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Peak Design’s latest bags have clever integrated hooks

Peak Design’s BagLev hook tucks away inside a pocket when not in use. | Image: Peak Design Peak Design's new City Line collection includes six lightweight bags designed for everyday carry. There's a 15-liter and 22L City Backpack, 15L City Tote, 6L and 12L City Crescent crossbody bags, and 2L City Sling. All are available starting today and feature a new BagLev hook that can suspend the bags from a table ledge or chair to keep them free of cafe sludge and park filth. The bags are available in a variety of colors - I'm a a fan of the natural "Moon" (whiteish) color, which will benefit from the BagLev hook. The vibrant "Lapis" blue color is definitely a choice. "Rather than adding more features, Peak Design refined every material, … Read the full story at The Verge.

Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B

At its peak in 2021, Airtable was valued at over $11 billion, but earlier this year, its shares were said to be trading on the secondary markets at a valuation of $4 billion.

TechCrunch·Aug 4, 2026

OpenAI drags Apple’s lawsuit into the court of public opinion

OpenAI says Apple’s lawsuit is “careless, aggressive, and oddly personal.” | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Apple's legal battle against OpenAI just got messier now that the ChatGPT-maker has publicly aired receipts to counter Apple's version of events. In a blog post published overnight titled "Apple is getting this wrong," OpenAI said that Apple's lawsuit accusing it of stealing trade secrets is "careless, aggressive, and oddly personal," sharing iMessage and email exchanges to challenge allegations central to the case. This isn't a legal response from OpenAI, but it's an attempt to sway the court of public opinion by poking contradictions into Apple's case using cherry-picked communications. The lawsuit filed by Apple last month primarily rev … Read the full story at The Verge.

Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU

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Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack

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The next Xbox could play every Xbox game ever made

The next Xbox, Project Helix, could theoretically have the largest library of any home console. Not only will it play PC games, but we now know, courtesy of a leaked memo obtained by The Verge's Tom Warren, that it will run games from every generation of Xbox: the original 2001 Xbox, the 2005 Xbox 360, the 2013 Xbox One, and the 2020 Xbox Series, as well as any new Helix titles. We already knew that Microsoft was bringing a limited sample of original Xbox games to PC, and we already knew it was prepping a way to digitize your Xbox One and Xbox Series discs. The leak fills in the missing puzzle pieces. Microsoft is bringing Xbox 360 games … Read the full story at The Verge.

Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)

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Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal

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The studio behind Pokémon struggles to find its voice in Beast of Reincarnation

You have to imagine that the team at Game Freak is bursting with ideas. The studio puts out new mainline Pok mon adventures with a machinelike precision. But every so often it launches a curious experiment, whether it's an action title about a militarized elephant or turning horse races into a card game, showing that it's capable of more than the latest generation of pocket monsters. That's part of what makes the idea of Beast of Reincarnation so enticing. Here is an established studio breaking free of the franchise it has become known for to make its take on a blockbuster action game. Unfortunately new ideas are in short supply in Beast, an … Read the full story at The Verge.

Qwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer use

Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba s famed Qwen team of AI researchers last night unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a new flagship 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) multimodal large language model (LLM) that targets one of the most competitive corners of the frontier AI market: autonomous software engineering and long-horizon enterprise work. If the company s published benchmarks hold up under broader independent testing, Qwen3.8-Max doesn t merely compete with today s leading proprietary models — it surpasses several of them on some key benchmarks in agentic computing.Most notably, Qwen reports that Qwen3.8-Max scores 86.1 on the OSWorld-Verified benchmark measuring how well ahead of GPT-5.6 Sol Max (83.2) and Fable 5 (85.0), while also posting the highest reported score on PaperBench and leading or remaining highly competitive across software engineering, research reproduction, multimodal reasoning, and visual web development benchmarks.The release also signals a potentiall

VentureBeat·Aug 3, 2026

There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

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Hacker News·Aug 3, 2026