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Today’s highlights
- Talks to sell PayPal to Stripe and Advent are heating up — 2026-08-14
- PayPal is still reportedly negotiating a potential sale to Stripe and private equity firm Advent, as the fintech firm’s new CEO attempts to turn the company around.
- Self-driving trucks are officially testing on California highways — 2026-08-14
- Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, two companies developing self-driving trucks, have received permits from the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
- A RAMageddon guide to back-to-school laptop shopping — 2026-08-14
- If you’re a student looking for an affordable laptop, I have bad news and I have good news. The bad news is that computer prices are out of whack due to the ongoing RAM and storage crunch, making some a little pricier th
- Thrive’s Joshua Kushner chides Silicon Valley VCs over AI euphoria — 2026-08-14
- The AI opportunity is huge, but “it would also be a grave error in our minds to let excitement weaken our investment discipline,” Kushner warns in his first-ever investment letter.
- Samsung has new Galaxy headphones in the works — 2026-08-14
- Strings of code in Samsung’s Galaxy Wearable app hint at an upcoming pair of over-ear headphones that could compete with the AirPods Max, SamMobile reports. Samsung’s reportedly referring to the headphones as the “Galaxy
- What we know about the alleged Iranian hacks on US water utilities — 2026-08-14
- Over the last couple of weeks, hackers have targeted and broken into the systems of several water plants in the United States. Here’s what we know and don’t know about this wave of attacks allegedly carried out by the Ir
- Read-it-later app Pocket shut down — here are the best alternatives — 2026-08-14
- Pocket users have until October 8, 2025, to export their saved articles and other items, including lists, archives, favorites, notes, and highlights.
- The X-Files creator Chris Carter wanted to make a more horrific movie — 2026-08-14
- The version of The X-Files: I Want to Believe that premiered in 2008 was not exactly the movie co-writer / director Chris Carter intended to make. Carter wanted to bring agents Mulder and Scully back to the big screen wi