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• The official poster for Supergirl has been released
• James Gunn unveiled the DCU movie's first piece of artwork on July 16
• It pokes fun at the tagline used to promote Superman

The first poster for 2026's Supergirl movie has landed online, and it's a note-perfect piece of art that speaks to Kara Zor-El's rebellious and immature nature.

Released yesterday (July 16) by DC Studios co-chief James Gunn, it shows the eponymous hero sipping on a Slurpie as she poses next to the immediately recognizable 'S' symbol that adorns her and fellow Kryptonian Superman's outfits.

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Speaking of her superhero costume, Kara is kitted out in her classic apparel – complete with red skirt and knee-high boots – and the brown trench coat she's seen wearing during her cameo in Superman. The aforementioned overcoat is also worn in by Kara in 'Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow', the eight-issue graphic novels series that her forthcoming solo DC Universe (DCU) movie is heavily inspired by.

The poster also pokes fun at the 'look up' tagline that was used to promote Superman, aka one of 2025's most anticipated new movies until its release on July 11.

In a move that typifies Kara's anarchic persona, Clark Kent/Kal-El's uncontrollable cousin has graffitied over the 'up' part of its DCU Chapter One film sibling's slogan and replaced it with the word 'out'. It's a punk rock-style piece of wordplay on the part of DC Studios' marketing team that provides further proof that the company's upcoming projects will be tonally different (as reported by IGN) from one another.

House of the Dragon alumnus Milly Alcock will portray Kara Zor-El/Supergirl in the DCU (Image credit: James Gunn/Twitter)

With Superman powering its way to a $217 million box office haul on opening weekend thanks to positive word of mouth from fans and critics alike, attentions are now turning to – and anticipation is building for – Supergirl's arrival next year.

Indeed, the movie formerly known as Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow until Gunn confirmed the DCU's Supergirl film had undergone a name change, is set to fly into theaters worldwide on June 26, 2026.

Milly Alcock, one of two finalists for the role of Kara Zor-El before she was officially hired last January, will reprise her role as the titular character following her all-too-brief appearance in Superman. Regardless, Gunn's first DCU movie only needed 30 seconds to convince me Supergirl will be worth watching.

For more on the next DC comic book movie, including its confirmed cast and plot details, read my ultimate guide on Supergirl. Once you're done, check out the section below for more coverage on one of the most exciting new films that'll launch next year.

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• The 8BitDo Pro 3 has just been announced by the popular controller brand
• It's due to release in August in the US, and October in the UK
• Pre-orders have now begun at Amazon

Controller manufacturer 8BitDo has announced its next big gamepad, the 8BitDo Pro 3. It'll be a successor to the 8BitDo Pro 2, which remains listed in our guide to the best Xbox controllers and is a superb budget retro gaming option.

The brand revealed the 8BitDo Pro 3 controller via its official X / Twitter account. You're able to pre-order it now for $69.99 / £59.99 at Amazon, and it'll begin shipping from August 12, 2025 in the US. However, UK folks will seemingly have to wait a bit longer until October 10, 2025.

Color-wise it comes in three flavors; a SNES-inspired 'G Classic', a more traditional 'Gray', and an eye-catching 'Purple' variant.

Introducing 8BitDo Pro 3 Bluetooth Gamepad.Retro flagship. A classic reimagined. 8BitDo’s iconic design—elevated with next-level compatibility and control. Featuring TMR joysticks, extra bumpers, swappable magnetic ABXY, Hall Effect triggers, and more.Compatible with Switch 1… pic.twitter.com/UJSNJ2hhN6July 15, 2025

The 8BitDo Pro 3 sounds like it has a mightily impressive feature set, packing Hall effect-like TMR thumbsticks, extra remappable bumper buttons, Hall effect triggers, and Trigger locks.

For me, though, the standout feature has to be its swappable magnetic face buttons, as well as the optional joystick modules that could make the 8BitDo Pro 3 perfect for the best fighting games. And much like the 8BitDo Pro 2 before it, likely also a great fit for retro gaming, be that on PC or via Nintendo Switch Online's various retro libraries.

On that note, 8BitDo has confirmed the controller is compatible with both Switch and Switch 2, as well as PC, Mac, SteamOS, and Android devices.

While this initial model doesn't appear to be compatible with Xbox like its predecessor, there's the possibility another model will be made for the console, as 8BitDo tends to do with its other pads including the 8BitDo Ultimate 2.

