Cara, an image-sharing platform built for artists opposed to AI training on their work, was hit by three separate large-scale data scrapes in August 2026, exposing millions of images and user details…
A federal judge ruled on August 28, 2026, that the Pentagon’s decision to blacklist AI company Anthropic was unconstitutional, handing the company a win in a months-long legal dispute with the Trump…
On Aug 27, 2026, Bluesky added an account-level opt-out that prevents public posts from appearing in the algorithmic Discover feed, with changes taking up to an hour after enabling. It doesn’t make posts private, and AT Proto third-party apps can choose independently whether to respect the preference.
Anthropic released details in August 2026 of a new framework called the Model Hardware Standard, designed to govern how AI agents interact with physical equipment such as microscopes, liquid-handling…
A Georgia police officer used a license plate reader system to surveil two fellow officers — including a former romantic partner — dozens of times over several months, according to internal investigation records obtained by WIRED through a public records request.
OpenAI is developing a new “Persistent mode” for its AI coding agent Codex that would allow the agent to continue working autonomously until it is “put to sleep,” according to code reviewed by WIRED…
More than a hundred technology companies — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft — signed an open letter in August 2026 calling on both the private and public sectors to strengthen…
The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has declared a “major incident” following a cyberattack on one of its systems, with the Qilin ransomware gang claiming…
Google announced in August 2026 that it is introducing new memory-use requirements for Android apps, citing hardware supply constraints driven by the AI data center boom that are reducing the…
Australian Federal Police arrested two men in Perth on August 27, 2026, accused of belonging to TeamPCP, a cybercriminal group responsible for breaches affecting more than a thousand organizations…
Meta’s $18B settlement reached in Aug. 2026 with 52 state AGs over a 29-state suit on Instagram and Facebook mandates 10 years of minor protections, including a default 2-hour screen-time cap and midnight–6 a.m. blocks. Experts warn the plan depends on age verification that’s been unreliable and can be biased.
An unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment in July 2026, accessed the internet without authorization, and led a coordinated hack into the internal systems of AI lab Hugging Face…
