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We’re officially over halfway through the year and Paramount+ is still proving it’s the king of streaming services for classic movies. Amazingly, we’ve got even more added to its hefty binge list from July 2025.Jackass is making a huge comeback to the platform with seven of its unhinged movies dropping this month, while tear-jerkers Saving Private Ryan (1998) and Titanic (1997) will make sure we completely run out of tissues.That’s before we even get to the two big-hitters this month: Dexter: Resurrection and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3. Strange New Worlds is a sequel of the original series, while Resurrection is technically a sequel of a prequel of its main show.Keeping up? You’ve got some serious binging to do of the best Paramount+ shows.Everything new on Paramount+ in July 2025Arriving on July 1A Soldier's Story (movie)A Walk Among the Tombstones (movie)A Walk on the Moon (movie)Airplane II: The Sequel (movie)Airplane! (movie)An Officer and a Gentleman (movie)Beverly Hills Cop (movie)Beverly Hills Cop II (movie)Beverly Hills Cop III (movie)Boys And Girls (movie)Breakfast at Tiffany's (movie)Chicago (movie)City of God (movie)City of Men (movie)Congo (movie)Cracks (movie)Crisis (movie)Defiance (movie)Don Jon (movie)Downhill Racer (movie)Election (movie)Failure to Launch (movie)Full Metal Jacket (movie)G.I. Blues (movie)G.I. Jane (movie)Gasoline Alley (movie)Girl, Interrupted (movie)Glory (movie)Go (movie)Hamburger Hill (movie)Hit & Run (movie)Jackass 2.5 (movie)Jackass 3 (movie)Jackass 3.5 (movie)Jackass Number 2 (movie)Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (movie)Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5 Unrated (movie)Jackass: The Movie (movie)Jarhead (movie)John Grisham's The Rainmaker (movie)Limitless (movie)Looper (movie)Lords of Dogtown (movie)Machete Kills (movie)Major League (movie)Monster Summer (movie)Mud (movie)Pet Sematary (2019) (movie)Rules of Engagement (movie)Saving Private Ryan (movie)Seabiscuit (movie)Set It Off: Director's Cut (movie)Side Effects (movie)Sleepless (movie)South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (movie)Stardust (movie)Staten Island Summer (movie)Stop-Loss (movie)The Aviator (movie)The Book of Henry (movie)The Fighter (movie)The Gunman (movie)The Killer Inside Me (movie)The Lincoln Lawyer (movie)The Patriot (movie)The Presidio (movie)The Quiet American (movie)The Survivalist (movie)The To Do List (movie)The Virgin Suicides (movie)Titanic (movie)Training Day (movie)World Trade Center (movie)Zero Dark Thirty (movie)Arriving on July 2Dora & Diego: Rainforest Rescues special (TV show)Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado (TV show)Dora season 3 (TV show)Arriving on July 8White Famous season 1 (TV show)Arriving on July 10The Great Debaters (movie)Big Brother season 27 (TV show)Arriving on July 11Dexter: Resurrection (TV show)Arriving on July 13 Alone in Berlin (movie)Arriving on July 16The Challenge: All Stars season 5 (TV show)Max and the Midknights season 1 (TV show)Arriving on July 17 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 (TV show)Arriving on July 23RuPaul's Drag Race season 17 (TV show)RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked season 16 (TV show)Arriving on July 30CMT Live - Nate Smith at Busch Country: One Night Only (TV show)You might also like MobLand season 2: everything we know so far about the hit Paramount+ show's returnYellowjackets season 3 finale made me shocked, surprised and sad – here are 3 things you may have missedI can’t keep track of all the Yellowstone spin-offs on Paramount Plus and yet another is reportedly in the works

