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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Iran’s central bank chief Abdolnasser Hemmati said Iran is set to join the BRICS New Development Bank, with Hemmati seeking bilateral and trilateral monetary cooperation with BRICS member states.
Aug 13, 2026 ·
CNBC
Apple is exploring expanding its wearable lineup beyond Apple Watch—potentially including screen-free fitness bands, rings, and fitness bands—building on Apple Watch sensors and software and aiming to combine advanced fitness tracking with privacy in Europe amid the Digital Markets Act.
Aug 13, 2026 ·Computerworld
In a community hackathon to reproduce ICML 2026 results at claim level, 51% of the 2,226 attempted papers had at least one claim independently verified, while 23% had at least one claim falsified or contested (including 242 papers with opposite verdicts on the same claims).
Aug 13, 2026 ·Hugging Face
Immigrant workers make up 17% of the U.S. health care workforce (about 3.3 million people) and 30% of direct care workers in long-term settings, so tighter immigration enforcement and the end of temporary protected status could worsen existing long-term care workforce shortages and push up costs for families.
Jul 3, 2026 ·CNBC
New rules in President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act allow 529 plans to be used as “lifelong education savings accounts,” including withdrawals for your own career training or professional credentials (not just college).
Jun 1, 2026 ·CNBC
36% of surveyed teenage boys ages 11–17 said they gambled at some point in the prior year, and the number rises to 49% for those who are 17 or older, according to a January Common Sense Media report.
Apr 3, 2026 ·CNBC
