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At 05:58 local time on 15 Aug 2026 a shallow 7.7 earthquake off Indonesia’s Flores Island unleashed over 200 aftershocks, brief tsunami waves and landslides that have pushed the confirmed death toll to 47 and isolated key communities.
On 14 August 2026 the Constitutional Council annulled France’s newly passed law that would have barred anyone under 15 from holding social-media accounts starting 1 September, ruling the measure disproportionate to free-speech and privacy rights.
On 13 Aug 2026, MIT-led astronomers reported in Nature that JWST spectra reveal MoM-BH*-1—a solar-system-sized object whose 100,000-solar-mass black hole inside a hydrogen envelope matches the long-theorised but never seen “black hole star.”
On 13 Aug 2026 Apple released its biggest wave of “high-confidence” mercenary-spyware warnings—now delivered straight to the iPhone Lock Screen—reaching selected users in 110 countries in a single day.
On 13 Aug 2026 Oman confirmed the Caroline Bezengi spill had contaminated Ras Madrakah’s shoreline and, the same day, British contractor Ambrey dispatched salvage ships and specialists to stabilise the grounded, sanction-evading tanker amid Khareef monsoon seas.
On 12 August 2026, Italy’s prototype Circular Slit Spectrometer successfully captured a complete 360° spectrum of the Sun’s corona from Spain during the two-minute totality, achieving a first-ever single-exposure dataset that validates the device’s rapid-sampling design.
On 13 Aug 2026, Flock Safety announced that by 1 Jan 2027 every one of the 120,000 license-plate cameras used by 6,000+ U.S. agencies will default to deleting data after seven days and will lock out any officer who runs a search that is not tied to a documented case number.
Stanford and Arc Institute scientists published on 6 Aug 2026 that genome-language models Evo 1/2 generated, and labs synthesized, 285 ΦX174-based viral genomes—16 formed fully functional phages, marking the first end-to-end AI design of working viruses.
On 10 Aug 2026 a unanimous Ninth Circuit dismissed Meta and TikTok’s interlocutory Section 230 appeals, forcing the companies to keep defending thousands of lawsuits that claim their platform designs addict and harm minors.
On 12 Aug 2026 Brazil’s data-protection regulator ordered Discord to disable all livestreaming in the country within three business days, making restoration contingent on verifiable child-safety controls.
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