2026-08-27

Is your really old iPhone still worth anything or just e-waste? How to tell

I found my old iPhone 4 in a drawer and wondered: Does it work? Is it worth anything? What should I do with it? I went looking for answers. [...]

2026-08-27

Trump is weighing broader chip tariffs that would cover laptops and servers

The measures are still in early stages and would be rolled out gradually, according to Politico [...]

2026-08-27

Urban Outfitters posted record sales as Free People drove gains across all brands

The apparel company's net income rose to $240.7 million from $143.9 million a year earlier, with growth across all brands and segments [...]

2026-08-27

A Fed regional chief is warning that interest rates may need to go higher to beat inflation

Jeffrey Schmid said Thursday that inflation remains "stubborn and sticky," though he stopped short of calling for a rate increase [...]

2026-08-27

Z.ai stock surged after launching an AI model running entirely on Chinese chips

The company says it handled all online traffic for the model on 100,000 domestically made chips, a claim CNBC could not independently verify [...]

2026-08-27

Trump declared a national emergency to block foreign-made equipment from the U.S. power grid

The executive order bars purchase, import, and installation of certain foreign-produced electrical equipment that could pose cybersecurity or operational risks [...]

2026-08-27

Ransomware Operator Ran Cursor Agent Inside Ten Victim Networks

Gambit Security's threat intelligence team has published a detailed account of the Aurora ransomware operation, including six weeks of session logs showing an operator driving SpaceX's Cursor AI coding agent through hands-on exploitation inside ten target organizations between April 8, 2026 and May 21, 2026. Reuters, which first reported the findings on August 27, 2026, put the number of [...]

2026-08-27

When Consumers Ask AI: Rethinking Brand Visibility in the Age of AI Recommendations

The Search Result Is Becoming a Recommendation For years, digital marketing was built around a simple transaction: a consumer searched, a search engine returned options, and the consumer decided what to click. Brands competed for rankings, impressions and traffic because the consumer still did much of the research themselves. AI is changing that sequence. A consumer can now describe a need in ordi [...]

2026-08-27

The AI revolution is optimizing for the wrong things

Every large language model existing today is getting worse at writing, and almost nobody is measuring it. The industry keeps asking which model is smartest, but the bigger question is: smartest at what? As tech giants chase lucrative enterprise contracts, they are optimizing frontier models for coding, logic, and autonomous agent workflows. In the process, […]<br /> This story continues at [...]