This week Chatgpt got an upgrade, and Tom Holland swung back to action as Spider-Man.
To catch up with all this and more from the world of tech and entertainment, roll down for our weekly ICYMI-ROUND-UP. There are some great stories that you will not miss.
When you are up to speed, make sure you also read our choices for the 7 new movies and TV shows to watch this weekend (August 8).
7. Spider-Man swung to action
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Film shooting is officially underway on Spider-Man: Hero New Day, with people flowing to Glasgow to catch glimpses of the web sill in action.
We got a sneak peek at the new suit that seems to pay tribute to Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s live-action literations of the character.
We also saw that Flick will involve the first use of practical webSinging in one of Webslinger’s Solo MCU movies.
In the end, we may have got a drill of the most important villain in the film: Lose negative as thoughts that run through the set are emblazoned with a logo that looks like the demons logo associated with Negative’s forces.
6. Samsung leaked his own earplugs
Oh Samsung you were doing so well! After apparently slowing down the Evan Blass image leakage in July, it looked like everyone noticed tipsters had been warned and deterred. But then Oopsie goes a half-clutched product list with pricing and pictures live-on Samsung’s own Panama place.
Two colors appear (white and a very dark gray), and at least in Panama is listed as $ 129. We try very hard not to make a bad joke about Panama Ear Canal, but sometimes like these it is really best to laugh.
Galaxy buds 3 FE also appears to have silicone ear tip, but everything else is still guessing as the product page does not include any actual specifications or features that are yet another indication that someone hits the ‘Public’ button too soon.
Knopp’s 3 FE is the follow -up of the original Buds FE or ‘Fan Edition’. That’s right, there are no buds 2 FE, so we really thought Samsung handled the launch of this potentially confusing iteration with delicacy and care …
5. Sonos announced a price increase
This week, Sonos announced that “later in the year we are planning to raise prices” in response to US tariffs.
While the company is no longer manufacturing most of its products in China – which is currently facing a 30% duty – it does its technique in Vietnam and Malaysia, which is facing 20% and 19% duties (based on the rates of the time of writing on August 7).
Exactly how much of a cost that increases the actual speakers will see, has not yet been announced, and we do not yet know exactly when the price increase is coming either, but unless things change, it looks like a price increase is coming – so you may want to buy a Sonos speaker before rather than later.
4. Harman Kardon took Sonos on
Audio Counseling Live is an American-based consumer sound and video show held annually in Raleigh, North Carolina, and at this year’s event that ran from August 1-3, 2025, we had the opportunity to check Harman Kardon’s upcoming Enchant series Soundbar-Bareless speakers.
The big news about the Enchant series is that it carries many of the same big features found in Sonos Soundbars and Speakers, including playing several rooms and app-based control. But enchanting sound beams go beyond popular Sonos models, such as Sonos Arc Ultra, to offer both Dolby Atmos and DTS: X-Support along with an HDMI review input to connect an external device such as an Xbox series X or PS5 console.
Is the enchanting series due to overturning Sonos? We don’t know until we get our hands on a system for review, but if Harman Kardon can seam the app’s part of the equation-a recent pain point for Sonos and its customer base can it provide a compelling alternative to Sono’s multi-room ecosystem.
3 .. Z Flip 7 was tortured
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Since their launch, we, like many other testers, have placed the new Samsung foldable through their pace. But some testers take things to an extreme when it comes to judging durability.
JerryrigeVerything seriously set Samsung’s new foldable through his pace with a test that involved setting fire on the phone screens, bathing the gadget in dirt and trying to scratch each surface with a knife – before trying to flip the phone in half.
Somehow Z Flip 7 survived, but it just shows that foldable is not as flimsy as they once were.
2. Microsoft teased the future of Windows
A Microsoft Exec shared his vision of Windows by 2030, which made the rather bold claim that we are not using keyboards and mice to interact with our computers before then, but rather use our voice and AI. We’ve heard this before (remember when virtual assistants like Cortana [RIP] should do everything for us with simple voting commands?) And I’m not convinced.
I don’t want to talk to my computer when I’m alone, so much less in a busy place or office, and there’s a reason we still use keyboard, mice and trackpad’s decades after these peripheral devices were created: They remain the fastest and most convenient way to interact with our computers for many people.
1. Chatgpt-5 launched
After hyping his creation for the past few weeks, even by saying that it scared them, Sam Altman and Openai finally revealed the GPT-5-the latest version of the digital brain that Power’s chatgpt.
As expected, the GPT-5 is said to be better than its predecessor, apparently being more reliable than before-to be more honest with gaps in its knowledge rather than lying or hallucinating, as required for AI-and it is also meant to be better to be better at math and coding, making it a more useful stind coding partner.
Not everyone is happy though. Many users have taken social media to call the new bot “horrible”, as chatgpt now only gives shorter answers with less personality, and Prompt Cap also seems lower.
It may not do much to make affected users feel better about the situation, but Openai at least warned about just this precisely for GPT-5’s launch: teasing “probable hiccups and capacity wreaths”, as Sam Altman put it.
