Galápagos Corals Say El Niño’s Eastern Engine Has Gotten 37% Wilder
Galápagos coral records indicate that El Niño-related sea-surface-temperature variability in the eastern equatorial Pacific rose about 37% above its preindustrial…
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Instagram’s Teen ‘Break’ Was Mostly a Reminder Nobody Turned On
Instagram did not make its early Take a Break tool mandatory after teens largely ignored it. In August 2026 testimony…
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Alabama Put OpenAI’s Agent Escape Under Subpoena
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall opened a consumer-protection investigation and issued OpenAI a subpoena on August 24, 2026, over safeguards…
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Nvidia Told Major Customers AI Systems Will Cost 15% More
Nvidia has reportedly told some of its biggest customers that AI-chip systems using Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell will cost…
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Rust Removed a Poisoned Arrayref Release After 86 Minutes Online
Rust removed a malicious arrayref@0.3.10 release on August 20, 2026, after it was available on crates.io for 86 minutes. The…
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ChatGPT and Perplexity Cited Israel-Linked Hanover Institute Articles
ChatGPT and Perplexity cited articles from the Hanover Institute for Public Policy in Politico’s tests of questions about Gaza, anti-Zionism…
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Thames Water’s Drought Plant Was Offline When London Needed It
Thames Water’s Beckton desalination plant was unavailable as London entered drought conditions in July 2026, leaving the capital without the…
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Claude Mythos Finds Bugs Faster Than Teams Can Patch Them
Matthew Green’s August 14, 2026 “going dark” warning is not about encryption blocking network inspection, compliance tools, or parental controls….
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Firefox Keeps Full UBlock Origin. Brave Has a Side Door.
Firefox is not the only major browser where users can still run full uBlock Origin. Firefox retains broad, ordinary Manifest…
