Regulators and banks step up scrutiny of prediction markets
The CFTC is conducting an internal review of “mention markets” on prediction platforms, and Kalshi was alerted to the review several weeks ago.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
CNBC
The CFTC is conducting an internal review of “mention markets” on prediction platforms, and Kalshi was alerted to the review several weeks ago.
Aug 14, 2026 ·CNBC
Attacks on U.S. water and wastewater utilities were reported across about a dozen states, with incidents in Minnesota affecting more than 30 communities and some attacks causing “degraded water operations” along with loss of pressure that “could potentially allow untreated groundwater to seep into pipes,” plus temporary water-plant shutdowns and boil-water advisories.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Mozilla announced in May 2025 that it is shutting down Pocket, acquired in 2017, and Pocket users had until October 8, 2025 to export saved items (lists, archives, favorites, notes, and highlights).
Aug 14, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Dutch officials say CVE-2026-65400 is being actively abused from the Internet on Macs with port 5900 exposed, with root access gained and a Monero crypto miner deployed on affected systems.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Heart Aerospace’s X1 battery-electric demonstrator completed a nearly half-hour maiden flight powered by more than 1 megawatt of electricity, costing just $5 in electricity.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
About 1.6 million unique RingCentral email addresses were leaked online with names, physical addresses, and phone numbers after a social-engineering campaign against a limited portion of customers.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
The Register
A Connecticut judge ruled that hidden “prompt injection” text in a plaintiff’s court filings—intended to be invisible to humans but readable by software—did not affect the outcome of the case and led to court sanctions for “serious litigation abuse.”
Aug 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
A Washington state judge issued a preliminary injunction ordering Kalshi to stop offering sports bets and other wagers in Washington, finding Kalshi’s marketing and advertising of its “prediction market” bets constitute unfair and/or deceptive acts under state gambling and consumer protection law.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
A court in St. Louis Circuit Court ordered OSS to return Nine PBS’s archival data and/or facilitate its transfer to a new vendor after Nine PBS sought access to about 50TB of data that Iron Mountain refused to release.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Google Meet is rolling out in-person meeting note-taking that uses Gemini to create a structured summary and transcript in a Google Doc, saving it to Drive and emailing you a link, available on both app and desktop only for Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for individuals.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Ukraine’s GUR says it recovered an Nvidia Jetson Orin module from the remains of a Russian S-71 Monochrome air-launched cruise missile, suggesting AI-enabled targeting capabilities in the weapon.
Aug 14, 2026 ·The Register
Europe’s average launch cost to orbit is about $9,897 per kilogram in 2025—roughly three times the $3,225 per kilogram estimate for the United States for comparable payloads.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
August 2026 Patch Tuesday shipped 751 CVEs across Microsoft products, including 108 rated critical, and it includes an already-exploited Windows elevation-of-privilege flaw (CVE-2026-68820) in the WinSock driver (afd.sys).
Aug 14, 2026 ·
Computerworld
President Trump ordered the US Navy to plan replacing EMALS (Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System) with steam-powered aircraft launch systems on the future USS Doris Miller (CVN-81) and to replace the Advanced Weapons Elevators with older hydraulic versions.
Aug 14, 2026 ·The Register
Unforgetful is a new iOS and Mac reminders app that keeps notifications repeating until the task is actually done (and deleted), revamps snoozing with scaling intervals, and replaces Apple Reminders notifications while still using the existing Reminders database.
Aug 14, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Snowflake Volunteer is a standalone Android app that lets everyday users lend their phone as a proxy to help others access the Tor Network under censorship, with real-time stats shown in the app dashboard (connections helped and bytes sent/received).
Aug 14, 2026 ·ZDNet
The Stop Killing Games movement argues that publishers should preserve playable access to online games after shutting down servers, because the practice is “intolerable” and typically involves minimal technical cost if planned from the start.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Apple says it notified select customers across 110 countries on Thursday that they were targeted by mercenary spyware attacks, and those customers should enable iPhone, iPad, and Mac Lockdown Mode to help protect their data and device.
Aug 14, 2026 ·ZDNet
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mac app can create an activity timeline from opt-in app and website interactions for Pro, Business, and Enterprise accounts, turning the events into text summaries and local memory files you can reference in conversations—but Computer History files are not encrypted and may be accessible to other programs under the same macOS user.
Aug 14, 2026 ·ZDNet
Dell’s 2026 XPS 13 is ZDNET’s Editors’ Choice for budget Windows laptops at a $699 starting price, combining a premium-feeling, thin-and-light build with a 13.4-inch 120Hz, 500-nit 2.5K (2560×1600) display that covers 100% of DCI-P3.
Aug 14, 2026 ·ZDNet
