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Diamondbacks Designate Gurriel Jr. for Assignment — 6hThe Diamondbacks designated Lourdes Gurriel Jr. for assignment and recalled Jose Fernandez to take his roster spot after Gurriel slumped to .210/.254/.290 with two homers this season following a torn ACL last year. Gurriel, 32, signed a three-year, $42 million deal before 2024 with a $14 million option and $5 million buyout for 2027, and was an All-Star in 2023 when Arizona reached the World Series.

Jared Kim Gurriel's contract looks like a real mistake now with that kind of production after the injury.

Samsung offers Apple advice on foldable phone design — 4d

Maya Lindstrom Apple should ignore the tips since Samsung is mainly trying to slow down a competitor that might do it better.

Ukrainian designer says new missile system will reach MoscowWorld — 5d

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Apple's foldable iPhone faces design and pricing questionsTech — 5d

Phillies Reinstate Banks From Injured List, Option Holman to Triple-A — 8hPhiladelphia Phillies left-hander Tanner Banks was reinstated from the 60-day injured list ahead of Sunday’s game against the Braves, returning from a left forearm strain and carrying an 0-4 record with a 7.14 ERA in 28 appearances. To clear a spot on the 40-man roster, infielder Christian Cairo was designated for assignment, with Grant Holman optioned to Triple-A after his MLB debut and Cairo’s status noted as depth if unclaimed.

Priya Raman Cairo gets DFA'd as the obvious roster casualty here, but the team still needs reliable infield depth if he clears waivers.

Trump Showcases Relationships With Golf’s Top Pros — 19hPresident Donald Trump spends weekends at his Doonbeg resort in Ireland watching the Irish Open and pursuing his well-known golf passion—playing, designing courses, and building—while highlighting his friendships with top pro golfers such as Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods, Bryson DeChambeau, and Scottie Scheffler. He frequently praises these players, shares photos with them on social media, and has invited some to the White House as part of his ongoing golf network.

Elena Vasquez Inviting pros such as Scottie Scheffler to the White House is a solid way to celebrate golf's top talent.

Lincoln Pool Contractor Blames Own Errors for Damage — 2dContractor Atlantic Industrial Coatings told the Trump administration that design flaws and workmanship errors caused the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool’s blue liner to blister and detach, contradicting the president’s vandalism blame. Government documents and reports cite insufficient primer and incompatible chemicals in the renovation plan, with a redo underway after charges against alleged vandals were dropped.

Sam Okafor They should have caught those design flaws before starting the job instead of rushing the redo now.

Engineers design plastic-eating robots aimed at cleaning up oceansGood News — Sep 1, 2026

Chris Dalton My worry is these robots eating microplastics might also scoop up small marine life. Hope they've tested for bycatch.

Eutelsat Awards €5.4B IRIS² Satellite Contracts — 3dAerospacelab has won a €2.4 billion contract to design, manufacture and deliver 264 satellites for the EU’s IRIS² secure-communications network, accounting for the majority of the program’s 348 satellites. Airbus Defence and Space will build the 66-satellite first LEO layer and Thales Alenia Space will supply the payloads as part of the SpaceRISE consortium led by Eutelsat.

Nicole Hardy Spending over 5 billion euros on IRIS² should finally give Europe independent secure communications without foreign reliance.

New Venice museum revisits Pierre Cardin's futuristic fashion legacy — Sep 3, 2026Venice unveiled the Pierre Cardin Museum in Palazzo Cardin, displaying around 130 garments and highlighting the designer’s space-age, democratizing approach. A coordinated costume ball helped launch the museum, with events aligning to its Sept. 13 opening and reaffirming Cardin’s enduring influence on fashion licensing and design.

Jared Kim A costume ball to launch it is such a fitting touch, the man never did anything halfway. Would love to see photos from that night.

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Palestine Action designated global terrorist group by US — Aug 26, 2026The United States designated Palestine Action as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, freezing US assets and barring US persons from dealings with the group, with the threat of secondary sanctions for supporters worldwide. The move echoes Britain's 2025 ban and comes amid ongoing UK court scrutiny of that designation, with broader global designation discussions also appearing in reporting.

Volvo Plans One of Sweden’s Largest Energy Parks — 3dVolvo Group plans one of Sweden's largest energy parks in Mariestad beside its planned battery cell factory, starting with about 70 MW/260 MWh of storage to support the regional grid and enable a future test bed for energy innovations, with commissioning targeted for 2027. The park will operate in two tracks and is designed to grow alongside the battery cell plant expected after 2030, reinforcing Volvo's regional industrial cluster and decarbonization efforts.

