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The latest Netflix viewership ratings are in, offering insight into the most popular titles across the service. Netflix remains the only streaming platform that transparently shares viewership data with the public, even as its competitors hold their cards close to the vest. This week's report tracks viewership in the week of June 29 to July 5. While the movies list was topped by Enola Holmes 3 , which accumulated 20 million views in its debut week, a holdover hit retained the number one spot on the series list. The show in question has held on to the number one spot thrice in a row, beating out the second season of Avatar: The Last Airbender and the first season of the true-crime documentary series Worst Neighbor Ever .

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The 2006 classic Borat is R-rated comedy at its finest. The finest example of mockumentary on the big screen, the fearless Sacha Baron Cohen uses the guise of the titular, fictional Kazakh journalist traveling through the United States as a way to disassemble many of the strangest and ugliest sides of modern America , such as systemic prejudices and frighteningly open racism. As eye-opening as it is hilarious, Borat is nothing short of a masterpiece and is arguably more relevant today than ever, as seen in the recent sequel Borat Subsequent Moviefilm .

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Google Home is adding prebuilt ‘suggested automations’ that users can implement with minimal effort.

Nothing is changing for custom automations. Suggested automations can also be customized before being applied.

Additionally, Onn’s newest Google Home-compatible cameras are getting new lighting controls.

If you’re into Google Home but you haven’t tried out the ecosystem’s automation features, Google’s got an update for you. The latest version of the Google Home app includes “ready-made automations tailored to real-life tasks” on the Automations tab, letting you set up new routines in just a few taps.

Google announced the new suggested automations in the release notes for Google Home changes rolling out now. If you haven’t set up any automations yet, suggested automations will appear at the top of the Automations tab in Google Home. Otherwise, you can find them below the list of your existing automations.

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While Microsoft's seemingly unending spree of Xbox layoffs has often swept right over core tentpole studios like Fallout and Elder Scrolls maker Bethesda Game Studios, this week's historic downsizing was different.

Among 3,200 cut jobs – 1,600 of which were eliminated immediately – Elder Scrolls Online studio ZeniMax Online, Avowed and Pentiment developer Obsidian, and Doom studio id Software were all impacted by significant cuts. Perhaps most surprisingly, even Bethesda Game Studios proper, the studio currently working on The Elder Scrolls 6, had its workforce reduced as part of the restructuring.

Many US-based BGS employees are protected by the Bethesda Game Studios Union (BGSU), which ideally will help to provide adequate severance pay and support for impacted developers, but the labor union is nonetheless outraged by what it sees as a continuous punishing of workers for mistakes made my management.

A previous statement blasted Microsoft's repeated layoffs as "a stressful annual routine," and a new message shared to Bluesky confirms what everyone had suspected: that the layoffs primarily targeted developers on the ground, not management.

"Yesterday’s layoffs at Bethesda Games Studios were not a cut of '14 layers of management,'" reads the post, which refers to Xbox CEO Asha Sharma's layoff announcement and the mention of a byzantine management structure as one focus of the company's big reset. "We lost dozens of programmers, artists, designers and testers. Many of whom worked at BGS for decades," says the BGSU.

One way you can show Microsoft your concern is here through the XBOX Player Voice feedback platform: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...

— @bethesdaunion.bsky.social ( @bethesdaunion.bsky.social.bsky.social ) 2026-07-08T19:11:02.752Z

The BGSU advises fans who are worried the latest Xbox cuts will impact the quality of the studio's games, "like [The Elder Scrolls 6," to make their voices heard. The union points to a post shared to Microsoft's feedback portal that demands Xbox "end studio closures and stop the cycle of layoffs" and lays out a list of requests co-signed by over 1,900 votes.

This week's Xbox's layoffs are the largest to ever hit the company and will stretch through the end of the 2027 fiscal year. That means some 1,600 Xbox employees will be nervously anticipating bad news for almost another year. Now it just boils down to hopes that we won't see additional cuts to Microsoft's gaming division.

Bethesda boss says the company must focus on its "strongest franchises" as Xbox layoffs reportedly hit The Elder Scrolls and Fallout makers hard.