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• The Campfire Audio Relay is a USB-C DAC/amp for headphones
• Pro-Ject Head Box E is a very small desktop headphones amp
• Campfire Audio Relay: $229 / £229 | Pro-Ject Head Box E: £89 (about $120)

Two of our favorite hi-fi firms have released two very different headphone amps. One's designed to live on your desktop, and the other in your pocket or purse, but both promise a significant audio upgrade for fans of the best wired headphones and best wired earbuds.

The amps are the Campfire Audio Relay, a portable headphone DAC/amp with a USB-C connection; and the Pro-Ject Head Box E, a compact desktop headphone amplifier. Both are available from July 2025, and both cost less than you might expect.

The Pro-Ject Head Box E promises to outperform the headphone stages of larger, more expensive amps (Image credit: Pro-Ject)Campfire Relay and Pro-Ject Head Box E: key features and pricing

Let's start with the most affordable of the pair, the Pro-Ject Head Box E. That's just £89 / €119 (around $120 / AU$180), and unlike similarly priced amps it doesn't use an integrated chipset for its amplification: Pro-Ject says that it has used carefully selected discrete components to deliver a sound that punches above the amp's modest price tag.

The Head Box E delivers 665 milliwatts into 32 ohms, and it's deliberately simple: it has a pair of 6.3mm and a 3.5mm headphone outs on the front – which can be used simultaneously for shared listening – and RCAs on the back. The RCA out is bypassed so it can send unaltered audio to your hi-fi system. According to Pro-Ject, it "outperforms the headphone stages typically found in stereo amps".

The Campfire Audio Relay works with any USB-C device – meaning it's great for phones as well as laptops (Image credit: Campfire Audio)

The Campfire Audio Relay is even smaller, and it's built around the AKM 4493 SEQ DAC chip that according to Campfire, delivers "just the right amount of color and a touch of a classic analogue sound signature." It has 3.5mm and balanced 4.4mm outputs and USB-C for wide connectivity with phones, tablets and computers.

The Relay has selectable high/low gain, six filter modes and variable bit rates up to 32-bit / 768kHz, and it supports both PCM and DSD playback.

The Campfire Audio Relay is £229 / $299 (about AU$470) and if you’re in London this weekend you'll be able to check it out at CanJam London.

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• A security researcher has uncovered a worrying API key leak
• The leak reportedly comes from DOGE staffer Marko Elez
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A staffer with access to the personal data of millions of Americans has apparently leaked the API Key to at least four dozen LLMs developed by artificial intelligence company xAI, including X’s (formerly Twitter) own chatbot Grok.

Security expert Brian Krebs revealed Marko Elez, an employee at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, had access to sensitive databases at the US Social Security Administration, Justice, and Treasury departments as part of DOGE’s work in 'streamlining' the departments to increase efficiency.

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Grok exposed

A code script was committed to GitHub named ‘agent.py’ that included a private application programming interface (API) key for xAI by Elez. This was first flagged by GitGuardian, a firm which scans GitHub for API secret tokens, database credentials, and certificates - and alerts affected users.

The exposed API key allowed access to at least 52 different LLMs used by xAI, with the most recent being an LLM called ‘grok 4-0709’, created on July 9, 2025 - according to Chief Hacking Officer at security consultancy Seralys, Philippe Caturegli.

Caturegli warned KrebsOnSecurity, “If a developer can’t keep an API key private, it raises questions about how they’re handling far more sensitive government information behind closed doors.”

The code repository that contains the private API key has since been removed after Elez was notified by email of the leak, however, the key still works and has not yet been revoked, so the issue is far from resolved.

This is not the first time internal xAI APIs have been leaked, with LLMs made for Musk’s other organisations, like SpaceX, Tesla, and Twitter/X exposed earlier in 2025, Krebs confirmed.

“One leak is a mistake,” Caturegli said, “But when the same type of sensitive key gets exposed again and again, it’s not just bad luck, it’s a sign of deeper negligence and a broken security culture.”

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It’s hard to overestimate just how incredible the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 is in the glass and metal. It’s not your average folding phone, and the in-hand wow factor far outweighs that of most flagship phones over the past few years, including many of the best folding phones.

Over the past week, I’ve shown Samsung’s new folding phone to several people, and the response has been nearly uniform: 'wow, that’s light'. Then I ask them to unfold it, and the response is even more surprising.

As I discovered while speaking with Blake Geiser, the SVP of Product Management at Samsung North America, the company set out with a core primary goal: to create a folding phone that felt like the Galaxy S25 Ultra when folded.

