Samsung will present its integrated gaming ecosystem at Gamescom 2026, featuring Odyssey G8 monitors, Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra devices, and 9100 Pro SSDs alongside a global tournament and interactive exhibits.
CERN and the Open Quantum Institute hosted a three-day hackathon in July 2026, uniting 34 international students to apply quantum computing to real-world challenges in materials science, energy, and healthcare.
Zapier introduces AI-powered automation tools to streamline Google Sheets workflows, enabling direct data transfers from AI tools like ChatGPT and enhancing spreadsheet collaboration and lead management.
Vercel warns that AI-driven cybersecurity threats are escalating as offensive models like Kimi K3 emerge without safeguards, while defensive tools remain underutilized despite available frontier models.
Razer Axon Wallpaper Engine highlights artist Andy Harbeck, whose animated neon cityscapes blend retro-futuristic aesthetics for desktop wallpapers.
DeepSeek surpassed Google in token volume in July, with its V4 Flash model leading at nearly a fifth of total tokens, while the average cost per token fell 13.6%. Open-weight models like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.2 captured...
Enterprise workflow automation connects systems and departments to execute multi-step processes without manual handoffs, reducing errors and costs while improving scalability and compliance.
Samsung Electronics Vietnam opened a Business Experience Studio in Hanoi to showcase integrated technologies for enterprise digital transformation across sectors like public administration, education, healthcare, and...
Vercel introduces a sandbox firewall to enforce network boundaries for untrusted code, addressing risks of data exfiltration and unauthorized access even when compute isolation is intact.
LaunchDarkly has been added to the Vercel Marketplace, enabling developers to integrate feature flags into projects directly through Vercel’s Flags SDK.
Databricks integrates Genie Agents with Unity Catalog to unify structured and unstructured data analysis while enforcing existing governance policies without additional setup.
AWS has added Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2-small-decoder and Google's gemma-4-12B-it models to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding accessible AI tools for AWS customers.
AWS has added three new foundation models to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart: langcache-embed-v3-small, Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking, and LightOnOCR-2-1B, expanding AI deployment options for customers.
Isshin Shiraishi, a UC Berkeley senior, will serve as cadet commander of the Army ROTC Golden Bears Battalion, transitioning from an unplanned arrival to a commitment to military service.
Atlassian has redesigned the Deployments page in Bitbucket Pipelines to simplify tracking and managing deployments across environments, reducing cognitive load and improving real-time visibility.
Atlassian expands AI agents in Confluence to perform full teammate-like tasks, including commenting, labeling, and creating whiteboards, with over 5 million monthly invocations since May 2024.
AWS Identity and Access Management introduced account access manager to simplify assigning IAM roles to workforce users via AWS IAM Identity Center, replacing two previous access management approaches.
Cloudflare concluded Agents Week with a series of announcements aimed at supporting the development and deployment of AI agents, emphasizing infrastructure, security, and lifecycle management for agentic software.
Databricks introduces a contextual policy in Omnigent to block AI agents from combining legitimate capabilities that enable data theft, addressing the 'lethal trifecta' of private data access, untrusted content...
The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley has acquired photographer Judy Dater’s archive, including letters, diaries, and photographs spanning her six-decade career, offering insight into her artistic development and...
Amazon EC2 has launched application status checks to detect application-level issues on instances, complementing existing system checks and enabling automated recovery via Auto Scaling.
Planet Labs and Rwanda’s government launched a national satellite data program to support agriculture, urban planning, disaster response, and education using daily imagery feeds.
NASA announced its programming will be available on discovery+ and HBO Max, expanding access to live feeds and special events such as the Artemis III mission in 2027, with enhanced Dolby Vision streaming options.
Microsoft reports DeadLock ransomware, a Rust-based encryptor using decentralized infrastructure and double extortion, targeting organizations globally since July 2025.
NVIDIA released Magpie Multilingual TTS with open weights, supporting 12 languages including newly added Arabic, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese, enabling low-latency, customizable voice agents deployable on-premises.
Data center developers face growing local opposition over electricity costs, pollution, and grid strain, prompting a shift toward onsite power solutions to address community concerns.
Google introduced tools to help attendees plan state fair visits, including AI itineraries, real-time navigation, food discovery, and photo keepsakes, with in-person demos at select fairs.
Intel’s Gamer Days 2026 campaign launches August 10 with a retail bundle offering free digital copies of two upcoming games with qualifying Intel hardware purchases.
Databricks introduces FILE, a new column type for storing unstructured data like documents and videos natively in lakehouse tables, enabling AI-ready querying and governance alongside structured data.
Scientists released the largest 2D color map of the universe, containing 5.6 trillion pixels and nearly 4 billion celestial objects, available for public use via the Legacy Survey Sky Viewer.