A marketing campaign featuring Jason Kelce urges people to mail urine-filled jars to “the AI data center of your choice” as a protest against AI data-center water and power use, while ad small print says “The suits want us to tell you to please don’t actually send your pee.”
Aug 21, 2026 ·
CNET
HoverAir has stopped taking US orders for its HoverAir Versa just three days after its Indiegogo debut, and the FCC appears to have pulled the authorization for the Versa from its database.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
The Verge
TikTok will pay $400 million to settle a DOJ lawsuit alleging it violated COPPA by collecting data from children without parental notice/consent and failing to delete accounts after parental requests.
Aug 21, 2026 ·The Verge
Shein is seeking to raise about $2 billion in its Hong Kong IPO at a $26 billion to $27 billion valuation, with at least $400 million of stock reserved for cornerstone investors in talks including Boyu Capital and UBS Asset Management.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Two additional federal cases are proceeding on broker liability after the Supreme Court’s Montgomery decision—one in Arizona involving J.B. Hunt and one in Nevada involving double-brokered loads.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
TikTok and ByteDance agreed to pay a $400 million settlement to resolve DOJ allegations that TikTok violated COPPA by letting millions of children under 13 use the platform and collecting their personal information without required parental consent.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
The SEC alleges former Bank of America investment banker Jason Satsky tipped longtime friend Gavin Wolfe about a pending South Jersey Industries merger, enabling Wolfe to make $18.5 million in illegal profit, including a 36% gain after an $8.1 billion buyout was announced on Feb. 24, 2022.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
18 advocacy organizations asked the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate AI companies’ “scan-and-destroy” book operations after reports that companies buy physical books, scan them for model training, and permanently destroy the originals to avoid storage costs and restrict access.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
The Register
Two NYC renters allege Compass delisted thousands of rentals from StreetEasy/Zillow listings to create a “fake supply shock,” and that this helped push downtown Manhattan one-bedroom rents from an estimated $4,390 average/median asking price one month earlier to $5,270 for their August leases.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Ars Technica
A proposed class action in the US seeks tariff refunds from Logitech, alleging it raised prices due to unlawful US import tariff costs after the US Supreme Court declared related tariffs unlawful while keeping the full price-increase revenue and providing no refund, credit, or other compensation to customers.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Ars Technica
France’s consumer watchdog fined Boohoo €2.3 million for deceptive practices, including exaggerated discounts and product-label violations, after finding that 48% of promotions were actually price increases and 40% were not real price deductions.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Waymo submitted responses to NHTSA’s child-collision investigation into a January 23 Santa Monica crash, but the posted responses are entirely redacted for “confidential business information.”
Aug 21, 2026 ·TechCrunch
The 30-year Treasury yield rose about 2 basis points to 5.27% and the 10-year yield was nearly 3 basis points higher at over 4.73% after the Treasury’s intervention, putting yields back toward the ~5.3% level that spooked markets earlier this week.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Take-Two Interactive subpoenaed Microsoft and Discord over GTA VI video leaks and required them to produce information by September 4 about alleged infringers of copyrighted game content.
Aug 21, 2026 ·The Verge
Romanian F-16 fighter jets used cannon fire to disable a Russian drone boat loaded with explosives near the Neptun Deep offshore natural gas platform in the Black Sea, allowing explosive ordnance experts to blow it up safely on August 20.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Ars Technica
FTC said it cannot ban personalized pricing outright, but it proposes limits and potential enforcement where businesses misrepresent personalized prices as static or widely available, including requiring disclosure of what data is used and seeking consent for data collection.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Ars Technica
CISA added CVE-2026-72529 and CVE-2026-72530 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, ordering US federal agencies to patch TrueConf’s video conferencing server after the flaws were used in real-world malware delivery.
Aug 21, 2026 ·The Register
Pixel 11 adds “Camera Looks,” letting users dial in photography preferences to avoid the modern over-processed computational look.
Aug 21, 2026 ·The Verge
Costco is partnering with nonprofit insurer SCAN Health Plan to offer Costco-branded Medicare Advantage plans in two states and a Medicare supplement plan in a third state, pending regulatory approval.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Elon Musk walked back his earlier suggestion that SpaceX could catch a returning Starship on the next test flight, saying it will probably be “a few months” before a catch attempt.
Aug 21, 2026 ·The Register
