President Trump ordered the US Navy to plan replacing EMALS (Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System) with steam-powered aircraft launch systems on the future USS Doris Miller (CVN-81) and to replace the Advanced Weapons Elevators with older hydraulic versions.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
The Register
Unforgetful is a new iOS and Mac reminders app that keeps notifications repeating until the task is actually done (and deleted), revamps snoozing with scaling intervals, and replaces Apple Reminders notifications while still using the existing Reminders database.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
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
Dell’s 2026 XPS 13 is ZDNET’s Editors’ Choice for budget Windows laptops at a $699 starting price, combining a premium-feeling, thin-and-light build with a 13.4-inch 120Hz, 500-nit 2.5K (2560×1600) display that covers 100% of DCI-P3.
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
Hulu released Chris Carter’s R-rated director’s cut of the 2008 standalone X-Files film I Want to Believe, retitled The X-Files: I Want to Believe–Vrach Frankenshteyn, as an August 14 release with a full re-edit to “make it the scary movie” he originally intended.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna to $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens, while Anthropic launched Opus 5 at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens and called off a planned September price increase for Sonnet 5.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Microsoft will unify its consumer Copilot app and Microsoft 365 Copilot into an “updated Copilot app” starting Aug. 18 for consumer users, adding Microsoft 365 tool access (Word, Excel, Outlook) plus email, calendars and cloud storage integration while retiring group chats and Deep Research in the consumer app.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Microsoft is removing Mico from Copilot Voice and moving it to Learn Live, while keeping Copilot voice responses for users without the gurning blob’s character.
Aug 14, 2026 ·The Register
OpenFactory is a pre-alpha service that can generate bootable custom Linux ISOs from an AI prompt or a selection menu, including validating, testing, and later reproducing the build via reusable recipes—though the author’s first attempts produced the wrong desktop (GNOME instead of KDE Plasma) and failed Calamares installs until bugs were fixed.
Aug 14, 2026 ·ZDNet
TalkTalk Business and ARO plan to merge, creating a communications and managed services provider with about £200 million in annual revenue and a combined customer base of more than 70,000 companies.
Aug 14, 2026 ·The Register
Apple built its own proprietary AI model for China with support from Alibaba Qwen, after revisiting its Google Gemini AI approach for the region where US models like ChatGPT or Claude are not available.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Computerworld
You can change the default browser in Windows 10 or 11 by going to Settings > Apps > Default apps and selecting your desired web browser for the Web browser (Windows 10) or the browser entry then clicking Set default (Windows 11).
Aug 14, 2026 ·Computerworld
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
DeepSeek raised API pricing for its V4 model family effective August 16, with increases of up to 1,100% depending on model, token type, cache-hit status, and peak vs off-peak usage.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Computerworld
Uber and Pony.ai plan to deploy 2,000 Pony.ai self-driving taxis across Europe and expand the partnership to the Middle East.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
CNBC
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
Public model repositories grew from 2.43M to 2.96M, datasets from 711K to 1M, and Spaces from 1.00M to 1.44M from January to August 2026, but the usage distribution remains highly skewed with 85.6% of models getting fewer than 200 lifetime downloads and 1.5% of repositories accounting for 99.2% of all downloads.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Hugging Face
