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🎮 Xbox price hikes: three rounds and counting Since May 2025, Microsoft has raised Xbox prices three times. The Series X launched at $499.99 in 2020 — it now costs $300 more, before European markups even enter the picture. New EU / UK prices, via The Verge: 🔸 Series S 512GB — £299.99 / €349.99 → £429.99 / €499.99 (+43%) 🔸 Series S 1TB — £349.99 / €399.99 → £519.99 / €599.99 🔸 Series X Digital — £449.99 / €549.99 → £619.99 / €749.99 🔸 Series X Disc — £499.99 / €599.99 → £669.99 / €799.99 (+34%) The 2TB model is being discontinued. AI-driven NAND shortages are pressuring all hardware makers, but no competitor has passed those costs on as sharply. The Series S — once the affordable entry point — now costs more than the Series X did at launch. For a platform already trailing PlayStation in sales, that's a shrinking window for new players to join.

🃏 Palworld TCG cards hitting thousands on eBay at launch Palworld TCG is a trading card game developed in partnership between Pocketpair and Bushiroad. The first set, Dawn of Palpagos, launched July 30, 2026 — and eBay scalper listings followed the same day. The retailer Lumius priced a booster box case at $499.99. On eBay, comparable cases are selling for around $1,800. A master case containing three standard cases sold for $5,990 within 24 hours of launch. A rare Cattiva Gold Soul Card sold on July 27 — three days before the official release date — for $3,997.98. A Jormuntide Ignis card moved on July 24 for $1,300. Gold Cattiva cards are currently trading at approximately $1,000 each. As IGN notes, Pocketpair reported 3.5 million packs ordered as of July 9, three weeks ahead of launch. A second booster set, Legends Awaken, is scheduled for October.

🔑 The cold wallet that ran hot Coldcard is among Bitcoin's most trusted hardware wallets. A March 2021 firmware build hid a quiet catastrophe: seeds were generated by a predictable software randomiser instead of the hardware chip, leaving a bounded key space anyone can reproduce offline. Galaxy Research has now flagged a third sweep wave. Total across all three: 1,367 BTC (~$89M) from 4,585 addresses. Wave one averaged ~1 coin per victim; wave three is down to ~0.1 BTC. The fat wallets are running out. The pattern shifted too — no more shared collector addresses, each victim gets a unique destination. One operator adapting, or a second one mining the same flaw? The chain won't say. "Cold" refers to the internet connection. Not the math. CoinDesk

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🚁 The Invisible Drone Northwestern University researchers built a drone called Phantom Twist that spins up to 25 times per second — making it roughly 10 times less visible than a standard quadcopter, per The Verge. Video [here](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Phantom+Twist+drone+Northwestern). Engadget

🏧 Texas leads the U.S. in crypto kiosk losses Texas residents lost $56.8 million through crypto ATMs in 2025 — more than any other state. National losses climbed 58% to $389M across 13,460 FBI complaints. A state House committee is now weighing a ban, per Decrypt — Indiana, Tennessee and Minnesota have already passed one.

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📌 Daily Recap · Aug 02 🚕 Zoox can now charge you for its driverless rides 🕷️ Spider-Man just crushed Endgame before the weekend started 📺 Netflix quietly edged out the BBC in its own backyard 🎵 German court says AI music training needs a license Someone you know definitely missed at least three of these — pass it along канал

🎵 Suno loses its German copyright case GEMA, Germany's music rights body, sued AI startup Suno for training its models on protected recordings without a license. Munich Regional Court ruled for GEMA: a license is required both for training and for generating music. The case involved six tracks — "Rasputin," "Mambo No. 5," "Forever Young" and others. Leaked code from earlier this month showed Suno's training data included over 113,000 hours of YouTube Music. Eight months ago, the same court ruled against OpenAI over song lyrics in ChatGPT. Suno says the ruling "fundamentally mischaracterizes" its technology and is weighing an appeal — per Variety, a tough sell when "Rasputin" was apparently in the dataset. Decrypt

📺 Netflix just overtook the BBC in the UK — for the first time ever The BBC is more than a broadcaster — it's a national institution. Which makes Ofcom's finding all the more striking: 26% of Brits now reach for Netflix first, with the BBC at 25%. One point. Enormous symbolism. The 16-to-24 crowd has already left for YouTube, where minutes watched have doubled since 2022. Traditional TV survives mostly on older demographics. And on this exact day, the BBC announced it's cutting Blankety Blank, Celebrity Mastermind and Live at the Apollo — part of a £500 million savings drive that strips out 150 hours of original content by 2028. Helping your rival look more appealing by shrinking yourself. Bold move. Engadget

