40% of companies surveyed by resume builder in 2024 said they posted a fake job listing, and lawmakers in multiple states are now moving to ban or restrict “ghost jobs.”
Aug 23, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Several popular smartwatches—including Apple Watch Series 6/7/8 and SE 2nd gen, Google Pixel Watch 2, and Samsung Galaxy Watch 5/5 Pro—are set to reach end of guaranteed software support in 2026, meaning they will keep working but stop receiving new features and, in some cases, security patches.
Aug 23, 2026 ·
Engadget
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley argued the country needs a “compromise” between privacy and safety amid backlash over alleged misuse of Flock cameras, drones, and license plate recognition.
Aug 23, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Delaying Social Security past age 67 increases your eventual monthly payment by 0.66% per month (about 8% per year) until age 70, when your benefit is 24% higher than at 67.
Aug 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
U.S. credit card balances rose to $1.263 trillion in Q2 2026, up from $1.242 trillion at the start of the year, while Rocket Mortgage is pushing home equity loans and HELOCs as a way to “wipe out” that high-interest debt.
Aug 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Judge William Alsup ruled that Anthropic’s AI training was lawful under copyright law, while ordering only a $1.5 billion settlement based on Anthropic’s pirating from illegal online shadow libraries rather than on the training itself.
Aug 23, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is a coming-of-age horror about Casey performing an online “World’s Fair Challenge” ritual that leaves her visibly transforming while she uploads videos to find belonging.
Aug 23, 2026 ·
The Verge
Luxury car executives say a K-shaped economy is visible even at the top of the market, with only the upper tier (driven by liquidity from events like IPOs and stock-market gains) growing while demand slows for more regular buyers in the middle.
Aug 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
China’s manned space program said the Chang’e 7 mission “does not meet the conditions for launch” and therefore cannot be carried out during this year’s planned launch window, with the launch deferred to 2027.
Aug 23, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Wi‑Fi 7 can be up to 5× faster than Wi‑Fi 6E in theory (46 Gbps vs. about 9.3 Gbps), but real-world gains depend on your setup and how well your specific router implements features like Multi‑Link Operation (MLO).
Aug 23, 2026 ·Engadget
Rocket Lab reported record quarterly revenue and grew its backlog to over $2.3 billion, including more than $1 billion in new contracts signed in the quarter, while selling pressure appears to be easing after the stock fell more than 50% from its May peak.
Aug 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
If you work before your full retirement age in 2026, you lose $1 in Social Security benefits for every $2 of extra income above $24,480 (or for every $3 above $65,160 if you’ll reach FRA during the year).
Aug 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
BofA’s August Global Fund Manager Survey shows cash holdings fell to 3.5% of assets under management—its sixth-lowest reading since the survey began in 1998—and equity allocation rose to a net 56% overweight, the highest since November 2021.
Aug 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A Harvard study of 62 million workers across 285,000 U.S. firms found generative AI adoption cut junior employment by about 9% within six quarters, while senior employment stayed steady.
Aug 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) has $1.7 trillion in total assets and charges a 0.03% expense ratio, while its top 10 holdings account for 38% of the fund
Aug 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Cursor built Origin—a Git-based repository service that writes pushes to object storage as a write-ahead log in S3 and then syncs a single local NVMe “reference” copy so replicas can fetch changes from the WAL, enabling ingest pushes as fast as the disk allows with fewer synchronization bottlenecks than GitHub’s multi-replica model.
Aug 23, 2026 ·
The Register
Sandisk, Phillips 66 and MetLife added a combined $27 billion in new share-repurchase authorization, including a $14 billion buyback program from Sandisk that brings its total authorized buyback capacity to $15.5 billion.
Aug 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
AT&T’s dividend is covered by cash flow with a 45% cash dividend payout (coverage) rate, based on nearly $2 billion in quarterly dividends and a 36% trailing 12-month payout ratio—suggesting its ~4.4% yield is currently supportable.
Aug 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Home insurers generate about $8.8 million in additional investment income each day that claim payments are delayed, which equals roughly $61.6 million for a one-week delay.
Aug 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Siri problems in CarPlay can stem from iPhone Siri/voice settings, iPhone connectivity (including VPNs and internet access), or CarPlay connection and vehicle settings rather than Siri itself, and you can identify the culprit by testing Siri on the iPhone after disconnecting CarPlay.
Aug 23, 2026 ·Engadget
