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Makerfabs MaUWB Brings PoE Indoor Location Tracking to Home Assistant
Makerfabs' new MaUWB board pairs an ESP32-S3 with a Qorvo UWB radio and PoE Ethernet to bring accurate, ESPHome-ready indoor location tracking to Home Assistant.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mistral's Robostral Navigate Guides Robots With Just One Camera
Mistral AI's Robostral Navigate is an 8B robot navigation model that steers wheeled, legged, and flying robots through new spaces using one RGB camera.
Claude Cowork Comes to Web and Mobile for Anywhere AI Agents
Anthropic brings Claude Cowork to web and mobile, letting you launch background AI agents at your desk and check progress from your phone anywhere, anytime.
Grok's No-Code Voice Agent Builder Puts Voice AI Within Reach
xAI's Grok Voice Agent Builder lets anyone build and deploy production voice agents in minutes, no code required, with 21 new multilingual flagship voices.
ESP32-C5 Devkits Bring Dual-Band Wi-Fi 6 to Cheap Maker Boards
The ESP32-C5 is Espressif's first dual-band Wi-Fi 6 chip, and fresh touchscreen devkits are putting 5 GHz connectivity in makers' hands for under $40.
Titan Mini Packs a Real Edge-AI NPU Into a $44 Dev Board
The Titan Mini pairs a 1 GHz Cortex-M85 with an Ethos-U55 NPU for genuine edge AI, putting on-device audio inference in a 65x55 mm board for about $44.
This E-Ink Handheld Runs a Game Boy Emulator at 60 Hz on ESP32-S3
A maker coaxed an e-ink panel into 60 Hz gaming, running a Game Boy emulator on a touch-driven ESP32-S3 board by exploiting its parallel refresh interface.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Poolside's Laguna XS 2.1 Puts a Free Open-Weight Coding Model on Your Machine
Poolside released Laguna XS 2.1 on July 2, 2026 — a free, permissively licensed open-weight coding model that scores 70.9% on SWE-bench Verified and runs locally.
Beelink EQi 304 Debuts Intel's Wildcat Lake in a Tiny 10GbE Mini PC
Beelink's EQi 304, launched July 5, 2026, is the first mini PC on Intel's new Core 3 304 Wildcat Lake chip — with 10GbE, Thunderbolt 4, and a 24 TOPS NPU from $509.
OpenAI's GeneBench-Pro Sets a Rigorous New Bar for AI in Biology Research
OpenAI open-sourced GeneBench-Pro on June 30, 2026 — a 129-problem computational biology benchmark graded against ground truth, pushing AI toward trustworthy science.
Cursor's First Mobile App Lets You Steer Coding Agents From Your Phone
Cursor launched its first mobile app on June 29, 2026, letting developers start and supervise autonomous coding agents from iOS or an Android PWA, anywhere they go.
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.
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.
Inkterface Adds a Wireless E-Ink Faceplate to Valve's Steam Machine
A maker built Inkterface, a magnetic battery-powered e-ink faceplate for Valve's Steam Machine, driven by an ESP32 and fully open-sourced with STEP and STL files.
This Kubernetes Homelab Hides Modern Compute Inside Retro Linksys Cases
Justin Garrison retrofitted a modern Raspberry Pi and mini-PC Kubernetes cluster into vintage early-2000s Linksys router cases — a nostalgic, fully working homelab.
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.