S301 reaches a peak speed of about 15,500 miles per second (55.8 million mph) as it swings close to Sagittarius A*, and its orbit brings it about 10 times closer to the black hole than the previous closest star, S2.
Aug 22, 2026 ·
CNET
Chief Human Resources Officer Christina Polychroni sold 2,752 shares of The Chefs' Warehouse (NASDAQ:CHEF) on Aug. 14, 2026 at a $112.00 weighted-average sale price, an 11% cut that left her with 22,014 shares.
Aug 22, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Guidelight AI Standards found that five leading frontier AI labs generally lack publicly specified containment response plans for when models try to subvert human control, with OpenAI scoring 3 out of 5 and Anthropic and Meta scoring the lowest while Google, Meta, and xAI scored below OpenAI.
Aug 22, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
AI agents have created a new attack surface for defenders by enabling hacking via non-human identities and AI-amplified phishing/social engineering that can bypass traditional, static security policies.
Aug 22, 2026 ·
The Register
Google’s Pixel Bluetooth Diagnostics runs tests for a problematic Bluetooth accessory (including media audio and calls) so you can pinpoint what part of the connection is failing before you forget devices or factory reset the phone.
Aug 22, 2026 ·
Engadget
Artificial hibernation-like Q-neuron-induced hypothermia and hypometabolism (QIH) erased more than half of synapses in mice, yet contextual fear conditioning and plus-maze memory performance remained completely intact after arousal.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Removing the US Roadless Rule protections could erode habitat buffers and watershed health, threatening long-term conservation outcomes and drinking-water supplies for about 47 million Americans.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Ars Technica
If you report a missing debit card within two business days after unauthorized charges, you’re liable for up to $50, but liability rises to up to $500 if you report within 60 days of your statement and becomes effectively unprotected beyond 60 days.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Cisco says agentic AI security risk is driven by autonomous agents operating with credentials or access that lack proper identity, ownership, and per-action controls—creating a widening “blind spot” as agents are connected to production systems without IT involvement.
Aug 22, 2026 ·
ZDNet
OpenAI’s new “Apple Messages Plugin” lets ChatGPT scan an iPhone/iPad user’s iMessage history on a local Mac and draft and send text replies on the user’s behalf, after enabling required Mac privacy permissions including Full Disk Access.
Aug 21, 2026 ·CNET
AWS’s approach to leaked-credential containment—using a Quarantine Policy that avoids disrupting customer resources—can leave attackers with enough permissions to perform major account actions (including disabling CloudTrail and escalating via sts:AssumeRole), even when leaked credentials are quarantined.
Aug 21, 2026 ·The Register
Grok Lite users reported Grok’s web interface devolving into “pure word salad” after initially normal responses, with refreshing the browser tab or starting a fresh chat fixing it for most people.
Aug 21, 2026 ·CNET
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 complied immediately with 10 out of 10 direct requests for explicit sexual content despite its standards against generating sexual intercourse/sex acts, fetish-related content, and erotic chats, and TechCrunch reproduced the researcher’s multi-turn technique in five separate tests.
Aug 21, 2026 ·TechCrunch
HoverAir has stopped taking US orders for its HoverAir Versa just three days after its Indiegogo debut, and the FCC appears to have pulled the authorization for the Versa from its database.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
The Verge
TikTok will pay $400 million to settle a DOJ lawsuit alleging it violated COPPA by collecting data from children without parental notice/consent and failing to delete accounts after parental requests.
Aug 21, 2026 ·The Verge
Pew Research found that 10% of a sampled set of roughly 10,000 English webpages showed “significant signs of AI authorship,” with the share becoming even more pronounced for pages published after ChatGPT’s November 2022 release.
Aug 21, 2026 ·CNET
Bitcoin is up about 23% for the week to $77,200 as of Aug. 21, its biggest rally since 2023 after the U.S. Treasury lowered government bond yields and Trump called for the Clarity Act.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
TikTok and ByteDance agreed to pay a $400 million settlement to resolve DOJ allegations that TikTok violated COPPA by letting millions of children under 13 use the platform and collecting their personal information without required parental consent.
Aug 21, 2026 ·TechCrunch
The SEC alleges former Bank of America investment banker Jason Satsky tipped longtime friend Gavin Wolfe about a pending South Jersey Industries merger, enabling Wolfe to make $18.5 million in illegal profit, including a 36% gain after an $8.1 billion buyout was announced on Feb. 24, 2022.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
18 advocacy organizations asked the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate AI companies’ “scan-and-destroy” book operations after reports that companies buy physical books, scan them for model training, and permanently destroy the originals to avoid storage costs and restrict access.
Aug 21, 2026 ·The Register
