Walmart will begin accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay at Walmart and Sam’s Club stores starting August 24, with Tap to Pay rolling to all locations by the end of the year.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Former JPMorgan Chase executive Matt Zames is set to join the Trump administration as an unpaid advisor to the Social Security Administration, starting Monday at SSA headquarters in Baltimore to help modernize the agency under Commissioner Frank Bisignano.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
CNBC
Desktop CPU shipments fell by more than 20% year on year in Q2 2026, while AMD gained share to nearly 35% versus about 32% a year ago as higher PC prices and limited GPU supplies weighed on demand.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
The Register
Starcloud secured a $250 million extension to its March $170 million Series A, valuing the company at $2.3 billion.
Aug 21, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Tesla is recalling 3 million vehicles in China over hidden emergency door releases that can trap occupants in crashes or fires, with other affected automakers also issuing warning-label changes and software updates.
Aug 21, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Wispr Flow is an AI speech-to-text tool available on Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android, with a Free plan that supports 100+ languages and lets you dictate into common apps using keyboard shortcuts or a mobile keyboard, then transcribe and optionally use your notes in AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Several prominent filmmaking YouTubers, including Matti Haapoja and Sam “Kold” Kolder, sparked backlash after posting videos promoting Higgsfield’s Seedance 2.5—despite neither video being labeled as an ad and Higgsfield/creators not confirming whether they were paid partnerships.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
The Verge
Apollo Global Management confirmed that hackers accessed its cloud environment via social engineering between July 6 and July 10 and stole personal information including names, birth dates, contact details (including home addresses), and Social Security numbers.
Aug 21, 2026 ·TechCrunch
GitHub’s August 17 outage lasted 7 hours 47 minutes and disrupted Actions, pull requests, issues, Copilot, and GitHub APIs while the platform failed to scale with demand.
Aug 21, 2026 ·The Register
Waymo has more than doubled its lobbying spending on robotaxi regulation in key states and Washington, D.C., spending over $500,000 so far this year in New York—more than double Uber’s lobbying spend—as it seeks wider autonomous-vehicle rollout.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Sen. Ron Wyden asked the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to publish an unclassified report after finding there is “little public information regarding” the scope, frequency, and operational safeguards of federal hacking tools and spyware.
Aug 21, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Child safety experts say OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Teens lacks public evidence that its age-gating and safety notifications reliably work, and they want independent testing and transparency before recommending it to parents and young people.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
Engadget
An iOS 27 Shortcuts feature called “Describe a Shortcut” can be used to block Instagram (as well as Threads and TikTok) during work hours by reprogramming the iPhone behavior through ordinary-language instructions.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
CNET
A $10,000 phishing kit called iAuthFlow v2 claims it can enroll attacker-controlled passkeys during a browser-in-the-middle login, creating the passkey as fast as six seconds after authentication so access can persist after password resets.
Aug 21, 2026 ·The Register
Best Buy’s Bella Pro 9-quart TriZone touchscreen air fryer is $80 today, down from $180 (56% off).
Aug 21, 2026 ·CNET
I can’t summarize this article yet because the text you provided only includes the page header and bio, not the actual “iPhone trick” details or results.
Aug 21, 2026 ·CNET
HSBC analyst Frank Lee says Nvidia’s next major stock re-rating will be driven by positioning Nvidia as the world’s largest contributor to open-source AI, as open-source models now represent the second most popular category by token generation.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Michael Burry says Nvidia’s new $500 billion AI funding deal shows “shades of Enron” risk by using “circular” financing arrangements with six Wall Street firms (Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR).
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
U.S. investors bought a net $11.72 billion of U.S. equity funds during the week through August 19, the largest weekly inflow since July 29, even as markets faced a bond selloff and rising oil prices.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Tesla has stopped taking orders for its Solar Roof tile system by telling its third-party installer network that Solar Roof is no longer available, and shifting supply to conventional solar panels only.
Aug 21, 2026 ·The Verge
