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
EcoFlow’s winter/backup sale cuts select portable power stations, solar panels, bundles, and fridges by up to 50% through Sept. 19, and the offer code EFPDFAFF provides the maximum additional savings at checkout.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
CNET
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
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
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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