According to recent research, nearly half of the FTSE 100 now have a Chief AI Officer (CAIO) – with 42% of those hires happening in just the last year. On paper, this looks like real momentum, as boardrooms recognize the huge transformational potential of artificial intelligence (AI).With investors asking, employees experimenting, and competitors charging ahead, the pressure to ‘do something with AI’ is everywhere. For many organizations, a new C-suite title feels like a signal of intent.But leadership titles alone won’t fix underlying data issues – and in most enterprises, their data isn’t yet AI ready. So, the question is: are CAIOs a sign of strategic evolution, or a symptom of something more reactive?Who owns AI? Balancing responsibilities between CAIOs and CDOs In many organizations, the CAIO steps into an environment that already includes a Chief Data Officer (CDO). In others, CDOs are simply absorbing the AI remit without additional support or clarity. It may tick a box on the surface, but it doesn’t solve the underlying issue: who’s actually accountable for AI success?The result is often blurred lines, overlapping mandates, which can potentially lead to internal friction. CAIOs may be tasked with developing an AI strategy to support technology goals, while the CDO manages data governance, but overlapping responsibilities can sometimes lead to differences over resources and accountability, which may slow the progress of their shared initiatives.What’s needed is more than simply another title. It’s clarity. AI initiatives are far more likely to succeed when there’s clear ownership of the data lifecycle – from ingestion and governance through to analytics and deployment. Without that end-to-end view, AI projects become fragmented and fail to scale.AI ambition meets data reality While boards chase cutting-edge AI strategies, their IT teams are often stuck managing fragmented and outdated data – and legacy systems that weren’t built for AI. IT teams are dealing with dozens of disconnected sources, each with its own structure, format, and security posture. This disconnect between business goals and execution makes it difficult to translate strategy into implementation at scale.The situation is intensified by relentless data growth, increasingly complex regulatory demands, and hybrid environments spanning both cloud and on-premises infrastructure.Traditionally, organizations have turned to point solutions to manage scale and compliance. While these tools can accelerate specific use cases and give the impression of faster time to value, they often introduce their own set of complications. Integration challenges, fragmented workflows, and the need for specialized training can all erode long-term ROI – resulting in long-term complexity. This is effectively imposing a ‘data integration tax’ on organizations, at a time when they want to accelerate AI investment.Many organizations underestimate just how foundational the data layer is. AI requires full visibility into where data lives, how it flows, who has access, and how it’s governed – wherever it resides – whether on-prem, in the cloud, or at the edge. You can’t trust your AI output if you don’t trust your data input.This is why unified data management platforms are so critical. Without a consistent approach to control, access, and lifecycle management, AI models are not being built on a strong enough foundation. This gap between vision and reality is exactly where a CAIO should be equipped to translate complex technical potential into practical solutions.CAIOs don’t have to be deep technologists – but they must be translators Another misconception in the CAIO role is that you need an advanced technical background, like a PhD in machine learning, to do the job. In reality, many of today’s effective AI leaders come from business or operational backgrounds. They understand how to align AI strategy with business outcomes – and just as importantly, how to communicate that strategy to the board.The real value of the CAIO isn’t just technical – it’s also translational. The best one's act as a bridge between data science teams and the wider organization, making sure that AI initiatives are solving real business problems. They know how to ask the right questions, interpret what’s possible, and lead cross-functional teams to deliver impact.Of course, technical literacy is integral. But it’s the ability to integrate this with business outcomes and communicate cross functionally across the business that sets a great CAIO apart.Before businesses hire, they need to ask if they’re readyThere’s no question that CAIOs can add enormous value. But only if the foundations are in place. If the data is fragmented, governance controls are poor, and internal ownership is unclear, even the most visionary AI leader will struggle to deliver results.That’s why forward-thinking organizations need to ask themselves questions before rushing to hire. Do we have full visibility across our data lifecycle? Are we applying governance and security consistently, no matter where our data lives? Is our architecture flexible enough to support AI at scale? And critically, do we have the cultural and operational readiness to embed AI in a way that actually delivers value?In this context, it's not about rushing to appoint someone just to show momentum. It’s about ensuring they have the structure, support, and systems in place to actually make a difference. At the end of the day, it’s not the title that will define a company's AI success – it’s the trust they have in their data.We've featured the best AI chatbot for business.This article was produced as part of TechRadarPro's Expert Insights channel where we feature the best and brightest minds in the technology industry today. The views expressed here are those of the author and are not necessarily those of TechRadarPro or Future plc. If you are interested in contributing find out more here: https://www.techradar.com/news/submit-your-story-to-techradar-pro

