Ollama Raises $65M to Power Local Open-Source AI
Ollama closed a $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures on July 9, growing to 8.9M monthly developers and a presence in 85% of the Fortune 500.
Ollama Raises $65M to Power Local Open-Source AI
Ollama closed a $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures on July 9, growing to 8.9M monthly developers and a presence in 85% of the Fortune 500.
Claude Reflect Helps You Use AI More Mindfully
Anthropic's new Reflect dashboard, launched July 9, shows your Claude usage over 1 to 12 months and adds quiet hours and break reminders.
ELM11-Feather Makes FPGAs Lua-Simple for $39
The $39 ELM11-Feather puts a Gowin FPGA and a 75 MHz soft-core into a Feather board you program in Lua, with MIT-licensed firmware coming.
Norik Dongle Brings DECT NR+ 5G to a USB Port
Norik Systems' nRF9151 USB dongle brings DECT NR+, the carrier-free 5G mesh standard, to developers with Zephyr samples and no debug probe.
KKSB Rack Panels Tidy Your Raspberry Pi Cluster
KKSB's new 10-inch and 19-inch rack panels mount up to 10 Raspberry Pis per shelf, with room for HATs and active coolers in a homelab rack.
Team Fortress 2 Gets a Joyful Summer 2026 Update
Valve surprised fans on July 8 with a community-made Team Fortress 2 Summer update: 6 new maps, 24 cosmetics, and events running to September 15.
Digimon Story: Time Stranger Lands on Switch 2
Digimon Story: Time Stranger reached Switch and Switch 2 on July 10 with a free update adding Terriermon, a photo mode, and a 60 FPS mode.
Ollama Raises $65M to Power Local Open-Source AI
Ollama closed a $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures on July 9, growing to 8.9M monthly developers and a presence in 85% of the Fortune 500.
Claude Reflect Helps You Use AI More Mindfully
Anthropic's new Reflect dashboard, launched July 9, shows your Claude usage over 1 to 12 months and adds quiet hours and break reminders.
ChatGPT Work and GPT-5.6 Turn AI Agents Into Coworkers
OpenAI's July 9 launch pairs GPT-5.6 — split into Sol, Terra, and Luna tiers — with ChatGPT Work, an agent built to finish whole jobs across your apps.
Meta Muse Spark 1.1 Is a Budget Agentic Coding Model
Meta's first paid model, Muse Spark 1.1, launched July 9 at \$1.25 / \$4.25 per million tokens with a 1M-token context and a computer-use mode.
Grok 4.5 Arrives as an Opus-Class Coding Model at Budget Pricing
xAI's Grok 4.5 lands as an Opus-class coding and agentic model — trained alongside Cursor, priced low, and available today across Grok, Cursor, and the console.
Liquid AI's Antidoom Open-Sources a Fix for Reasoning-Model Doom Loops
Liquid AI open-sourced Antidoom, a training method that stops reasoning models from looping on repeated tokens — cutting doom loops from over 20% to near 1%.
Team Fortress 2 Gets a Joyful Summer 2026 Update
Valve surprised fans on July 8 with a community-made Team Fortress 2 Summer update: 6 new maps, 24 cosmetics, and events running to September 15.
Digimon Story: Time Stranger Lands on Switch 2
Digimon Story: Time Stranger reached Switch and Switch 2 on July 10 with a free update adding Terriermon, a photo mode, and a 60 FPS mode.
Black Flag Resynced Remakes a Beloved Pirate Classic
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced launched July 9 with glowing reviews, a rebuilt Anvil engine, ray tracing, and new Blackbeard story content.
Rhythm Heaven Groove Returns and Tops Japan's Sales Charts
Rhythm Heaven Groove, the first new entry in over a decade, topped Japan's charts with nearly 400,000 launch-week sales — almost double the series' previous record.
Meccha Chameleon Paints Its Way to 15 Million Sales in 26 Days
Meccha Chameleon, a $5.99 indie painting hide-and-seek game from a two-person Japanese team, sold 15 million copies in under 26 days. Here is the joyful story.
Pokémon GO Turns 10 With a Global Party Weekend and Its First Free GO Fest
Pokémon GO celebrated its 10th anniversary July 4–6, 2026 with quadruple XP, costumed Pokémon, and a first-ever free Global GO Fest on July 11–12.
USDC Powers a Record $1.79T Stablecoin Month
Stablecoin transaction volume hit a record $1.79 trillion in June 2026, with regulated, fully reserved USDC leading roughly 70% of 2026 flows.
Baillie Gifford's BAGEY Bond Fund Expands to Ethereum
Baillie Gifford brought its UK-regulated BAGEY tokenized bond fund to Ethereum, adding a second chain to a BNY-custodied product targeting ~7% yield.
Clearstream Expands MiCA Crypto Custody to XRP, Solana, and Cardano
Deutsche Börse's Clearstream expanded its MiCA-regulated crypto custody to eight assets, adding XRP, Solana, Cardano, Litecoin, Stellar, and Avalanche for institutions.
