Waymo says “cameras…aren’t enough,” arguing that safe, fully autonomous operations at scale require more than camera-only approaches after logging 200+ million real-world fully autonomous miles with a redundant multi-sensor setup that cameras alone can’t replicate.
Aug 27, 2026 ·
The Verge
Meta’s new under-18 Instagram and Facebook policies, including 13–17 time limits, reminders about switching to a non-algorithmic feed, and a nighttime block, will apply only in the US for now.
Aug 27, 2026 ·
Engadget
Kansas City Fed President Jeffrey Schmid said the Fed’s 3.50%–3.75% policy rate does not appear restrictive and inflation is still “stubborn” and “sticky,” requiring more effort to get back to 2%.
Aug 27, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Trump’s investment accounts bought between $250,001 and $500,000 of Boeing stock on June 18, the same day the U.S. Navy awarded Boeing a sole-source contract worth up to $880 million for P-8A Poseidon aircrew and maintenance training systems.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Australian police arrested two people in Perth accused of TeamPCP hacks that breached more than 1,000 organizations and stole over 500,000 credentials via compromised open-source projects.
Aug 27, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Google says Android app developers have until February 2027 to meet new app quality thresholds focused on reducing memory usage (including dynamic memory and bitmap usage) and adding code-optimization requirements to prevent slowdowns and crashes.
Aug 27, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Meta agreed to a kids safety settlement with 47 US states that requires it to pay at least $12 billion, with an additional $5.3 billion tied to whether Snap, TikTok, and YouTube adopt matching restrictions and enter comparable state settlements.
Aug 27, 2026 ·The Verge
Potsherds from an 11th-century feast at Etowah (northern Georgia) contain ancient cacao DNA, showing Mississippian trade connections that reached at least 3,000 kilometers to Central America.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Kansas City Fed President Jeffrey Schmid said inflation remains “stubborn” and “sticky” and that the Fed’s current policy rate target of 3.5%–3.75% may not be restrictive.
Aug 27, 2026 ·
CNBC
The FCC’s Aug. 14 broadband deployment report scrapped its long-term universal gigabit target of 1,000Mbps download and 500Mbps upload, replacing it with a framework that treats high-speed broadband as “often essential” rather than “essential.”
Aug 27, 2026 ·
CNET
Meta agreed to an $18 billion settlement over allegations that Facebook and Instagram were designed to be addictive to minors, with changes on teen accounts including a two-hour daily limit (default, overrideable by parents) and a midnight-to-6 a.m. blackout for Meta apps (parent override).
Aug 27, 2026 ·
ZDNet
UK data protection watchdog the ICO fined Elderly Aids Ltd £190,000 for making 758,053 unsolicited direct marketing calls to phone numbers registered with the Telephone Preference Service between May 27, 2024, and February 10, 2025 (about 2,916 calls per day).
Aug 27, 2026 ·
The Register
The UK Cabinet Office is hiring a Head of Strategy and Engagement (salary up to £83,355) to lead strategy for its Digital, Data, Innovation and AI team improving AI skills for 550,000 civil servants, and the role does not require prior digital/data/innovation/AI experience (it is only “desirable”).
Aug 27, 2026 ·The Register
Argentina and Chile say reviving the 1997 Mining Integration and Complementation Treaty could unlock more than $20.7 billion in mining investment and add 540,000 metric tons to annual copper production.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
JPMorgan and Bank of America say a Federal Reserve capital-rule tweak tied to how short-term wholesale funding is treated would reduce their expected capital relief by $13 billion and $9 billion, respectively, while Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley would gain $1 billion to $2 billion each.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The Treasury plans to at least double long-term bond buyback operations from a maximum of $2 billion to at least $4 billion per operation starting in September, and Druckenmiller warned the program could “spiral” and fail to keep yields—and thus mortgage rates—down.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith rejected using export taxes or suspending crude oil sales to the U.S. in retaliation for the Trump tariff fight, saying it would be a “disastrous” policy that could damage Canada’s economy and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Albertans.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
About 80% of UK teachers now regularly use AI, and while 51% say it reduced their workload, only 35% report working fewer hours and 55% say their hours stayed the same.
Aug 27, 2026 ·The Register
ICANN has received over 1,600 applications for new global top-level domains (GTLDs) and plans to publish a list of those that pass administrative checks in a September or October “Reveal Day.”
Aug 27, 2026 ·The Register
KKR agreed to pay a $250 million civil penalty to settle a U.S. antitrust case alleging it violated federal premerger filing requirements in at least 16 transactions.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
