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A court in Bayonne, France, ruled that a flight attendant's breast cancer was connected to occupational hazards from her career, citing cosmic radiation exposure at altitude alongside secondhand smoke and repeated night shifts as contributing carcinogenic factors. The ruling formally recognizes the illness as work-related.
A leak spotted by MacRumors analyst Aaron Perris shows feature flags indicating Google's YouTube and YouTube Music apps are being prepared for Apple's Liquid Glass design language on iOS. The same flags reportedly hint at support for iOS Live Activities, which could let YouTube TV display real-time content like sports scores via the Dynamic Island.
IBM has released Granite 4.2, the latest addition to its open-weight, self-hostable language model lineup, offered in 3B, 8B, and 30B parameter sizes. All versions use a decoder-only design and support a 128,000-token context window, while the 8B and 30B models add agentic reinforcement learning that trains them to use tools like web search and terminal commands.
CNET testing found Vitamix's $380 VX1 blender performs on par with the company's $500 5200 model, both featuring 64-ounce capacity and 10 speeds. The VX1, which replaced the discontinued Explorian, adds a pulse mode, self-cleaning program, slightly more horsepower and a smaller footprint, and it topped other blenders by turning raw almonds into almond butter in just over a minute.
A fresh gameplay reveal for 'Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons' has surfaced, with voice actors Tricia Helfer and Maggie Robertson discussing the project and how it sets itself apart from the hit RPG 'Baldur's Gate 3'.
ZDNET released its updated roundup of top reading tablets for 2026, based on hands-on testing, research and comparison shopping across vendor listings, retailer data and customer reviews. The guide explains its methodology, noting that while affiliate commissions from purchases support the site, they do not influence which products are recommended or their pricing.
Xtracycle has released the Swoop ASM, a long-tail cargo e-bike priced at $4,500 that uses a Shimano system capable of automatically choosing and executing gear shifts based on cadence, torque, and speed data. The bike also features a mullet wheel setup, with a larger front tire and smaller rear wheel, plus front suspension for a smoother ride.
AI-driven search tools such as Google's AI Overviews and conversational assistants like ChatGPT are increasingly pulling data from customer reviews to decide which businesses to recommend. This means the volume, recency and quality of a business's reviews are being read and weighted by algorithms, not just prospective customers. A thin or neglected review profile can make a business effectively invisible to these AI systems.
AI-generated images and videos depicting animals—rescues, reunions, and lost pets—are flooding social media, making it harder for viewers to trust what they see. In one case, a Los Angeles woman named Mibbby Butler was targeted by a scammer who used an AI-manipulated photo of her missing cat to extort payment for its supposed return, though she caught the deception due to garbled text in the background image.
Runable, a Bengaluru startup founded in 2025, has raised $21 million in a Series A round co-led by Susquehanna Venture Capital and Nexus Venture Partners, valuing it at $65 million post-money. The company started as an AI browser-scraping infrastructure tool but pivoted after users asked its agent to build slide decks and websites, and now aims to help small businesses find customers, run ad campaigns, and market themselves across search, social media, and chatbots.
Apple kept the M5 Max Mac Studio's starting price at $2,499, but choosing the 40-core GPU option—listed as a $300 upgrade—automatically bumps memory from 32GB to 48GB, adding another $300. That makes the real cost of the GPU upgrade $600, not the $300 shown next to it. John Gruber flagged the discrepancy while tallying configuration prices for the new lineup.
The uBlock Origin team has released version 1.74, which it says will be the last stable build available on the Chrome Web Store. Google plans to pull the extension from the store on August 31 as it finishes phasing out support for Manifest V2, the older extension platform uBlock Origin relies on. Chrome users searching the store are already seeing only the Manifest V3-based uBlock Origin Lite as a replacement.