AMD Appoints Tim Ryan to Board of Directors
AMD appoints Tim Ryan to its board of directors, with KC McClure and Nora Denzel assuming new committee roles following Joseph Householder’s retirement after 11 years.
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Source-linked briefings published in August 2026.
Amazon CloudWatch pipelines adds GeoIP, RDS, and XML processors
AWS added three new processors to CloudWatch pipelines to parse RDS logs, XML payloads, and enrich IP addresses with geographic data, improving log queryability without extra cost.
UC Berkeley computer scientist on the promise and perils of agentic AI
UC Berkeley hosted the Agentic AI Summit 2026 to explore autonomous AI systems that reason, plan, and use tools independently, addressing safety and governance challenges alongside technical progress.
British Week 2026: 10 years in Paraguay
The British Embassy in Asunción will host British Week 2026 from 15 to 23 August, marking a decade of cultural and economic exchanges in Paraguay. The event highlights British contributions across food, literature,...
NOAA boosts weather data collection capabilities with new Mesonet contract
NOAA awarded a new contract starting September 1 to expand its National Mesonet Program, enhancing weather data collection through partnerships with private industry partners.
5 new ways to level up your learning with Search
Google Search introduces AI-powered tools to help students visualize concepts, take practice quizzes, and organize study materials, rolling out globally in English.
Back to School 2026
Google announced back-to-school updates for 2026, including free AI tool access for students and new learning features in Search, Gemini, and YouTube to support personalized study and classroom teaching.
Start the semester with one year of Gemini, on us
Google is offering eligible college students one year of free access to advanced AI plans, including Google AI Pro in the U.S. and Google AI Plus internationally, alongside new study tools via a dedicated student hub.
Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models
OpenAI introduces Private Safety Processing to strengthen safeguards across multiple user interactions while maintaining Zero Data Retention (ZDR) for eligible API customers, ensuring prompts and responses are not...
NASA Updates Next Steps for Commercial Swift Boost Mission
NASA and Katalyst Space have adjusted plans for the LINK spacecraft mission after an attitude control issue prevented a planned satellite boost, though rendezvous operations with the Swift Observatory will still proceed...
Human-Related Microbes May Survive Moon’s South Pole, NASA Finds
NASA research indicates Earth microbes could survive in shadowed lunar South Pole regions, complicating efforts to distinguish native chemistry from human contamination during future Moon missions.
How Rozas uses Zapier to give every lead a 2-minute head start
Rozas, a Louisiana law firm handling immigration and criminal cases, automated lead intake using Zapier, AI, and Clio Grow to reduce manual data entry from over 50 minutes to two minutes per lead, improving response...
AWS Cost Anomaly Detection supports third-party models on Amazon Bedrock
AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now monitors third-party foundation models on Amazon Bedrock, including Anthropic Claude, alerting users to unusual spending patterns automatically.
In the heart of campus, a new hub opens for undergraduate education
UC Berkeley opens the Undergraduate Academic Building this fall, adding 25 classrooms and a 400-seat auditorium to centralize undergraduate education and host 10% of campus general assignment classrooms.
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is now available in GovCloud Regions
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West), expanding its managed data ingestion service to 19 regions for processing and indexing data into Amazon OpenSearch...
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Managing your work
GitHub introduced the My work pane in its Copilot app to help users track pull requests, issues, and tasks across multiple sessions. The feature centralizes project management for developers juggling parallel work.
Technology Week: Launching into the Future with Advanced Technologies
NOAA will host Technology Week (August 17–21, 2026) to showcase advanced tools used to monitor marine ecosystems, track endangered species, and improve fisheries management.
Waymo is bringing Gemini into its custom Ojai vehicles.
Waymo has integrated Google’s Gemini AI into its custom Ojai vehicles, enabling passengers to use voice commands for cabin controls and local information via an in-car assistant.
Azure Cosmos DB in the Agentic Era: Data Tools for Developers and AI Agents
Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB extension for Visual Studio Code integrates GitHub Copilot tools to let AI agents safely query databases, sample schemas, and execute commands with developer oversight.
AWS announces a new Availability Zone in the Europe (London) Region
AWS opened a fourth Availability Zone in the Europe (London) Region on 14 May 2025, adding new AI and ML capacity and improving fault tolerance for customers in eu-west-2.
AWS announces a new Availability Zone in the Europe (London) Region
AWS has launched a fourth Availability Zone in its Europe (London) Region, expanding cloud capacity and introducing next-generation AI and ML infrastructure for customers.
Gears of War: E-Day and Gibson Unite for a Custom Guitar Collection
Gibson Guitars and The Coalition unveiled a limited-edition custom guitar collection inspired by Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago from Gears of War: E-Day, featuring hand-painted designs by artist Luke Preece.
Why Lawson’s Red Bull call-up is such a huge opportunity
Red Bull has recalled Liam Lawson for the Dutch Grand Prix, marking the first time in 22 years the team has reinstated a previously released driver. The move follows an injury to Isack Hadjar and offers Lawson a...
Introducing Jira Planner
Atlassian launched Jira Planner to address AI-assisted development challenges by converting rough ideas into structured, agent-ready specifications grounded in team context and codebase details.
Ancient Milky Way Merger
NASA announced evidence of an ancient merger between the Milky Way and a dwarf galaxy called LKH, dating back 12 billion years, extending the galaxy’s known history by 1.8 billion years.
5 Myanmar Stars Who Could Make Waves In ONE Championship
Myanmar’s next wave of ONE Championship athletes will showcase their skills in upcoming bouts, with five fighters targeting breakthrough performances across Muay Thai and kickboxing divisions.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs is now available in 5 additional AWS regions
AWS Lambda MicroVMs expands to five new regions, bringing VM-level isolation and near-instant execution to 10 total regions for secure, stateful code deployment.
A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare reassessed Spectre attack risks on Workers, finding a limitation in its Dynamic Process Isolation defense that allowed a remote leak of up to 12 bits per second with 99% accuracy. The company has since...
Available for XBOX Insiders: Home Improvements, Local Save Game Management, and Profile Badges
Xbox Insiders gain new console features including Home customization, local save management, and profile badge details, alongside a 25th-anniversary badge for Xbox One Day One achievers.
Designing effective Genie Agents from a single prompt
Databricks introduces Genie Agents, which create domain-specific AI agents from a single prompt using trusted business context from Unity Catalog, aiming to reduce prompt dependency and improve accuracy.