Apple is paying out $95 million to settle a Siri class-action lawsuitIf you think you're eligible, you need to submit a claim by the end of July 2Apple has denied all wrongdoing in settling the caseBack in January, Apple agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit related to its Siri voice assistant. The case saw some Apple device owners claim that Siri had disclosed their private conversations to advertisers, following "unintended Siri activations".Apple denied all wrongdoing and agreed to settle the case to "avoid additional litigation" (more on that below). But the result of the 'Lopez vs Apple Inc' suit means that, if you owned and used an Apple device between September 17, 2014 and December 31, 2024, you could be due a small slice of the payout. You'll need to be quick, though – the deadline is today, July 2.Those who are eligible could be a line for a maximum payout of $100 (that's $20 per device, for up to five Siri devices). Not exactly a lottery jackpot, but worth investigating if you think you've been affected by unintentionally activating Siri during a private conversation during that period.As The Verge reports, many of those affected will have received an email titled “Lopez Voice Assistant Class Action Settlement" (from the address 'info@lopezvoiceassistantsettlement.com'). Despite sounding like spam, this is a genuine email containing details like your 'claimant identification code' and more.But even if you didn't receive this, you can also submit a claim. Here's a quick breakdown of what happened, how Apple's responded and how to file a claim if you think you've been affected...What happened?The lawsuit's plaintiffs alleged that "confidential or private communications" were "obtained by Apple and/or shared with third parties as a result of an unintended Siri activation". According to the suit's homepage, that took place sometime between 17 September, 2014 and 31 December, 2024.But how? Apple has always maintained that iPhones don't 'listen' to their owners, aside from when wake words like 'Hey, Siri' are used. Well, the key is that phrase "unintended Siri activation".The plaintiffs say that Siri not only tuned into private conversations by mistake – perhaps by mishearing a wake word – but also used that information to subsequently trigger ads.(Image credit: Shutterstock / DedMityay)Again, Apple denies that this is possible, stating that "Siri data has never been used to build marketing profiles and it has never been sold to anyone for any purpose".Nevertheless, as Reuters reported, two plaintiffs claimed that their mentions on Air Jordan sneakers and Olive Garden restaurants later resulted in them getting ads for those products, while another plaintiff claimed they got ads for a brand name surgical treatment after talking about it with their doctor.What did Apple say?Despite agreeing to pay $95 million to settle the Siri lawsuit, Apple was pretty bullish in its response – and admitted no wrongdoing, despite settling the suit.Apple told us that "Siri data has never been used to build marketing profiles and it has never been sold to anyone for any purpose,” adding that collected data is only used to improve the virtual assistant.(Image credit: Shutterstock / Tada Images)In a separate statement, it added: "Apple settled this case to avoid additional litigation so we can move forward from concerns about third-party grading that we already addressed in 2019. We use Siri data to improve Siri, and we are constantly developing technologies to make Siri even more private."That's fairly emphatic then, but the settlement means that potentially millions of Apple device owners could be eligible for a claim – here's how to check to see if you're one of them.How to claim(Image credit: Lopez v Apple Inc)If you think you're eligible for a payout in the 'Lopez v Apple Inc' lawsuit, you'll need to use the official claim form and submit it by the end of July 2, 2025.You'll need to meet some pretty specific criteria in order to be eligible for a payout. That criteria is below and the claim form asks you to confirm all of the below under oath:between September 17, 2014 and December 31, 2024 you bought or owned a Siri device in the United States, and enabled Siri on that deviceyou experienced an "unintended Siri activation" in that periodthat unintended Siri activation took place "during a conversation intended to be confidential and private"You can make claims for up to five Siri devices – these can include iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, MacBooks, iMacs, HomePods, the iPod touch, or Apple TVs.As mentioned above, many of those who are potentially eligible will have received an email titled "Lopez Voice Assistant Class Action Settlement". But you don't necessarily need to have received that email to make a claim – if not, just click "New Claim" in the claim form and enter your details from there.You might also likeWhat is Apple Siri: This chatbot virtual assistant has finally come of ageApple's uncharacteristic Siri stumble is bad news for you, and now we may know how it happened and why there's reason for hopeHow to use Siri with ChatGPT

