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Fernando Alonso driving the Aston Martin AMR26 at the 2026 Hungarian Grand Prix practice session.

Honda gives Aston Martin a real Zandvoort test

Honda's updated Formula 1 power unit has run in Aston Martin's AMR26 for the first time during a Hungaroring filming day. The lap times do not matter yet; the story is whether Aston Martin's improved chassis and Honda's first major engine response can finally become one coherent package at Zandvoort.

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Official Microsoft graphic for Project Perception with the headline The physics of cyber are changing.

Microsoft Project Perception gives security teams AI agents with a boss

Microsoft is putting Project Perception into public preview on August 3, pairing specialized security agents with its MAI-Cyber-1-Flash model and larger frontier models for harder tasks. The pitch is not just faster vulnerability hunting. It is a new management problem: how much authority should defenders give software that can find, rank and fix security flaws?

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Official Google Cloud illustration for the NOAA weather supercomputing collaboration.

NOAA's Google Cloud move makes weather forecasting a compute race

NOAA has selected Google Cloud as the primary high-performance-computing provider for WCOSS, the operational system behind U.S. weather and climate modeling. It is a cloud contract on paper, but for everyone who watches storms, heat, floods and fire weather, the important question is whether faster compute turns into clearer warnings before conditions turn dangerous.

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Lyft and Baidu bring robotaxis to London's hardest streets

Baidu has started testing Apollo Go vehicles in London with Lyft and Freenow, putting one of China's most scaled robotaxi systems into one of Europe's least forgiving road networks. The public launch is still subject to regulation, but the real question is already visible: can robotaxis behave like useful city transport rather than a tech demo with passengers?

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Vercel scriptc turns TypeScript into a tiny native binary

Vercel Labs' scriptc project compiles ordinary TypeScript into small native executables without shipping Node or V8 in the binary. It is early, narrow and developer-facing, but it lands at the right moment: TypeScript tooling is moving native, and developers want faster scripts without abandoning the language they already use.

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Official BMW image of the 2027 BMW iX5 electric SUV parked in front of a modern building.

BMW iX5 finally gives the electric X5 a real job

BMW's first electric X5 arrives with an estimated 435 miles of range, 460 kW charging, bidirectional power and a $79,800 starting point. The intriguing part is not that BMW built another EV SUV. It is that the iX5 has to make electric luxury feel useful, not experimental.

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