😾 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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❤️ 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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