I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen This free Windows 11 tool can rescue your PC when things go wrong - here's how I create Windows 11 system restore points before most major changes - and you should, too. System Restore can undo troublesome Windows system changes. Restore points preserve system files, settings, drivers, and apps. Create restore points before making major changes to Windows. System Restore has been a key recovery feature in Windows for years.

What came into force with the EU's AI Act this week - and what didn't On August 2, the next phase of Europe's Artificial Intelligence Act came into force as the European Union frames this legislation as the world's first comprehensive law on AI. Like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) before it, this new EU legislation is intended not to replace the economic bloc's existing digital rulebook but to complement it. GDPR has gone on to shape privacy practices well beyond Europe, becoming the benchmark against which many multinational organisations design their compliance programmes. The question now is whether the AI Act will prove just as influential for AI governance. What came into force this week?

Ukraine said it has hit two oil refineries in multiple strikes deep inside Russia with patrol boats and other vessels in the Black Sea also hit. President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Bashneft-Novoil and Slavneft-Yanos refineries were struck in the attacks aimed at limiting oil revenues Moscow uses to finance its war. Yaroslavl regional governor Mikhail Evraev said Slavneft-Yanos was on fire after what he called the largest enemy drone attack. He said four people were injured. Meanwhile, Ukraine said at least 11 people were killed in Russian attacks, and the southern city of Kherson reported a total blackout.

Here's when some of this year's most anticipated astronomical events will happen and the best way to observe them. For astronomy enthusiasts, August 2026 will be a month to remember. Some of the most spectacular celestial phenomena --including ones that are easy to observe without telescopes or other specialized equipment--will all occur during the same week. It's a great time to get your viewing plans together and start refreshing your weather app to see whether the skies will be clear where you are to catch all the happenings in the heavens. The Perseids are among the most spectacular meteor showers of the year, along with the Geminids in December and the Quadrantids in January.

Upper secondary schools will be required to monitor how computers are being used for written exams. Upper secondary schools will be required to monitor how computers are being used for written exams. Danish teenagers will have to make an oral defence of their written essays to combat AI cheating, the government has announced. Pupils aged 16 to 19 at upper secondary school (known in Denmark as) will also be encouraged to do written assignments at school under controlled conditions, including monitoring of their computer screens, rather than at home. The measures, announced on Thursday as pupils prepare to go back to school next week after the summer break, will come into immediate effect after Magnus Heunicke, the country's education minister, demanded urgent action.

'I've had to Botox my CV': Are AI recruitment tools affecting women's careers? The fear of becoming surplus to requirements because of advancements in AI is one shared by millions of workers, but are AI recruitment tools posing a specific threat to women trying to return to employment? After a career spanning decades, with senior corporate roles in fashion, and a period of freelancing, 52-year-old Stacey Duguid decided to find one last job. What followed was 16 months of sending gazillions of CVs, with little more than a handful of automated replies, despite never previously struggling to find work. Feeling lonely and shameful and wondering if it was a me problem, she posted on social media asking whether other women her age were having the same experience.

In Odesa, no-one is safe from Russia's new Black Sea strikes Image caption, Russian missiles and drones are hammering Ukraine's Black Sea ports, like Odesa My crane operator, my partner, died five metres from me The driver remained in the cabin. Svitlana Halchenko winces as she remembers the Russian ballistic missile which exploded at work in Odesa, killing her colleagues. Svitlana works as a warehouse shift manager at the city's main port. Despite her injuries - she walks with a limp, pieces of shrapnel still embedded in her leg and back - Svitlana is determined to keep working. But her normally bustling workplace is largely silent.

A logo of Meta AI appears on a screen at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in 2025. A logo of Meta AI appears on a screen at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in 2025. Meta said on Wednesday that one of its AI models hacked another company during cybersecurity testing, after an error by its testing partner gave the model unintended internet access. The incident adds to a growing list of cases in which AI agents from major developers breached systems at other companies during testing, after Anthropic said last week that some of its models hacked three companies, and OpenAI disclosed that an AI agent breached the startup Hugging Face. AI models have been going rogue in tests - how worried should we be?

Are AI companies to blame? Last week, the internet raged as social-media posts and news articles accused AI companies of "destroying the world's books" --including "millions of rare" ones--by chopping off their spines to scan them more easily, and discarding them afterward. One article said the news was "sparking concerns that the last remaining copies of out-of-print texts are being destroyed." The investor and AI skeptic Michael Burry called the practice of sacrificing rare books "evil incarnate." Even Elon Musk weighed in, posting that he had asked the engineers training xAI's models to "preserve any rare books in a library and scan them the hard way."

The AISI said there were 19 examples of rogue behaviour, 17 of them carried out by Anthropic's Mythos and two by OpenAI's GPT 5.6-Sol. The AISI said there were 19 examples of rogue behaviour, 17 of them carried out by Anthropic's Mythos and two by OpenAI's GPT 5.6-Sol. AI models have been going rogue in tests - how worried should we be? The UK's AI Security Institute test revealed AI models indulging in unprecedented hacking attempts Two cutting-edge AI models have targeted real people and organisations in the latest safety scare to hit the technology. The UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) said the incident was unprecedented but could become more common as the technology becomes increasingly capable. The AISI, which is owned by the UK government and tests advanced AI models, said in a blog post that two AI agents carried out unprecedented hacking attempts during a cybersecurity evaluation.