A US federal court awards Activision $14.4M in a judgment for its 2022 lawsuit accusing EngineOwning of DMCA violation by selling Call of Duty cheat software (Wesley Yin-Poole/IGN)

Wesley Yin-Poole / IGN:
A US federal court awards Activision $14.4M in a judgment for its 2022 lawsuit accusing EngineOwning of DMCA violation by selling Call of Duty cheat software  —  Owned.  —  A high-profile video game cheat maker has been ordered to pay Activision over $14 million in damages and hand over its domain name.

Colorado governor Jared Polis signs a right-to-repair bill that includes a strong ban on parts pairing and takes effect on January 1, 2026 (Brandon Vigliarolo/The Register)

Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register:
Colorado governor Jared Polis signs a right-to-repair bill that includes a strong ban on parts pairing and takes effect on January 1, 2026  —  But the repairability war isn’t over, says iFixit’s Kyle Wiens  —  A right to repair rule just signed into law in Colorado is earning praise …

The Atlantic and Vox Media sign multi-year licensing and product deals with OpenAI; The Atlantic plans an experimental Atlantic Labs with OpenAI tech (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Atlantic and Vox Media sign multi-year licensing and product deals with OpenAI; The Atlantic plans an experimental Atlantic Labs with OpenAI tech  —  – The Atlantic has been publishing content since 1857. … – Both agreements also allow OpenAI to tap into the respective publishers’ current content …

HP reports Q2 revenue down 0.8% YoY to $12.8B, vs. $12.6B est., Personal Systems revenue up 3% to $8.43B, vs. $8.28B est., Printing revenue down 8% to $4.37B (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
HP reports Q2 revenue down 0.8% YoY to $12.8B, vs. $12.6B est., Personal Systems revenue up 3% to $8.43B, vs. $8.28B est., Printing revenue down 8% to $4.37B  —  – AI PCs to be 10% of shipments in second half of year, CEO says  — Industry has been in a post-pandemic slump the past two years

AI training data provider Scale AI releases SEAL Leaderboards, which uses private datasets to rank LLMs in domains like coding, instruction following, and math (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
AI training data provider Scale AI releases SEAL Leaderboards, which uses private datasets to rank LLMs in domains like coding, instruction following, and math  —  Artificial intelligence training data provider Scale AI Inc., which serves the likes of OpenAI and Nvidia Corp. …

Mistral AI releases 22B-parameter Codestral, its first generative AI model for coding, trained on 80+ programming languages and prohibited for commercial use (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Mistral AI releases 22B-parameter Codestral, its first generative AI model for coding, trained on 80+ programming languages and prohibited for commercial use  —  Mistral, the French AI startup backed by Microsoft and valued at $6 billion, has released its first generative AI model for coding, dubbed Codestral.