🎬 Spider-Man: Brand New Day has beaten *Avengers: Endgame*'s all-time opening record before the weekend even starts — $74M in Thursday previews, pre-sales already past $200M. Weekend projection: $350M+, against Endgame's $357.1M domestic record, per Collider. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daXaTug8rL4

🚕 Zoox has received NHTSA approval to charge fares in its steering-wheel-free robotaxis — up to 5,000 vehicles over two years. Paid rides launch in Las Vegas next month, with Miami and Austin to follow. Until now, the Amazon-owned company had only been offering free demonstration rides in San Francisco and Las Vegas, Reuters reports. The Verge

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📌 Daily Recap · Aug 01 🤖 Robot vacuum ban? Yes, your Roomba is grounded 🎵 Rubber Soul deluxe drops with a secret Lennon track 🎬 Odyssey bootleg hit 2M views before vanishing fast Someone in your life was definitely too busy to catch all this — pass it on канал

🎬 The Odyssey hit the internet — briefly Nolan's *The Odyssey* pulled in $87 million its second weekend, with IMAX 70mm tickets still scarce. Someone, apparently, couldn't wait. On July 25, a post on X pointed to a high-quality bootleg — confirmed by Variety. It hit 2.1 million views in two and a half hours before a takedown and account suspension. By July 26, clones linger on the platform, though most lead to a Rickroll. Rick Astley, undefeated. Elon Musk, separately, called the casting DEI manipulation and promised a "historically accurate" Grok Imagine version. The box office noticed neither. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzw2ttJD2qQ

🎵 'Rubber Soul' is getting the deluxe box set treatment — with an unheard Lennon song Beatles fans have been waiting for this since 2022, when *Revolver* got its big deluxe release. Now it's *Rubber Soul*'s turn: October 2nd, and the full Super Deluxe edition has 68 tracks, including 24 session outtakes and a previously unheard John Lennon composition called «Little Girl». New stereo remix, original mono master, the US Capitol version, and an 88-page book — all in there. Dolby Atmos is coming separately. Smaller 2LP and 2CD editions exist for everyone else. As a preview, "Michelle (Take 1)" is already out, according to Variety. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL0mVPA7T0Q

🤖 The US robot ban covers Roombas too The Trump administration's ban on importing "advanced robotic devices" dominated headlines for humanoid robots — but the FCC confirmed to The Verge it covers robot vacuums as well. The rule targets any new software-controlled ground device over 4.4 lbs with environmental sensing and wireless connectivity. Existing robots are untouched; new models need a waiver tied to US manufacturing commitments. The problem: the market is almost entirely Chinese. The top five robovac brands — Roborock, Ecovacs, Dreame, Xiaomi, Narwal — are all Chinese entities. The Roomba brand, post-iRobot bankruptcy, now belongs to Chinese manufacturer Picea. No company was asked a single question about security practices during the waiver process.

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📌 Daily Recap · Jul 31 🔐 Fake App Store wallet drained $1.8M in Bitcoin 💔 Kavinsky, the man behind Nightcall, died at 50 🕹️ Rare 1986 Nintendo Famicombox found inside a love hotel 💸 Online scams cost $148B last year — most went unreported 🎮 A BG3 mod goes third-person and breaks the internet Someone in your life just surfaced from a 12-hour workday — send them this so they're not completely lost tomorrow канал

🎮 Someone gave Baldur's Gate 3 an over-the-shoulder camera — and the internet chose sides Modder Relysia dropped True Third-Person Camera on Nexus Mods this month: over-the-shoulder view, dynamic FOV, smooth transitions — Faerûn suddenly feels like The Witcher. A showcase video hit 3.9 million views in days, per IGN. Critics say the camera isn't cosmetic — it's structural, and BG3's levels were never built for it. The other side: nobody's touching turn-based combat or click-to-move, just make it an opt-in toggle. Larian signalled at a recent Divinity AMA that free camera won't be in the next game. Hard to hold that line when 3.9 million people just watched someone stroll through Baldur's Gate like it's Novigrad.