🐈 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.

@durovs_code

🤩 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.

@durovs_code

😄 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

🦴 More storage, more money

Google is reportedly planning to raise → prices across the Pixel 11 lineup and drop the entry-level 128GB storage option.

@durovs_code

😄 AI for locals only

China is considering restricting foreign access to its most advanced AI models as Beijing increasingly treats AI technology as a strategic national asset.

What measures are being considered:

↖️ https://durovscode.com/china-ai-models-foreign-access

🙂 Claude keeps working

Claude Cowork’s agent mode is coming to smartphones and the web, starting with Max subscribers.

Long-running tasks will continue in the background, while users can check progress from their phone or browser.

↖️ https://durovscode.com/claude-cowork-mobile-web-background-tasks

🧠 AI loyalty has a price

US companies are increasingly switching from expensive AI models → by OpenAI and Anthropic to cheaper Chinese alternatives as token prices at leading American labs rise.

Open Chinese models can cost 60% to 90% less to run than their leading US rivals.

@durovs_code

🦴 GPT-5.6 gets the green light

The US government has lifted restrictions on the wider release of GPT-5.6. OpenAI will make all three models in the lineup → Sol, Terra, and Luna — publicly available on July 9.

@durovs_code

🤫 Delete it!

A Chinese regulator has warned → of an alleged backdoor in Anthropic’s Claude Code, claiming the AI coding tool contains a built-in tracking mechanism that can send users’ location data and identity-related identifiers to remote servers without consent.

@durovs_code

🤷‍♂️ Still no evidence?

Pavel Durov was questioned → in Paris for more than six hours on July 8, his fourth hearing since being charged in August 2024.

His lawyers said investigators still have no evidence to support the case and have filed complaints in France and with European courts.

@durovs_code