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Filing: Strategy sold 3,588 bitcoin for ~$216M between June 29 and July 5 to replenish its USD reserve; its holdings have an $11.4B paper loss at current prices

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Nintendo will stop selling the original Switch in Europe next year

The decision comes alongside an update to the Switch 2 to coincide with European battery regulations. by Andrew Webster Jul 6, 2026, 2:15 PM UTC Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Andrew Webster is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined

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HubSpot increased leads by 1850%, and we asked them how: The AEO playbook

For over a decade, driving profit from your website was relatively simple. Find the right keywords, optimize your site to rank for them, then convert as many visitors as you can. But as AI overviews and conversational answer engines continue to replace search engines, traditional clicks from SERPs are rapidly

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How the United States and China shape complementary competition in global AI

The competition in artificial intelligence between the United States and China extends beyond a binary race for supremacy. The current landscape is more accurately characterized as "complementary competition." While the United States and China compete, they occupy distinct positions within the global AI value chain, each possessing unique

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How to reserve and change your WhatsApp username

7:15 AM PDT · July 6, 2026 Meta-owned chat app WhatsApp started to roll out username reservations for its 3 billion users earlier in June. The username feature is not active, but you can claim your username and start using it whenever the feature becomes available this year. With usernames,

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Asha Sharma Says Xbox Business Is Not Healthy Amid Radical Restructure Plans

In a public email addressed to all Xbox employees, the new face of Xbox, Asha Sharma, stated rather bluntly that Microsoft's gaming "business today is not healthy" and it will require "painful" changes to right the ship, which starts with laying off around 3,

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Why Apple's First Foldable iPhone May Be Incredibly Hard To Buy

Apple’s long-rumored foldable smartphone may finally be within sight, but customers could face a couple of possible hiccups in their wait to get their hands on one. According to a recent industry survey from prominent supply chain analyst Kuo Ming-Chi, Apple's first bendy phone (frequently referred to

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Xbox Confirms Plans To Lay Off 3,200 Workers Over The Next Year

Half of the job cuts are taking place immediately while four studios are moving to new ownership. As expected, Microsoft is gutting its Xbox teams once again. It had been widely reported that the company would let a large number of staff go following the end of its fiscal year

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Want to convince a Windows user to try Linux? Here's how I do it

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET key takeaways * If you've failed to convince people to switch to Linux, try this. * This tactic may sound overly simplistic, but it works. * You'll win more people over to Linux faster than you think. For

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Taiwan’s Unimicron seeks up to $1.4bn as AI lifts the chip-substrate makers

Unimicron Technology is looking to raise as much as $1.4bn from a sale of global depositary shares, joining the long line of companies cashing in on investors’ appetite for anything tied to artificial intelligence. The Taiwanese firm is selling 50 million shares at $26.96 to $27.76 each,

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Japan’s Turing takes AMD money and AMD chips to loosen Nvidia’s grip

Nvidia powers almost every self-driving car project going. A small Japanese startup is quietly handing some of that work to AMD instead. Turing Inc. has added AMD Ventures to its backers and started running its AI on AMD chips, Bloomberg reported. The five-year-old Tokyo firm wants to put self-driving software

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UK’s Cooper warns of an AI ‘Hiroshima’ and calls for global rules

Britain’s foreign secretary has a stark analogy for artificial intelligence. Do not wait for its Hiroshima moment before writing the rules. Yvette Cooper will warn that AI could become the “greatest security challenge of the next decade,” according to Bloomberg. She sets it out in an essay for the