SINGAPORE, July 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A Proud Moment for the NLCS (Singapore) Community

North London Collegiate School (Singapore) has announced one of its strongest International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme results to date, with the Class of 2026 achieving the highest outcomes in the school’s history across several key measures.

The cohort achieved an average IB Diploma score of 38.16, with a 100% pass rate. Four students attained the highest score of 45 points, the highest number of perfect scorers ever achieved by the school. More than 63% of students scored 38 points or above, another school record, while 38.18% achieved 40 points or higher. In addition, 56% of students were awarded the IB Bilingual Diploma, recognising achievement across multiple languages.

These results reflect not only the academic ambition of the Class of 2026, but also their perseverance, intellectual curiosity and commitment to growth throughout their time at NLCS (Singapore).

University Offers from Leading Global Institutions

The Class of 2026 will now progress to leading universities around the world, pursuing a wide range of disciplines including Engineering, Psychology, Business & Management, Biological Sciences, Architecture & Design, Politics, International Relations and Law.

Their university outcomes reflect both the strength of their IB results and the breadth of interests developed through an NLCS education. This year, 65% of all students received at least one offer from a Russell Group university, while 42% of all university offers were from institutions ranked within the QS World University Rankings Top 50 (2026).

Since the school’s inaugural graduating class in 2023, NLCS (Singapore) students have gone on to study at more than 130 universities worldwide, including Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, Cornell, UCL, Imperial College London and Harvey Mudd College.

A Consistent Record of IB Diploma Success

The Class of 2026 is our 4th graduating class and joins a growing community of accomplished NLCS (Singapore) alumni building upon a strong tradition of academic success in the IB Diploma Programme.

In these four years, NLCS (Singapore) students have consistently achieved outstanding results. These achievements reflect the strength of the school’s ambitious academic programme, exceptional pastoral support and commitment to developing young people who are intellectually capable, globally minded and ready to thrive at leading universities around the world.

An Education Without Ceilings

At NLCS (Singapore), education is guided by the NLCS ethos of developing confidence, curiosity and a genuine love of learning.

Through the International Baccalaureate pathway, students are challenged to think deeply, make connections across disciplines and approach learning as more than preparation for examinations. The Extended Essay, Theory of Knowledge and Creativity, Activity, Service give students opportunities to research independently, reflect critically and connect learning with purposeful contribution.

Supported by expert teachers, a close-knit community and a broad enrichment programme, NLCS (Singapore) students leave with more than outstanding qualifications. They develop the intellectual confidence, resilience and character to thrive at university and contribute thoughtfully to the world beyond school.

About North London Collegiate School (Singapore) 

Founded in August 2020, North London Collegiate School (Singapore) is a British international school offering the academically ambitious NLCS curriculum, followed by the International Baccalaureate’s Middle Years Programme and culminates in the IB Diploma Programme.  

Drawing upon 175 years of educational heritage from its founding school in the UK, NLCS (Singapore) nurtures individuals to be intellectually curious, socially confident, and grounded in compassion. Every student is known, challenged, and celebrated through a rigorous academic framework, rich co-curricular opportunities, and exceptional pastoral care.  

Situated on Depot Road, the school is part of a global family of schools committed to educational excellence and developing global citizens.  

To learn more about NLCS (Singapore), please visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn.  

For media queries, please contact the NLCS (Singapore) Marketing Team

Email: marketing@nlcssingapore.sg 

BOSTON, July 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — RapDev, the award-winning Datadog services partner, today announced its expansion into the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, beginning with its first hires in Australia. The move marks the next step in RapDev’s international growth strategy, following the company’s push into EMEA in 2023, and signals growing global demand for RapDev’s Datadog expertise.

The announcement comes on the heels of RapDev being named Datadog’s Partner of the Year for North America for an unprecedented fifth consecutive year at DASH in June 2026. The company has grown from 35 employees at the end of 2021 to 162 today, a more than fourfold increase in just over four years, completing over 600 Datadog deployments to date and achieving 48% hiring growth over the past year alone. In 2026, RapDev also ranked #96 on the Financial Times’ Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies list and #17 on the Boston Business Journal’s list of Largest Software Developers in Massachusetts.

