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• Amazon and Google are being investigated for failing to remove fake product reviews -British regulators are investigating whether Amazon and Google have broken consumer protection law by not doing enough to protect shoppers from fake product reviews.
  
  
• House Judiciary advances sweeping legislation to rein in and break up Big Tech -A powerful House panel on Thursday approved a sweeping set of proposals aimed at weakening Big Tech. It passed a series of measures imposing new obligations on top digital platforms, prohibiting them from abusing any gatekeeper power, and in some cases opening the door to new fines and breakups.
  
  
• Windows 11 is here: Everything you need to know -Windows is getting a glow up.
  
  
• Amazon is likely about to face a much bigger union fight -Amazon defeated a high-profile union drive at a warehouse in Alabama earlier this year. But now the e-commerce giant could face a much larger campaign to unionize its US warehouse workers, launched by one of the biggest unions in the nation.
  
  
• John McAfee found dead in Spanish prison after his extradition to the US was approved -John McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who'd had multiple recent run-ins with the US law, has died at 75. McAfee was awaiting extradition in a Spanish prison after being charged with tax evasion in the United States last year.
  
  
• Silicon Valley gave Asia's richest man billions, but things aren't all going to plan -Last year, Google and Facebook collectively bet more than $10 billion on Asia's richest man and his plan to bring hundreds of millions of Indians online.
  
  
• House antitrust bills could change the internet as we know it. Here's how -Over the last two decades, a handful of large tech companies have pushed into nearly every corner of our lives ? from communications and retail to financial services, healthcare and automobiles.
  
  
• Microsoft reaches a $2 trillion market cap -Microsoft has officially entered the most elite of clubs: corporations with a market value exceeding $2 trillion.
  
  
• EU antitrust officials are investigating Google's vast ads business -The European Union has launched an antitrust investigation into Google's vast advertising business, claiming that the company may have disadvantaged rival services, making it harder for brands to reach consumers and for publishers to fund their content.
  
  
• First Solar CEO: Getting rid of Trump tariffs would pose challenges -China's solar industry monopoly took a hit earlier this month when a new Ohio-based solar panel factory was announced.
  
  
• What it's really like to be an Amazon warehouse worker during Prime Day -For much of the past 16 months, Amazon's warehouse workers have faced grueling pressure to keep up with the demand from households for online goods during the pandemic. Now, workers must endure the stress of meeting a spike in orders from Amazon's summer shopping holiday, which kicks off Monday.
  
  
• Pornhub sued for allegedly serving nonconsensual sex videos -Dozens of women sued Pornhub and its parent company Thursday, alleging that the site knowingly profited from videos depicting rape, child sexual exploitation, trafficking and other nonconsensual sexual content.
  
  
• How Russian threats turned this country into the go-to expert on cyber defense -When people like the German Chancellor Angela Merkel or the King of Belgium want to learn more about cybersecurity, they go to Estonia.
  
  
• Two obscure service providers briefly broke the internet. It could happen again -For the second time in 10 days, a giant chunk of the internet briefly broke because of an outage at a company most people have probably never heard of.
  
  
• Airline and bank websites go down in another major internet failure -Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, banks and trading platforms suffered brief website outages after a key piece of internet infrastructure failed, sparking the second major interruption of the past 10 days.
  
  
• Texas authorities threaten SpaceX with legal action over beach closures, private security -SpaceX received a warning from a district attorney in Texas this week, warning that the company could be violating several state laws by shutting down public beaches for extended periods of time and using unlicensed security guards to ward people off public roads.
  
  
• Microsoft names CEO Satya Nadella as chairman -Satya Nadella is now even more powerful at Microsoft.
  
  
• Microsoft shareholder pushes company to address sexual harassment after Bill Gates misconduct allegations -An activist investor is urging Microsoft to do more to combat sexual harassment following misconduct allegations against its founder Bill Gates.
  
  
• Facebook is testing AI to get you to stop fighting in its groups -Conversations can quickly spiral out of control online, so Facebook is hoping artificial intelligence can help keep things civil. The social network is testing the use of AI to spot fights in its many groups so group administrators can help calm things down.
  
  
• Waymo raises $2.5 billion in latest fundraising round despite challenges -Waymo, the self-driving company of Google's parent company Alphabet, has raised $2.5 billion as its investors appear undeterred by a CEO change and progress that has lagged expectations.