Treasury’s “Trump Accounts” for children under 18 will default to the State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF (SPYM) and be limited to low-expense-ratio choices, with four additional default index ETFs named: iShares Core S&P 500 (IVV), Vanguard Total Stock Market (VTI), SPDR Portfolio S&P 1500 Composite Stock Market (SPTM), and iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Stock Market (ITOT).
Aug 20, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Liquid Death’s pee-cooling pitch is a joke, but data-center cooling can be done using recycled water made from treated wastewater and sewage, which can offset demand for potable drinking water.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Senators Marsha Blackburn and Richard Blumenthal say TikTok deliberately held back a 2021 algorithmic “repetitive patterns” safety feature from millions of users to use a control group, even after a teen in the control group reportedly became stuck in a recommendation loop of Suicide and Self Harm content before dying by suicide.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
Engadget
Anthropic plans to change its enterprise data retention policy by keeping a mandatory 30-day retention requirement for business customers but giving them the option to store that data on their own cloud infrastructure instead of Anthropic’s systems.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Flock Safety’s drones are set to become its “fastest-growing business unit,” with CEO Garrett Langley saying they’ll account for nearly half of the company’s future revenue.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
CNET
PitchBook counts 35 dental-sector rollup businesses held by PE for seven years or more, 29 in both mental health and musculoskeletal services, and only 16 in veterinary—suggesting many PE healthcare rollups are stuck in a “seven-year itch” cycle without a clean exit.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
XRP jumped 20% over the past 24 hours and volumes surged 430% to $5.3 billion (over 6% of its circulating market cap), while the SEC’s proposed crypto-market rules coincided with the liquidation of more than $3 billion in XRP-related short futures positions.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Scott Bessent said the Treasury’s buyback program “could be more than $4 billion per issue” after announcing that it would at least double 10-year, 20-year, and 30-year buybacks from $2 billion to $4 billion.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Australia’s online safety regulator eSafety says Roblox “continued to put children at risk” in testing, including allowing contact between children and adult strangers.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
The Verge
Chairman Brendan Carr moved to abandon the Biden-era long-term broadband targets for eventually reaching gigabit download and half-gigabit upload speeds.
Aug 20, 2026 ·The Verge
US Bank says it has “no indication” its internal systems are impacted after LockBit claimed a breach and set a September 3 pay-or-leak deadline.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
The Register
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
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
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
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 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
The US now accounts for 15 of the world’s 20 largest hyperscale datacenter markets, and Northern Virginia alone hosts nearly 12% of global hyperscale capacity.
Aug 20, 2026 ·The Register
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded $500 million in grants to seven companies building domestic critical-minerals projects spanning lithium extraction, cobalt refining, and battery recycling, signaling Washington’s focus on processing bottlenecks in the battery supply chain.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Ondas Holdings fell 7% to $8.31 and Unusual Machines fell 8% to $26.13 as the drone stock complex sold off in sync, alongside Red Cat Holdings down 5% to $9.36 and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions down 5% to $57.61—suggesting a positioning unwind rather than company-specific catalysts.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
