Meta considered cutting some teams by as much as 60% for its AI-driven Project OT restructuring, but ultimately laid off about 10% of its workforce in May (~8,000 employees) and scrapped a planned second round after backlash and disappointing productivity gains from AI tools.
Aug 26, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3x Shares (SOXL) saw $520.73M of net inflows, ranking third among all ETFs’ daily creations, with AUM of $18,895.92M and a 2.76% AUM increase.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Kubernetes v1.37 (Garhwal) retires kube-dns in favor of CoreDNS and begins removing Linux IPVS support from kube-proxy starting in v1.43, while also moving away from cgroup v1 toward cgroup v2 (with nodes relying on cgroup v1 no longer initialized since v1.35).
Aug 26, 2026 ·
The Register
Operation Bluebird, Inc. launched a new Twitter-like service at twitter.now, saying it is not “X” and not affiliated with X Corp. after X Corporation “walked away from” the X Corp name.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Ars Technica
As of Wednesday, an Institute for Justice database documented 93 local governments that canceled automated license plate reader (ALPR) contracts amid protests and legal pressure.
Aug 26, 2026 ·The Register
The Midea Flexify Slim French-door air fryer oven is on sale for $125 (down from $140), and it combines air frying, toaster oven, convection cooking, and eight cooking functions in one compact 25-quart appliance.
Aug 26, 2026 ·
CNET
Today’s Wordle answer for Aug. 27 (No. 1895) is UNCUT.
Aug 26, 2026 ·CNET
Netflix will host “Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look” as an exclusive stream for six hours on Thursday, August 27—starting at 3PM ET—before it goes live for free on Rockstar’s YouTube channel at 9PM ET.
Aug 26, 2026 ·
Engadget
The Aug. 27, #1173 Connections answers are electric eel, lightning, live wire and Pikachu (electric things); choked up, emotional, misty and overcome (moved to tears); ash, dove, pewter and slate (shades of gray); and Brock, Nemo, spunk and wrap (music genre plus starting letter).
Aug 26, 2026 ·CNET
Meta agreed to impose teen-specific protections on Instagram and Facebook in most US states for at least 10 years, including a cumulative 2-hour-per-day use limit (with optional parent override) and blocking access between midnight and 6AM.
Aug 26, 2026 ·
The Verge
Broadcom (AVGO) pays a 0.71% dividend yield supported by 15 consecutive annual dividend increases, while NVIDIA (NVDA) yields about 0.02% after raising its quarterly dividend from $0.01 to $0.25 in May 2026.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Ripple closed an upsized $275 million private placement of senior unsecured notes on Aug. 18 to fund and expand Ripple Prime, its institutional brokerage arm.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The JBL Pulse 6 portable speaker/light hybrid costs $330 and is expected to start shipping on September 6.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Engadget
Meta agreed to a 10-year settlement with nearly every US state that totals about $18B (with court approval), requiring a default two-hour daily time limit for users under 18 across Facebook and Instagram plus overnight blocking and school-mode notification muting.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Roku will stream eight NWSL Sunday night matches for free through The Roku Sports Channel starting August 30, with the schedule running through a game on October 25.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Engadget
Soundcore’s Nebula X1S projector boosts brightness from 3,500 to 6,000 lumens using a four-lamp optical engine, making it usable in daylight for a 300-inch screen.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Engadget
Florida Catholic bishops rejected the state AG’s push for broader religious vaccine exemptions, arguing vaccines protect both healthy children and vulnerable school groups and that vaccine exemptions would undermine the common good.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Google’s Gemini app lets users switch between separate branded modes—chat, Spark, and Daily Brief—each with its own icon and navigation entry, creating a more cluttered experience than it claims with voice features that should avoid “guess[ing]” which task type is needed.
Aug 26, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
More than a dozen OpenAI executives have left since the turn of the year, including CEO Sam Altman’s top deputy, the COO, a chief revenue officer, and multiple team leads; Chris Malone, head of data centers, departed last week after joining in March 2024 and OpenAI said it was tied to a reorganization of the infrastructure team led by vice president Sachin Katti and reporting to president Greg Brockman.
Aug 26, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Apple refreshed both desktops with faster chips: the new Mac mini starts at $899 with M6 (12-core CPU/12-core GPU) plus 16GB RAM and 256GB storage, while the Mac Studio starts at $2,499 with M5 Max (18 CPU cores/32 GPU cores).
Aug 26, 2026 ·Engadget
