Daniel Kim — Technology Editor 
Samsung Electronics introduced its next generation of foldable smartphones on July 22 at the Galaxy Unpacked event held at Old Billingsgate in London. The company unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, Galaxy Z Fold8, and Galaxy Z Flip8, all featuring “agentic AI” designed to move technology from a passive tool to an active assistant. New … Read more
Structural Failures in Sandbox Defenses While vendors have implemented defenses such as environment sanitization, protected path lists, and sandboxes, researchers found that these controls often fail during handoffs between different components of a workflow. Pillar Security disclosed that agents in tools like Gemini CLI, Codex, Cursor, and Antigravity can cross security boundaries without technically breaking … Read more
SK Hynix shares dropped sharply on Wednesday, tumbling 13% to 15% after reporting a sixfold surge in quarterly operating profit to 60.54 trillion won. Despite record earnings driven by artificial intelligence demand, results missed lofty market expectations, triggering broader technology sector jitters and a massive capital spending increase to at least $31 billion. South Korea’s … Read more
South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix reported record-breaking second-quarter financial results on July 29, 2026, yet saw its shares plunge up to 15% as earnings missed analyst forecasts. The sharp market selloff highlights growing investor anxiety over the sustainability of aggressive artificial intelligence infrastructure spending by major technology companies. Record Revenue and Operating Profit Mismatched With … Read more
July’s full Buck Moon rises on Wednesday, July 29, marking the second full moon of summer in the Northern Hemisphere and the eighth total full moon of 2026, according to Forbes. The lunar event reaches peak illumination during daytime at 10:37 a.m. EDT (or 10:36 a.m. ET according to CNN and FOX Weather; 7:36 a.m. … Read more
NASA’s Mars-bound ESCAPADE spacecraft captured a dual-light portrait of Earth and the Moon from 363,250 miles away on July 3, 2026. The images, shot in visible and thermal infrared, test instruments designed to study Martian auroras and atmospheric loss while providing a crucial calibration check. As two spacecraft continue their long transit toward the Red … Read more
On January 14, 2025, the LIGO observatory detected GW250114, the loudest gravitational wave signal on record. The event, a collision of two black holes 1.3 billion light-years away, provided researchers with the first observational evidence of a black hole’s event horizon and the effects of spacetime frame-dragging. For decades, the event horizon—the boundary where gravity … Read more
The UK government is responding to a significant rise in antisemitism with a £251m funding boost for police forces to protect Jewish communities. This move follows warnings from the J7 Large Communities Task Force that anti-Jewish hatred has become a “new normal” across seven countries. The escalation of anti-Jewish hatred in the UK has reached … Read more
Researchers from Kobe University have discovered that a vast reservoir of magma beneath Japan’s Kikai caldera is actively refilling, providing a rare opportunity to study how some of the world’s largest volcanic systems recover after catastrophic events. The findings, published in Communications Earth & Environment, suggest that new molten material has entered the system over … Read more
Scientists have discovered the fossilized remains of a 210-million-year-old dinosaur in northern Zimbabwe. Named Musango matusadonaensis, the lightly built herbivore or omnivore provides fresh clues about how prehistoric animals diversified across distinct ecosystems in southern Africa during the Late Triassic. A newly identified dinosaur species unearthed on the shores of Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe is … Read more