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
A US District Judge ordered Google to remove “anticompetitive friction” from how it offers third-party app store downloads in Google Play and gave it one week to fix the process after finding the link to non-Google stores is buried in confusing menus.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Hulu released Chris Carter’s R-rated director’s cut of the 2008 standalone X-Files film I Want to Believe, retitled The X-Files: I Want to Believe–Vrach Frankenshteyn, as an August 14 release with a full re-edit to “make it the scary movie” he originally intended.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Over 24,000 people have been sickened and two have died in a Cyclospora outbreak tied to Mexican-grown iceberg lettuce sold by Taylor Farms, prompting Sen. Elizabeth Warren to accuse the federal government’s response of being “botched” and “marred by missteps.”
Aug 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna to $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens, while Anthropic launched Opus 5 at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens and called off a planned September price increase for Sonnet 5.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
France’s tax authority (DGFiP) confirmed that an intruder accessed its information system in late June 2026 after identity theft and extracted data, despite the access being severed at the end of June during an audit.
Aug 14, 2026 ·The Register
Virgin Galactic delayed the start of commercial spaceflight to February 2027 and plans to raise suborbital ticket prices later this year after demand exceeded the initial $750,000 seat batch.
Aug 14, 2026 ·The Register
OpenAI’s AI ethics lead Chloé Bakalar left the company about a year after joining, according to the Financial Times, and the loss of its sole ethicist is likely to increase pressure as OpenAI prepares for an IPO.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Computerworld
