Windows XP, codenamed Whistler, was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, succeeding Windows 2000 for professionals and Windows ME for home users.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
The Register
Wall Street option traders are buying Bitcoin call contracts with an $82,000 strike that expire Sept. 4, betting BTC will be above $82,000 on or before then.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
The S&P Case-Shiller 20-City Composite Home Price Index rose 2.1% in June from a year earlier, while the national index increased 1.5%.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Selling ConocoPhillips (COP) covered calls near its three-month peak can yield about 1.75% for one month—for example, the $140 call expiring Sept. 25 has a midpoint premium of $2.33 while COP closed at $133.25.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Article content isn’t provided beyond page navigation/author bio, so there aren’t enough facts to substantiate whether gas dirt bikes are “officially dead.”
Aug 25, 2026 ·
CNET
Apple’s refreshed Mac mini and Mac Studio desktop lineup is positioned for local AI development, using Apple’s N1 chip and offering enough compute and memory configurations to run open-weight models like Qwen and DeepSeek locally without paying steep cloud token costs.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Uber launched a live video streaming feature for teen accounts that lets linked parents or guardians watch a teen’s trip in real time using the driver’s phone selfie camera.
Aug 25, 2026 ·CNET
Apple’s new Mac Studio lineup adds the new M5 Ultra (and retains M5 Max), ending the prior mixed M4 Max/M3 Ultra generation split and bringing claims of up to 4.3× faster AI compute in the M5 Ultra.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
The Verge
Apple’s new Mac Mini lineup brings an M6 model starting at $899 and an M5 Pro model starting at $1,699, with both costing $100 more than the prior M4-generation starting prices and shipping on September 22.
Aug 25, 2026 ·The Verge
WhatsApp has replaced its optional six-digit 2FA PIN with an alphanumeric two-step verification password that must be at least eight characters and include at least one number and one letter (with optional special characters).
Aug 25, 2026 ·
Engadget
Apple’s M6 is its first 2nm Mac chip, featuring a 12-core CPU (up from 10 on the M5) and a 12-core GPU (up from 10 on the M5) plus a Dual 16-core Neural Engine for on-device AI workloads.
Aug 25, 2026 ·The Verge
Uber is rolling out a live video streaming feature for teen accounts that lets linked parents/guardians view the driver’s selfie-camera feed during rides across the U.S. in the coming weeks.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
The M5 Ultra debuts a quad-die architecture that combines four M5 processors, with record 4.4TB/s interconnects that Apple says should deliver up to 25% higher single-threaded performance and 30% better multithreaded performance versus the M3 Ultra.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Engadget
Keenable, backed by Accel, is building a web search index of more than 100 billion documents for AI agents and makes it available via an API used in production by AI labs and inference providers for both training and runtime.
Aug 25, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Uber will let linked parents and guardians view a live selfie-camera feed inside the vehicle during teen rider trips, with the stream ending when the trip ends.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Engadget
GuliKit’s Switch 2 TV dock costs $29.99 and includes a built-in stand for the console while playing on hotel TVs, but its USB-C port cover can be dislodged by weak magnets and its adjustable USB-C connector extension only changes the angle by a few degrees.
Aug 25, 2026 ·The Verge
WhatsApp is rolling out stronger two-step verification by letting users replace the old six-digit PIN with a longer alphanumeric password including special characters.
Aug 25, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Wyze’s Indoor Cam Pan includes a retracting lens that tilts down until it fully disappears inside the camera body for privacy.
Aug 25, 2026 ·The Verge
Pie launched a new “Communities” feature called Community Homes that gives groups more permanent in-app homes with community feeds, membership/admin controls, shareable homepages, and event planning tools—while allowing anyone to post events to the feed.
Aug 25, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Perplexity’s new “Portable Computer” local-first AI agent runs agentic requests on-device using local AI models, with data staying on your machine unless you explicitly allow it to use online services.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
ZDNet
