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Why has Wall Street fallen out of love with the 'Magnificent Seven'?

Big Tech's mega-cap leaders suffered their worst month in years this June as investors fled the AI-spending trade and capital quietly rotates elsewhere.

Euronews

Trump Comes Face-to-Face With AI Theodore Roosevelt in Astonishing Exchange Over the Panama Canal

During the Theodore Roosevelt Library opening, President Trump interacted with an AI replica of Roosevelt, sparking online debate about historical memory and achievements like the Panama Canal.

International Business Times UK

Microsoft partners with Singapore's Lightstorm to build India-Southeast Asia undersea cable

The consortium, whose other members include Tata Communications, Singapore ‌Telecommunications, Singapore's ⁠ASEAN Cableship ⁠and Japan's NEC Corporation, will construct the I-2SEA cable to support AI, cloud and hyperscale workloads, the companies said on Thursday.

The Economic Times

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Xbox Is Reportedly Testing Digitizing Physical Games for the Disc-Free Project Helix

Xbox is testing a new program that will digitize games from a disc, as part of its move to go disc-free with Project Helix.

Player One

Dow Jones hits record intraday high before closing lower, S&P 500 and Nasdaq fall - here’s why US stock market started July in red

US stock market today July 1: US markets experienced a mixed trading day as the Dow Jones briefly hit a new intraday record before retreating. Profit-taking in semiconductor stocks led to a decline in the Nasdaq. This comes after a strong first half for US equities, with investors continuing a…

The Economic Times

Trump’s 927-page disclosure is just a normal Tuesday for direct indexing and crypto wealth managers

Trump’s excessive trades look like those of an automated, direct indexing, tax-loss harvesting portfolio, not one individual in the know.

Fortune

Consoles continue their trend of just becoming worse PCs

As prices go up and exclusives dry up, the old "plug-and-play" argument has never been flimsier.

PC Gamer

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I thought Windows 11 broke GIFs, but the real reason was Google quietly pulling the plug on this service

Windows 11 emoji panel showing "GIF service is not available"? Here's why GIFs disappeared, how to fix the problem, and why results have changed.

Windows Central

Qualcomm High Bandwidth Compute aims to compete with High Bandwidth Flash and Memory by stacking LPDDR just above the CPU to 'eliminate HBM tax'

Qualcomm's latest data center push centers around High Bandwidth Compute (HBC), which aims to address the ever-increasing costs of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)

TechRadar

Xbox is reportedly testing a feature to digitize physical game collections as PlayStation decides to phase out discs

There's no stopping the digitization of games, but this could keep Xbox discs from becoming completely obsolete

GamesRadar

Xbox reportedly testing a way to digitize physical games in the wake of PlayStation killing game discs — feature said to go back to Xbox One-era games

Microsoft is reportedly testing a feature to digitize physical games going back to the Xbox One with digital copies tied to the owner of the physical disc.

Tom’s Hardware

New details emerge on Xbox 'Positron', Microsoft's disc-to-digital program — as it seems likely Xbox Helix will drop discs too

Xbox Helix is likely to be joining PlayStation 5 in dropping discs. A new report describes how Microsoft plans to mitigate the issue.

Windows Central

The 'Gemini 5' Stress Test: Why the Market Is Wrong About AI Chipmakers and Big Tech Stocks

The AI hardware boom is a cyclical bubble. Soon, AI models will optimize and slim down, crashing chipmaker stocks and unlocking massive free cash flow for undervalued Big Tech companies.

Barchart

Is Xbox in Trouble? Shocking New 'GTA 6' Pre-Order Disparity Reveals a Devastating Nightmare For Microsoft

'GTA 6' pre-orders reveal a significant platform divide, with PlayStation leading Xbox by eight to one. This disparity has sparked controversy and debate over Xbox's market position.

International Business Times UK

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Xbox Reportedly Planning 'Largest Single Layoff Event In Gaming History' With Cuts Set for July 7

Xbox is reportedly preparing the 'largest single layoff event in gaming history,' with fears for Undead Labs, Ninja Theory and other studios as cuts are rumoured to start on 7 July.

The Times of India

Microsoft layoffs: Up to 5,500 jobs at risk as AI push sparks fresh H1-B debate

Microsoft is preparing to cut around 5,500 jobs in another round of layoffs as it continues shifting billions of dollars towards artificial intelligence (AI), with the expected move also reigniting debate over the company's use of the H1-B visa programme.

PC Gamer

Xbox reportedly wants to put a stake in Blade and sell off Arkane, even though Todd Howard says development is going well

Eventually we'll just be left with Halo and Call of Duty.

TechRadar

Microsoft just made a huge Linux move that developers and container fans everywhere will love

You can now finally run Linux containers in Windows – without third-party tools.

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'Pure old-school Windows': Ex-Microsoft engineer shrinks down Notepad to 2.5 kilobytes with 'no bloat, no telemetry, no nonsense'

Want Notepad to be like it was in the Windows XP era — except even leaner? TinyRetroPad is here.

International Business Times UK

Big Tech's Next AI Battle Isn't Chatbots: It's Data Centres Worth Hundreds of Billions

The biggest AI race is no longer about smarter chatbots. Technology giants are investing hundreds of billions in computing power and data centres that could determine the industry's future.

The Economic Times

US Stocks: Meta building cloud business to sell AI computing, says report; shares rise

Meta Platforms is reportedly exploring a move into the cloud computing business, aiming to lease out its surplus AI computing power. This strategic shift could lessen Meta's dependence on advertising revenue and position it as a competitor to tech giants like Amazon and Microsoft.

Windows Central

Microsoft omits controversial workplace check-in feature from June Teams roundup

Microsoft has rounded up everything new in Teams for June, but one notable feature is missing. Workplace check-in via Wi-Fi is now generally available after a delayed rollout, yet the controversial addition doesn't appear in the company's latest recap.

PC Gamer

The ESA quietly starts walking back baffling statements about private servers being 'illegal', though it's still tutting and wagging its finger

I get the sense the ESA still doesn't like them, much.

The Guardian - UK

No console-flation: how the thirst for AI chips is sending games console prices soaring

AI data centres, memory scarcity and factory capacity are costing consumers –and console makers

International Business Times UK

Microsoft Plans Another Round Of Layoffs Just Months After Axing Thousands Of Jobs

Microsoft is reportedly planning another round of layoffs, affecting less than 2.5% of its workforce, as it continues to invest heavily in artificial intelligence infrastructure.

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