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Netflix has secured a temporary exclusive window to premiere 'Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look' at 3PM ET on August 27, reportedly for a significant sum. The trailer will remain Netflix-only for six hours before Rockstar posts it publicly on its YouTube channel at 9PM ET the same day, free for anyone to watch.
Apple broke a decade-long pattern this week by quietly releasing updated Mac mini and Mac Studio models in late August, even though they won't ship until September 22. This timing suggests Apple needed to clear these updates off its plate before the September 9 'Surprise and shine' event, which is rumored to feature five to nine or more new products.
At Black Hat USA 2026, PortSwigger research director James Kettle unveiled an open source AI-driven tool called HTTP Terminator, designed to test whether AI could invent original hacking techniques rather than just find known bugs. The tool autonomously produced new HTTP desync, or request smuggling, attacks and used them to breach real enterprise sites, including several belonging to financial services firms.
Meta reached a settlement of nearly $18 billion with almost all US states over claims it designed Facebook and Instagram to foster compulsive use among children and hid mental health risks. The deal, still pending court approval, requires Meta to impose a default two-hour daily time limit for teens, a midnight-to-6am usage block, and a school-hours notification mute, while Texas separately secured $1 billion outside the main $16.7 billion pact.
Roku announced it will stream eight Sunday night NWSL matches for free via The Roku Sports Channel, beginning with Seattle Reign FC versus Houston Dash on August 30 and ending with San Diego Wave FC versus Boston Legacy FC on October 25. The company also plans to carry a Sunday night match every week during the 2027 season.
A proposed technique lets websites detect AI agents through HTTP Accept headers and respond with stripped-down Markdown instead of full HTML pages. This version omits navigation bars, stylesheets, scripts, and layout elements, leaving only the core textual content for automated systems to process.
A developer built a standalone site that aggregates GitHub's published incident history and lets users filter it by which specific services were affected and how severe each outage was rated. The tool was created because existing status reporting from GitHub doesn't let engineers isolate the exact dependencies and reliability thresholds relevant to their own products.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sent Catholic bishops a letter arguing there was no valid religious basis for refusing to grant vaccine exemptions in Catholic schools, and threatened to cut state scholarships and vouchers if they didn't comply. The bishops publicly rejected his theological reasoning and legal claims, stating that Catholic teaching supports vaccination and that they don't need to justify church doctrine to the state.
Google's newest Gemini Live update introduces distinct features—chat, Spark, and Daily Brief—each with its own icon and navigation slot in the Gemini app. Daily Brief pulls data from Gmail and Calendar to generate proactive updates, but it often surfaces unsolicited or unsettling information, like resurfacing old search history, rather than truly useful alerts. Spark, meanwhile, is a capable AI agent for taking actions on a user's behalf, but Google has needlessly turned it into its own branded sub-product rather than folding it into a unified assistant experience.
Google has moved its AI-responsibility team out of the DeepMind research division as part of an internal reorganization. Researchers within the team have voiced concerns that the shift could compromise their independence and reduce their ability to identify risks in Google's newest AI models.
An APK teardown of Microsoft's Link to Windows Android app has uncovered hidden code for remotely shutting down, restarting, updating, or putting a paired Windows PC to sleep. The app currently only supports remotely locking a PC, and these new commands would extend that functionality with built-in warnings about lost work or disconnection.
Security firm Huntress published findings from investigations conducted throughout 2026 in which it helped organizations confirm they had unknowingly hired North Korean operatives posing as IT staff. Cases included an Australian healthcare firm that flagged three employees suspected of impersonating Chinese nationals, plus two separate incidents in the financial services sector uncovered in August. Huntress noted these DPRK-linked workers have grown more skilled and active, blending into IT teams while funneling wages back to the regime and potentially planting malware or stealing data.