The FTC and 22 states allege Amazon “secretly” added hidden surcharges to its ad auctions for more than six years, extracting “over 20 billion dollars” from advertisers and resulting in unknowingly overpaid ads that the FTC says also led to higher prices for consumers.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
Engadget
The FTC and 22 state attorneys general sued Amazon alleging it used a “secret ad surcharge” to overcharge advertisers and “likely illegally extracted over 20 billion dollars” from ad customers through “proxy 2nd price” auction manipulation.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
The Verge
Investors added $27.2 billion to US-listed ETFs in the week ending Aug. 28, lifting year-to-date inflows to $1.38 trillion as the 10-year Treasury yield rose to as much as 4.77% on Monday.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
iShares leads U.S. ETF brand league tables with $4,718,548.25 million in AUM and $343,319.30 million in YTD 2026 net flows as of August 28, 2026.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Nearly 30,000 confirmed and probable Cyclospora cases this summer have coincided with the Trump administration defunding two of the USDA’s three Cyclospora research programs and leaving the remaining program about to lose all its scientists, creating “a big knowledge gap.”
Aug 31, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Onimusha: Way of the Sword’s precision parry swordfighting generally works, but the review says most of its roughly 15-hour experience becomes repetitive as fights and areas recycle—especially its more Soulslike-style boss encounters with multi-phase health bars and stamina-parry loops.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
CNET
Apple Vision Pro’s immersive Red Sox–Yankees broadcast felt surreal and impressive up close but also isolating and hard to follow in real time because the view is mostly fixed near a dugout and requires a floating TV-style jumbotron to track plays away from the batter.
Aug 31, 2026 ·The Verge
Google is adding three AI Mode in Search travel features—airfare price tracking with email alerts, hotel research and direct booking through major partners, and points-and-miles cost estimates for flights and hotels using rewards balances.
Aug 31, 2026 ·CNET
Options pricing suggests Snowflake shares will swing up to 10.5% in either direction by the end of the week after its earnings release, which could move the stock to $361 or down below $297 from Monday’s close.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Ars Technica’s Ars OpenForum, launched alongside the site in 1998, lets readers ask questions, compare notes, and argue in forums including Hardware and Tweaking (PC builds, networking, mobile computing, CPUs and motherboards, A/V) and Operating Systems & Software (Windows, macOS, and Linux).
Aug 31, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Bill Gates says society needs time to prepare for “social, political, and economic upheaval” from AI—specifically warning that $20-an-hour workers could be replaced by $10-an-hour robots that perform the same jobs.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Global energy import bills rose by $330 billion between March and August as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz disrupted Persian Gulf oil flows and forced rerouting via alternative routes.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Science Applications International Corporation reported 90%+ recompete win rates, and said organic growth of 5% was driven by improving backlog-to-revenue conversion helped by a better outlay environment.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Wells Fargo downgraded PG&E to “Equal Weight” and cut its price target to $24, citing the California legislature’s failure to pass wildfire liability reforms before its session ended.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
VMware (Broadcom) announced an “AI Factory” offering at VMware Explore that automates AI infrastructure management, is built on its VCF private cloud bundle, and can share/deploy a model securely across tenants or business units while requiring VCF and running on servers from Cisco, Dell, Lenovo, and Supermicro.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
The Register
Uphold lets U.S. users trade more than 250 cryptocurrencies, four precious metals, and 27 national currencies in a single “anything-to-anything” flow that swaps assets without an intermediate cash sale in dollars.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Tesla shares rose more than 5% on Monday, putting the stock at the top of the S&P 500, despite no immediate catalyst reported at the time.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
FTC and 22 states allege Amazon secretly changed its Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, and Display ad auctions so advertisers were charged their full winning bid close to 80% of the time instead of behaving like a second-price auction.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
AMD announced a live AI infrastructure platform in Saudi Arabia with Cisco and HUMAIN that pairs AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs and EPYC CPUs with Cisco’s Silicon One AI networking to deliver GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) starting with 250 megawatts of AI deployment in 2027 and scaling to 1 gigawatt by the end of the decade.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Rove R2-4K dual dash cam is $150 (down from $200) and includes a free 128GB microSD card for out-of-the-box storage.
Aug 31, 2026 ·CNET
