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Liz Lane, a food-industry operations veteran who previously worked at Huel and Magic Spoon, launched her plant-based peanut butter protein powder brand Scoops in Target stores in May. The brand generated $25,000 in sales its first month and grew to $400,000 in sales last month, according to Lane.
Sarah Gibson Tuttle, who left a Wall Street career to open her first Olive & June nail salon in Beverly Hills in 2013, has launched a new at-home Dip Mani System. The brand, which introduced its first product line with the patented Poppy polish brush in 2019 and later partnered with Target, now generates about $125 million a year according to the company.
Whole Foods has significantly expanded and refreshed its beauty department, adding dozens of new brands and products near store entrances. The grocer, owned by Amazon, has shifted toward offering more affordable beauty options rather than only premium or natural items.
On September 2, roughly 40 minutes before Target Field opened for a Twins-Tigers game, a shooting nine blocks away in downtown Minneapolis left three people dead and six injured, including law enforcement officers. The team's director of security used a newly adopted visitor management platform to notify employees of the emergency within minutes of the incident.
WWF's Living Planet Report 2026, released October 7, found vertebrate wildlife populations it tracks have fallen 73% between 1970 and 2022. The findings come ahead of the UN's COP17 biodiversity conference in Yerevan, where nations are reviewing progress on 2022 Montreal targets, including protecting 30% of land and water by 2030 and raising $30 billion annually for low-income and island nations by decade's end. A separate study published October 14 in Nature suggests official figures may be undercounting how much land is actually protected.
A new scientific assessment finds that global progress toward protecting 30% of the planet's land and ocean by 2030 is further along than earlier figures indicated, according to researchers cited by Nature. The revised estimate reflects updated data on areas already under conservation or indigenous management that were previously undercounted.
JP Morgan increased its AAPL price target from $340 to $360 and kept its Overweight rating, days after reports that Apple told suppliers to cut iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max component production due to soft demand. The firm said the cuts match Apple's typical production patterns and expects the new iPhone Duo to offset lost sales from the delayed standard iPhone 18, projecting 8.5 million Duo units sold in the December quarter alongside a 2% drop in iPhone revenue but 2% overall revenue growth.
Beats by Dre confirmed a special-edition Beats Pill Bluetooth speaker featuring Pikachu and Mimikyu artwork, priced at $149.99 and launching Thursday at Target and Apple.com. The bundle includes the speaker, a removable lanyard with charm, and Beats x Pokémon stickers.
Amazon and Target have discounted several Apple Watch Series 12 configurations by $50 for the duration of Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days. The 42mm GPS model drops from $399 to $349.99, with cellular versions costing $100 more, while the 46mm model starts at $399.99 and its cellular counterpart is $499.99. Apple's Watch SE 3 is also discounted to $199 during the same sale.
Lowe’s is shifting its focus from developing AI to establishing governance frameworks for its AI systems, especially in customer service. This involves defining decision boundaries and operational principles for AI-driven tools used in retail interactions. The change emphasizes oversight by engineers and managers rather than just system creation.
The May Day Strong coalition is calling on major corporations, including Amazon, JP Morgan Chase, Target, and Palantir, to take action defending voting rights as the 2026 midterm elections approach. The group has organized a series of events in October, with early voting already underway in some states, pressing companies seen as having ties to President Trump to respond.
Security researchers at VUsec and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna developed a new Spectre v2 attack called Branch Target Reuse (BTR), which exploits stale branch predictor data left behind when JIT engines reuse memory addresses for new code. Tested against Firefox's SpiderMonkey, GraalVM, and the Linux kernel's cBPF, the attack can extract a system's root password hash within minutes on Intel processors. The flaws were assigned CVE-2026-64507 and CVE-2026-64508, and fixes have already been merged into the Linux kernel.