Dane County voted on April 16 to cut its $80,000 funding for Flock license-plate cameras and ban further spending, after which the county’s cameras went dark and stopped feeding data to 140 other law-enforcement agencies in the Flock network.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Supreme Court denied Verizon’s petition for a $47 million refund of an FCC fine, ending its request to have a lower court order the FCC to issue that refund.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Ars Technica
September WTI crude (CLU26) closed up $2.10 (+2.55%) and September RBOB gasoline (RBU26) closed up $0.0860 (+2.70%) on Monday to 3-week highs.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Apple says macOS screen sharing vulnerability can let an attacker authenticate without valid credentials, potentially viewing your screen, accessing files and private chats, and taking control of your keyboard and mouse/trackpad.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
CNET
Petlibro said a cache issue disabled service on Wednesday night, with a solution implemented at 11:43 pm PT and service reactivated, while it continued operating in a crisis setting until performance returned to pre-failure levels the next morning.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Sonic Fire Tech raised $15M to test a sound-powered fire suppression system that it says can snuff out fires within seconds using ~20 Hz infrasonic waves delivered through ceiling PVC pipes.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Germany’s Bundeskartellamt said Apple’s App Tracking Transparency consent prompts favor Apple’s own apps over third-party apps by using wording, design, and selection options that could encourage consent for Apple while discouraging it for others.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
Engadget
Keeper’s 50% off deal cuts its Personal plan from $4.30 to $2.15 a month and its Family plan (up to five users) from $9.20 to $4.60 a month.
Aug 17, 2026 ·CNET
Linux kernel 7.2 adds Cache Aware Scheduling to aggregate tasks sharing data to the same LLC cache domain, reducing cache bouncing and cache misses and improving data access efficiency.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Wiz’s AI attacker autonomously found a GitHub Actions workflow script-injection bug and extracted Jira credentials via an out-of-band callback, but Snowflake patched the flaw the same day and rotated the token the following day.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
The Register
Defcon’s “Noob Village” and beginner-focused talks/workshops helped the author go from not knowing basics like what Defcon badges are to identifying a clearer path into learning cybersecurity hands-on.
Aug 17, 2026 ·CNET
Protests and legal challenges are targeting DHS’s border wall and “virtual wall” security buildup, including ongoing construction efforts that activists say are harming protected desert ecosystems and cutting into Big Bend’s river corridor.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
The Verge
Apple says a macOS Screen Sharing vulnerability can be exploited from the network to let attackers view a user’s screen, access files, and gain root access, and it has been seen in the Netherlands on multiple systems with crypto-mining software uploaded.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Engadget
GitHub has been down since around 9:40AM ET, with the status page reporting problems affecting API requests, pull requests, and webhooks, plus Copilot.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Engadget
Germany’s Federal Cartel Office ordered Apple to stop the design of iPhone and iPad data-consent prompts from steering users away from third-party app data use and toward Apple’s apps, and Apple has four months to change the design and wording.
Aug 17, 2026 ·The Verge
GitHub reported a 50% error rate on repository content downloads and Copilot was “experiencing degraded availability” during an incident that began at 1340 UTC.
Aug 17, 2026 ·The Register
Photon Matrix Lab’s $1,000 LiDAR-guided home laser mosquito zapper is in mass production and is claimed to use a 6-meter visible blue or invisible infrared beam to kill mosquitoes (2–20 mm) that fly no faster than 1 meter per second.
Aug 17, 2026 ·The Register
Bits of Gold says a coordinated hack led to theft of personal data from 200,000 customers, including names, national IDs, emails, phone numbers, IP addresses, bank account details, and public wallet addresses.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Skeleton 150—buried beneath Stirling Castle—shows the only known case of trebuchet trauma in the archaeological record, with injuries consistent with a crushing impact to the upper back/head at close to 300 km/h.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Austria fined Bitpanda the equivalent of $81,150 for MiCA breaches, the first enforcement fine under Europe’s MiCA framework.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
