😄 Smile for account recovery

Google now lets users recover → their accounts with a video selfie. A quick recording with a few head movements can be used if you lose access to your phone or passkeys.

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❤️ This weekend in #TECH

📌 Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5, delivering near-Fable performance at half the price.

📌 Reuters says OpenAI spent a week unaware that its own AI agent was behind the Hugging Face hack.

📌 Apple's next iPad mini could become the company's first water-resistant iPad.

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🍏 The camera dilemma

Apple is reportedly weighing a version of its first smart glasses without cameras, alongside another that wouldn't allow users to capture photos or videos.

Here's what Bloomberg's Mark Gurman revealed:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/apple-smart-glasses-no-video-recording-privacy

🧠 Complete nonsense

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called → two of AI's biggest fears — human extinction and mass job losses — "complete nonsense."

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🤐 Price update received

Nvidia notified its partners about higher GPU memory prices — and Chinese marketplaces reacted almost instantly. Some graphics cards jumped by nearly 30% in a single day.

Here's how much some models went up:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/nvidia-gpu-prices-surge-china-memory-cost-hike

🍏 Quiet updates matter too

Apple released iOS 26.6 — a quiet update.

Behind the scenes, it patches 78 security vulnerabilities and quietly prepares iPhones for this fall's iOS 27.

More details:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/apple-releases-ios-26-6-whats-new

💻 Claude goes autonomous

Anthropic launched a free Claude Code in Action course focused on letting Claude Code work on its own for hours instead of waiting for prompts.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/anthropic-launches-free-claude-code-course-for-developers

😻 The bug hunter

Microsoft introduced an AI system → that automatically finds and patches software vulnerabilities.

According to the company, it scored higher than Gemini, GPT-5.6 Sol, and Claude Mythos 5 in security benchmarks.

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🤔 Everyone's invited. Almost

Nvidia has launched the Open Secure AI Alliance with 36 partners, including Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, SpaceXAI and Hugging Face, to develop open tools for AI security.

However, OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are not among the founding members.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/nvidia-open-secure-ai-alliance

😎 CEO-approved binge list

Apple's current and future CEOs revealed their favorite Apple TV+ shows — and Tim Cook even shared his favorite device and viewing position for Ted Lasso.

At the Season 4 premiere, Cook and John Ternus gave a joint interview, discussing Apple's leadership transition, the future of Apple TV+, and what's next after the CEO handover.

Here's everything they shared:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/tim-cook-john-ternus-interview-ted-lasso-premiere

🙂 Maybe they found common ground

The trademark lawsuit between iyO, OpenAI, and Jony Ive has been put on hold as the companies negotiate a settlement.

More details:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-jony-ive-iyo-lawsuit-paused-settlement-talks

😆 Pavel Durov charged in Russia

Russia’s FSB has charged the Telegram founder with facilitating terrorist activity and is seeking his arrest.

We have gathered everything known so far:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/russia-charges-telegram-founder-pavel-durov-aiding-terrorism

🛸 Talk to Gemini

Gemini for macOS can now control content with voice. It can rewrite text, summarize documents, analyze files, and turn rough notes into polished documents without leaving the active app.

How it works:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/gemini-mac-voice-controls

🤗 OpenAI agrees: it's a mess

OpenAI admitted the redesigned ChatGPT desktop app became "kind of a mess" after merging ChatGPT, Codex, and Work. More fixes are coming, and the standalone Work mode is expected to disappear by the end of the year.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-chatgpt-desktop-redesign-fixes

⚡️ Australia vs. Telegram

Telegram could face fines of up to $38 million after Australia's online safety regulator accused the platform of not doing enough to stop the spread of terrorist content.

Telegram has rejected the allegations and says it will fight the case in court.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/australia-sues-telegram-terrorist-content

🤩 How old are you?

Google is rolling out a new age verification system for Android apps worldwide, allowing them to tailor content based on a user's age without revealing personal details.

Here's how it works:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/google-play-age-signals-api-global-rollout

⚡️ Durov breaks his silence

Pavel Durov has commented for the first time after Russia designated him a “terrorist.”

Russian officials have clearly got confused about who can ban whom from the Internet 😉

Here’s everything we know about the case:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/russia-charges-telegram-founder-pavel-durov-aiding-terrorism

🛸 Gemini gets your browser

Google has updated Gemini Spark → with Chrome integration. The AI agent can now open websites in your own browser, using your existing logins and saved passwords to complete tasks on your behalf.

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⛔️ Claude reached real systems

Anthropic found three incidents where Claude models accessed real systems while running internal cybersecurity tests. A configuration error allowed the models to reach the internet from an environment that was supposed to be isolated.

What happened next:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/anthropic-claude-real-systems-security-tests

😄 Keeping up with Nvidia

AMD is joining Nvidia in raising GPU prices, with Radeon cards for partners set to increase by at least 10% starting in August.

Memory shortages aren't going away anytime soon either. Samsung now expects the crunch to last until at least 2028.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/amd-gpu-price-hike-partners-august-2026