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AT&T is offering Samsung's Galaxy S26 FE for as low as $2.43 monthly over a 36-month installment plan for customers who add a new line online, with no device trade-in needed. Business customers get even steeper discounts, including a $0-per-month option on a new line, plus perks like an Enterprise Edition with extended warranty and Samsung Knox Suite.
Non-fizzy ready-to-drink cocktails like Surfside and Boston Beer's Sun Cruiser now account for 38% of new launches in the $22 billion premixed drink category, up from 27% in 2021. Startups such as Mom Water, launched in 2021 by Jill Morrison and Bryce Morrison, are also riding this wave, projecting over 1 million cases sold this year. Meanwhile, Gallo's Lucky One Lemonade with Dave Portnoy sold 1 million cases in seven months, signaling a shift away from carbonated hard seltzers.
TechCrunch is giving companies until midnight Pacific time tonight to apply to host an official Side Event during Disrupt 2026, which runs October 10–16 in San Francisco. Approved hosts get promotion through TechCrunch's Side Events page, agenda, mobile app, attendee emails and social channels, plus a 25% ticket discount to offer their network.
Alan Waldenberg, longtime outside counsel to Cerberus Capital Management and personal trust manager for Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg, also served as the Pentagon's lawyer on its $400 million equity stake and $150 million loan to rare earth miner MP Materials. Feinberg, Cerberus's founder, now holds vast sway over Pentagon budgets and contracts, and reportedly picked Waldenberg himself to work on the deal. The arrangement surfaced amid a broader Pentagon push, now exceeding $2 billion, to invest directly in critical minerals and battery firms to counter China.
HP's HyperX Omen 15 replaces the Victus 15 as the company's mainstream gaming laptop, pairing a Core Ultra 9 processor, 32GB of RAM and a 15.3-inch 1800p OLED screen with strong gaming benchmarks. Tom's Hardware found the as-tested unit costs about $2,100, a few hundred dollars more than its closest rival, and noted the build relies on an aluminum lid but cheap, flexible plastic for the rest of the chassis.
SmallRig has released two power banks, the Nano 36 and Nano 72, designed specifically for camera rigs rather than pockets. Both include 1/4"-20 threaded holes and V-mount plates so they can attach directly to cages, tripods, and gimbals within SmallRig's accessory ecosystem. The Nano 36 offers 10,000mAh with 45W output for lighter tasks, while the Nano 72 packs 20,000mAh with 100W bi-directional charging for heavier, longer shoots.
A developer building a bare-metal ARM64 hypervisor for postmarketOS ran into random system lockups whenever the CTR_EL0 register trap was enabled, forcing a watchdog reset within seconds. After ruling out register corruption in the exception handler and stack setup, the investigation eventually traced the fault to how executable-page protections (the NX bit) interacted with the trap handling, rather than any obvious logic error in the emulated instruction handling.
Neakasa unveiled Riko, a countertop device shown ahead of IFA 2026 in Berlin that rehydrates and mixes freeze-dried cat food into fresh wet meals on a schedule set through an app. The unit holds a water reservoir and food compartment sized for about a week's worth of meals, and sells for $200 through Neakasa's website.
US military branches confirmed to Senator Ron Wyden and Reuters that they have turned off advertising identifiers on service members' phones and computers. The Air Force disabled them two months ago, Special Operations Command did so recently, and the Army says mobile ad IDs have been off since earlier this year, with Windows devices blocked since before 2021.
Leaked images shared by tipster Fixed Focus Digital reveal the design of OPPO's upcoming Find X10 Pro Max, featuring a large rectangular camera plateau with a raised square module housing three lenses, plus separate flash and sensor cutouts. Reports claim the device will pack 200MP main, ultrawide, and telephoto cameras, which would make it the first phone with three 200MP sensors. Other rumored specs include a Dimensity 9600 Pro chip, roughly 8,000mAh battery, an LTPO OLED display, ColorOS 17, and IP69 protection.
Cory Edwards, a Starbucks manager who coaches Little League in Henderson, Nevada, gave his team an unscripted pep talk while trailing 11-2 in the World Series final, telling them to hold their heads high and get tougher under pressure. ESPN's clip of the moment spread widely online, and Edwards later told The New York Times the message was really about character, not the scoreboard.
A Denver resident filmed a newly built AI data center running its lawn sprinklers heavily enough to create standing puddles, even as Denver Water's Stage 1 drought restrictions limit residential and commercial lawn watering to twice a week through September, with a full ban starting October 1. The footage went viral and fueled anger, though it remains unclear whether the facility violated the rules, since the timing of the video, use of recycled non-potable water, or a special variance could all justify the watering.