The Galaxy Z Fold 7 nails this on the head, and most people are incredibly surprised when they first unfold it. I’ve used every major Samsung Galaxy flagship launched since the first Galaxy S-series handset in 2010, and this is why the Galaxy Z Fold 7 is one of Samsung’s best phones.

Three design changes make all the difference

(Image credit: Lance Ulanoff / Future)

Samsung is widely credited with launching the foldable phone market, at least in most global markets; however, sales of folding phones have somewhat stagnated as they faced a series of challenges that needed to be overcome.

The biggest of these was the size, and despite Samsung making its folding phones thinner and lighter each year, even the Galaxy Z Fold 6 was considerably thicker, bulkier, and heavier than Samsung’s non-folding phones.

(Image credit: Lance Ulanoff / Future)

The Galaxy Z Fold 7 immediately rectifies this: it’s 4.2mm thick when unfolded, which allows it to be 8.9mm thick when folded. That’s 0.7mm thicker than the Galaxy S25 Ultra, yet the Galaxy Z Fold 7 feels better, as it’s 3.8mm narrower and three grams lighter. It’s the sleekest Samsung phone ever made, and the nicest folding phone I’ve ever felt in the hand.

One of the biggest challenges for previous Samsung folding phones was the narrow front screen, but the Galaxy Z Fold 7 cover display feels very similar to the regular Galaxy S25. It’s significantly better than the Fold 6, and it makes the Fold 7 feel just like a normal phone that unfolds into a tablet.

And create a genuine wow factor

(Image credit: Lance Ulanoff / Future)

All of this combines to create something that feels magical. I’ve long wondered what it would take to persuade smartphone users to upgrade to a folding phone, and the Galaxy Z Fold 7 could be the device that finally prompts people to make the switch. It packs a ton of wow factor, and unlike its chief rivals, it’ll be widely available globally.

Rivals like the Oppo Find N5 and Honor Magic V5 have a limited release, and although the latter is expected to launch globally in the coming months, it will still have fewer carrier and retail partnerships than the Galaxy Z Fold 7. This is a crucial fact, as it adds even more credence to the significant differences between the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and the Galaxy Z Fold 6; thankfully, Samsung has this covered.

Smartphones don’t change that often, and most years, we suggest that it’s not worth upgrading from the most recent previous generation. This year, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 feels like a completely new phone that I think every phone user — folding or otherwise — should consider switching to. I don’t think we’ve seen Samsung achieve this level of wow factor in years.

All the right big numbers

(Image credit: Lance Ulanoff / Future)

During the early part of my career, I spent almost a decade working for carriers in the UK, and one thing is clear: big numbers sell, or specifically, the right big numbers.

The Galaxy Z Fold 7 doesn’t have the absolute best specs on a folding phone, but it has enough large numbers to persuade customers to buy it. Between advertising, Samsung’s other marketing efforts, and word of mouth, it’s arguably inevitable that many non-folding phone users will want to experience the Galaxy Z Fold 7 at least once.

Galaxy Z Fold 7 front screen (left) vs Galaxy S25 Ultra (right) (Image credit: Lance Ulanoff / Future)

When they do, they’ll likely ask about the key numbers involved, and the Galaxy Z Fold 7 hits most of these, even though it lags behind the competition in many areas. A triple camera with a headline 200-megapixel sensor — that’s ostensibly the same as the one found in the lauded Galaxy S25 Ultra — will get any customer’s attention. The camera is better than I expected, and should prove to be good enough for most people, as long as they don’t want to capture photos at long focal lengths.

The 4,400mAh battery and 25W charging aren’t world-beating — in fact, they’re lower than all the key rivals — but sound big enough for someone switching from a Galaxy S25 Plus or iPhone 16 Pro. In actual practice, it’s a full day of usage with very little to spare, but considering most people sit at a desk, or plug in to charge while in the car, I think it’ll be passable, but barely.

Z Fold 7 thickness (left) vs the Galaxy Z Fold 6 (right) (Image credit: Lance Ulanoff / Future)

Even the chip hits the right note, albeit with one big caveat. It’s the same Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy chipset used in Samsung’s other flagship phones this year, at least on paper. In actual practice, the silicon feels throttled compared to Samsung’s other flagships, and performs similarly to the also ultra-thin Galaxy S25 Edge.

There will undoubtedly be doubts about the longevity of the Galaxy Z Fold 7's battery, which is understandable, but I suspect that the design and wow factor are special enough for customers to accept certain shortcomings. It doesn’t have the best battery life, but I’ve found that it’s sufficient for most people, even if it falls short of rival folding phones.

