The Linux community was rocked by the news that University of Minnesota researchers had developed a method for introducing “hypocrite commits” to the Linux kernel, distributing hard-to-detect behaviors, meaningless in themselves, that could later be aligned by attackers to manifest vulnerabilities. This follows the announcement that the university has been banned from contributing to kernel development.

Tesla Inc launched its Full Self-Driving subscription for its driver-assistance software package for $199 per month. The FSD feature would cost $99 a month for those who previously bought the Enhanced Autopilot package.

Alibaba’s Taobao Maker Festival in China includes some real estate NFTs in its lineup, including 10 luxury single-family villas, 300 high-end units, and 1,000 ‘Umbrellas’ within the virtual Bu Tu Garden Community.

Facebook continued its pushback against President Biden’s comment that social media platforms were “killing people” with COVID-19 misinformation, stating that the facts tell a very different story to the one promoted by the administration in recent days’. The Biden administration has chosen to blame a handful of American social media companies.

Intel is in talks to buy GlobalFoundries for $30 billion. Intel stock edged up 0.5% in the extended session. The U.S.-based GlobalFoundry is owned by Global Mubadala Investment, an investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government.

Samsung has applied for tax breaks to potentially build its planned $17 billion U.S. chip factory in a location in Williamson County, Texas, which would consist of an investment “in excess of $17billion dollars” and result in 1,800 new jobs.

The Steam Deck will begin shipping in December, and reservations open July 16th at 1PM ET. The device has an AMD APU containing a quad-core Zen 2 CPU with eight threads and eight compute units’ worth of AMD RDNA 2 graphics, alongside 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM, and three storage tiers.

The European Union is using its heft as a wealthy trade bloc of half a billion consumers to set the global pace of climate change action, challenging others to match the ambitions of its latest carbon cutting plans. The question is whether the EU gambit becomes an established benchmark upon which investors and sectors set transition strategies and how big emitters like the United States and China respond ahead of UN climate talks later this year.

Instagram has admitted a mistake in its technology meant racist comments and emojis were not removed following a flood of racist abuse directed at England footballers Bukayo Saka, Marcus Rashford, and Jadon Sancho following the men's Euro 2020 final. The issue has now been fixed, with content being identified as within guidelines instead of referred to human moderators.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (2330.TW) signaled on Thursday plans to build new factories in the United States and Japan, riding on a pandemic-led surge in demand for chips that power smartphones, laptops and cars.TSMC will expand production capacity in China and does not rule out the possibility of a "second phase" expansion at its $12 billion factory in Arizona.

Bitcoin prices slid by the most in 10 days, falling in sync with U.S. stocks, as analysts warned that the market might be primed for a fresh leg down. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell weighed in on two areas dear to cryptocurrency traders – the prospect for outsize inflation as the economy reopens and the possible, eventual rollout of a digital dollar.

Xiaomi has been growing 83% year-over-year and capturing 17% of the global market. The Chinese mobile company is now No. 2 in the global smartphone market, behind only Samsung's 19% by a relatively small margin, with Apple at third with 14% and Vivo at 10% a piece.