Tesla says it delivered 384,122 electric vehicles in the April-June timeframe, which is a 14 percent drop compared with the same period in 2024. It's also the second quarter in a row that sales have fallen year-over-year (YoY).

The company produced 410,244 vehicles in Q2, which is very close to the 410,831 it made during the equivalent period last year. However, the company delivered more vehicles (443,956) than it produced in Q2 2024. That's not the case this time. The number of vehicle deliveries in Q2 2025 plummeted by nearly 60,000 YoY.

The line has been trending downwards for a while now. The company saw a dip in annual deliveries for the first time in 2024. For the first quarter of 2025, Tesla reported 336,681 deliveries, which is a drop of 13 percent from the same three-month period in 2024.

Multiple reports over the last several months suggested that Tesla sales had been falling in several markets. CEO Elon Musk reportedly fired Tesla's head of manufacturing and operations, Omead Afshar, last week as the numbers continued to sink.

Various factors have played a hand in Tesla's declining sales numbers. For one thing, the company (which is focusing more on autonomous driving efforts such as the Robotaxi) is facing tougher competition, particularly from Chinese manufacturers that are making less-expensive models.

And then there's the Musk factor. So much of Tesla's success has been pegged to the public persona of its chief executive. But there's been a significant backlash against Musk in recent years, particularly after he became a major financial backer and advisor to President Donald Trump during the 2024 election campaign. After Trump's inauguration, Musk became the head of the administration's Department of Government Efficiency program, adopting a similar slash-and-burn approach to cost-cutting within the government to the one he undertook at X. Musk formally left his government role in May.

In recent weeks, Musk has become an ardent critic of the Trump administration's major tax and spending bill. The proposed legislation — which is no longer officially called The One Big Beautiful Bill Act — passed the Senate on Tuesday and is set for another House vote. The bill includes provisions that could harm Musk's businesses, such as removing incentives for consumers to buy EVs. Trump has threatened to end contracts that Musk's companies have with the government amid a spat between the two men.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/transportation/evs/tesla-deliveries-drop-14-percent-amid-musk-backlash-141638753.html?src=rss

Last week, it was rumored that Microsoft was getting ready for a major round of layoffs within the Xbox team. Bloomberg is now reporting that employees in the company’s gaming division were informed of job cuts Wednesday morning. The PC giant has been on a cost-cutting mission lately, announcing it would let go of 3 percent of its global workforce earlier this summer, and announcing a further 9,000 job cuts on Wednesday.

According to Bloomberg, Microsoft’s Stockholm-based King division, famous for Candy Crush, is laying off 10 percent of its staff, representing roughly 200 jobs. While some other European gaming offices are also cutting, US units are reportedly being informed later Wednesday.

Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, sent an email to all Microsoft Gaming employees regarding the layoffs, which was obtained by Windows Central. In it, Spencer said, "I recognize that these changes come at a time when we have more players, games, and gaming hours than ever before. Our platform, hardware, and game roadmap have never looked stronger. The success we're seeing currently is based on tough decisions we've made previously. We must make choices now for continued success in future years and a key part of that strategy is the discipline to prioritize the strongest opportunities."

