Google Maps began displaying “Lake America” in place of Lake Ontario for US users in late August 2026, making it the first major online maps provider to reflect President Donald Trump’s executive…
OpenAI, Anthropic, and more than 100 other companies co-signed a letter in August 2026 warning that organizations have only months to prepare for a surge in AI-enabled cyberattacks. The letter calls…
Fraudsters in China are exploiting Microsoft Teams to run romance and cryptocurrency investment scams, tricking victims into transferring large sums of money through the enterprise messaging…
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…
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…
Relay, founded by ex-Nothing AI lead Cookie Xu and hardware PM Raymond Zhu, released an Aug 2026 macOS voice-to-text beta to solve the “right volume” issue in shared offices. It runs on Google Gemini via an Fn hotkey; Relay Q arrives early 2027.
An Aug. 2026 FBI/DOJ takedown disrupted QTFY via a Nanjing contractor. DOJ says its QScan and QTRouter tools built IoT botnets and routed traffic through rented proxies, targeting NASA, the US Senate and the Federal Reserve, then hijacking Great Firewall-bypass VPNs.
Meta has agreed to pay up to $16.7 billion to 51 US states and territories and make significant changes to how teenagers use Instagram and Facebook, settling a federal trial over allegations that the…
PeopleFinders, the online data broker behind PeopleFinders.com, launched a new platform in August 2026 called Stud or Dud, designed to let users run background checks on potential romantic partners…
Google’s $10M mid-August 2026 bid to buy ~34 years of Spirit Airlines records is met with a formal objection from the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) representing 5,500 former flight attendants. Court filings list 1M+ time-card records, 175,000+ employee records, and 500M Microsoft Teams entries, and the sale still needs approval.
