Marvel Studios debuted the first trailer for VisionQuest at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, completing the WandaVision/Agatha All Along trilogy and sending Vision (Paul Bettany) into hiding while he consults embedded AI personas like F.R.I.D.A.Y., E.D.I.T.H., J.A.R.V.I.S., and Ultron (James Spader), before a bounty forces him to run with Thomas Shepard (Ruaridh Mollica).
Aug 15, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Your AI Slop Bores Me lets you roleplay as a chatbot by submitting prompts on one side while a human on the other side has 150 seconds to produce a text or image response.
Aug 15, 2026 ·
The Verge
Cintas Executive Chairman Scott D. Farmer disposed of 15,923 shares at a weighted-average price of $202.71 on August 10 in a non-discretionary sale to cover tax obligations tied to the lapse of restrictions on equity awards.
Aug 15, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
QQQI, PFFA, and JEPI are presented as paying 10%–16% yields—far above typical landlord net returns of about 3% to 5% after taxes, repairs, and vacancy—while providing monthly distributions without tenants, repairs, or mortgage payments.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Apple charges a flat $99 for Apple Watch battery replacement through Apple (or Best Buy authorized service), typically taking about a week.
Aug 15, 2026 ·
Engadget
Roundhill launched the Roundhill Heavy Assets and Low Obsolescence ETF (LOHA) in May 2026 as an AI-counterweight, holding an equally weighted index of 100 US companies and charging a 0.35% expense ratio.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Tesla short sellers were sitting on about $9.08 billion in unrealized paper gains in 2026 as of late July, despite Elon Musk’s July 2, 2024 claim that they would be “obliterated.”
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Claude watermarking creates response patterns that are “undetectable to the reader, but…detectable…to anyone who has a key that encodes it,” and Anthropic says watermarked responses are indistinguishable from unwatermarked ones to readers.
Aug 15, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Lego Star Wars: The Mandalorian will arrive on Disney Plus on September 2 and is a one-hour special that recaps The Mandalorian story so far, covering events from The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett up to just before the start of the film.
Aug 15, 2026 ·
CNET
X-Men: May 5, 2028 reveals the MCU’s assembled cast: Sadie Sink (Jean Grey), Kit Connor (Cyclops/Scott Summers), Samara Weaving (Emma Frost), Christopher Abbott (Professor Charles Xavier), Inde Navarrette (Rogue), Maya Boyd (Storm/Ororo Munroe), with Adam Driver teased as Magneto (Nathaniel Milbury/Mr. Sinister).
Aug 15, 2026 ·CNET
Disney’s D23 showcase announced a series of upcoming releases across films and Disney Plus, including Bluey (teaser for a feature releasing Aug. 2027), Zootopia 3 (with Ginnifer Goodwin and Ke Huy Quan returning, plus a Birds addition), Coco 2 (set for Nov. 2029), and Kingdom Hearts IV (late 2027) alongside a “soon” Disney Plus cartoon series.
Aug 15, 2026 ·CNET
Sea Limited President Zhimin Feng sold 30,000 Class A ordinary shares for about $3.9 million on Aug. 11–12 at a weighted average sale price of $129.35 per share, according to an SEC Form 4 filing.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
D-Wave Quantum’s stock fell after an earnings report that disappointed the market, despite a technology update released 1 day earlier claiming progress toward commercial, fault-tolerant quantum computing.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
RAM prices have surged over the past 18 months, with a 2x16GB DDR5-4800 kit rising from under $100 at the start of 2025 to over $400 today, and 32GB DDR5-6000 jumping from just under $250 to more than $1,200.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Engadget
Anthropic will watermark Claude-generated text for compliance with the EU’s AI transparency rules by embedding a decodable word-selection pattern that uses a key (Anthropic’s example uses digits of pi) without adding hidden characters or visible marks.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Engadget
Govee’s Back-to-School sale is live through Aug. 17 with discounts of up to 45% on a range of indoor and outdoor lighting solutions.
Aug 15, 2026 ·CNET
BT Group traces its lineage to the Electric Telegraph Company founded in 1846, which later merged with the International Telegraph Company in 1855 and was taken over by the General Post Office in 1870.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Engadget
SK Hynix’s board approved 54.3 trillion won (about $38 billion) for two new memory fabs, with the first cleanroom openings not expected until December 2028 at M17 and June 2029 at the Y2 HBM/DRAM plant.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
HSAs can provide deductible contributions, tax-free growth, and tax-free medical withdrawals, and Fidelity estimates a retiring couple may face about $410,000 in healthcare costs over 25 years that an invested HSA is designed to cover.
Aug 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Meta’s US Patent and Trademark Office filing describes a facial-recognition system for its smart glasses that would use AI to identify people and generate media such as videos containing that information.
Aug 15, 2026 ·CNET