“Expanding into APAC is the logical next step for us,” said Ayaan Israni, Principal at RapDev. “We’ve proven the model in North America. We’ve proven it in EMEA. Enterprises in Australia and across Asia-Pacific face the same observability, security, and AI challenges as our customers everywhere, and they need a Datadog partner who operates at the necessary depth and speed. That’s what we’re bringing.”

The expansion begins with strategic hires in Australia, where RapDev will deliver the same portfolio that has made it Datadog’s top North America partner five years running: deployment and migration, Managed Datadog and Managed SOC, AI observability, and governance and cost optimization.

“We’re hiring people who know this market, who understand the enterprise landscape here, and who can deliver with the quality and velocity that our customers have come to expect,” Israni added. “Australia is the entry point, but the opportunity across APAC is significant, and we’re building with that in mind.”

As enterprises across APAC accelerate cloud adoption and navigate the shift to AI-driven operations, RapDev is positioned to bring the Datadog expertise that has defined its work in North America and EMEA to a new market.

Chainguard’s industry coalition reports 40,000 findings processed 

KIRKLAND, Wash., July 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Chainguard today announced the expansion of Athena, the industry coalition for the orchestrated defense of open source software, adding new members, including Akamai, Black Duck, Cycode, JFrog, Morgan Stanley, Qualys, Upwind, and Zafran. The company also shared updated figures on the volume and severity of vulnerabilities the coalition has processed since launching three weeks ago.

To date, Athena has processed more than 40,000 vulnerabilities, doubling its intake since launching three weeks ago. Of vulnerabilities submitted so far, 42% are critical- or high-severity. While significant, the number understates the real exposure, as frontier AI models can chain low- and medium-severity bugs into more serious attacks that no single CVSS score captures. Additionally, 86% are network reachable, meaning they can be accessed and triggered by attackers at the network level. About 7% sit in packages more than five years old. These are latent flaws in mature, widely trusted dependencies that survived extensive expert review without detection.

“Frontier models are finding zero-days in open source faster than anyone can respond with discovery to exploitation is now measured in hours, and no one company is going to get ahead of that alone. Athena proves that orchestrated defense works,” said Dan Lorenc, CEO and Co-founder, Chainguard. “The volume and severity of what Athena is already finding make clear just how much depends on getting this right. The more of the ecosystem that joins, the less room attackers have to operate.”

A growing coalition for open source defense

Athena’s expansion reflects growing industry recognition that open source vulnerabilities require a coordinated response. New members joining Athena’s founding partners include Akamai, Black Duck, Cycode, JFrog, Morgan Stanley, Qualys, Upwind, and Zafran.

Athena’s partners work across the coalition’s defense pipeline: findings are pooled and de-duplicated, hardened fixes are built under embargo, partners stack non-patch protection around them, silent fixes are surfaced to exposed downstream users, and durable fixes are driven upstream to maintainers.

How the coalition protects users before a patch ships

Open source vulnerabilities do not respect organizational boundaries, and a patch that exists but cannot be deployed in time offers little protection. As part of its growing membership, Athena has expanded its cyber partner network, making cyber the largest cohort of partners in the coalition. Cyber partners receive a dedicated pre-disclosure feed and use it to build mitigations at the network, endpoint, and traffic layers that hold even before a clean patch exists or can be deployed. They also help surface “silent” vulnerabilities, or vulnerabilities that are fixed upstream but never assigned a CVE, that conventional scanning tools generally miss. 

“Defending digital infrastructure in the age of AI requires a rapid, unified response,” said Boaz Gelbord, Chief Security Officer, Akamai. “Athena allows us to protect customers with pre-embargo hardened software and platform-level mitigations before vulnerabilities can be exploited.”

