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Google raises the price of its Google TV Streamer by $50 to $150 in the US, as well as for "select" Nest cameras and doorbells, citing "rising component costs" (Abner Li/9to5Google)

https://9to5google.com/2026/08/31/google-tv-streamer-increase/
John Ternus takes over as Apple CEO, as Tim Cook becomes executive chair; sources say Laura Legros, an Apple hardware VP who retired in 2022, has rejoined Apple (Kalley Huang/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/technology/apple-tim-cook-john-ternus.html
A look back at Tim Cook's 15-year tenure: Apple silicon, wearables, a $1T market cap, privacy, Apple Vision Pro, Apple Car, AI, App Store battles, and Trump (Emma Roth/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/tech/987043/tim-cook-biggest-wins-misses
Nvidia plans to launch DLSS 5 on September 3 on RTX 50-series desktop and laptop GPUs and through GeForce Now, following a divisive announcement in March (Jay Peters/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/tech/986378/nvidia-dlss-5-launch-nba-2k27
Mozilla launches built-in ad blocking for Firefox on iOS, using Apple's WebKit Content Blocker and the EasyList filter to block third-party ads and trackers (Tom Warren/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/news/987247/mozilla-firefox-ad-blocker-ios-launch
Perplexity launches Hybrid Compute, which splits workloads between frontier cloud models like Opus 5 and local LLMs, for all users of its Mac app (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)

https://www.engadget.com/2248548/perplexitys-hybrid-compute-splits-sensitive-tasks-between-cloud-and-local-ai/
Starman Optical agrees to acquire GoPro in an all-cash deal valued at $285M, a premium of 29.5% to GPRO's last close; GoPro hit a market cap of $4B in 2014 (Prathik Jayaprakash/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/gopro-be-acquired-by-starman-optical-285-million-deal-2026-09-01/