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Today’s highlights
- Trump declares 100 percent tariffs on many drones and all aircraft parts — 2026-08-14
- The United States has already banned future foreign drones from entering the United States unless their companies kiss the ring - as well as routers, robots, and Roombas. Now, President Donald Trump is targeting existing
- ‘That is not acceptable’: Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier — 2026-08-14
- One month after Epic Games and Google seemingly stopped fighting over the future of Android app distribution, they were back in a San Francisco courtroom today - where Judge James Donato just ordered Google to make it ea
- Apple and Epic argue over how much Apple should get from purchases made outside the App Store — 2026-08-13
- In a new filing in its long-running legal dispute with Epic Games, Apple has proposed a structure that would allow it to collect fees on digital purchases made via external links that don’t use the company’s in-app purch
- I finally found a robot lawnmower I’d trust with my yard — 2026-08-13
- Robot lawnmowers are finally good enough to take a lot of work out of maintaining a yard, but they’re still not set-it-and-forget-it machines. If you don’t want these autonomous cutting machines to tear up your lawn or g
- Investors sue Selena Gomez alleging fraud tied to her mental health startup — 2026-08-13
- The plaintiffs say they invested nearly $1.2 million in the company, and are accusing Gomez of failing to build and market the startup.
- Flock says its new tool will help identify police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works — 2026-08-13
- The surveillance company announced it’s making a tool called “Audit Assistance” mandatory for all customers, claiming it’s already helped catch abuse. But the company has yet to explain how the tool works in detail, rais
- Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot — 2026-08-13
- Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot’s voice mode. In a support page, Microsoft says it’s going to move Mico to its Learn Live platform, where the avatar will have
- If Apple sends you a push notification alerting you to a spyware attack, take it seriously — 2026-08-13
- Apple now sends out push notifications to iPhone lock screens when the company identifies government spyware targeting someone’s devices.