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Google has officially confirmed the Pixel 11 branding, Pixel Watch 5, and an August 12 preorder start, but has not disclosed prices, a full model lineup, or chip details ahead of tonight's 6 p.m. ET livestream. Rumored starting prices of $899 for the base Pixel 11 and $399 for the Pixel Watch 5 come from a single pre-event report, not Google. The event broadcast and accompanying product pages will be the first authoritative source for specifications, pricing, and availability.

ASML has committed to adding roughly 20 Low-NA EUV systems and 39 DUV immersion systems to its 2027 output, with its CEO indicating the expanded EUV capacity is nearly fully booked. Customer evidence varies in firmness: Micron holds a confirmed multi-year EUV supply agreement, while Samsung and TSMC show strong capital spending signals but no publicly disclosed ASML tool orders. A further 30% increase for 2028 remains under investigation rather than committed, and no public source quantifies residual constraints in optics, source power, or installation labor.

Windows 11 devices with 10 MB or less of free space on the EFI System Partition failed to install the May 12, 2026 cumulative update KB5089549, rolling back at roughly 35% completion with error 0x800f0922. Microsoft released KB5089573 on May 26, 2026 to resolve the issue, making prior workarounds unnecessary for devices that receive it. No official count of affected systems was published, and Microsoft's KB page for KB5089549 does not directly map the update to any specific CVE.

Google's Play Catalog Access program, effective July 22, 2026, allows qualifying third-party app stores to distribute through U.S. Google Play for a $5,000 upfront fee and $5,000 annually, with Aptoide Games becoming the first major competing store approved under this structure. Downloads are completed through Google Play and remain subject to Google's ongoing Play service fee, though the percentage is not publicly disclosed. The program operates under the existing permanent injunction from the Epic v. Google antitrust case, with compliance disputes still before the court and a hearing scheduled for August 13, 2026.

On August 10, 2026, the Ninth Circuit dismissed Meta and TikTok's interlocutory appeals on procedural grounds, holding that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is a defense to liability rather than an immunity from suit, meaning platforms cannot use it to halt litigation before final judgment. The ruling keeps thousands of claims in a Northern District of California multidistrict litigation on track, though only for specific product features such as age verification, parental controls, and filters — not for challenges to content recommendation algorithms. Jury selection in the first trial was scheduled for August 12, 2026, with some bellwether defendants having already reached case-specific settlements prior to the appellate decision.

Meta open-sourced Muse Glimmer, a 29.6-billion-parameter multimodal model on August 10, 2026, targeting local agentic workflows on consumer GPUs via 4-bit quantization that reduces memory requirements to under 20GB. The model ships under Apache 2.0 with a separate Meta Usage Policy overlay, and its vendor-reported benchmark comparisons against Gemma4-31B and Qwen3.6-27B contain methodology gaps including missing checkpoint identifiers and an unexplained discrepancy in Qwen's SWE-Bench Pro score. No independently reproduced benchmark results were available as of August 12, limiting the conclusions that can be drawn from Meta's published performance table.

Reuters reported in January 2026 that Anaplan, taken private by Thoma Bravo in 2022 for approximately $10.4 billion, was preparing a confidential IPO filing, though no submission has appeared on SEC EDGAR and no offering size, valuation, underwriters, or timetable have been disclosed. Anaplan's last public financials, from the quarter ended April 2022, showed $169.2 million in revenue and a $57.9 million net loss, leaving its current performance unknown. Readers tracking a potential Anaplan return to public markets should note that the central fact of an actual confidential draft registration remains unverified.