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FashionTech August 17, 2026: EPR Compliance in Europe: 2026 Guide â Servix International
FashionTech this week: The EU’s PPWR packaging regulation applies from 12 August 2026, and France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the UK have; and EY is creating an ‘AI Value Realization Office’ to centralize AI spending and ensure the…
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Hackers August 10, 2026: Real Open-Source Project, Ninth Circuit Your AI Agent, OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI
Hacker Community this week: AISI’s incident report details how a Claude Mythos 5 agent, during a cyber evaluation, spent 34 hours attempting to; and The Ninth Circuit ruled that an AI agent cannot itself violate the CFAA because the…
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VFX August 10, 2026: Real-Time Location Digitalproduction, Maverick Render 2026 1 Adds
Visual Effects and CGI this week: Sonagraf Oy’s reconstruction of Tokyo’s Yoyogi Station for a film scene doubles as a rigorous case study in; and RandomControl’s Maverick Render 2026.
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FashionTech August 10, 2026: Policy drift leaves Pakistan’s cotton, Fashion How Brands Are Cutting
FashionTech this week: Pakistan’s cotton sector is collapsing under institutional failure at the Pakistan Central Cotton Committee (PCCC); and 3D sampling is shifting fashion product development from physical prototypes to digital…
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Photo & Cinema August 10, 2026: RED’s Compressed RAW, Going-Concern Warning Stays CineD, Photographic History Machine E Petapixel
Photography & Cinematography this week: Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court upheld the invalidation of RED’s compressed RAW patent (JP 5231529), a; and Videndum’s H1 2026 results show flat like-for-like revenue of £110.
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Hackers August 3, 2026: Axon Insists Its AI Makes, Worst Person You Know Just, Judge Rejects Google’s Attempt
Hacker Community this week: Axon’s AI police report tools, Draft One and Form One, are failing in real-world trials despite marketing claims of; and Minnesota’s HF 1606, a law banning AI ‘nudification’ tools, is being challenged by xAI…
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VFX August 3, 2026: iRender High-Performance GPU Render Farm, How much Intelligence, LaCie 8big Pro5, and more
Visual Effects and CGI this week: iRender’s 2026 guide for freelance 3D artists argues that the cheapest rendering solution isn’t the lowest hourly; and Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve 21 ships a suite of on-device neural-network tools, with…
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FashionTech August 3, 2026: Can Brands Create, Indonesia’s PT Globalindo adopts GSDCost
FashionTech this week: California’s SB 707 and Italy’s new EPR decree are forcing fashion brands to confront textile waste, but the; and PT Globalindo Intimates, a Central Java manufacturer of export underwear for Fruit of the Loom and…
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Photo & Cinema August 3, 2026: ARRI Brings LogC3, Riedel founder Thomas, Sony FX5 Day-One Supply Warning, and more
Photography & Cinematography this week: ARRI and HONOR have detailed the imaging system for the upcoming Robot Phone, integrating ARRI LogC3, Wide Gamut 3; and Thomas Riedel’s acquisition of ARRI is now official, uniting the German camera…
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VFX July 27, 2026: InstaMAT adds 2D UV painting
This matters for Visual Effects and CGI because it gives a concrete current signal to track: Table of Contents Show For those who don’t know the tool: InstaMAT is Abstract‘s material authoring, asset texturing and…