A rapid World Weather Attribution study found human caused climate change made extreme fire weather in central Spain at least 20 times more likely and in southwestern France at least twice as likely, as Euro...
An ABC News Verify investigation published August 6, 2026, found that Meta is directly paying controversial creators — including a white nationalist with neo Nazi links and a prominent anti vaxxer — through...
Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 launches August 25, 2026 on PC (Steam & Epic Games Store), PS5, and Xbox Series X|S for $49.99; a Nintendo Switch 2 port arrives separately in fall 2026.
On August 7, 2026, Ukraine struck a Wildberries logistics hub in Yekaterinburg — 2,000 km from the front line — while Russia hit seven Ukrnafta oil and gas production facilities in eastern Ukraine, killing a...
Microsoft reported $90 billion in Q4 FY2026 revenue (up 18% YoY), beating the $87.6 billion consensus, with Azure revenue growing 43% — accelerating from 41% in the prior quarter and surpassing $100 billion...
The 2026 DRAM shortage is worsening: LPDDR5X contract prices surged 89% quarter over quarter in Q2 2026 to $145.90 per 12GB module, and DDR4 rose 51%, as AI data centers consume 70% of high end DRAM producti...
ByteDance has begun pre training an AI model with up to 10 trillion total parameters — the largest ever attempted by a Chinese company and comparable in scale to Anthropic's Mythos 5 (estimated 8 trillion pa...
JWST's August 2026 Picture of the Month unveils the 'Treasure Chest' cometary globule in the Carina Nebula, 7,500 light years away, containing a 1.3 million year old cluster of about 70 stars, including a ra...
Researchers at Rockefeller University assembled the first fully phased, diploid, telomere to telomere (T2T) genome of a songbird — the zebra finch — the most complete bird genome to date, adding 90 million m...
Japan's two year government bond yield reached 1.605% on August 7, 2026 — its highest since May 1995 — as traders priced in faster BOJ rate hikes after a record ¥14 trillion joint US Japan yen intervention a...
On August 6, 2026, AMD acquired Taalas, a Toronto startup whose chips hardwire AI model weights directly into silicon rather than loading them from memory.
Xiaomi's HyperOS 4 beta began rolling out in China on August 7, 2026. Leaked onboarding files confirm 10 feature categories, with advanced Liquid Glass visual effects locked to Snapdragon 8 Elite, Dimensity...