

Apple just wrapped its biggest developer event of the year, and there's a lot to unpack.

We've put everything important into one read — iOS 27, macOS 27, a fully redesigned Siri, and yes, AirPods are finally getting a custom equalizer.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/apple-wwdc-26-everything-announced

😎 More from WWDC 26

📌 A lot of iPads and Apple Watches just got left behind by the new operating systems.

📌 iOS 27 introduces an AI agent that will quietly replace your weakest passwords for you.

📌 Shortcuts can now be built by just describing what you want, no manual setup required.

📌 The Photos app gets new AI tools that go beyond filters and actually rework your shots.

📌 Safari can now sort all those open tabs into topics on its own.

📌 Apple has rolled out a stricter and more flexible set of parental controls across its devices.

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🦴 Only took a decade

Instagram has rolled out one of its most requested features — users can now manually rearrange the posts on their profile grid, without having to delete and repost.

📌 Open your profile, press and hold any post on your grid, select "Reorder grid" from the pop-up menu, then long press and drag your posts into the order you want. Pinned posts will stay fixed at the top of the profile.

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