A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s directives to stop using and bar Anthropic’s Claude AI were illegal and constituted “unlawful retaliation” violating the First Amendment, and vacated the government actions requiring agencies to permanently stop using Anthropic and banning defense contractors from doing unrelated business with it.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Ars Technica
stillOS is a consumer-focused Linux distro that emphasizes easy first-run onboarding via background “atomic updates,” GNOME configured to feel familiar to Windows users, and a “First Steps” app that can install apps, configure displays and layouts, and manage accounts/devices without Linux skills.
Aug 28, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Dolby Atmos is an object-based audio system that positions individual sounds anywhere in a 3D space, while lossless audio is about delivering bit-perfect playback by preserving all original audio data (e.g., via FLAC or ALAC).
Aug 28, 2026 ·
Engadget
Hims & Hers CEO Andrew Dudum said an FTC lawsuit over the company’s data-sharing and subscription practices “misunderstands how the company works.”
Aug 28, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Crystal Palace vs. Manchester City is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 28, 2026 at 8 p.m. BST (3 p.m. ET / 12 p.m. PT / 5 a.m. AEST) and will be broadcast on USA Network in the US.
Aug 28, 2026 ·
CNET
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Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Jim Cramer said Johnson & Johnson has a “better balance sheet” than the U.S. government and is “not hostage to the government,” adding it has “more new drugs” coming (citing 18 new compounds).
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The proposed “space academy” would be a new four-year, post–high school admissions program covering human and non-human spaceflight operations, ground control operations, space vehicle design, and orbital debris mitigation, with a location to be selected soon and possible ties to existing NASA facilities.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Ars Technica
ABC filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the FCC on August 18, 2026, calling the FCC’s investigation into the network a “retaliatory campaign.”
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Starbucks and Nike’s China businesses have shrunk in recent years as domestic competitors erode the market share those brands previously held as a growth engine.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Target’s food and beverage sales grew 7% in the quarter ended August 1, 2026—its fastest pace in three years—while grocery remains only about 5% of the US market versus Walmart’s 27%.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Console and PC components have become dramatically more expensive—PS5 and Xbox Series X are now at least $100 more expensive than at their 2020 launch prices, Valve’s Steam Machine started at $1,049 instead of an estimated ~$700, Nvidia says GPU prices will rise 20% to 30%, and Steam Deck pricing rose by more than $200 due to the memory shortage—making it harder to play “great” releases despite a blockbuster slate.
Aug 28, 2026 ·CNET
Strabag reported first-half 2026 output of €9.98 billion (+12% year on year), with EBIT of €174.4 million (+35%) and net income of €119 million (+25%), and raised its full-year output outlook to €23 billion (from €22 billion) while lifting its EBIT margin target to 5.5%–6% (from 5%–5.5%).
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The Tour Championship 2026 runs Aug. 27–30 at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, with $10 million up for grabs for the winner.
Aug 28, 2026 ·CNET
Moderna and Merck said their personalized mRNA cancer vaccine (Moderna’s intismeran autogene) plus Merck’s Keytruda met Phase 3 melanoma trial goals, with Moderna shares up as much as 177% (adding about $44B in market value) and Merck shares up more than 12% to an all-time high.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
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Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Stockholm’s startup ecosystem raised $2.8B in funding this year and is projected to hit at least $5B, compared with $3.2B raised last year.
Aug 28, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
You can work through a Google Photos library of 22,000 photos by using a monthly/annual workflow: review “1 Year Ago Today”/“On This Day” each day (less than a minute), heart favorites as you go, and place print orders from a cart monthly (prints cost about 18 cents each plus shipping in Google Photos).
Aug 28, 2026 ·ZDNet
Amazon is selling the 55-inch TCL QM7L mini-LED TV for as low as $797.99, a $200 discount from its usual price.
Aug 28, 2026 ·
The Verge
Only 15% of organizations have reached scaled, orchestrated multi-agent deployments, despite 43% expanding AI agent deployments across functions and 74% of leaders expecting half of business processes to be redesigned around AI agents by 2030.
Aug 28, 2026 ·ZDNet
