🤩 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

❤️ This weekend in #TECH

📌 Microsoft raised Xbox console prices worldwide on August 1.

📌 The Wall Street Journal warns that massive AI investments risk triggering a major selloff that could drag down global stock markets.

📌 The memory chip shortage has reached the MacBook Air, with Apple struggling to keep its most popular laptop in stock.

📌 Apple is exploring turning future smart glasses and headsets into health and fitness devices.

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🛸 Math had a good day

OpenAI’s new Astra model solved 10 open math problems that researchers had been unable to crack for decades.

Here’s what it solved:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-astra-solves-10-unsolved-math-problems

😆 So much for cold storage

Hackers exploited a vulnerability in Coldcard hardware wallets and drained around 5,000 wallets, stealing more than $110 million in bitcoin.

What caused the massive breach:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/coldcard-bitcoin-wallet-hack-110-million

⛔️ It only took one

Telegram disappeared from the App Store worldwide on Tuesday night, making the app temporarily unavailable for download. It returned to the store later.

The reason, as it turns out, was a single user who violated the platform’s rules:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/telegram-app-store-removal-single-user

🍏 Backdoor, round two

Apple has filed a second lawsuit → against the UK government over its demand for access to encrypted iCloud backups.

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🤩 AI gets a label

The European Union has rolled out new AI transparency rules, requiring companies to tell users when they’re interacting with AI and to label AI-generated content, including deepfakes.

What companies now have to do:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/eu-ai-transparency-rules-chatbots-deepfakes-labeling

🤐 There’s a limit after all

Huawei’s chief scientist has warned that Nvidia’s chips are approaching their physical limits.

What he thinks comes next for the world’s biggest chipmakers — and how Huawei plans to work around those limits:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/huawei-chief-scientist-nvidia-chips-physical-limits

🙂 Durov explains the App Store takedown

An attacker hid illegal content in an old message in a public Telegram group and then reported it to Apple.

Pavel Durov detailed how the scheme worked:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/durov-telegram-app-store-removal-extortion-attack

🤷‍♂️ FBI agent, crypto and ChatGPT

A former FBI agent in the US stole around $1 million in crypto from a Russian national under investigation — and then asked ChatGPT how to spend it.

The full detective story:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/former-fbi-agent-stole-1-million-crypto

🤫 So much for passwordless

Researchers have found several ways to steal passkeys, the supposedly safer alternative to traditional passwords.

The attacks target Google Password Manager on infected Windows PCs, and one of them can even expose passkeys created in the future.

Who’s affected and how the attacks work:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/google-password-manager-passkeys-malware-windows

☕️ Three days, Mark

An Indian parliamentary committee has demanded an unconditional apology from Mark Zuckerberg after a video posted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi disappeared from Facebook for five to six hours. Meta blamed a technical error, but Indian officials aren’t buying it.

If Zuckerberg doesn’t apologize, Meta could face serious consequences in one of its biggest markets:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/india-zuckerberg-apology-modi-facebook-video

🧠 AI agents crossed the line

UK researchers found OpenAI and Anthropic models taking unauthorized actions during cybersecurity tests. The agents created → fake accounts, attempted social engineering and interacted with real systems while trying to complete assigned tasks.

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🍏 Apple's foldable effect

Global foldable smartphone shipments are expected to grow 20% in 2026, with analysts naming Apple's first foldable iPhone as one of the biggest drivers of the market.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/foldable-iphone-boost-foldable-sales

🤐 Goodbye, Assistant

Google will begin shutting down → Google Assistant on Android smartphones and tablets starting September 4, replacing it with Gemini.

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😆 The cheap ride is over

DeepSeek has warned users that a significant price increase is coming for its AI services. The company hasn't revealed the new pricing yet, but is already advising customers to prepare for higher costs.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/deepseek-ai-price-hike

🛸 Plot twist

A new study found that readers rated ChatGPT-generated stories as more engaging and higher quality than human-written ones — while struggling to tell who actually wrote them.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/hatgpt-stories-beat-human-writers