“Frontier AI models are not only discovering thousands of zero days, but also chaining vulnerabilities together to exploit existing ones at machine speed, collapsing the gap between discovery and exploitation from weeks to hours. In this new reality, the era of ‘scan and hope’ is definitively over. Attackers are actively weaponizing the trusted models and agentic tools driving today’s development,” said Gal Marder, Chief Strategy Officer, JFrog. “By joining Athena’s orchestrated defense coalition, JFrog is committed to helping organizations bridge the dangerous gap between an AI-discovered vulnerability and remediation in production. We provide the single source of truth for all software assets which enables fully-automated updates of patched components at scale, and full governance of the entire remediation process of every binary component, using any packaging technology in any environment.”

“As consistent contributors to open-source vulnerability research and disclosure, Qualys welcomes the invitation to participate in Chainguard’s Athena coalition and secure open-source software by safely validating the exploitability of vulnerabilities with our technology,” said Dilip Bachwani, chief technology officer, Qualys. “We believe creating a safer digital future is a shared industry responsibility. This builds on our ongoing work to help customers, partners, and stakeholders prepare for a future where vulnerability discovery and remediation pressure move faster than ever.”

“AI is fundamentally changing the pace of vulnerability discovery, making coordinated defense more important than ever. By joining Athena, Upwind is bringing pre-disclosure vulnerability intelligence together with runtime visibility, helping organizations identify affected workloads and reduce the window between discovery and defense. Protecting the open source ecosystem is a shared responsibility, and we’re proud to contribute Upwind’s runtime intelligence to strengthen the coalition and improve visibility for the entire community,” said Tomer Hadassi, COO, Upwind. 

Every partner closes a gap, and the more layers the coalition covers, the less time an attacker has to operate before a flaw becomes public.

Akrites: the importance of driving fixes upstream

Pre-disclosure protection buys time, but the goal is to land a durable fix in the upstream codebase. To close that loop, Chainguard has joined Akrites, the Linux Foundation’s coordinated effort to remediate and disclose open source vulnerabilities upstream. Once a fix is built, shielded, and surfaced, Athena hands the finding to Akrites, which operates a shared Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) and a single standardized disclosure process, so maintainers receive notifications from a single trusted partner rather than a flood of overlapping reports. For critical packages with no active maintainer, Akrites serves as a maintainer of last resort. 

Joining the coalition to defend open source

The open source ecosystem is too large and too critical for any single organization to defend alone. Athena is built for the organizations that want to do more than react. Organizations that find vulnerabilities can submit them to the coalition for carry-through to a durable upstream fix. Organizations that build detections or mitigations, or carry fixes into real environments at scale, can become cyber partners and join the feed. Learn more at chainguard.dev/athena.

About Athena

Athena is the industry coalition for the orchestrated defense of open source software. Frontier AI models can now find novel, chained zero-day vulnerabilities in open source at machine speed, and the gap between discovery and exploitation has collapsed from years to hours. Athena closes the loop from vulnerability discovery through pre-embargo remediation to layered, defense-in-depth protection: pooling findings from across the coalition, building hardened fixes under embargo, stacking independent mitigations at the network, endpoint, and mission layers, and driving durable fixes upstream to maintainers. Members include leading global organizations, such as BNY, Chainguard, Cisco, Cloudflare, JPMorganChase, Morgan Stanley, PwC, and more, spanning submitters, platform and network providers, cybersecurity vendors, and global professional services. Learn more at chainguard.dev/athena.

About Chainguard
Chainguard is the trust layer for open source software. Its solutions provide engineers and AI agents with the hardened, trusted, and production-ready artifacts they rely on, so organizations can build fast while staying compliant and protecting against AI supply chain attacks. Customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital. For more information, visit: https://www.chainguard.dev/

AUSTIN, Texas, July 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Building on the ongoing relief efforts of Bambu Lab LATAM, including a USD 50,000 contribution toward earthquake recovery in Venezuela, Bambu Lab today announced a further step: a 48-hour community initiative beginning July 13 at 8:00 a.m. UTC−4, 2026. Use promo code 4Venezuela at checkout on eligible PLA Basic Refill in designated colors on Bambu Lab US and EU stores. Bambu Lab will donate an amount equal to its full list price (MSRP) to UN Crisis Relief in the name of the maker community.

