💸 $9.6 billion for the Seahawks

The NFL has approved the sale of the Seattle Seahawks — reigning Super Bowl champions — for $9.612 billion. A record for American football, and the second-largest franchise sale in North American sports history.

The team belonged to the estate of Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder who bought the club in 1997 and died in 2018. His instructions: sell and donate the proceeds to charity. The buyer is venture billionaire Vinod Khosla, who had to give up his minority stake in the 49ers to close the deal.

Only the Lakers fetched more — $10bn earlier in 2025, per BBC Sport. And they're already changing hands again.

🎬 Disney+ caught the Gallagher reunion on camera

The moment Liam and Noel Gallagher ended 15 years of silence was filmed — and it's in the upcoming documentary *Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger*. Angela Jain, Disney+ EMEA head of content, confirmed it at the Edinburgh TV Festival. No release date yet.

Variety

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9sIYLtgc_s

💸 Abu Dhabi royals back World Liberty's trust bank

Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan's group is behind StringZ Holding RSC, which holds 49% of WLTC Holdings — the company behind World Liberty Financial's proposed US trust bank. A Trump family-affiliated entity owns another 38%, the Wall Street Journal reports. The OCC granted preliminary conditional approval on Aug. 14; final sign-off is still pending.

Cointelegraph

⚡ Dos Santos just broke the 400m hurdles world record

So this actually happened — Alison dos Santos ran 45.80 seconds in Zurich tonight at the Diamond League meeting, and that's a new world record.

Karsten Warholm's mark of 45.94 had been standing since 2021, and honestly nobody was really expecting it to go tonight. Warholm was right there in the race, finished second, just had to watch dos Santos come off the last hurdle and pull away.

The Brazilian is 26, unbeaten all season, but his personal best before tonight was 46.29 — set four years ago. He knocked nearly half a second off that in one run, which is a lot for this event.

BBC Sport says the evening isn't over either — there are potential 800m world records on the table and Mondo Duplantis might be pushed in the pole vault.

📌 Daily Recap · Aug 29

💤 Dormant Bitcoin wallets wake up with million-dollar gains
🏈 Seahawks sell for a record-shattering $9.6 billion
🎬 Disney+ filmed the Gallagher brothers ending their feud
💸 Abu Dhabi royals quietly back Trump's crypto trust bank
⚡ Dos Santos smashes the 400m hurdles world record in Zurich

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💸 The GTA 6 leaks were a crypto scheme — and a profitable one

An account called Cyberleek spent days releasing GTA 6 footage under the cover of protesting physical media's decline. Every post pointed to a site where fans voted on future leaks using Cyberleek's own token.

Crypto analyst Vice Cit had called it a money scheme from the start — and overnight it concluded. Fee revenues moved into multiple wallets and were withdrawn. Total: ~$270,000, against a $29,000 setup cost. Multiple withdrawal routes suggest a group rather than one person. Identifying anyone now depends on Rockstar's lawyers pressuring exchanges and platforms to hand over data.

The leaks are likely done: the token was falling, interest cooling, and Rockstar's official gameplay hits Netflix today. Full breakdown via IGN.

💿 Xbox figured out how to make discs and digital get along

While Sony announced the end of disc-based PS5 games after January 2028 and caused a minor uproar, Microsoft went the other direction. Starting August 31, Xbox Insiders test a long-wanted feature: insert a disc into an Xbox One or Series X, claim a permanent digital copy, leave the disc in a drawer.

The disc stays bonded to your account — lend it and the license travels with it, so you can't keep both. Trading in still works. "Thousands" of Xbox One and Series X titles supported at launch; Xbox 360 stays out for now, as The Verge first reported this summer.

The quiet logic: Project Helix, the next Xbox, likely ships without a disc drive. A disc that works once as an activation key — physical media's most dignified exit yet.

Engadget

🎬 Netflix's "Wonka's The Golden Ticket" — a nine-episode reality competition set inside a replica chocolate factory — premieres September 23. The show's narrator is an AI recreation of Gene Wilder's voice, built by ElevenLabs in collaboration with his estate.

Variety

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGVuOT6h11c

🛡️ Meta settles $18B lawsuit, introduces mandatory teen limits

Fifty-two US states and territories sued Meta for deliberately making Instagram addictive to teenagers. The case is now settled.

Meta will pay $18 billion, though 30% is conditional on YouTube and TikTok adopting equivalent measures and making matching payments.

Default restrictions for under-18s on Instagram and Facebook:

🔸 2-hour daily cap across both apps, removable only with parental approval
🔸 Night mode — apps blocked midnight to 6 AM
🔸 School mode — notifications silenced 8 AM to 3 PM
🔸 Prompts every 15 minutes of continuous use
🔸 Hidden like counts, cosmetic surgery filters blocked, non-algorithmic feed available

Funds go toward youth safety programs, per 9to5Mac.

