A presidential memorandum signed August 12 lets vetted US companies carry out surveillance and disruptive cyber operations against foreign transnational criminal organizations, under direct DOJ and DHS oversight, marking a major reversal of the long-standing ban on private hack-back activity.
Australia introduced revamped media bargaining legislation to parliament on August 13, raising the minimum number of news outlets large platforms must strike deals with from six to eight and funneling 5% of proceeds to the Australian Associated Press.
Poland's Digital Affairs Minister confirmed the theft of over 2 terabytes of patient data from MyDr, one of the country's largest electronic medical records platforms, in what officials are calling an unprecedented cyberattack.
The deal, reported by Bloomberg and still not final, would be Anthropic's largest acquisition yet, targeting a startup that squeezes more performance out of the same AI chips rather than building competing models.
Google's 11th-generation Pixel phones go on sale August 20 starting at $899, powered by the new Tensor G6 chip and deep Gemini AI integration across camera, voice, and daily tasks.
A 116-page paper shows encrypted reasoning traces from flagship models like GPT-5 and Claude Opus can be replayed into weaker sibling models and transcribed in plaintext — exposing 182 leaked credentials in the process. All three vendors have patched it.
Intel closed a $20 billion equity raise — upsized from an initial $15 billion target — at $95 per share, funding a foundry expansion race built on its upcoming 14A manufacturing process.
Two unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerabilities in SonicWall's Global Management System — CVE-2026-66147 (CVSS 9.4) and CVE-2026-66145 (CVSS 9.1) — were publicly disclosed today, requiring immediate patching.
Valve has notified customers that a cyberattack on its shipping partner CEVA Logistics exposed names, addresses, phone numbers, Steam emails, and hardware order details for buyers across Europe, though passwords and payment data were not affected.
Google has emailed users to confirm it will start removing Google Assistant from phones, tablets, Wear OS watches, and paired devices on September 4, 2026, permanently replacing it with Gemini for anyone on a supported device.
A Long March 7A rocket broke apart in a fireball roughly 85 seconds into flight from the Wenchang Space Launch Site, destroying the ChinaSat 4B communications satellite it was carrying and raising questions about the widely used YF-100 engine that powers its first stage.
Nvidia has signed agreements with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to create financing platforms designed to unlock over $500 billion in third-party capital for AI data center buildouts.