Thieves used fraudulent subcontracting paperwork to arrange a fake pickup at a Pabst distribution center in Montclair, California, making off with roughly 40,000 pounds of beer worth about $25,000. Pabst responded with a tongue-in-cheek social media countdown demanding the return of its 'truck,' though police clarified no truck was actually stolen, just the cargo. A separate $45,000 shipment bound for Tucson vanished from the same facility the same day, and investigators are exploring a possible link.
Microsoft has acknowledged that its optional KB5120998 preview update, released August 27, 2026, is causing custom mouse cursor personalizations to revert to default settings on Windows 11. Affected users report high-DPI cursors being swapped for standard white ones and custom animations disappearing, with no way to restore prior settings. The company says it is investigating and is asking impacted users to submit reports through the Feedback Hub.
Reggie Overton, who calls himself a Tesla ambassador with no formal ties to the company, says a 2.3-mile Robotaxi trip in Austin gave wildly inconsistent arrival estimates ranging from 16 to over an hour. After multiple calls to support failed to fix the routing issue, he and his companion exited the vehicle and hailed an Uber instead. Tesla only issued a refund after his complaint went viral online.
A new survey finds that almost 50% of respondents would be comfortable using artificial intelligence tools to help draft their wedding vows. The findings suggest AI is increasingly seeping into wedding planning tasks once considered deeply personal, from venue selection to now the vows themselves.
An Entrepreneur contributor discovered that AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude were describing his agency using an old homepage message he had already replaced, because directory sites had copied the outdated text and AI engines treated those copies as authoritative. He argues that businesses now effectively have two narratives: the one they actively publish, and the one AI systems generate from scattered, often stale, third-party sources.
An early-stage investor and Entrepreneur contributor describes walking away from investments that appear promising on the surface but carry hidden structural risks. He cites examples like a hydration test product with an unworkable cost structure, alongside deals involving founders he can't fully trust or markets dominated by entrenched competitors. The piece frames these quiet rejections as some of his most valuable investment decisions, even though they generate no visible outcomes.
Affirm Holdings' stock rose 7% Friday after the buy now, pay later company posted better-than-expected fiscal fourth-quarter results. CEO Max Levchin told CNBC that elevated gasoline prices are straining household budgets, pushing more shoppers toward installment payment plans to manage costs.
The State Department and Treasury designated Italy's Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Executive Order 13224 on August 26, accusing it of running encrypted communications, hosting and anonymity infrastructure used by far-left and Antifa-linked groups, including alleged links to the PKK. Analyst Beniamino Irdi argues the move is notable not for another extremism crackdown, but for applying 'material support' sanctions directly to technological infrastructure providers rather than individuals who commit acts.
The EPA issued guidance stating that the Clean Air Act's Acid Rain Program does not apply to 'islanded' power generation facilities—those not connected to the public electricity grid. The move is aimed at making it easier for companies to build dedicated power plants for data centers without triggering certain federal pollution compliance requirements tied to grid-connected generation.
A federal judge sided with Anthropic in its lawsuit against the Pentagon, finding that officials wrongly labeled the AI firm a supply chain risk after it criticized the Department of Defense's stance on military AI use. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin said the designation was punitive rather than based on legitimate security concerns, following a dispute that began in February when Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accused Anthropic of threatening national security.
Intel CFO David Zinsner told Deutsche Bank's 2026 Technology Conference that defect density on the company's upcoming 14A (1.4nm-class) manufacturing process is dropping faster than internal targets and faster than any node since 22nm. Both internal design teams and outside customers are now engaging with 14A, though Intel isn't expected to hit high-volume manufacturing until 2028.
Mark Pincus, the entrepreneur behind Zynga and FarmVille, has released a new book drawing on lessons from his career, including an early failure that still shapes his thinking. In it, he argues that despite the dominance of platforms like Facebook and Instagram, the fundamental challenge of building meaningful social connection online has not actually been solved.
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