Why Is XRP Price Down Today After a 44% Weekly Rally?
XRP fell nearly 5% to around $1.44 on Aug. 26 after briefly trading above $1.50, even as it was up about 44% over the prior seven days.
Aug 26, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
XRP fell nearly 5% to around $1.44 on Aug. 26 after briefly trading above $1.50, even as it was up about 44% over the prior seven days.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Bitcoin rose about 25% over the past week, topping roughly $80,000 versus just under $60,000 in late June, with about $2.4 billion flowing into bitcoin ETFs during the same period.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The S&P 500 slipped 1.58 points to 7,675.70 as Treasury yields ticked higher after inflation was a touch worse last month than economists expected.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Large users running their own email servers fell from 44.6% of the top million domains in 2016 to 22.4% in 2026, with self-hosting down by half a percent in the last 30 days.
Aug 26, 2026 ·
The Register
WhatsApp added two account-protection features: users can upgrade from six-digit PINs to passwords (at least 8 characters, including at least one number and one letter) and can add more than one passkey across Android and iOS devices.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
CNET
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri testified that it was "news to me" that a company lawyer told Instagram employees to "limit" certain teen-safety data shared with him during work on the app.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
Engadget
A universal travel adapter (like the Ceptics 140W GaN model) lets you plug into outlets from Type A, Type C, Type I, and Type G countries and add USB charging, but it does not convert voltages.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
ZDNet
X Corp sent cease-and-desist letters demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project repository, and set a deadline of 5 p.m. EST on August 25.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Perplexity launched Portable Computer, which runs the AI entirely on-device and keeps “private data local” while charging customers only when users explicitly escalate a task to the cloud for “more advanced research and reasoning,” instead of consuming token credits for on-device work.
Aug 25, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Glow-in-the-dark phosphorescent pigments degrade significantly under humidity, potentially as much or more than prolonged light exposure, complicating long-term conservation of artists’ materials like the Stephen Sprouse collection.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Factory resetting an iPhone via Settings > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Erase all Content and Settings disables Find My and Activation Lock automatically, preventing a thief from wiping the phone to resell it.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Engadget
iCloud Private Relay returned to its intended protection after iOS 26.6.1 patched a vulnerability that could expose a user’s IP address despite the feature being enabled.
Aug 25, 2026 ·CNET
A senior manager at Nvidia’s Taiwan plant, named in reports as Zhang, faces up to 5 years in prison for allegedly smuggling AI server products into China as part of a scheme involving nine people.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Anthropic merged Claude’s chat and Claude Cowork memory systems so Claude will carry knowledge learned in one experience into the other without requiring rebriefs, and users can view, edit, or delete what Claude has retained across topics.
Aug 25, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Bitcoin surpassed $81,000 on Aug. 25, its highest level since mid-May, as $240 million in Bitcoin short positions were liquidated within 24 hours.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Google acquired Spirit Airlines’ trade-secret dataset in Spirit’s bankruptcy auction for $10 million, including more than 100 million internal emails, 500 million Teams messages, 7.5 billion de-identified passenger records, 7.2 billion competitor pricing observations, and 30 million lines of code.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Two unvaccinated people died of measles in Pennsylvania, according to officials, prompting a call for residents to get vaccinated.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Claude’s chat and Claude Cowork now share the same memory system, so what you do in chat is remembered by Cowork and what you do in Cowork is remembered in chat.
Aug 25, 2026 ·ZDNet
EPA’s proposed rule would remove federal minimum requirements for public notice and comment on minor New Source Review (NSR) air pollution permits in state plans under the Clean Air Act, leaving public participation decisions to state and local regulators.
Aug 25, 2026 ·The Register
Apple is walking back a planned change to Hide My Email that would have routed new masked addresses through the @private.icloud.com domain, which could have let websites identify masked addresses and effectively defeat the feature’s privacy benefit.
Aug 25, 2026 ·Engadget