The ultra-thin foldable we’ve been waiting for

(Image credit: Lance Ulanoff / Future)

The Galaxy Z Fold 7 is an engineering marvel simply for how fantastic it feels. When I first held it at a Galaxy Unpacked preview event, I was blown away by how thin, light, and sleek it felt. I had my reservations, but I’ve wondered if my initial reaction was reflective of an average user or someone who has a passion for folding phones.

To answer this, I’ve shown the Galaxy Z Fold 7 to many different people, and it’s reaffirmed what I thought at first: this is one of the most special folding phones ever made — a case in point is my mother. She won’t consider the Galaxy S25 Ultra because it’s too big, but she wants a great camera. She uses a Galaxy S22 Plus and refuses to switch to an iPhone.

(Image credit: Lance Ulanoff / Future)

I showed my mother the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and she was floored by its design. She’s so impressed that she’s heavily considering buying it. This was the biggest surprise, as I had shown her other folding phones — like the Find N5 and the Magic V3 — and this was the first folding phone she was willing to consider.

If it can appeal to someone resistant to technology change, like my mother, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 will surely appeal to the masses more than any other folding phone before it. Could this finally be the folding phone industry’s iPhone moment, or will that need to wait for next year’s rumored iPhone Fold or this year's rumored Samsung tri-fold? Either way, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 is shaping up to be the best foldable yet.

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If you had some issues accessing Reddit – either on the web or via the app on Android or iOS – earlier, you're not alone. First spotted by my colleagues in the UK, Reddit had a widespread outage on July 16 for about an hour.

“Oops” was appearing when trying to open the main page of the app and on a desktop, this “We encountered an error.” message was being displayed. Additionally, Down Detector, a service that tracks website outages in the UK and the US, saw massive spikes in reports, reaching over 130,000.

For a majority of the outage, it appeared that subreddit pages were still loading at the top with no visible posts, and that the main page wasn't pulling in trending feeds properly.

(Image credit: Future/Matthew Hanson)

Reddit was quick to note the issue, posting at 11:52 AM ET that it was “investigating elevated site errors" on its status page and kept that updated very frequently during the outage. Ahead, you can read our live reporting of Reddit's July 16, 2025, outage.

Here's a look at Reddit's Down Detector page in the United States right now, currently at over 133,00 reported issues.

(Image credit: Future/Jacob Krol)

My colleague Hamish shared these shots of what the Reddit app on Android looks like right now in the UK. It appears that the main home page displays a "Wow, such empty" notice, and that subreddit pages are loading partially.

On the latter, the name and top bar appear, but then no posts are visible.

(Image credit: Future)

Reddit's now identified the cause of the issue and is working on a fix, and in pretty fast fashion as the update was posted to its status page at 12:06PM ET – shortly after the spikes of reported issues came.

The message in full reads, "Identified - We've identified the cause of the issue and are working to address it." It stops short of stating exactly what it's, but it's also worth noting that the outage is primarily affecting viewing posts and other parts of the site.

(Image credit: Future)

There are some signs that Reddit might be recovering, making this a relatively quick blip of an outage. I'm able to load the site again on my computer, both within Google Chrome and Safari, with the homepage populating with trending posts and individual subreddits.

My colleague, Amelia Schwanke, TechRadar’s Senior Editor for Streaming and Home Entertainment, shared a screenshot of the mobile app still being down, but notes that the site is loading fine on desktop in the UK.

(Image credit: Future)Reddit's implemented a fix

In line with the site beginning to load again for me and some of my colleagues, Reddit is now saying that has fix is live.

It reads in full, "Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results." and was posted at 12:21PM ET. Granted, it might take a bit to trickle out to everyone, but it seems like Reddit is on the path to recovering from a partial outage.

(Image credit: Future)Down Detector reports are way down

While reported puitages for Reddit on Down Detector were over 133,000 a bit ago, it appears that the platform's fix is working as reports have dropped significantly. As of 12:17 PM on July 16, 2025, there are 3,096 reported outages on Down Detector in the US, and only 296 outages are reported on the platform in the UK.

(Image credit: Future)Reddit says all systems are operational

Well, it's always a relief when outages are quick, and Reddit certainly kept its users informed via a status page and got a fix rolled out pretty fast. The service's status page now shows the incident as resolved and that everything is back to normal. This comes as Reddit is loading normally for me and most of my colleagues again.

Similarly, Down Detector reports are away way down, back to numbers that don't indicate an outage or issue.