The rise in drive prices is being driven by AI and even HDDs can't hide
2TB SSDs that sold for about $120–$200 last year can now approach or exceed $400, and 256GB SSDs that once cost about $25 now cost several times that.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
Engadget
2TB SSDs that sold for about $120–$200 last year can now approach or exceed $400, and 256GB SSDs that once cost about $25 now cost several times that.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Engadget
Autel MaxiCharger level 2 is $909 at Amazon, down $160 (15%) from $1,069 for an up to 80-amp (19.2-kilowatt) EV charging output.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
CNET
Omdia reports Apple has pulled the plug on two upcoming MacBooks—a foldable model with a 16.1-to-18-inch display and a mid-sized OLED MacBook with a 14.4-to-16.1-inch OLED screen.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Andrew Garfield stars as Sam Altman in Artificial, a Christmas Day biopic whose first trailer is presented with horror-like scenes including a bunker room filled with weapons and lines predicting “countries will fall” and “industries are gonna collapse.”
Sep 8, 2026 ·Engadget
Nvidia’s Hugging Face deal is its biggest ever at $12.9 billion, and it positions Hugging Face as a “top-of-the-funnel” platform for building AI tools that can increase demand for Nvidia’s hardware.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Google says WeatherNext 3 improves forecast performance by adding physical inputs—such as whether a location is land or ocean, plus surface elevation—to its machine-learning model trained on weather-station data.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Rebooting a Samsung Galaxy tablet can be done via a standard restart for slowdowns, a force restart for frozen screens, or a recovery-style shutdown if those don’t work.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Engadget
CNET’s top Walmart deal is the Bose SoundLink Plus Bluetooth speaker for $199, down from $269 (a $70 discount) and at a record-low price.
Sep 8, 2026 ·CNET
Amazon is discounting a 55-inch Samsung The Frame TV by 36% to a record-low $698 (originally $1,098) with a free month of Xbox GamePass.
Sep 8, 2026 ·CNET
Citi analyst Yitchuin Wong upgraded UiPath (PATH) to a “Buy,” setting a $23 price target—implying more than 60% upside from current levels—after post-earnings weakness left the shares about 25% below their year-to-date high.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Aristotle Pacific, which manages about $16B, launched three new fixed-income ETFs—ARCP, ARMS, and SDUR—built around relative-value comparisons across the capital stack rather than taking more risk to raise returns.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Real Madrid hosts Inter Milan in the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday, Sept. 8, with kickoff at 9 p.m. CEST (3 p.m. ET / 12 p.m. PT).
Sep 8, 2026 ·CNET
NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster says he and collaborator Levent Alpöge learned that “information about our progress had been passed to OpenAI” and that an OpenAI team used that information to achieve a full proof of the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem first, but OpenAI research lead Sebastian Bubeck called the claims “false and inflammatory.”
Sep 8, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Stifel raised its Microsoft (MSFT) price target to $530 from $450 while keeping a “Hold” rating, citing improving momentum around Microsoft 365 Copilot and early signs of customers expanding from AI trials to broader deployments.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
GFL Environmental’s board is weighing takeover offers said to be around $50, after the stock trades at about $42.90 midday (down 1.90%).
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Dbrand is already selling nearly 50 grip cases designed for the iPhone Ultra, which Apple has not officially announced yet.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Engadget
AWS says it will develop customized Qualcomm silicon for AI inference and pair it with 1.6 Tbps optical networking gear under a deal that could reach up to $60B in payments through September 2036.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
The Register
A group of Claude subscribers filed an expanded class action alleging Anthropic misled power users about how much extra usage the $100/month “5x” and $200/month “20x” Max subscriptions provide, because the fine print limits the “x” increases to five-hour sessions within weekly caps rather than the larger totals users understood from marketing graphics.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
The Verge
FICO shares fell 17% on Friday after Bill Pulte, Director of the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency, directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to approve all mortgage lenders’ use of VantageScore 4.0, ending Fair Isaac’s credit-scoring “monopoly.”
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
New Capital One Venture cardholders can earn 75,000 bonus miles by spending $4,000 in the first 3 months and also receive a $300 Capital One Travel Stays Credit for eligible hotel and vacation rental bookings through Capital One Travel.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
