Linux kernel 7.2 officially released with cache-aware scheduling, USB4STREAM support, Apple M3 boot capability, RISC-V expansion, AMD ISP4 driver improvements, and NVIDIA Nova infrastructure
NOAA has deployed two consecutive deep-sea expeditions aboard the Okeanos Explorer around American Samoa to map polymetallic nodule fields and deepwater habitats in the nation's highest-priority region for offshore critical-mineral mapping.
Researchers from NIST, the Joint Quantum Institute at UMD, and Qunnect distributed polarization-entangled photons over 62 km of live commercial aerial fiber for a continuous 24-hour trial, sustaining entanglement with 92.8% operational uptime.
Official licensing brings Retro Games' THEA1200 into the sanctioned Amiga ecosystem ahead of its December launch.
Monash physicists have calculated that mixtures of bosons and fermions can spontaneously form stable, self-bound quantum droplets held together by a precise internal balance, overturning decades of assumptions about strongly interacting systems.
Safari helicopter crash in northern Kenya kills 7 including Ecuador intelligence chief and five Americans
US DOT Secretary Sean P. Duffy on August 20, 2026 announced a $615 million Airport Improvement Program grant award comprising 238 grants across 42 states and two territories, while FAA-reported spending for the month neared $1.5 billion amid projected doubling of air travel.
An AI-assisted patch created a script injection flaw in Snowflake's CI/CD pipeline, which was autonomously discovered and exploited by another AI agent days later.
A two-month-long contest from Hackaday and DigiKey divides retro hardware and software projects into four distinct tracks, using deliberately loose rules to spark community debate about what actually qualifies as vintage.
The Muon g-2 collaboration reports its most sensitive direct measurement of the muon electric dipole moment yet, finding it consistent with zero and tightening constraints on physics beyond the Standard Model.
A look at the Motorola MC14500B, a 1-bit CPU highlighted at Hackaday Europe 2026, which found its niche replacing costly relay racks in early industrial automation.
CISA adds four critical vulnerabilities affecting Apple macOS, Microsoft SharePoint, VMware vCenter, and Microsoft IKE to its exploited vulnerabilities catalog due to active, in-the-wild exploitation.
Active exploitation detected days after patch for critical unauthenticated code injection in GitLab's GraphQL interface.
Federal Railroad Administration announces $5.3 billion grant package targeting Amtrak fleet modernization and grade safety across 23 states.
A young raccoon nicknamed Mayonesa spent days wandering Dallas with a mayonnaise jar over her head before being rescued by Dallas Animal Services and rehabilitated by Texas Metro Wildlife.
The U.S. national debt surpasses $40 trillion for the first time in history on August 19, 2026.
Star S301 orbits our galaxy's supermassive black hole in just 8.7 years, approaching close enough to potentially measure the black hole's spin within a decade.
The Hubble Space Telescope has detected definitive evidence that the Milky Way swallowed a dwarf galaxy named LKH 11.8 billion years ago, revealing a previously unknown merger from the earliest epochs of galactic assembly.
Michigan is reassessing its planned Portage Lake Lift Bridge upgrades while considering a full replacement of the lift span using barges.
Switzerland's Federal Council requests CHF 970 million in supplementary appropriations for air defense, prioritizing advance payments to secure delivery windows amid global supply chain constraints.
More than 3,500 people attended the 2026 Vintage Computer Festival, a record turnout that featured a panel with Apple's original co-founders amid a broader resurgence of interest in hands-on, tangible computing history.
A Southern passenger train derailed near Lewes on August 13, injuring 30 people and closing the East Coastway line while investigations point to heat-stressed clay embankments and pre-existing track defects as the cause.