How to participate

Available exclusively on Bambu Lab US and EU online stores.

Purchase PLA Basic Refill in Venezuela flag colors:

• Yellow (10400)
• Blue (10601)
• Red (10200)

Enter promo code 4Venezuela at checkout. Dedicated inventory has been set aside for this drive.

Customers may purchase eligible products at promotional prices during the drive. Regardless of the price paid at checkout, Bambu Lab will calculate its donation to UN Crisis Relief based on each product’s MSRP (original list price). Bambu Lab will cover any difference between the purchase price and the MSRP-based donation amount. In other words, you pay the promotional price, while Bambu Lab donates an amount equal to the full list price as a result of your purchase.

Full campaign details — including eligibility and how donations are handled for returns or cancellations, will be published when the drive opens on July 13. Please refer to those details for the most up-to-date information.

Transparency: After the campaign closes on July 15, Bambu Lab will publish the total amount raised and confirm the donation to UN Crisis Relief on our official channels when final figures are available.

Our relief commitments to date

This community initiative builds on actions Bambu Lab and our partners have already taken after twin earthquakes struck Venezuela on June 24, 2026 − magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5, the strongest seismic events in the country in more than a century, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

In addition to USD 50,000 in cash support committed by Bambu Lab LATAM on July 3 for earthquake relief efforts, we will continue supporting LayerLab, our official distributor in Venezuela, with the filament and printers needed to sustain maker-led production on the ground.

“Bambu Lab’s filament and material support has fulfilled what we need to keep production running on the ground. With the supplies provided, our local maker network can continue meeting current demand for priority items”

− Carlos Hernàndez, Founder and Director, LayerLab

LayerLab has also contributed independently − donating 160 kg of filament and print capacity − to produce and deliver supplies to affected areas.

Why we are opening this drive

In the days after the earthquakes, makers around the world responded − open-sourcing designs, printing medical aids, and coordinating deliveries across borders. Ostec3D, a Venezuelan entrepreneurship initiative focused on 3D-printed orthoses, released thermoplastic splint files through a public Google Drive archive. Volunteers connected through communities such as Reddit’s r/3Dprinting and PrintForHelp.

Bambu Lab and LayerLab were part of that response. We established direct contact with the development and engineering team at Ostec3D to align material support with on-the-ground production priorities − including hand splints and oxygen connectors.

Since then, we have heard from makers across our global community asking how they can take part. This drive is our answer: a way to participate as the Maker community, with proceeds donated in the community’s name − standing with the makers who acted first, and adding our collective name to theirs.

Learn more

Open files & design source

Ávila Splint and Ostec3D medical designs do not require digital scanning; they are manually thermoformed in hot water (80°C–95°C) and must be applied only by medical specialists or trained healthcare professionals. Any printing and use must be independently evaluated based on conditions on the ground.

• Ostec3D: https://www.ostec3d.com/
• Splint file archive (Google Drive): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IsRXzkUHA0u5EKhz9YXHzAYcEHha0H0u?usp=drive_link
• MakerWorld (@Ostec3D): https://makerworld.com/en/@Ostec3D
• Printables: https://www.printables.com/model/1766687-body-casts-to-help-venezuelan-earthquake-victims

Community coordination

• Fab City TTW − Venezuela response tracker: https://ttw.fab.city/venezuela/
• Reddit − r/3Dprinting: https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1uhevtz/requesting_help_after_earthquake_in_venezuela/
• PrintForHelp: https://printforhelp.org/parts

Social

• Ostec3D (Instagram): https://www.instagram.com/ostec3d/reel/DPHqJZhAesx/
• Ostec3D × 3Dxav × MakerWorld (Instagram): https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaHsrtURwoH/?igsh=MmI4cXVkMnNqZW42

Further reading

• FOX 17 − teen maker printing splints for Venezuela: https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/east-grand-rapids-forest-hills-cascade/ada-teen-turns-3d-printing-business-into-earthquake-relief-effort-for-venezuela
• WAPA TV − Puerto Rican students 3D-printing splints for Venezuela earthquake victims: https://wapa.tv/noticias/locales/estudiantes-boricuas-fabrican-f-rulas-en-3d-para-ayudar-a-damnificados-en-venezuela/article_97261121-f09c-4e1e-9760-c11a8a99c020.html

Other ways to help

• If you prefer to contribute through direct financial support, please consider established and trusted relief organizations of your choice.

