Idaho National Laboratory is reviewing whether Chinese lidar sensors could create cybersecurity risks for vehicles if widely used on U.S. roads, potentially including mass disabling of sensors or compressing/transmitting detailed environment data.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
ChatGPT’s Apple Messages plugin for the ChatGPT desktop app on macOS can read and search iMessage, SMS, and RCS chats and send messages on a user’s behalf through Apple’s Messages app (available on all plans).
Aug 21, 2026 ·
Computerworld
ICE Brent was about $94 per barrel as single-digit transits through the Strait of Hormuz and a Trump ‘Economic D-Day’ campaign against Iran pushed geopolitical risk premia higher, with the article expecting momentum toward $100 oil to continue through late August.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Apple paid Ireland $17.1 billion in taxes in its last fiscal year, about 40% of its worldwide tax total.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
As of July 31, there have been 122 food and beverage recalls in 2026—vs 135 during the same period in 2025 and 146 in 2024—and the piece notes FDA data suggests recall activity is elevated, though it’s too early to say it will outpace 2025.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
The Verge
Former JPMorgan Chase executive Matt Zames is set to join the Trump administration as an unpaid advisor to the Social Security Administration, starting Monday at SSA headquarters in Baltimore to help modernize the agency under Commissioner Frank Bisignano.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
CNBC
Tesla is recalling 3 million vehicles in China over hidden emergency door releases that can trap occupants in crashes or fires, with other affected automakers also issuing warning-label changes and software updates.
Aug 21, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Apollo Global Management confirmed that hackers accessed its cloud environment via social engineering between July 6 and July 10 and stole personal information including names, birth dates, contact details (including home addresses), and Social Security numbers.
Aug 21, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Waymo has more than doubled its lobbying spending on robotaxi regulation in key states and Washington, D.C., spending over $500,000 so far this year in New York—more than double Uber’s lobbying spend—as it seeks wider autonomous-vehicle rollout.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Sen. Ron Wyden asked the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to publish an unclassified report after finding there is “little public information regarding” the scope, frequency, and operational safeguards of federal hacking tools and spyware.
Aug 21, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Child safety experts say OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Teens lacks public evidence that its age-gating and safety notifications reliably work, and they want independent testing and transparency before recommending it to parents and young people.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
Engadget
Health Net plans to discontinue its Medi-Cal assisted living benefit at the end of 2026, affecting about 3,500 Medi-Cal patients who rely on around-the-clock care for conditions such as dementia.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Waste Pro has responded to TPS terminations by hiring additional employees, increasing cross-training, and consulting legal experts to cover gaps left by workers who lose U.S. work authorization.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
China’s Ministry of State Security has ordered some government agencies to drop Windows 10 China Government Edition in favor of Chinese-made Linux distributions, with the Windows retirement date moved from February 2027 to later in 2026.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Middle- and upper-middle retirees can face higher federal tax bills because Social Security benefits generally aren’t federally income-taxed only up to $25,000 of combined income (single) or $32,000 for married couples filing jointly, and the OBBBA additional deduction for taxpayers 65+ phases out above $75,000 modified AGI (single) or $150,000 (joint).
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 may end commercial launches after 2028, with only limited continued Falcon 9 flights for federally contracted missions, amid satellite operators’ concerns that the company will prioritize Starlink and other internal payloads as it prepares to retire Falcon 9 for Starship.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Nigeria’s offshore oil and gas incentives could attract $50 billion in new investment, while annual investment in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry has fallen to $2 billion from $26 billion in 2014.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Monte dei Paschi launched all-share bids for Banco BPM and Banca Generali valued together at nearly $40 billion, as it seeks to fend off Intesa Sanpaolo’s cash-and-stock takeover offer.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
NHTSA opened a probe covering 997,743 GM pickup trucks and SUVs from model years 2021–2026 over concerns about engine failure affecting vehicles with the L87 engine.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
OpenAI is rolling out Private Safety Processing, which lets enterprises detect misuse across multiple AI interactions while OpenAI personnel do not retain or access the underlying prompts or model responses (aligning with its Zero Data Retention commitments).
Aug 21, 2026 ·Computerworld
