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The Talix retractable USB-C to USB-C cable, normally $22, is discounted to $14 on Amazon with a coupon. It supports up to 240W and PD 3.2 charging, packing a 4- to 5-foot cord into a compact, magnet-equipped case about the size of a compact mirror.
Mark Patricof, founder of Patricof Co., is developing a business focused on channeling the growing financial influence of professional and college athletes into investment opportunities. The effort aims to help athletes leverage their earnings and public profiles beyond their playing careers.
Brave has rolled out a new privacy tool letting users generate disposable email aliases when signing up for websites, avoiding exposure of their real address. Emails sent to an alias are automatically forwarded to the user's primary inbox and then deleted from Brave's servers, with account data encrypted at rest.
Aardman Animations has released a new trailer for 'Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch'd and Pichu,' showcasing its stop-motion claymation style. The footage highlights the studio's signature chaotic, whimsical humor reminiscent of its 'Wallace & Gromit' franchise.
McKesson, a major U.S. healthcare and pharmaceutical distributor, disclosed in an SEC filing that it discovered unauthorized access to third-party applications and data exfiltration on August 25, 2026. The extortion group ShinyHunters claims responsibility, alleging it stole 284 million patient records, though McKesson has not confirmed the scope or named the affected applications. The company says its investigation is ongoing and has not yet determined whether the incident is financially material.
Victims across China report losing between $1,500 and $300,000 after scammers posed as romantic partners or professionals and moved conversations from social platforms onto Microsoft Teams using shared login credentials. Once trust was established, the scammers pitched cryptocurrency investments and disappeared with victims' money, leaving them unable to access chat records for police reports since they never controlled the accounts themselves. Local Chinese law enforcement agencies have begun warning the public that Teams is being used as a fraud tool, and platforms like Maimai now flag messages mentioning Teams or Skype as high-risk.
Nvidia is said to be closing in on a $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, the widely used hub for open-weight AI models, following its $6 billion deal with Poolside and Stripe's over $7 billion purchase of OpenRouter. Together the deals mark a surge of major capital flowing into companies built around freely distributed AI models rather than proprietary frontier systems.
OOAK, a consumer brand-building company founded by Bob Verlaat, Nick Nijhof and Vince Nijhof, hosted a three-day invite-only conference at the Castelfalfi resort in Tuscany in late August. Roughly 100 founders running businesses with seven- to nine-figure revenues paid $14,000 each to attend keynotes and fireside chats aimed at scaling their companies. The event grew out of two smaller gatherings OOAK previously ran in Dubai.
Regulators have expanded a nationwide recall to cover 3.6 million grill-cleaning brushes sold over roughly 17 years, after consumers accidentally swallowed loose metal bristles. Several people required medical treatment to remove bristles lodged in their throat or digestive tract.
Garmin's CIRQA fitness tracker is experiencing Bluetooth heart rate broadcasting failures following the August 20 firmware 2.50 update, according to user reports on a Gadgets and Wearables forum thread. Affected users say Bluetooth connections cycle between connected and disconnected on Garmin Edge devices, while broadcasting fails outright on apps like Zwift, TrainerRoad, Rouvy and Strava, plus Bluetooth-enabled gym equipment. ANT+ connections remain unaffected, and a Garmin representative confirmed the issue has been escalated internally with no fix timeline given yet.
Ahead of a September 9 unveiling, reports suggest Apple Watch Ultra 4 will feature substantially upgraded health sensors, with Digitimes claiming the number of sensor components could double, alongside a new blood pressure-related feature reportedly under FDA review. Analyst Mark Gurman also points to fitness-tracking upgrades and a new, faster S-class chip replacing the S10 used since 2024, though reports conflict on whether the watch will get a major design overhaul.
A federal judge in California ruled that the Trump administration illegally retaliated against Anthropic after the AI firm refused to lift restrictions on using its technology for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. Judge Rita Lin vacated orders that barred federal agencies from using Anthropic's products and blocked defense contractors from doing any business with the company, calling the government's national security justification baseless.