About Bambu Lab

Bambu Lab is a consumer-tech company focusing on desktop 3D printers. Its state-of-the-art 3D printers offer a feature-rich, first-class experience for a global community of 3D printing makers, aiming to break the barriers between the digital and physical worlds and bring creativity to a whole new level. Bambu Lab sells its 3D printers, filaments, and accessories on its official website, serving customers across 30+ countries.

Learn more at https://www.bambulab.com.

NEW YORK, July 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Basketball, as one of the world’s most widely played sports, continues to evolve across competition levels, participation scale, and training sophistication. From professional leagues to grassroots programs and individual players, the sport has developed into a global ecosystem that is constantly pushing performance boundaries.

In parallel, basketball training methodologies have evolved significantly, becoming more systematic, data-informed, and diverse. These advancements have played a key role in improving performance across all levels of the sport.

At the same time, improvements in training have further accelerated the development of basketball itself. As athletes train more efficiently and precisely, the game continues to advance in speed and complexity, forming a continuous cycle of mutual reinforcement between the sport and its training systems.

However, within this cycle lies a persistent structural constraint: unequal access to high-quality training resources and limited scalability of effective training environments.

In most real-world settings, sustained high-level training still depends heavily on external support, including coaches, rebound partners, and fully equipped facilities. As a result, training quality is often shaped by available resources rather than fully controlled by the individual.

This dependency creates a ceiling on training efficiency and accessibility, limiting the scalability of modern training methods and ultimately constraining the pace at which basketball training can evolve alongside the sport itself.

CARRY LAUNCHES ON KICKSTARTER

Against this backdrop, LUMISTAR today announced the official launch of CARRY on Kickstarter, marking the global debut of its AI-powered basketball training system.

CARRY is now live on Kickstarter with early-backer pricing starting at US$2,499, ahead of its planned retail price of US$4,999. Initial deliveries are expected to begin in Q4 2026.

THE TECHNOLOGY BEHIND CARRY

CARRY is designed to make high-intensity basketball training more accessible through real-time, vision-driven interaction.

Unlike traditional shooting machines that operate on fixed trajectories, CARRY integrates a quad-camera 4K vision system powered by a high-performance chip. This enables continuous tracking of player movement during training sessions, allowing the system to adjust passing direction and timing dynamically. It also responds to gesture-based inputs for drill control.

The system is designed to significantly increase training efficiency. According to LUMISTAR, completing 500 game-realistic shots can be reduced from approximately four hours in traditional setups to around 45 minutes using CARRY.

In addition, CARRY incorporates an AI Coach Report that processes more than 20 performance metrics, including shooting consistency, movement efficiency, release stability, and shot distribution patterns, translating them into structured feedback for skill development.

The system is portable and can be deployed in approximately 60 seconds, allowing structured training in a wide range of environments.

EARLY VALIDATION

CARRY underwent early testing with more than 300 users and professional athletes, including WNBA Champion Aerial Powers and former NBA player Derrick Brown, who provided feedback on its tracking and passing performance during training sessions.

The system made its public debut at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, where live demonstrations attracted attention from attendees and media outlets including CNET, Tom’s Guide, and FOX5 Las Vegas.

Following CES, LUMISTAR hosted a live on-court experience session in Los Angeles, where CARRY was tested in real training environments by basketball creators, coaches, and athletes.

Participants included NBA Skills Trainer Sean Marshall, former Drew League MVP Frank Nitty, and streetball legend Bone Collector.

LOOKING AHEAD

The Kickstarter campaign marks the first opportunity for basketball players and early adopters worldwide to access and support CARRY as it begins its global rollout.

