2026-07-29

'If you can’t buy it, you can’t afford it' — why not everyone is buying Apple's new iPhone leasing offer

Apple Upgrade is Apple's new multi-product-category leasing program that not everyone loves, but there's more to it than endless product subscription. [...]

2026-07-29

Feeling stressed and overworked? Don't worry - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks that we just love to work, and that's why AI won't result in a four-day working week

So much for AI freeing us up for the things we love - Sam Altman says we all just love to work and be busy. [...]

2026-07-29

ZDNET readers are skeptical of a foldable iPhone in 2026. Here's what they think instead

We asked ZDNET readers to predict the iPhone 18 specs for a chance to win a new Apple Watch. Hot takes welcome. [...]

2026-07-29

20 things science has discovered about why humans are so bad at predicting their own happiness

Science reveals why predicting your own happiness is so hard, from impact bias to hedonic adaptation and the psychology behind bad forecasts [...]

2026-07-29

10 picnic foods that actually travel well

Sandwiches that hold up, salads that don't wilt, dishes built to survive a cooler and a car ride — the picnic foods engineered to travel [...]

2026-07-29

The 9 best sleeper-train journeys in Europe

From a Venice dawn arrival via Rome to an 18-hour Arctic crossing in Norway's midnight sun, Europe's best sleeper train journeys [...]

2026-07-29

AI hackers are getting faster. The government may not be ready

Five current and former government technology officials assess whether federal cyber defenses can keep up. [...]

2026-07-29

Enterprise AI agents can't talk to each other, can't be trusted with permissions, and can't be audited — 5 startups are already fixing that

Enterprise AI agents can do the work — but the infrastructure to let them talk to each other, prove they should be trusted, and be audited when something goes wrong is still being built.Here's a look at how five startups are tackling that gap — around orchestration, observability, connectivity, and security — as shown at VB Transform 2026.BAND is orchestrating all the agents you have ru [...]

2026-07-29

BMW is cutting 8,000 jobs and handing its cars’ brains to Qualcomm

BMW had two messages for staff this week. It is cutting about 8,000 jobs. And it is handing the brains of its future cars to Qualcomm for the next decade. The German carmaker will shed the roles in Germany by the end of 2027 through a voluntary redundancy scheme, Reuters reported. The cuts hit administration […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]