Last year, Microsoft slashed almost 2,000 jobs from its gaming division, affecting employees across Xbox and Activision Blizzard. In the same year, it also shuttered a trio of ZeniMax game development teams after having acquired the video game holding company in 2021. This will be the fourth round of cuts at Xbox in the last 18 months. These layoffs come against the backdrop of Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard in October 2023.

The gaming industry has had a rocky couple of years, with an estimated 11 percent of game developers losing their jobs in 2024. Microsoft’s profits have been on a steady upward trajectory, with the company reporting over $25 billion in net income in its last quarterly report.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/xbox/microsoft-gaming-division-suffers-further-layoffs-142430386.html?src=rss

The first time I heard The Velvet Sundown’s album Dust and Silence on Spotify, I thought to myself, hmm, that’s not too bad. It hits a lot of the notes I look for in music I can listen to in the background while I work: acoustic guitar, nice vocals, chill beats, and a mellow 60s psychedelic vibe. There’s only one problem: this band might not exist.The Velvet Sundown is suspected of being an entirely AI-generated band. Despite posting pictures of its band members on its Instagram and X.com accounts, the pictures look very fake. In fact, they look exactly like they were created by AI.It’s very hard to prove definitively if the band is fake, but the evidence mounts up: The pictures look fake, there’s no evidence that the band members really exist, and the music sounds like it could have been generated in an AI music tool, like Suno.Famous YouTube musician Rick Beato even released an episode about the band, breaking down its songs into individual tracks to see if he could tell if it was AI-generated. His opinion? Yes, it is.Upcoming tourThe band’s account on X.com is adamant that the band is real and makes its own music, even promising an upcoming live tour! A post from the band says, “This is our music, written in long, sweaty nights in a cramped bungalow in California with real instruments, real minds, and real soul. Every chord, every lyric, every mistake — HUMAN.”I’ve reached out to the band, and they’ve emailed me back, saying they’re happy to answer questions, except that as soon as I suggest a video interview, they immediately ghost me. It feels like whoever is behind The Velvet Sundown is very much trolling the rest of us for publicity by pretending to be a real band, and as this article shows, it’s working.Yesterday, The Velvet Sundown had 470,000 monthly listens on Spotify. When I look at its page today, they have gone up to 634,000. That’s a lot of revenue being diverted away from real bands who actually made their own music and towards a band whose music is created by AI from being trained on other people’s material, usually without attribution.Dust and Silence from The Velvet Sundown, playing on Apple Music. (Image credit: The Velvet Sundown)Apple and SpotifyWhat’s interesting is that both Apple and Spotify are happily streaming the band’s music while not flagging it as AI. Don’t we, the paying punters, deserve to know if the band we are listening to is fake?In fact, The Velvet Sundown is one of a number of recent ‘bands’ that have exposed a massive loophole in the big music streaming services like Apple, Spotify, and Amazon Music: They have absolutely no requirement that AI music be flagged as AI-generated.Interestingly, the smaller-sized streaming service Deezer does, and it has used its own technology to identify The Velvet Sundown’s music as AI-generated, and it flags it as such.Deezer flags Dust and Silence as "Ai-generated content". (Image credit: Deezer)The Velvet Sundown isn’t the only band suspected of being AI-generated (other suspected bands include Stellar Cruise and The Luna Lounge), but we’re only at the start of this problem. Music streaming services are about to be overrun by AI-generated content, and they need to act fast.I don’t want to be sending whatever meagre cents that music streams generate these days to a band that doesn't exist when there are plenty of struggling artists who need genuine support. Perhaps this whole mess will lead Apple and Spotify to rethink their policies on flagging AI music and take a leaf out of Deezer’s book, because I think it should be their responsibility to tell us, their paying customers, if the music we are listening to is AI-generated or not.Whether they are real or not, after the success of The Velvet Sundown, an absolute deluge of AI music will be on the way now that people have realized it’s an easy way to generate revenue, and Apple and Spotify do not flag it as such. And the next generation of AI bands will probably be a bit cleverer about hiding the fact that they are AI-generated.We’ve reached out to both Apple and Spotify for comment on AI music on their streaming platforms and will update this article if we receive any.You might also likeApple is reportedly looking to power Siri’s AI with OpenAI or Anthropic, here’s why I hope they do3 reasons why I appreciate AI and maybe you should tooI tried the incredible ChatGPT prompt that can help you learn everything about a topic – and it's a game changer

