Sophie Adenot and Anil Menon installed and activated a spare ISS antenna on August 25, restoring the station’s second high-speed communications path after a 6½-hour spacewalk.
NASA marked DSS-23’s completion on August 25, 2026. The new 34-meter Goldstone antenna is operational and has communicated with Chandra, Voyager 1 and several planetary missions.
On August 26, AWS documented how AgentCore Evaluations scores agents across frameworks when compatible telemetry provides a reconstructable session.
Stripe and Advent ended their reported $53 billion pursuit of PayPal by August 28, 2026. No acquisition closed, and none of the three companies has commented publicly.
On August 27, OpenAI and Bocconi published results from a 1,053-student trial: ChatGPT improved evaluated answers, while causal training produced more distinctive ideas.
OpenAI launched commercial operations in Brazil on August 27, 2026, establishing a São Paulo team as company-reported ChatGPT use reaches about 215 million messages a day.
An internet-reachable Siemens S7 PLC now warrants active-risk treatment: verify every access path, remove exposure, restrict engineering access, test updates offline and monitor passively.
Move AWS Glue 5.1 jobs through a reversible staging lane before adopting 6.0. Test five compatibility boundaries, and keep shared Iceberg tables on v2 when Athena must read them.
An August 27 randomized experiment found that ChatGPT raised evaluator scores by 0.86 points, while causal-reasoning training—not AI access—broadened the range of student ideas.
Google’s August 26 Gemini Enterprise billing update combines consumption pricing and commitment discounts, while up to 50% off inference for eligible deferred work remains coming soon.
Learn how to delete your QUASA website account, Quasa Connect App account or associated Personal Data, and what happens to active tasks, QUA balances and blockchain transactions.
Apple’s August 18 EU terms replace the per-install technology fee with a 5% commission on covered transactions in apps distributed outside the App Store from October 1, 2026.
HEIR’s shortest application path uses Python, BGV and OpenFHE to encrypt, evaluate and decrypt a small function. It still requires a native backend and production review.
On August 20, LinkedIn disclosed that its AI-slop feedback control had passed one million uses in two weeks. A submission is one signal, not an automatic reach penalty.
Run aws-bench from a dedicated non-production management account, confine the agent to disposable member accounts, record a reproducible result, and remove deployed resources afterward.