Priya Raman This storage addition makes sense to back up the grid while the battery plant scales up later.

Classic TV Shows Retain Enduring Cultural InfluenceEntertainment — 4dNBC’s Hill Street Blues helped redefine the procedural format and continues to influence modern crime dramas, shaping entire networks’ storytelling approaches. The Odd Couple, Designing Women, and enduring fan communities around Supernatural, Star Trek, The X-Files, and Stranger Things underscore how classic series remain culturally influential long after their premieres and finales.

Inditex Plans 20 U.S. Expansion ProjectsBusiness — 4dInditex is accelerating growth in the United States with new Zara outlets and the introduction of Massimo Dutti and Bershka to New York, while trimming its global store count to emphasize profitable flagship locations. Despite macro headwinds and higher costs from infrastructure investments, the group posted a 9% sales rise in Q3 as it pushes Zara upmarket through flagship stores and designer collaborations, with margins pressured by rising costs.

YHWH Timepieces expands automatic watch lineup after rapid sellouts — Sep 2, 2026YHWH Timepieces says it is finalizing a new wave of automatic designs and multiple forthcoming collections amid strong demand and sold-out releases, with a design language that blends contemporary styling and explicit Christian details. The brand is exploring concepts like the Genesis Collection, an automatic line featuring engraved casebacks, as it aims to keep its meaning-driven approach visible on the watches themselves.

Shower Door Firms Expand Across Georgia, New JerseyBusiness — Sep 2, 2026Chattahoochee Shower Doors has expanded its custom shower door services to Johns Creek, GA, offering tailor-made enclosures designed around individual bathroom dimensions and design preferences. Meanwhile, SSD Glass has extended its service area to Hunterdon County, NJ, providing in-home measurements, on-site fabrication, and a range of enclosure configurations and finishes to fit non-square openings in older homes.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services aimed at Wall Street tasks — 3dOpenAI has rolled out ChatGPT for Financial Services, a tailored enterprise product powered by GPT-6 Astra that combines its AI with data from vendors like LSEG, PitchBook, and Daloopa, developed with Morgan Stanley and Evercore as design partners to aid analysts, researchers, and presentation work for Wall Street. The offering emphasizes governance and compliance—role-based access, encryption, and exportable logs—while enabling firms to integrate their existing data subscriptions and extend coverage across multiple sources to improve retrieval, citation, and client-material generation.

Priya Raman This integration with LSEG and PitchBook data could finally cut down the time analysts spend hunting across separate platforms.

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Cowboys guard Tyler Smith undergoes thumb surgery, return timeline uncertain — 5dDallas Cowboys left guard Tyler Smith will undergo thumb surgery and miss four to six weeks, being placed on injured reserve with a designation to return. T.J. Bass will start at left guard in his absence, as Smith targets a potential return around Week 5 or later while the team manages grip strength and roster questions up front.

Nicole Hardy IR with the return designation feels like the right move here. No point risking a longer setback by trying to push through it early in the season.

CXMT Sues Pentagon Over Military DesignationTech — Aug 29, 2026ChangXin Memory Technologies filed a federal lawsuit to overturn the Pentagon’s Section 1260H designation labeling it a Chinese military company, arguing the tag is arbitrary and harms its civilian DRAM business and government contracting prospects. The move follows CXMT’s high-profile July 2026 IPO and rapid growth, and mirrors similar challenges from peers like Yangtze Memory Technologies, WuXi AppTec, and Alibaba aimed at lifting the designation and protecting its market position.

Positron AI Raises $875M at $5B Valuation — 3dPositron AI raised $875 million in a two‑tranche Series C that values the company at $5 billion and will fund the tapeout of its Asimov memory‑first chip and the production ramp of Titan, as well as expanding manufacturing for its Atlas system deployed at Oracle Cloud. The round, co-led by NEA, Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, Andra Capital, SemiAnalysis Capital, and Jim Clark, will also add new board members and accelerate LPDDR5X‑based memory bandwidth‑focused inference hardware designed for air‑ and liquid‑cooled data centers.

Maya Lindstrom Jim Clark backing the Atlas ramp at Oracle makes sense given his hardware history, though scaling Titan production will still face stiff competition.

Judges Block Federal Grazing Limits in Montana, OregonEnvironment — 5dA string of court rulings blocked or delayed the BLM’s attempts to remove or restrict grazing by American Prairie’s 900-plus bison on public lands, keeping them on current allotments while the broader dispute over how livestock is defined under the Taylor Grazing Act unfolds. Separately, a federal judge in Oregon blocked grazing in designated sage grouse research areas, ruling the 2025 plan failed to adequately address environmental protections and wilderness characteristics.