Tech

10 Cryptocurrency Heists Straight Out of a Hollywood Movie (listverse.com)
2026-8-20 Cryptocurrency

Microsoft says August Windows updates may cause gaming issues (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-20 Microsoft

Sources: Beijing allowed ByteDance and Tencent ~10K Nvidia H200 chips each in mainland China in recent weeks; US licenses permit the H200 in China and Hong Kong (www.ft.com)
2026-8-20 China Hong Kong Tencent Nvidia

Rescue Mission Is Called Off For NASA's Aging Swift Space Telescope (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-20 NASA

London-based Callosum, whose software matches AI tasks with different models and chips, raised a $100M seed from Atomico, UK Sovereign AI Fund, and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-20 AI London

Virginia's Loudoun County hosts more than 250 data centers generating huge tax revenues, as it moves to slow construction in response to pushback from residents (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-20 Tax Virginia

A look at Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool from Google DeepMind, offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers (www.niemanlab.org)
2026-8-20 Google AI

China's humanoid robot makers derive much of their revenue from government-backed training centers that sell training data back to them, raising demand concerns (www.ft.com)
2026-8-20 China Robot

Sources: China is restricting or delaying exports to Taiwan of germanium- and quartz-based materials used in fiber optics, photonics, and chip manufacturing (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-8-20 China Taiwan Manufacturing

Whistleblower Arturo Bejar Leads Testimony In Landmark Trial Against Meta (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-20

Pornhub says the UK's new internet age checks have boosted non-compliant porn sites, which occupied seven of the top 10 search results for “free porn” in June (www.ft.com)
2026-8-20

How Unitree's Go series, which helped the company dominate the quadruped robot market, drew on openly published US university research funded by the US military (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-20 Robot

The EU appears to be shifting from outsized regulatory fines against Big Tech to technical DMA orders that force compliance, such as sharing search data (www.politico.eu)
2026-8-20

Hyperliquid Strategies shares jumped 31% after Trump said CFTC Chair Michael Selig is working to bring crypto platform Hyperliquid onshore in a compliant manner (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-20 Trump CFTC

The US Army is phasing out its drone assault battalion, as part of a “back-to-basics” approach; it was created in January to learn from the conflict in Ukraine (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-20 Drone Ukraine

Samsung announces a virtual Galaxy event for August 27 at 8am ET, where the Galaxy S26 FE is expected (www.phonearena.com)
2026-8-20 Samsung

OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down as logins and signups fail (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-20

German insurance giant Munich Re agrees to acquire cyber insurance provider At-Bay for $575M; At-Bay has raised $276M and was last valued at $1.35B in 2021 (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-8-20 Germany Insurance Munich

PINE64 Halts Linux Device Production Amid DRAM and EMMC Shortages (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-20 Linux

Trump urges Congress to pass the Clarity Act at a White House event with execs including the CEOs of Coinbase and Robinhood; the bill has stalled in the Senate (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-20 Trump Senate Coinbase

Sources: YouTube is offering top creators millions to post videos exclusively on YouTube for a period and will penalize those that post to Netflix concurrently (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-20 YouTube Netflix

Rogue ransomware affiliate poses as recovery firm to steal payments (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-20

Stripe Buys AI Startup OpenRouter For $7.5 Billion (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-20 Startup AI

Former Meta engineering director Arturo Béjar testifies that Mark Zuckerberg prioritized growth and engagement over child safety on Facebook and Instagram (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-20 Facebook Instagram Zuckerberg

10 Things Engineered to Fail on Purpose (listverse.com)
2026-8-20

Amazon's Drones Will Soon Deliver to Nearly 500 US Cities and Towns (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-20 Amazon Drone

Google announces new study tools, including a student hub, notebooks, and interactive 3D visualizations in Gemini, plus student offers for Google AI plans (www.tomsguide.com)
2026-8-20 Google AI

Rogue ransomware affiliate poses as data recovery firm to steal payments (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-20

Sakura Internet hack exposes data of up to 1.36 million accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-20

Stripe agrees to acquire New York-based OpenRouter; a source says Stripe is paying $7.5B, with $1.5B going to the startup's founders and $6B to its investors (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-20 Startup New York

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