Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses paused

 UK techies hoping to ask their glasses what to make with leftover beans and bread will have to resort to institutional knowledge for now. Meta said yesterday in a blog post that it’s pausing the international rollout of its Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses to focus on fulfilling orders in the US amid massive popularity and limited inventory.

Meta said it’s received “an overwhelming amount of interest” in the specs that put a computer on your face without it actually looking like there’s a computer on your face.

The company released the Display glasses with Ray-Ban owner EssilorLuxottica last fall to relatively positive reviews, offering a counterpoint to the historically flop-filled category of AI wearables and smart glasses. EssilorLuxottica credited its record Q3 sales last year partly to the success of the glasses, boasting a 11.7% YoY revenue increase, to $8.1 billion:

• The newest version of the glasses costs $799 and, in addition to an upgraded camera, it has built-in AI features and comes with a wristband to help answer calls and texts.
• Meta is also rolling out a teleprompter feature that can display text notes.
  
  
  

Sail Canada 2026 Youth Fest in Kingston

Sail Canada 2026 Youth Fest in Kingston

Scuttlebutt Sailing News: Providing sailing news for sailors · 14 days ago
by Assoc Editor · Dock Talk


Sail Canada announced that Youth Fest, a sailing event focusing on training and development now extended to U21 sailors, will make its return, August 11-15, 2026, in Kingston. 2026 Youth Fest is hosted by CORK/Sail Kingston and CORK International. The 5-day event is focused on participation, training, and development. The event includes Club 420, 29er, and ILCA 4, 6 and 7 classes. Sailors and coaches will benefit from training opportunities while receiving support from Canada's top sailing coaches and officials. The Notice of Race and registration will be available in the new year. – Full story

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There are five official entries for the 38th America’s Cup

Scuttlebutt Sailing News: Providing sailing news for sailors · 2 days agoby Editor · Feature


There are five official entries for the 38th America’s Cup, with a massive omission among the field field. Five countries are represented, and none of them are the United States of America. If no USA team participates, it will be the first time in the event’s 175-year history.

Riptide Racing hopes to change that, and has until the late deadline of January 31, 2026 to secure sufficient funding. The team has set a fundraising goal of $50 million dollars for their first challenge, with $30 million needed to meet the entry deadline.

Team founder Chris Poole initiated his effort to enter following the announcement by American Magic (USA) that they would not compete in the 38th edition of the America’s Cup.

Details: https://www.americascup.com/

Defender New Zealand and Challenger of Record from Great Britain confirmed the Protocol for the 38th America’s Cup on August 12, 2025. The close of the initial entry period was October 31, 2025, with late entries considered up to January 31, 2026. If no USA team participates in the 38th America’s Cup, it will be the first time in the event’s 175-year history.

Current entrants:
• Emirates Team New Zealand (NZL) – Defender
• Athena Racing (GBR) – Challenger of Record
• Luna Rossa (ITA) – Challenger
• Tudor Team Alinghi (SUI) – Challenger
• K-Challenge (FRA) – Challenger

After the 2024 event, Barcelona, Spain declined hosting another edition, with the venue moved to Naples, Italy. Racing will be in the spring and summer of 2027.

Possible insider trading on Polymarket?

Possible insider trading on Polymarket? You don’t say

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While you were enjoying the $5 payout from your scratch-off ticket, one well-timed bet by an anonymous Polymarket user locked in a $400,000+ payout. The user placed a $20,000 bet on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s downfall just hours before President Trump ordered his capture, raising concerns over insider trading in a wildly unregulated market. Last year, sportsbooks, financial platforms, and even media organizations like CNN signed deals with existing prediction markets or announced their own, further legitimizing the industry. Monthly bets placed on Polymarket and Kalshi jumped from less than $100 million in early 2024 to more than $13 billion last November. You can bet on anything. We have $20 on you reading this sentence, but only after you speedrun the puzzle at the bottom of the newsletter. Polymarket, which currently bans users in the US (that can be circumvented with a VPN), gives bettors the ability to wager on things like the January Fed rate decision, the 2026 Super Bowl winner, the next US presidential nominees, and the fall of the Iranian regime: Kalshi, which is regulated by the government and allows US users, said it doesn’t list contracts on war, but does have related bets, like whether or not Greenland will become a part of the US. Polymarket, meanwhile, now offers contracts on whether the US will strike Cuba, Colombia, or Somalia. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which regulates Kalshi (and will oversee Polymarket once it’s approved for use in the US), has long been considered under-resourced, leading critics to argue that prediction platforms can be manipulated by deep-pocketed bad actors. Kalshi and Polymarket have both said that they have systems to root out market manipulation and insider trading. Big picture: Polymarket is in hot water with gamblers who thought they’d get massive payouts from the more than $10.5 million in bets they collectively placed on a US invasion of Venezuela. The platform said that the capture of Maduro does not technically qualify as an invasion.—MM

 

Five expert tips for the perfect start

 

Five expert tips for the perfect start

Whether you’re foiling into a start line at 30 knots or lining up in a keelboat, SailGP champion Dylan Fletcher shares key rules for getting off the line cleanly with Andy Rice in Yachting World:

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Starting has always played a disproportionate part in the outcome of a race. The shorter the duration of the race, the more this is true. Dylan Fletcher knows this very well from his experience competing in SailGP, where the races often last less than 10 minutes.

Even though a reaching start against eleven 50ft foiling catamarans appears to bear little resemblance to a conventional upwind start for a large fleet of keelboats, Fletcher argues there are some fundamental principles that apply to any scenario.

“Time and distance judgement is key to any kind of start and the more you do of it the better you get,” he says. “I think that doing a lot of Moth sailing during the summer really helped my SailGP starting because in the Moth you have to eyeball it.”

Fletcher explains that in the Moth, you have no technology to tell you where the line is. Judging that approach to the line and doing it multiple times helps with any other starting, whether it’s SailGP, on a Cape 31, or an RC44. In the following five tips, Fletcher shares not only how to give yourself the best shot at a winning start, but one that puts you in the best place for your overall race strategy. – Full report

Elon Musk’s Grok under scrutiny for generating sexualized images

 

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Grok under scrutiny for generating sexualized images of women and children. Regulators in the UK, France, India, and other countries are looking into reports that Grok, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, allowed X users to request and share deepfakes of people—including children—in bikinis. Several US lawmakers also condemned X, while the Justice Department said it will “aggressively prosecute any producer or possessor” of child sex abuse materials. Grok posted an apology last week for generating images that “violated ethical standards and potentially US laws,” but has continued to provide them in response to users’ prompts. X says that it removes illegal content and permanently suspends accounts associated with it. Yesterday, xAI, the company that owns both Grok and X, announced it raised $20 billion in a Series E funding round