❤️ This weekend in #TECH

📌 Apple is preparing iOS 27 with a major Siri overhaul, including a standalone app with chat history.

📌 Malta has become the first country to provide all of its residents with a free one-year ChatGPT Plus subscription

📌 Google has restricted Gemini Intelligence to a small list of devices, cutting off nearly every premium Android phone released before 2026.

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🍏 Nothing goes to waste at Apple

WSJ revealed how Apple saves billions using chips with minor defects — the company simply puts them into cheaper devices like the MacBook Neo instead of throwing them away.

How the scheme works:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/apple-defective-chips-binning-strategy

😏 Free speech, but with limits

X quietly reduced limits for free accounts. Users now get 50 posts and 200 replies per day instead of the previous 2400.

Full limits and details:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/x-daily-posting-limits-non-premium-accounts

🙂 Last seen by everyone

Durov recently enabled online status visibility on his main Telegram account

So now we know how much time he spends in Telegram, how long he stays offline, and how many times a day he opens the app.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/pavel-durov-telegram-screen-time

😂 Humans still have a job. For now

Figure AI staged a 10-hour “Man vs. Machine” competition between a human worker and its humanoid robot performing warehouse tasks.

The human won — but only by a small margin.

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🕹 PC players lost again

Sony is changing strategy → single-player PlayStation Studios games will no longer launch on PC.

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🧠 Google said “AI” for two hours straight

Google I/O 2026 just happened, and most of the conference was basically one long conversation about AI.

Still, there was a lot worth paying attention to:

📌 New Gemini models are already rolling out
📌 A video generator that understands real-world physics
📌 Google Search gets its biggest update in 25 years
📌 Smart glasses powered by Gemini are coming next year

You can watch the full two-hour keynote — or read our 15-minute breakdown instead:

☀️ https://durovscode.com/google-io-2026-announcements-gemini-spark-glasses

😄 Finally, a bot for that

Telegram has launched a bot → that lets users report intimate content, including AI-generated deepfakes, published without their consent.

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😏 Wall StreetGPT

OpenAI is preparing an IPO filing, and the documents could reportedly reach regulators as early as this week.

The company is aiming to go public by September 2026 at an $852 billion valuation.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-ipo-filing-september-2026

☕️ Ads found another place to live

Google has started placing ads → directly inside AI-generated search answers.

Sponsored recommendations from Gemini now appear inside AI Mode responses themselves.

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🤐 Repository not found

GitHub is reportedly facing a management crisis → after Microsoft absorbed the platform into its CoreAI division.

The company has since seen executive departures, repeated outages, security incidents, and growing criticism from developers.

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❤️ This weekend in #TECH

📌 Elon Musk officially confirmed that Starlink is developing an interplanetary internet network.

📌 Donald Trump accidentally invested up to $5 million in a sushi chain instead of an AI company.

📌 The Apple Watch has slowed down 11 years after launch, with users moving to screenless bands and rings from Whoop and Oura.

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🍏 So this is the iPhone 20

New renders of the rumored iPhone 20 have appeared online, showing Apple’s possible anniversary redesign with an almost bezel-free display.

More images:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/iphone-20-renders-design-rumors

😆 Privacy level: OnlyFans

Data tied to 340 million users buying and selling content on OnlyFans could reportedly be sold by a hacker for $76,000.

How it happened:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/onlyfans-340-million-users-database-sale

😆 EU found the wallet again

The European Commission is preparing a several-hundred-million-euro fine against Google following an antitrust investigation.

It could become the largest penalty ever issued under the Digital Markets Act.

How Google got here:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/eu-google-record-fine-digital-markets-act

🤩 Even the Pope is worried now

Pope Leo XIV has presented his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, dedicated to artificial intelligence and its impact on humanity.

What exactly worries the Vatican about AI:

📌 https://durovscode.com/pope-leo-xiv-ai-regulation-encyclical

😂 Finally

Nvidia has officially ended → support for its Control Panel after 20 years.

Now all graphics settings and driver tools will live inside a single Nvidia App instead of two separate programs with interfaces from another era.

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😄 YouTube started checking itself

YouTube will now automatically add AI labels to videos → when its systems detect realistic AI-generated content.

Previously, creators had to disclose this manually.

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