LUMISTAR stated that it sees ongoing advancements in AI and robotics as contributing to new approaches in sports training, with the potential to expand access to structured practice for athletes at different levels.

Media Contact

Website: https://lumistar.ai/

Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1596816961/lumistar-carry-ai-quad-camera-basketball-training-partner

Email: yolanda.huang@lumistar.ai

SoftAtHome has delivered the world’s first Wi-Fi 7 repeater built on a full prpl software stack, with deployments live at Orange in Poland and France and at least three further European markets to follow.

PARIS, July 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SoftAtHome, the leading independent software provider for broadband, video and analytics, and a global leader in Smart Wi-Fi, today announced that its prpl-based Wi-Fi 7 repeater software is now deployed commercially across Orange in Europe.

To view the Multimedia News Release, please click: 
https://www.multivu.com/softathome/9408651-en-brings-prpl-commercial-scale-orange-wifi-7-deployments-across-europe

The deployment is a milestone for prpl, the open-source framework designed to provide operators with a common, hardware-independent, and operator-controlled software base for broadband devices. After years as an industry promise, prpl is now running in subscribers’ homes at Group scale, with Wi-Fi 7 as the catalyst.

Orange Poland launched the first such device in March 2026 as the Smartbox Wi-Fi 7. Orange France’s prpl-based Wi-Fi 7 repeater is now also live, with at least three further Orange European markets expected to follow. The work builds on earlier prpl deployments within Orange, including Orange Jordan, where SoftAtHome delivered prpl-based gateway software around a year ago.

SoftAtHome engineered the prpl stack to support differentiated requirements across Orange markets without building separate software for each country, showing that an open platform can carry operator-specific services and configurations while preserving a common base.

The repeaters run SoftAtHome’s Wifi’ON Smart Wi-Fi software on prpl. prpl provides a standardised hardware abstraction layer, allowing the same software stack to run across different chipset generations. SoftAtHome has contributed to prpl since the project’s early stages and has deployed prpl-based solutions with multiple operators.

Interoperability is based on prplMesh with EasyMesh inside. These open standards allow the repeaters to operate across Orange’s different gateway environments, without locking subscribers into a single vendor ecosystem. The software is compatible with Orange’s existing gateway installed base, allowing functioning equipment to remain in service. Where gateways support it, Wi-Fi 7 extends throughout the home; earlier-generation gateways can also benefit from Wi-Fi 7 connectivity.

Wifi’ON manages mesh topology dynamically. When several repeaters are active, the software automatically determines whether each unit should connect to the gateway or to another repeater, selecting the path that delivers the best connectivity quality. No subscriber configuration is required. In Poland, the Smartbox Wi-Fi 7 supports up to three units per household, extending coverage for larger and multi-storey homes.

SoftAtHome’s Eyes’ON analytics give Orange continuous visibility into Wi-Fi performance across the installed base. Together, Wifi’ON and Eyes’ON form SoftAtHome’s Wi-Fi software stack on the repeater, combining optimisation with observability.

The repeaters add Wi-Fi 7 capabilities, including lower latency, Multi-Link Operation, and seamless operation under a single SSID across Wi-Fi 5, Wi-Fi 6, and Wi-Fi 7 devices.

The hardware was also developed with sustainability in mind, including recycled plastics and a design that supports repair and refurbishment. Because the platform is open and software-based, Orange can continue to improve the subscriber’s experience through updates rather than hardware replacements.

“After the first worldwide deployment with Orange Jordan in 2025, a new step has been taken in the prpl journey” said Arnaud Bellivier de Prin, CEO of SoftAtHome. “Delivering the world’s first Wi-Fi 7 repeater on a full prpl stack and doing it at Orange scale across several European markets shows that operators can adopt an open platform, bring in new silicon partners and still preserve the seamless experience their subscribers expect. We are proud to reach this point alongside Orange.”

Contact:
Marta Twardowska for SoftAtHome – E: press@softathome.com – T: @SoftAtHome

SoftAtHome Brings prpl to Commercial Scale with Orange Wi-Fi 7 Deployments Across Europe