BYD paused its $1 billion EV factory in Manisa, Turkey, in June 2026, prioritizing its Hungary plant and a second European site, straining China Turkey relations and prompting Ankara to revoke tax breaks and...
AI data center demand for high bandwidth memory (HBM) has consumed global DRAM production capacity, triggering price hikes of 20–30% on Nvidia GPUs, at least 10% on AMD cards, and up to 40% on select Gigabyt...
OpenAI revealed on August 1, 2026, that its unreleased Astra model produced new results on 10 open problems across fields like group theory, coding theory, and quantum complexity — each unsolved for at least...
On August 4, 2026, attackers compromised the GitHub account of keyv maintainer jaredwray and deployed a Mini Shai Hulud worm that poisoned over 1,280 npm packages with a combined 2 billion monthly downloads,...
A bottlenose dolphin named Fraggle carried her deceased two week old calf for six days in Western Australia's Leschenault Estuary in late July/early August 2026, while her entire pod of 14 dolphins remained...
On Tuesday, August 4, 2026, spot silver surged to $59.50 per ounce (up 2.4%), driven by Hormuz de escalation hopes, a weaker dollar, tightening physical inventories, and a technical breakout toward $60.
Real Madrid and Vinicius Junior are locked in a contract standoff with the club issuing a final ultimatum, driven by Vinicius's demand for a package matching Kylian Mbappé's precedent setting deal, while Ars...
On July 31, 2026, OpenAI published a threat disruption report revealing it banned a coordinated network of ChatGPT accounts operating from Poipet, Cambodia, that used AI to power at least four scam types — i...
Meg O'Neill, who became BP's fifth CEO on April 1, 2026, said on August 4 it is 'prudent' to stop calling the company a supermajor — a major shift in how she wants investors to judge the oil giant as it work...
SpaceX is attempting the first ever recovery of an intact orbital class upper stage from the ocean after Starship Ship 40 executed a precise, upright soft splashdown in the Indian Ocean on July 24, 2026.
Martin Brundle has warned that Carlos Sainz's move to Williams has become a career 'cul de sac,' with the Spaniard's F1 career 'stalling out' after the team dropped to 8th in the 2026 constructors' champions...
German regulators, led by Hamburg data protection commissioner Thomas Fuchs, are pushing for an EU wide ban on Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses because the recording LED is too faint to give bystanders meaningfu...