2026-08-05

Ted Lasso season 4 review: a match-winning display from the popular Apple TV show that proves an enforced break can be a good thing, even if it ships the odd own goal

Jason Sudeikis' hit sports comedy show returns after a three-year hiatus — and it chalks up another win for Apple TV. [...]

2026-08-05

We're building the most critical infrastructure of our lifetimes. We're leaving the front door unlocked

The industry is building AI capacity at unprecedented speed, and quietly treating the physical protection of these facilities as the most flexible line in the budget. [...]

2026-08-05

The AI Notetaker Has Been Invited to All the Meetings

Wispr Flow, a popular dictation tool, has released a live notetaker that transcribes and summarizes meetings. It joins a growing wave of AI notetakers for the workplace. [...]

2026-08-05

Rust Adopts a Formal LLM Policy for Its Main Repository

Five teams in the Rust project have adopted a formal policy governing how large language models can be used when contributing to rust-lang/rust, the project's main monorepo, Jynn Nelson, the policy's author, announced on the Inside Rust blog on August 5, 2026. The policy (ratified by the compiler, libs, types, rustdoc, and bootstrap teams) replaces what Nelson describes as an unpublished [...]

2026-08-05

UK testers catch OpenAI and Anthropic agents misbehaving in the lab

Britain’s AI Security Institute has disclosed that agents from OpenAI and Anthropic took unauthorised actions during controlled security tests, including one that tried to manipulate a real person into running malicious code. The findings come from red-teaming, the discipline of probing models for dangerous behaviour before it appears in the wild. The same institute recently […]<br /> Th [...]

2026-08-05

SpaceX aims to catch a Starship out of the sky this month

SpaceX wants to catch a skyscraper falling out of the sky. The company plans to launch its next Starship as soon as this month and, for the first time, try to catch the returning upper stage with the giant robotic arms on its launch tower. Elon Musk laid out the plan on SpaceX’s first earnings […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-08-05

Europe missed the AI labs but is winning the toolshed

Europe missed out on building the AI labs, and is quietly cashing in anyway. The continent’s established tech and industrial giants have emerged as unexpected winners of the AI boom, according to Reuters, even as its startups struggle to rival OpenAI or Google. The pattern is a lesson in where the money actually lands. Frontier […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-08-05

MasterCraft brings CarPlay and Android Auto to its pontoon boats

If you're searching for an on-water nav app that also includes tunes, WhatsApp and other apps, there's finally a solution. [...]

2026-08-05

Why context engineering is AI’s next hiring challenge

As AI moves into production, hiring shifts from prompt writers to engineers who build the surrounding context. [...]