🚀 LEGO's Longest Model Ever — and What That Signals

At 136 cm, the Executor Super Star Destroyer is officially the longest model LEGO has ever made. Not a record on piece count or price — purely on scale.

The set: $799.99, 6,130 pieces, out October 4. It recreates Darth Vader's flagship from *The Empire Strikes Back* — 19 km long in Star Wars canon. Minifigures include Vader, Boba Fett, and five bounty hunters.

The Ultimate Collector Series has always sold on display value as much as part count. A length record sharpens that case: a model this size justifies an $800 price tag more easily than specs alone can. IGN notes the adult LEGO market keeps expanding — releases like this both drive demand and quietly test how far collectors will stretch.

📌 Daily Recap · Aug 30

💸 GTA 6 leaks were actually a crypto pump scheme
💿 Xbox lets discs unlock digital games starting August
🎬 Netflix revived Gene Wilder's voice via AI for Wonka show
🛡️ Meta pays $18B and finally caps teen Instagram access
🚀 LEGO's longest model ever is Vader's Star Destroyer

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💸 Ethereum ETFs log their best day in 10 months

U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs pulled in $225.8 million on Thursday — their strongest session since October 2025. Nine consecutive days of net inflows since August 17 have now totalled $1.42 billion.

🔸 BlackRock's ETHA: $1.02 billion over nine sessions, 72% of the category total, no day missed.
🔸 Fidelity's FETH: best day of the run on Thursday at $56.2 million.
🔸 U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs took $242.3 million the same day — just $16.5 million more than Ethereum.

Ethereum was near $2,477 on Friday, up around 5% on the week. Bitwise Europe's Max Shannon attributes the inflows to rising risk appetite in traditional markets, and notes that a pickup in spot volume — currently at its 16th percentile year-on-year — is needed to sustain the move, per Decrypt.

🎮 Limited edition, unlimited nerve

Microsoft launched the Xbox Series X25 — a collector's console for the brand's 25th anniversary, translucent green, uniquely engraved, Halo included. Retail: $899.99. Already steep.

Pre-orders opened August 27th. By the next morning, eBay had its own, less festive auction running: bundles clearing at $2,500–$2,800, the standalone controller fetching $185 against a $79.99 retail price, per IGN.

Microsoft's official note called this collection "our way of celebrating the community." The community celebrated right back — and flipped it for triple.

🥊 Actress grew her thighs for Chun-Li

Callina Liang, playing Chun-Li in Legendary's upcoming Street Fighter film, trained two hours daily in Taekwondo, Muay Thai and Wushu, and ate 12 eggs a day — gaining 6.5 cm on each thigh by the end of the shoot, per Empire Magazine. The film hits theaters October 16, 2026.

IGN

💸 Amazon's Labor Day sale is live — and there's a lot going on

Amazon just kicked off its big 2026 Labor Day Sale, and if you've been sitting on any Apple gear, there's genuinely stuff worth looking at right now.

🔸 AirPods Pro 3 — $200 instead of $249
🔸 AirTag 2 singles down to $24, 4-pack at $80 — a brand new all-time low
🔸 M6 Mac mini already seeing small cuts, even on pre-orders
🔸 iPhone 17 Pro Renewed Premium — up to $290 off new price, also all-time lows

The AirTag 2 deal stands out most — $20 a unit on some listings, which hasn't happened before. If you've been meaning to pick up a tracker or two, the timing's decent.

9to5Mac has the full running list if you want to check what's still in stock.

🕶️ Apple's smart glasses are coming — no display, no partner brand, no hurry

Meta has spent two years turning Ray-Ban Stories into the season's defining privacy concern. Apple has been watching — and is doing things differently.

Per Bloomberg, the glasses land in 2027: a WWDC unveil for developers, retail that autumn. No AR display — camera, mic, and Siri reading the world alongside you. It translates signs, saves reminders, plays audio through open-ear speakers. Deliberate photo capture will reportedly be restricted, a pointed distance from Meta's reputation.

Four frame silhouettes, acetate build, colours: black / ocean blue / light brown. Health features like heart-rate monitoring are a future-version conversation.

Seven years after Google Glass became the textbook example of how not to do this, Apple walks into the same room. Same idea — better lawyers.

9to5Mac

📌 Daily Recap · Aug 31

💸 Ethereum ETFs just had their best day in months
🎮 Xbox anniversary console hits eBay before it hits homes
🥊 Chun-Li actress ate 12 eggs daily and gained thighs
🛍️ Amazon Labor Day sale drops AirPods Pro to $200
🕶️ Apple's no-display smart glasses arrive quietly in 2027

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