Needham raised its Okta (OKTA) price target to a Street-high $200 from $140 on Aug. 27 and kept a “Buy” rating, citing broad-based demand and momentum in Identity Governance.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Microsoft says Windows can show notifications stating “Microsoft Defender Antivirus is turned off” even though Microsoft Defender Antivirus is functioning correctly and settings show it as active, with notifications appearing after installing the latest Defender Antivirus updates and intermittently after Windows starts.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
Computerworld
The Pentagon launched tailored versions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok for 3 million civilian and military personnel via the secure GenAI.mil portal, reaching 1.7 million unique users so far.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Personal loans may be available with credit scores below 580, but APRs can run from 12.43% on average to as high as 35.99% for bad-credit borrowers.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Coyote vs. Acme opened with nearly $16 million in its opening weekend, despite Spider-Man: No Way Home and The Odyssey still playing in theaters.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Norway says it will keep exploring for oil and gas in the Barents Sea and downplay the idea of becoming Europe’s “green battery,” while continuing to sell Europe large volumes of oil, gas and electricity without taking on the same domestic political costs of deeper climate-linked integration.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Modders have successfully installed and run Windows NT 4.0 on a Nintendo GameCube using an Entii for Workcubes PowerPC build, verified by gameplay like “Solitaire.”
Aug 31, 2026 ·
Engadget
Nvidia’s Q2 FY27 revenue rose to $96.2B (+106% year-over-year) as gross margin expanded 260 basis points to 75%, and the company’s results lifted its stock by 8.74%.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Webull Canada will use Coinbase’s Crypto-as-a-Service platform to provide digital asset trading and custody in Canada for customers who can trade cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana without leaving Webull.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Betterment’s 2026 Retail Investor Survey found 26% of Gen Z investors include sports betting as a deliberate part of their long-term financial strategy, versus 12% of all retail investors and 1% of Baby Boomers.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Orbify.eu says it’s developing image-processing software that bends 3D map scenes from near street-level into an aerial/top-down view using a curved-surface projection, with an interactive curved-map demo released in a web browser.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
The Register
Nvidia reported fiscal Q2 2027 revenues of $96.2 billion, up 106% year-over-year, and forecast $108 billion for the current quarter and $70% revenue growth for the next fiscal year.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Samsung’s 27-inch Odyssey 4K gaming monitor (G90XF) is selling for $898 at Amazon, its lowest price in 6 months after a $502 (36%) discount.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
CNET
Odds of a Sept. 15–16 Fed rate hike jumped to 66.1% after Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole remarks, nearly double the prior level, according to CME Group’s FedWatch.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
CNBC
Brave launched a free “email aliases” browser feature that lets users generate up to five managed dummy email addresses that forward to their main email while keeping the sign-up addresses free of personal information and shielding them from email scraping and cross-site tracking.
Aug 31, 2026 ·CNET
The dollar index (DXY00) fell 0.28% on Monday, with the likelihood of a Fed +25 bp rate hike next month rising to 65% from 36% before Fed Chair Warsh’s speech.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Side Events applications for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 are due September 4 at midnight PT, with events running October 10–16 promoted to Disrupt attendees in San Francisco’s Moscone West during October 13–15.
Aug 31, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Alienware’s 27-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor (AW2726DM) is discounted for the first time, selling for $319.99 instead of $349.99—a $30 drop.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
The Verge
Spot XRP ETFs pulled in $26.2 million on Aug. 28, bringing cumulative net inflows to about $1.6 billion over a nine-day streak after launching with inflows totaling over $725 million in the last nine days.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The SEC is expected to consider rescinding Rule 14a-8, returning regulation of shareholder proposals to the states and reducing investor activists’ influence.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
