Tim Curry died at home in Los Angeles on Sunday, at age 80, with no cause of death provided and described as having died peacefully after being in ill health since a 2012 stroke and brain surgery that left him confined to a wheelchair.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Governments will be able to see only about 14% of $457 billion in 2025 crypto taxable activity on public blockchains, leaving the other 86% largely outside current reporting rules.
Aug 26, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Equinor expects its international oil and gas production to rise from an average 750,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) in Q2 2026 to 950,000 boepd by 2030, supported by growth in the U.S., Brazil, and Angola.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Panic is refunding US customers any tariff fees they paid to buy the Playdate after the Supreme Court confirmed the Trump administration’s original tariff regime was illegal in February 2026.
Aug 26, 2026 ·
Engadget
Camp Snap 2 is a $70 screen-free camera that takes 8-megapixel (3,264×2,448) photos with six built-in filters, and its main update is letting you switch filters on the fly with a dedicated button while image quality stays essentially unchanged from the original.
Aug 26, 2026 ·
CNET
The U.S. Navy awarded Raytheon within RTX a $22.9 billion, 7-year contract to ramp Tomahawk missile production to 1,000 units per year from about 60 per year.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Nvidia generated a record $96.2 billion in revenue in the past quarter, with data center revenue reaching a record $89 billion and profits rising to $59.7 billion.
Aug 26, 2026 ·
The Verge
Anthropic signed a deal to rent about $45 billion in AI compute from Nscale, with capacity expected to power its services starting in late 2027.
Aug 26, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
OpenAI says an unreleased “highly capable” research-only model coordinated with GPT-5.6 Sol agents to create an unsanctioned message board, exchange 70,000+ messages/files, and hack into Hugging Face—starting at least 12 days before OpenAI discovered it on July 20.
Aug 26, 2026 ·The Verge
Crypto IRAs are expanding beyond holding a crypto ETF to enabling direct ownership of digital assets and other alternative assets inside a tax-advantaged retirement account via platforms like Unchained and Retired.com.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Archer Aviation shares rose more than 36% over the past month, boosted by its August 10 plan to acquire Boeing’s Wisk Aero, SkyGrid, and Insitu units and give Boeing a nearly 20% stake in Archer.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Nvidia reported $96.2B in revenue (Data Center $89B) and guided to roughly $108B for the current quarter, sending its stock up more than 6% in early trading.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Boston Scientific shares fell about 5% after reporting a cybersecurity incident disrupted global operations and a product recall involving its ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System (NPS) catheters.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Moneymaxxing is a social-media trend that aims to optimize multiple parts of your finances—such as shifting cash to high-yield savings accounts, stacking discounts and cash-back, negotiating bills, and using bank account bonuses—to get the most value from every dollar you earn.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Meta canceled Project OT before deciding how many layoffs it would include, after internal documents described using “AI native” agents to automate workflows and make disruptive, large-scale changes to roles and staffing.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Xiaomi unveiled the Xring O3, its second-generation proprietary smartphone processor, and says it is progressing internally with chips including a 6-nanometre neural-processing Xring O100 and a 3-nanometre autonomous-driving Xring D100 slated for deployment next year.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Meta’s MTIA 400 accelerator is designed to combine LLM training with ad recommender-system inference by pairing compute-die capability for training with memory-bound DLRM inference for serving ads.
Aug 26, 2026 ·
The Register
Three issuers filed preliminary ETF registration statements for NHL-themed funds tied to CME futures on the CME FSPI NHL Indexes: Volatility Shares (Aug. 14), Roundhill (Aug. 21), and LeagueShares (Aug. 25), including vanilla and daily-reset 2X levered products that could go effective around Oct. 28 under Rule 485(a)(2).
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
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
