eSafety found Roblox still fails to stop adults from creeping on kids, including allowing adult strangers to send connection requests to children and letting adults search and comment on kids’ posts in forums outside game environments without parental consent.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Wispr Flow is an AI speech-to-text dictation app that works on Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android, offering a Free plan with a 2,000-word soft cap/5,000-word hard cap on desktop and 1,000-word soft cap/1,500-word hard cap on mobile, plus Pro at $15/month (monthly) or $12/month (annual).
Aug 20, 2026 ·
ZDNet
The Treasury said it is doubling its buybacks of longer-dated U.S. debt to $4 billion per operation for maturities between 10 and 30 years, a move that has complicated how the Fed can pursue price stability and its interest-rate and balance-sheet plans.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Adit Singh joined Mayfield as an infrastructure partner to invest in hardware, infrastructure software, cybersecurity, and physical AI, citing Mayfield’s semiconductor portfolio strength.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Norway’s crude oil production averaged 1.776 million barrels per day in July, down about 195,000 bpd (nearly 10%) from 1.971 million bpd in July 2025.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Cotton futures were mixed at midday, with Oct 26 up 35 points to 87.35, Dec 26 unchanged at 88.35, and Mar 27 down 2 points to 90.12.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
DSpark draft checkpoints for LFM2.5 deliver up to 3.18× higher throughput on an H100 and up to 2.87× on a MacBook Pro (M4 Max), while keeping greedy output quality unchanged.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Hugging Face
The Trump administration is pushing ahead with new crypto regulation despite the Senate being stalled on the Clarity Act, while the OCC plans to finalize federal stablecoin rules by November and start processing crypto license applications in January.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The Treasury’s plan to boost long-term bond buybacks from a $2 billion maximum to at least $4 billion per operation briefly pushed the 30-year Treasury yield down to around 5.19% on Wednesday before it climbed back up to as high as 5.27% by Thursday.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
AWS backlog reached $496 billion in Q2, implying it would take about 12 quarters (around three years) to churn through at AWS’s $42.2 billion last-quarter run rate.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Ramp launched Router, an AI model routing service that lets users switch between multiple large language models via an API and tracks token spend, cost, latency, and fallback attempts in a dashboard.
Aug 20, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Task Manager’s Processes tab on supported newer Windows devices can now show per-process NPU use alongside CPU/GPU activity, while the Performance tab shows overall utilization for CPU/GPU neural engine workloads.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
The Register
Ethereum (ETH) surged 19% in 24 hours, with short liquidations rising to $3.1B and ETH breaking above $2,000 and the ~200-day EMA near $2,200.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
AIR Global PLC reported 1H 2026 revenue rising 3.7% to $206.9 million and gross profit increasing 2.4% to $116.8 million, while it kept 2026 guidance for 4%–6% revenue growth and stable shipment volumes.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Golden Axe’s animated series debuts on Paramount+ on September 16, with a first season of 10 episodes following a trio of heroes trying to save the kingdom of Yuria from Death Adder, who wields the Golden Axe.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
Engadget
Starlink alone could be a ~$1T market cap, which David Friedberg says could be funded by ~$40B of annual revenue and up to ~$30B of free cash flow within ~18 months.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Mexican exports rose 34.4% year over year in June, making first-half export growth 24.6% and driving continued northbound freight demand from the Coahuila and Nuevo León corridors into the U.S.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Two U.S. senators gave TikTok until September 1 to answer 13 questions about an experiment that disabled a safety feature for 15 million U.S. users, including a 16-year-old who later died by suicide.
Aug 20, 2026 ·TechCrunch
The LG C6 OLED TV is discounted by $900 on the 65-inch model through LG, with an additional $200 Fanatics gift card (plus free professional wall mounting and a matching TV wall mount through Aug. 30) and a refund equal to 10% of the purchase price through Aug. 23.
Aug 20, 2026 ·ZDNet
The FTC proposed a policy on “personalized pricing,” defined as using personal data to set prices based on what a company believes you’re willing to spend, and said businesses that don’t disclose how personal data is used could violate the FTC Act.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
CNET
