2026-08-04

9 countries with the best summer festivals nobody talks about

Underrated summer festivals in Mongolia, Iceland, Portugal and six other countries deliver ancient rituals, water fights and folk music without the crowds of Europe's biggest names [...]

2026-08-04

NVIDIA’s Alpamayo 2 Super Opens Robotaxi Development to Commercial Use

NVIDIA has released Alpamayo 2 Super, a 34-billion-parameter reasoning model for autonomous driving, for commercial use, the company announced on August 4, 2026. The model's weights are posted on Hugging Face under OpenMDW-1.1, the Linux Foundation's permissive license for AI model distributions, which covers fine-tuning, derivative models and commercial redistribution. The release clear [...]

2026-08-04

Apple just passed $10bn in India, a country where it charges more than it does at home

Apple has crossed $10bn in annual sales in India for the first time. The milestone says as much about where the company is heading as where it has been. Revenue for the year to March topped $10bn, Bloomberg reported. That is up from about $9bn a year earlier, and $6bn two years before. iPhones made […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-08-04

Upwind first to report malicious Keyv release that threatened thousands of JavaScript projects

For years, software supply chain attacks focused on compromising widely used applications after they had already been deployed. Increasingly, however, attackers are shifting their attention further upstream, targeting the open-source packages developers rely on every day. The latest example arrived when Upwind became the first to identify and publicly report a malicious release of the […]<br [...]

2026-08-04

I stopped looking for the perfect meditation app and built my own using AI — and it was done in under 5 minutes

I couldn't find a meditation timer app I liked, so I built my own with Google AI Studio and it did it in under 5 minutes. [...]

2026-08-04

Samsung's next-gen HDR10+ Advanced is launching on Prime Video this month — surprisingly beating Dolby Vision 2 to the punch, though with some huge unanswered questions remaining

Prime Video and Samsung are launching HDR10+ Advanced in August 2026 for selected content on the streaming service [...]

2026-08-04

The 78.4 kWh Base Core battery can keep your home running during an outage, installs in under an hour, and gives back to the grid — as home battery installations reach a record high

Base Power just raised $1 billion for its Base Core battery, amid a significant uptick in home energy solutions. [...]

2026-08-04

'A new era of workplace sabotage': Employees really aren't happy with being forced back to the office - and many are starting to fight back

Study claims the majority of workers now see RTO as a stealthy way to reduce headcount - and so the sabotage begins. [...]

2026-08-04

The Ninja Slushi makes vacation-worthy frozen drinks, and I highly recommend it (especially on sale)

The popular Ninja Slushi is on sale for under $300 once again. Here's where to find the deal. [...]