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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Google is teasing its next foldable.

In a new video on Monday, you can catch brief and shadowy glimpses of the Pixel 11 Pro Fold, which is set to be fully revealed at an event on August 12th.

But the phone’s design has already leaked, if you want to see it ahead of time.

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Jay Peters and Tom Warren
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Amazon’s developing a Warhammer 40,000 animated series produced by Henry Cavill.

According to Variety, the series will be a spin-off of Amazon’s 2024 Secret Level anthology series, which includes a Warhammer episode. It’s in development alongside the live-action Warhammer project Cavill’s also working on, and reportedly features the Deathwatch, “an elite group of Space Marines that specialize in hunting down alien threats.”

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Matte black everything.

Leaker Evan Blass posted what appear to be marketing renders of the Pixel 11 Pro, including a few showing off an excellent matte gray / black model. In the renders, it looks great.

Apple is also rumored to launch a gray / black option for this year’s Pro lineup. But the shade on this Pixel 11 Pro might be hard to top.

A leaked marketing render of a Pixel 11 Pro.
Image: Evan Blass
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Apple fights the UK’s iCloud backdoor order (again).

The Cupertino company has reportedly launched another legal challenge against the UK government’s attempt to force Apple into providing it with backdoor access to encrypted iCloud data. While the UK dropped its initial demands in August 2025, it apparently issued a second order last October that specifically targets British user data.

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CEO Toni Schneider on protocols, community, and control.

Nilay Patel
Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
Some fortunate news.

Nintendo’s next big Switch 2 exclusive — Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave — is also the subject of the company’s next Direct showcase. It streams August 4th at 10AM ET and will last around 20 minutes, according to Nintendo. The game, meanwhile, is launching on September 17th.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Amazon’s bot crackdown is blocking reviews.

Some Amazon shoppers have had limited access to customer reviews since late last year because the shopping platform is mistakenly flagging them as bots in its attempt to restrict unauthorized data scraping. Amazon hasn’t disclosed how many customers are affected, or what behaviors are getting people flagged.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
The MacBook Air is looking scarce.

Apple is struggling to keep the laptop in stock, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, with new orders on some configurations experiencing “essentially unprecedented” delays of roughly a month. This joins the shortages for the Mac Mini and Studio, all of which are seemingly connected to the ongoing memory crisis.