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James Van Der Beek arrives at the 71st Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 22, 2019
James Van Der Beek announced his cancer diagnosis on Sunday.
  • Actors James Van Der Beek and Catherine O'Hara died in 2026.
  • So did "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams, Grateful Dead's Bob Weir, and designer Valentino Garavani.
  • Legendary independent film director Béla Tarr also passed away.

Below, we look back at those we lost in 2026, listed in alphabetical order.

Scott Adams, 68
Scott Adams next to a cut out of his creation comic book character Dilbert
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This is going to be one of the shortest articles in my series on how to cancel your subscriptions to the best VPNs. Unlike most providers, Mullvad VPN does not automatically renew an expired subscription unless you tell it to. Thanks to its unique pricing approach, cancelling Mullvad is the default option.

When you sign up for Mullvad, you pay for as many months upfront as you want at the constant


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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2025.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says Gemini 3 is so advanced that he has stopped using ChatGPT.
  • Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff made jokes about ICE during an employee event.
  • Executives, including the new general manager for Slack, addressed Benioff's comments.
  • The comments included a joke about ICE surveilling employees' travel.

Salesforce executives, including Slack's new general




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Bill Ackman attends 2025 Pershing Square Foundation MIND and Cancer Prize Award Dinner at The Pool on May 22, 2025 in New York.
  • Bill Ackman's Pershing Square has invested roughly 10% of its capital in Meta.
  • The fund told investors Meta is set to be "one of the clearest beneficiaries of AI integration."
  • Meta has been plowing cash into data center projects, which Ackman's firm expect to pay off long-term.

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James Van Der Beek.
James Van Der Beek died on Feb. 11, 2026.
  • "Dawson's Creek" star James Van Der Beek has died at 48.
  • He gained fame after playing the lead of the late-1990s series "Dawson's Creek."
  • In 2023, he learned he had stage 3 colon cancer, and publicly announced his diagnosis in 2024.

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff speaks to thousands at the Moscone South Hall during Dreamforce in San Francisco on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. "This is the most exciting and most important Dreamforce," said Benioff. "Talking about the emergence of AI and how it is a critical part of the future." (Photo by Brontë Wittpenn/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)



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Anthropic is upgrading Claude's free tier, apparently to capitalize on OpenAI's planned integration of ads into ChatGPT. On Wednesday, Anthropic said free Claude users can now create files, connect to external services, use skills and more.

Anthropic added the ability for paid users to create files in September. Starting today, free users of the chatbot can also create and edit Excel spreadsheets


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Apple has released the software update 26.3 for its various platforms. This includes the iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. In other words, don't be surprised when your iPhone notifies you of a pending update.

Unfortunately, there isn't all that much to talk about here. Consider this a minor update that focuses primarily on bug fixes, which is important but not exactly fun. It is worth noting that



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Amazon has announced that it will bring its same-day prescription delivery service to 4,500 new cities and towns by the end of 2026. The company originally launched Amazon Pharmacy in 2020 with a two-day delivery option, and has continued to increase the availability and delivery speed of the service in the years that followed, including expanding access to nearly half of all US residents in 2024