Why bitcoin prices are suddenly rallying big-time
Bitcoin rose about 18% in 48 hours to more than $77,600, after it had not traded above $70,000 since late May.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Bitcoin rose about 18% in 48 hours to more than $77,600, after it had not traded above $70,000 since late May.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Costco plans a trial of Costco-branded Medicare Advantage plans in two states and a Medicare supplement in a third, partnering with SCAN Group.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
About 83 million barrels of Iranian crude are outside the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, down from over 100 million barrels before the U.S. reinstated the blockade in mid-July, and only two cargoes totaling about 4 million barrels remain unsold for late-September delivery onward.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Wi-Fi 7 access points using WPA3 can fail to connect with some legacy clients even when they’re intended to fall back, creating “confusion and increased customer service calls” for operators.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
The Register
Nevada Transportation Authority approval lets Tesla, Waymo, and Uber start paid robotaxi service in Clark County, including Las Vegas, with Tesla approved for up to 5,000 robotaxis and Waymo and Uber each approved for 1,000 robotaxis over the next 12 months.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
Engadget
The BOJ scheduled its rate review for July 21–22, 2027—before hawkish board members Naoki Tamura and Hajime Takata’s terms end on July 23—preserving the central bank’s ability to deliver a rate hike before a July 2027 board reshuffle.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
South Korea’s budget ministry plans a new “Future Response Fund” to channel tax windfalls from the semiconductor boom into youth programs and investments in AI and other strategic technologies, with the ministry saying the fund would be financed mainly by tax revenue above a decade-based benchmark.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Industry leaders at the World Humanoid Conference in Beijing said humanoid robots still struggle to match humans’ efficiency and to learn new skills quickly, creating a bottleneck for deployment in the human workforce.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
CNBC
The KOSPI benchmark has fallen 30% from its June 19 peak, following a surge in retail trading that regulators helped enable through single-stock leveraged ETFs launched on May 27.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Nevada’s Transportation Authority approved permits allowing Tesla, Uber, and Waymo to deploy up to 8,000 robotaxis in Clark County over the next 12 months.
Aug 21, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Google says it is tracking three suspected Russian cyber-spy groups (UNC6293, UNC7005, and UNC5976) running targeted phishing campaigns in Europe and the US that abuse legitimate OAuth authentication flows, with OAuth phishing observed in June 2026 where victims share a full URL or verification code after a legitimate login to grant account access.
Aug 21, 2026 ·The Register
Jason Calacanis says he supports raising the minimum wage now, citing evidence that California’s fast-food minimum wage increase raised consumer prices by only about 1% to 2% and did not lead to widespread restaurant closures or job losses.
Aug 21, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s plan to at least double buybacks of longer-dated U.S. debt failed to hold, with 10-year and 30-year Treasury yields rising again on Thursday after briefly falling the day before.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The U.S. Supreme Court denied Verizon’s petition related to its $47 million FCC fine over the sale of customer real-time location data, ending Verizon’s effort to recover the payment.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan told US regulators that the company employs a full-time ex-FBI staffer who built custom in-house surveillance software to monitor traders’ on-chain activity.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Most of the 2026 stress has come from wealthy investors trying to cash out of “semiliquid” (evergreen) private credit funds, putting fund managers like Blue Owl Capital and Blackstone on the defensive and reigniting debate over whether investors were adequately informed about limited liquidity rules.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The 2nd LA CorpGov Forum runs Friday, Sept. 18, 2026 at The Huntington Library in San Marino, with registration starting at 1:00pm and a reception at 5:00pm.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Europe invested about €3.6 billion in developing Ariane 6, but even with nine flights a year governments would still need to subsidize each launch by €32 million to €38 million, meaning taxpayers put over €100 million into each launch before the customer pays Arianespace.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Anthropic says it will begin watermarking Claude-generated text and files with an invisible signature that it adds to comply with Europe’s newly enacted regulation and avoid legal penalties, according to the article.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
CNET
National Geographic’s three-episode miniseries 9/11: Reunited reunites survivors whose lives intersected during the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks—highlighting the enduring “bonds” formed in the first minutes after impact, 25 years later.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Ars Technica