Windows 10 PCs are getting an update stealthily installedThe under-the-radar arrival of KB5001716 may confuse some folksThis patch is deployed to versions of Windows which are about to run out of support, and it'll nudge you to make a move to keep your PC secureWindows 10 PCs are getting an update stealthily piped to them, and some folks may be confused as to what this is.The good news is that it's nothing to worry about as such - although the update is a bit of an oddity, and it does herald the end of Windows 10 (I'll come back to why momentarily).Neowin noticed the arrival of the patch labelled KB5001716, and observed that this is an upgrade that Microsoft deploys ahead of 'force-installing' a new feature update.That's somewhat dramatic phrasing for KB5001716 being pushed to Windows versions which are about to run out of support - hence the users will indeed need to upgrade soon, or they'll be left without security updates (and potentially open to vulnerabilities that could be exploited as a result).So technically, the comment about a forced installation is true, but only because the upgrade is a necessary move to ensure the safety of the host PC.Here's what Microsoft tells us about this patch: "After this update is installed, Windows may periodically display a notification informing you of problems that may prevent Windows Update from keeping your device up-to-date and protected against current threats. For example, you may see a notification informing you that your device is currently running a version of Windows that has reached the end of its support lifecycle."In this case, the update is being quietly installed on PCs running the latest version of Windows 10, which is 22H2, as well as 21H2 - the latter is already out of support, mind. (As is Windows 11 21H2, which Microsoft also lists as receiving this patch currently, rather oddly).Analysis: The beginning of the end(Image credit: Microsoft)What this really represents is Microsoft preparing the ground for the end of Windows 10, which happens in October 2025. With this patch now being installed on all Windows 10 PCs, as noted, those machines will receive periodic notifications warning that the operating system is about to run out of support (and security updates).Microsoft is keeping something of a tight rein on those nudges (which will doubtless mention upgrading to Windows 11), though. The company notes that they "will respect full screen, game, quiet time and focus assist modes" meaning that they won't be overly intrusive. And hopefully they won't be too regular, either.So, if you've been worried about the appearance of this update, there's no need to fret. It's not a big deal, although that said, it is in some respects, in terms of the fuse effectively being lit for the final countdown with Windows 10.There are only three months left to go before the End of Life of the older OS now, and so there is some urgency to act. If you can't upgrade to Windows 11 due to falling short of the system requirements, you need to be thinking about alternatives (or getting an extra year of support).I think it'd really help if Microsoft was clearer about what this update is. In fact, KB5001716 is rolled out to PCs every time a support deadline for a version of Windows is imminent. Indeed, in the past, we have seen reports of this patch failing to install because it's already present on the system.Strictly speaking, that shouldn't happen - due to the patch only being pushed out to versions of Windows which are at death's door, as noted - but if it does somehow, the solution is simple. Uninstall the existing copy of KB5001716 in Windows Update, and the new one should then patch successfully. Otherwise, it'll keep repeatedly failing, which will doubtless get tiresome quite swiftly.Overall, this is a somewhat odd approach from Microsoft for managing dying Windows versions. It's not surprising that KB5001716 can cause some confusion, in terms of the stealthy, and repeated (over the years), installation of this 'update for Windows Update' as the company bills it.You might also like...No, Windows 11 PCs aren't 'up to 2.3x faster' than Windows 10 devices, as Microsoft suggests – here's why that's an outlandish claimmacOS Tahoe 26: here's everything you need to know about all the new featuresCan’t upgrade to Windows 11? This Linux project wants to save your old PC from the scrapheap when Windows 10 support ends