2026-08-20

China's PLA used drones to send gold bars, US$100 notes in a bizarre 'wartime financial support' drill

Chinese troops rehearsed handling gold bars and multiple currencies, including Taiwanese dollars, in a drill raising questions about authenticity and intent. [...]

2026-08-20

The 9 best places to visit in Portugal in 2026, from Lisbon to Madeira

Lisbon's tiled hills, Porto's port wine cellars, Madeira's year-round spring weather — the destinations that make a 2026 Portugal trip worth planning [...]

2026-08-20

The best places to visit in Colombia in 2026, ranked

Cartagena's colorful colonial streets, the Tatacoa Desert's stargazing skies — the destinations that make Colombia South America's most visited country [...]

2026-08-20

GitHub says commits have doubled in the last four months

The new traffic peak caused "capacity failures" that led to the developer platform's recent outage. [...]

2026-08-20

USAF is buying banned DJI drones to train its operators against the 'most statistically probable real-world threat'

The US Air Force is buying restricted DJI drones for nuclear missile base training, seeking realistic exposure to commercial drone threats. [...]

2026-08-20

Amazon's God of War show brings in Dave Bautista as its new Kratos

The casting swap follows Ryan Hurst's injury on set earlier this year. [...]

2026-08-20

ChatGPT Plugin Reads and Sends Apple Messages on Apple Silicon Macs

OpenAI has shipped an Apple Messages plugin for the ChatGPT desktop app on macOS, letting the chatbot read and search a Mac's iMessage, SMS, and RCS conversations and prepare or send texts through the Messages app itself. The feature landed August 20, 2026, in the company's release notes, and it works inside Codex and ChatGPT Work (the agentic surfaces OpenAI has been building out all ye [...]

2026-08-20

Huge 66-ft Turkish drones are hunting million-dollar Chinese UAVs in Africa in another war barely anyone talks about

Turkish and Chinese-made drones are fighting for control of Sudan's skies while civilian deaths from strikes keep climbing sharply. [...]

2026-08-20

OpenAI Closes on Anthropic in Ramp’s Business Spending Data

OpenAI is growing faster than Anthropic among U.S. businesses so far this quarter, according to new Ramp spending data posted August 20, 2026 by the expense-management company's lead economist, Ara Kharazian, marking the first signs of a reversal since Anthropic took the lead in corporate AI spending three months ago. The numbers come from the Ramp AI Index, a monthly measure of AI adoption a [...]