XRP Ledger Crosses $4 Billion in Tokenized Real-World Assets
The XRP Ledger now hosts roughly $4 billion in tokenized real-world assets across 500+ products, a 4x RWA jump this year that puts XRPL among tokenization leaders.
Ripple Secures a Full EU MiCA License, Opening Regulated Payments Across the EEA
On July 6, 2026, Luxembourg's regulator granted Ripple a full MiCA CASP license, letting it passport regulated crypto payments across all 30 EEA countries.
Standard Chartered Becomes First G-SIB to Offer Institutional USDC Access
Standard Chartered is the first G-SIB to give institutions integrated USDC minting and redemption with Circle, advancing regulated stablecoin adoption.
ELM11-Feather Makes FPGAs Lua-Simple for $39
The $39 ELM11-Feather puts a Gowin FPGA and a 75 MHz soft-core into a Feather board you program in Lua, with MIT-licensed firmware coming.
Norik Dongle Brings DECT NR+ 5G to a USB Port
Norik Systems' nRF9151 USB dongle brings DECT NR+, the carrier-free 5G mesh standard, to developers with Zephyr samples and no debug probe.
KKSB Rack Panels Tidy Your Raspberry Pi Cluster
KKSB's new 10-inch and 19-inch rack panels mount up to 10 Raspberry Pis per shelf, with room for HATs and active coolers in a homelab rack.
Open Book Touch Is a Hackable Open-Source E-Reader
The Open Book Touch is a DRM-free ESP32-S3 e-reader with a 4.26-inch touch e-paper screen, open firmware, and a replaceable battery, from \$149.
Rikomagic DS04 Packs a 6 TOPS NPU Into a 4K Player
The Rikomagic DS04 pairs a Rockchip RK3576, a 6 TOPS NPU, and dual 4K HDMI 2.1 in an Android 14 digital signage box for affordable edge AI.
Best Mini PC for Local LLMs in 2026: A Buyer's Guide
A practical 2026 buyer's guide to the best mini PCs for running local LLMs, comparing unified memory, NPUs, and price so you can self-host with confidence.
Raspberry Pi 5 Becomes an 8-Channel USB Sound Card With Optical Out
A clever open-source project turns a Raspberry Pi 5 into an 8-channel USB sound card with real TOSLINK optical output generated from a single blinking GPIO pin.
SK Hynix IPO Becomes Biggest Foreign US Listing
SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion and closed up 13% on July 10, the largest US IPO ever by a foreign company, driven by AI memory demand.
Fincart's AI Wealth App Makes Goal-Based Investing Easy
Fincart's July 9 app update adds AI-powered, goal-based investing and bundles mutual funds, digital gold, and PMS to widen access for retail investors.
eToro's New AI-First App Adds Tori and Agent-Powered Portfolios
eToro rebuilt its app around AI, launching Tori — a proactive assistant on WhatsApp and Apple Watch — plus agent-powered portfolios that trade in dedicated sub-accounts.
CaixaBank and Visa Complete Their First AI-Agent Card Payment
CaixaBank and Visa just ran their first real card payment made by an AI agent on a shopper's behalf, pushing agentic commerce onto trusted rails.
Securitize Debuts on the NYSE and Puts Its Own Stock On-Chain Day One
Securitize began NYSE trading as SECZ on July 2, 2026 and became the first newly public company to offer a regulated tokenized version of its own stock at listing.
Dow 53,000: The Stock Market Just Set a Fresh Record Close
The Dow topped 53,000 for the first time ever on July 6, 2026. Here's what the record close means and why the whole market is riding high right now.
Rustinel Is a Fast Open-Source EDR Built in Rust
Rustinel, launched July 8, is an open-source endpoint detection tool in Rust that unifies Windows and Linux monitoring into one clean codebase.
CVE Lite CLI Scans npm Projects Right in Your Terminal
CVE Lite CLI, now an OWASP Incubator project, checks JavaScript lockfiles against the OSV database and suggests one-line fixes for npm, pnpm, Yarn, and Bun.
Cloudflare Adds IPsec Downgrade Protection for Post-Quantum Tunnels
Cloudflare shipped beta IPsec downgrade protection that makes both VPN peers sign the full handshake, blocking attackers from quietly weakening a tunnel's encryption.
New Open-Source Tools Help Blue Teams Defend AI Agents
A fresh wave of open-source security tools gives blue teams free, community-built defense for the AI agent era, protecting the newest attack surface.
SkillDetonate Catches Malicious AI-Agent Skills That Slip Past Scanners
Researchers released SkillDetonate on July 6, 2026 — a runtime auditor that sandboxes AI-agent skills and caught 97% of malicious ones static scanners miss.
OpenSSH 10.4: Post-Quantum Signatures and Quiet SSH Hardening
OpenSSH 10.4 rolls up eight security fixes and adds experimental post-quantum signatures, future-proofing the world's most trusted secure remote access tool.
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