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Mobile & Apps

Google to Begin Hosting Third-Party App Stores Inside Google Play on July 22, 2026

Google and Epic withdrew July 15, 2026 proposed court changes following Judge James Donato’s Oct 2024 finding that Google had an illegal Android app-distribution monopoly, after a reported $800 million Epic settlement. Google says third-party app stores will be hosted inside Google Play starting July 22, and US developer listings will auto-share unless they opt out.

The Verge
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AI

SpaceXAI’s Grok Build Was Quietly Uploading Users’ Full Codebases to Google Cloud

SpaceXAI said its Grok Build CLI was quietly uploading whole code repositories to Google Cloud—including files it was told not to open and secrets deleted from history—after July 2026 coverage by Cereblab. As of Monday the service returned disable_codebase_upload:true; Elon Musk promised deletion, while researcher Lukasz Olejnik called the data retention “excessive.”

The Verge
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General

Plex Outage Disrupts Streaming and Live TV for Users Worldwide

On July 14, 2026, a widespread Plex outage hit live TV and on-demand, plus the plex.tv API and Discover Together, and some users even reported degraded local LAN playback (“takes ages” and may not work). Plex confirmed the issues on its status page and X, noting an outage lasting over an hour at the time of reporting.

The Verge
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AI

Reflection AI Signs $1 Billion Compute Deal With Nebius

Reflection AI inked a $1B deal with Nebius in July 2026 for access to Nvidia’s latest chips, weeks after a similar SpaceX compute arrangement. Founded in 2024 by ex-DeepMind researchers, the $8B startup has raised about $2.6B from Nvidia, Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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