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
Meta has given up control of Chinese AI startup Manus after eight months.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Computerworld
Attackers used open source AI agents to carry out near-autonomous intrusions that compromised a Taiwanese government email system, the country’s nuclear safety agency, IT supply chain vendors, and at least seven energy sector companies, after deploying up to eight sub-agents across 12 attack waves to break into a government website.
Aug 14, 2026 ·The Register
Microsoft will unify its consumer Copilot app and Microsoft 365 Copilot into an “updated Copilot app” starting Aug. 18 for consumer users, adding Microsoft 365 tool access (Word, Excel, Outlook) plus email, calendars and cloud storage integration while retiring group chats and Deep Research in the consumer app.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Computerworld
Microsoft is removing Mico from Copilot Voice and moving it to Learn Live, while keeping Copilot voice responses for users without the gurning blob’s character.
Aug 14, 2026 ·The Register
OpenFactory is a pre-alpha service that can generate bootable custom Linux ISOs from an AI prompt or a selection menu, including validating, testing, and later reproducing the build via reusable recipes—though the author’s first attempts produced the wrong desktop (GNOME instead of KDE Plasma) and failed Calamares installs until bugs were fixed.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
ZDNet
TalkTalk Business and ARO plan to merge, creating a communications and managed services provider with about £200 million in annual revenue and a combined customer base of more than 70,000 companies.
Aug 14, 2026 ·The Register
Apple built its own proprietary AI model for China with support from Alibaba Qwen, after revisiting its Google Gemini AI approach for the region where US models like ChatGPT or Claude are not available.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Computerworld
You can change the default browser in Windows 10 or 11 by going to Settings > Apps > Default apps and selecting your desired web browser for the Web browser (Windows 10) or the browser entry then clicking Set default (Windows 11).
Aug 14, 2026 ·Computerworld
The provided article text contains only site/navigation boilerplate and no stock-move details (tickers, prices, percentages, or catalysts) to summarize.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
CNBC
A breach at Trezor’s logistics partner exposed personal data for 13,000+ customers, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, and shipping addresses for 11,742 US, UK, Sweden, Colombia, Brazil, Italy, and Portugal orders placed between May 10 and August 8.
Aug 14, 2026 ·The Register
DeepSeek raised API pricing for its V4 model family effective August 16, with increases of up to 1,100% depending on model, token type, cache-hit status, and peak vs off-peak usage.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Computerworld
Uber and Pony.ai plan to deploy 2,000 Pony.ai self-driving taxis across Europe and expand the partnership to the Middle East.
Aug 14, 2026 ·CNBC
Dicio is an on-device, privacy-by-design free and open-source Android voice assistant that can handle many basic tasks (including hands-free calling) without sending input/output to a third party.
Aug 14, 2026 ·ZDNet
Public model repositories grew from 2.43M to 2.96M, datasets from 711K to 1M, and Spaces from 1.00M to 1.44M from January to August 2026, but the usage distribution remains highly skewed with 85.6% of models getting fewer than 200 lifetime downloads and 1.5% of repositories accounting for 99.2% of all downloads.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Hugging Face
OpenAI’s proprietary ChatGPT Desktop App for Linux preview is available via DEB and RPM packages for Ubuntu 24.04/26.04 LTS, Debian 13, and Fedora 43/44 (x86-64 and Arm64), but the article’s tester says it produced materially inaccurate technical details and the app didn’t reliably show their “shell jobs” in the desktop app’s project list.
Aug 13, 2026 ·ZDNet
S&P 500 companies’ blended net profit margin is 16.9% in Q2, up from 14.8% in Q1 and 12.9% a year ago (above the 12.4% five-year average), which would be the highest since FactSet began tracking in 2009.
Aug 13, 2026 ·CNBC
Please paste the article text (beyond the CNBC footer/boilerplate) so I can extract the specific, checkable facts—e.g., the size/date of Bill Ackman’s Netflix buy and any stated performance or streaming-wars claims.
Aug 13, 2026 ·CNBC
