😾 Balancing things out

Tesla has a new $225 product — but it's a balance bike for kids.

The bike is designed for children aged two to five and supports riders weighing up to 35 kg (77 lbs). If you weigh any more than that, you'll have to stick with Tesla's other products.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/tesla-balance-bike-for-kids

😏 Are quotes in Telegram becoming a Premium feature?

A banner prompting users to subscribe to Telegram Premium now appears when applying quotes to a text message.

📌 Markdown and advanced formatting do require a Premium subscription, but quotes shouldn't be affected.

📌 There's a workaround: tap "Send Without Formatting", and the banner disappears while the quote remains.

Most likely, this is a bug that will be fixed in a future Telegram update.

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❤️ This weekend in #TECH

📌 Google may equip the upcoming Pixel 11a with the Tensor G6 chip.

📌 Apple left Jony Ive out of its OpenAI lawsuit over alleged trade secret theft.

📌 Apple is testing AI-powered Live Notes for Genius Bar conversations.

📌 Apple plans new iPad and Mac Studio updates and is dropping Mac Pro Extreme chips.

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🤐 AI hacked AI

Hugging Face revealed a cyberattack carried out entirely by an autonomous AI agent without human involvement. The attackers accessed internal datasets and service credentials.

The company's own AI tools also struggled during the investigation — commercial models blocked some security analysis requests because they could not distinguish researchers from attackers.

More details:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/hugging-face-autonomous-ai-agent-cyberattack

🤔 AI is publishing bestsellers now

Apple Books and Amazon are being flooded → with AI-generated copies of books by well-known authors. Some fake publishers reportedly release up to 10 titles a week.

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🕹 Just a tablet

The RedMagic Astra 2 matched the ROG Xbox Ally X in GTA V and briefly outperformed it in Red Dead Redemption 2 while consuming roughly half the power.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/redmagic-astra-2-vs-rog-xbox-ally-x-performance

😆 Counterfeits are expensive

The EU has fined AliExpress €550 million for failing to adequately tackle illegal, unsafe, and counterfeit products sold on its marketplace.

It's the largest penalty ever issued under the Digital Services Act (DSA)

↖️ https://durovscode.com/eu-fines-aliexpress-550-million-dsa

⚡️ Telegram to add built-in Gram Wallet this summer

The non-custodial Gram Wallet will roll out → across Telegram apps this summer, giving more than 1 billion users access to crypto transfers.

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😾 AI found a shortcut

OpenAI confirmed that its AI models were behind the recent Hugging Face compromise during a security evaluation.

Details:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-models-escaped-sandbox-hugging-face-breach

🧠 Gemini is getting faster

Google has released Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite, with improvements in speed, cost efficiency, and performance.

The company has also started training Gemini 4.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/google-gemini-3-6-flash-launch-gemini-4

🤐 No more AI slop

YouTube will stop paying for low-quality AI-generated videos.

Channels built around mass-produced content, repetitive AI videos, fake news, and virtual “experts” will lose monetization.

What content will be affected — and what AI-assisted videos can still earn money:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/youtube-ai-generated-slop-monetization-rules

😂 Instagram heard the complaints

Instagram now lets users change the audio on already published posts and carousels without re-uploading them.

How to replace the track:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/instagram-replace-audio-old-posts-feature

😻 Telegram is overheating iPhones

Telegram users are reporting overheating iPhones and hundreds of fake notifications.

The bug affects the iOS app, with reports coming from both stable and beta iOS versions, as well as iPad devices.

What is happening and how to fix it:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/telegram-iphone-overheating-notification-bug-fix

🤐 No scrolling until 15

France's parliament has approved a ban on social media for children under 15, making the country the first in the EU to introduce such a restriction.

The new law also bans smartphones in French high schools.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/france-social-media-ban-under-15-children

🍏 Macs are getting busy

Apple is reportedly planning its biggest Mac refresh in years, with around 11 new models on the way.

Here's everything insiders say is coming:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/apple-mac-lineup-refresh-11-new-models

⛔️ Enough is enough

Google's AI Overviews are pushing some of the world's biggest publishers to consider blocking → Googlebot.

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📱 Lease your next iPhone

Soon, you'll be able to get an iPhone much like you would a car.

Apple is preparing to launch Apple Upgrade, a subscription program covering most iPhone, Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch models. The rollout is expected to begin on July 28.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/apple-device-subscription-car-lease

😄 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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