❤️ This weekend in #TECH

📌 OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.6, introducing three new models: Sol, Terra, and Luna.

📌 Chinese open AI models are closing the gap with Anthropic's most powerful models in selected cybersecurity tasks.

📌 iPhone prices may increase later this year.

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🙂 Comeback?

The U.S. is preparing to lift restrictions on Anthropic's most advanced AI models.

Access → to Mythos 5 has already been restored for around 200 trusted organizations, while Fable 5 is expected to return next week.

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🕹 A portable PlayStation?

Sony is exploring a more portable future for PlayStation, with future hardware designed for gaming across different form factors.

More details:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/sony-playstation-portable-future

😄 Sounds familiar

WhatsApp is launching usernames → later this year. Ahead of the rollout, the messenger has opened early username reservations, letting users secure their preferred handles in advance.

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🤐 Thanks for the GIFs

Starting June 30, Google is shutting down the API for the popular GIF service Tenor, which has powered GIF search in major messaging apps, including Telegram.

Who's already switched to another provider — and who hasn't:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/google-tenor-api-shutdown

🧠 One more thing

OpenAI is preparing a dedicated hardware device for its vibe-coding tool, Codex. The company has already teased the gadget, with the official launch set for July 15.

More details:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-codex-device

🤫 Keep it secret

A leak from Apple's supplier Tata Electronics has put iPhone 18 Pro documents and videos online.

Instead of ignoring it, Apple has started removing posts and blocking accounts that shared the leaked materials.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/apple-removes-iphone-18-pro-leaks

🐈 Nice try, Google

Google only recently introduced Hand Gesture Verification, its new version of reCAPTCHA. Users have already found a way to bypass it using nothing more than a stock photo.

How they did it:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/google-hand-gesture-captcha-stock-photo

😎 Why waste tokens?

Developers have taught AI to speak like a caveman to reduce token usage and lower costs.

How it works:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/ai-caveman-tool-token-costs

😏 That didn't last long

Anthropic has brought Fable 5 back, but users aren't exactly celebrating. The model returned—and immediately sparked a wave of complaints.

What went wrong:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/anthropic-fable-5-returns-user-limits

🧠 Your Mac has a new coworker

Google's personal AI agent Gemini Spark can now work with files on macOS, connect to third-party services, and monitor real-world events in real time.

What else it can do:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/google-gemini-spark-macos

🧠 Vibe coders, your move

Meta has quietly started testing Pocket, a new app where users can create playable mini-games simply by describing them in text.

How the app works:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/meta-pocket-ai-mini-games

🍏 Pay more, get less?

Insiders claim Apple's most expensive iPhone 18 Pro models could come with slower, less durable storage.

Why Apple might be making the switch:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/iphone-18-pro-slower-storage

🤐 No kids allowed

The UAE could block social media platforms that fail to stop children under 15 from using their services.

What else you need to know about the new law:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/uae-social-media-ban-under-15-platform-blocking

❤️ This weekend in #TECH

📌 The Indian government has ordered Telegram to curb the spread of pirated movies, TV shows, and other audiovisual content on the platform.

📌 TRUMP memecoin buyers lost $3.81 billion, with nearly 989,000 wallets left in the red after the token crashed 97% from its peak.

📌 Apple could unveil its first foldable iPhone alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, but open preorders at a later date.

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🤩 Cards on the table

Midjourney has accused the Hollywood studios suing it over copyright infringement of hypocrisy. The AI company claims Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. are using AI to infringe other people's copyrights themselves.

What the legal battle is all about:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/midjourney-accuses-hollywood-studios-of-their-own-ai-copyright-violations

🤔 Discord, is that you?

Telegram is testing one of its biggest updates in recent months.

We break down how Communities work, what they can do, and how they could make life easier for both you, the readers, and us, the admins:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/telegram-communities-discord-how-they-work

😘 See you in 250 years

An iPhone 17 Pro Max has been sealed → inside a time capsule that is not expected to be opened until 2276. The smartphone was placed inside to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the United States.

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😄 Enemies with benefits

Apple and Epic Games have jointly asked the court to delay key deadlines in their long-running fight over App Store commissions, while Apple seeks to pause the case entirely until the US Supreme Court rules.

What happens next:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/apple-epic-app-store-supreme-court

🍏 Air in lavender

Renders showing a possible iPhone Air 2 design in a new lavender color have appeared online.

What the next iPhone Air could look like:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/iphone-air-2-lavender-renders