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
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
Snowflake Volunteer is a standalone Android app that lets everyday users lend their phone as a proxy to help others access the Tor Network under censorship, with real-time stats shown in the app dashboard (connections helped and bytes sent/received).
Aug 14, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Apple says it notified select customers across 110 countries on Thursday that they were targeted by mercenary spyware attacks, and those customers should enable iPhone, iPad, and Mac Lockdown Mode to help protect their data and device.
Aug 14, 2026 ·ZDNet
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mac app can create an activity timeline from opt-in app and website interactions for Pro, Business, and Enterprise accounts, turning the events into text summaries and local memory files you can reference in conversations—but Computer History files are not encrypted and may be accessible to other programs under the same macOS user.
Aug 14, 2026 ·ZDNet
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
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
A breach at Trezor’s logistics partner exposed personal data for 13,000+ customers, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, and shipping addresses for 11,742 US, UK, Sweden, Colombia, Brazil, Italy, and Portugal orders placed between May 10 and August 8.
Aug 14, 2026 ·The Register
Dicio is an on-device, privacy-by-design free and open-source Android voice assistant that can handle many basic tasks (including hands-free calling) without sending input/output to a third party.
Aug 14, 2026 ·ZDNet
Flock Safety cut automatic license plate reader retention from 30 days to seven days, but added an evidence mode that can let police hold data indefinitely for active investigations and created exceptions that keep most existing contracts on their prior retention periods.
Aug 13, 2026 ·
CNET
A multi-step chain of four SCCM weaknesses can let an ordinary domain user with no SCCM privileges reach remote code execution as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM on the primary Site Server, after which all managed clients are compromised, but the attack requires network access to the SCCM environment.
Aug 13, 2026 ·Computerworld
OpenAI is introducing “Premium” pricing for ChatGPT Business, letting enterprises give higher-capacity access to selected users alongside standard licenses.
Aug 13, 2026 ·Computerworld
A proposed Microsoft Defender patch bypass called ShieldBreak would let an attacker who already has any system access turn it into full admin/root privileges by abusing Defender, potentially leaving enterprises exposed even after they applied the fix for CVE-2026-50656.
Aug 12, 2026 ·Computerworld
Anthropic said Claude text and files will be watermarked starting with Claude model launches on or after Aug. 2 to comply with EU transparency rules, with watermarks embedded invisibly in text and cryptographically signed metadata in image files.
Aug 11, 2026 ·CNET
Caching the teacher’s top-100 logits per token position and using a fused, chunked KL loss reduces peak distillation VRAM from about 250GB to about 128GB (and can scale to long contexts without the dense-loss failures).
Aug 10, 2026 ·Hugging Face
Meta released Muse Glimmer, a locally deployable multimodal model distilled to 30B parameters and released under the Apache 2.0 license, built for agentic use cases where privacy and lower costs matter.
Aug 10, 2026 ·Hugging Face
In interviews with over 400 burglars, 83% said they tried to find out whether the target had a security alarm and 60% said they would choose another if they noticed it (down to 50% if they noticed an alarm halfway through breaking-in).
Aug 6, 2026 ·CNET
The FCC added foreign-produced advanced robotic devices—including most modern robot vacuums using autonomous navigation, obstacle avoidance, and wireless connectivity over 4.4 pounds—to its national security Covered List, blocking new models from receiving FCC equipment authorization for import, marketing, or sale in the US going forward.
Jul 30, 2026 ·CNET
