2026-08-13

Phoebe Gates reportedly knew shopping app Phia was stealing affiliate credit for months

Internal Slack messages show Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni were aware of the practice as far back as December, contradicting the company's public statements [...]

2026-08-13

Cisco posted record quarterly results and strong guidance — but the stock sank

The networking company posted $17.25 billion in quarterly revenue and guided well above Wall Street expectations for the year ahead [...]

2026-08-13

The Architecture Test: How to Tell Real Agentic AI From Rebadged Automation

Open pretty much any marketing technology vendor’s homepage today, and you will find the same three words somewhere above the fold: “powered by AI.” It has become such a universal claim that it has stopped meaning much of anything. Gartner has started calling the practice “agent washing” - repackaging conventional rule-based automation as autonomous agents to ride the wave of enterprise [...]

2026-08-13

Hospitals Adopted AI Before They Understood What They Were Adopting

Hospitals did not adopt artificial intelligence in a single, deliberate moment. It arrived in pieces: an imaging algorithm, a documentation assistant, a staffing forecast, a patient-message generator, a denial prediction model, a scheduling tool. Each product entered through a different department, answered a different need, and was evaluated against a different budget. That fragmented path made a [...]

2026-08-13

Claude's new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible — for now

The mark flags anything Claude processed, even human writing it only edited. [...]

2026-08-13

After taking on Whoop, Garmin could come for Oura with its own smart ring — and as a Garmin fan, these are the 3 features I want to see

The Cirqa fitness tracker could soon be followed by a Cirqa smart ring, according to a new leak. [...]

2026-08-13

Proton VPN rolls out Rust-powered 'Proton Protocols' in beta across all major apps

Proton VPN has rolled out a major beta update powered by a brand-new Rust-based framework called Proton Protocols. Offering an Advanced Kill Switch, better censorship resistance, and Stealth on Linux, here's everything you need to know. [...]

2026-08-13

Not thrilled by the new Google Pixel Watch 5? Here are 3 Android smartwatches we recommend instead, based on our own testing data

We've picked out three rugged, stylish and cheaper Wear OS alternatives if you don't want the Pixel Watch 5. [...]

2026-08-13

Android can now tap to share for contact info, photos, and more - which phones get it first

The process of sending someone a file or sharing your information on Android just got a lot simpler. [...]