U.S. cattle herds are at their lowest level since the 1950s, and Tyson Foods says supply constraints are likely to persist, prompting closures in Illinois, Utah and Washington that will eliminate at least 3,200 jobs.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Australia’s parliament passed a law requiring Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn and other covered tech firms to pay a 2.75% levy on local revenues if they don’t strike deals with at least eight local news outlets within their annual reporting periods.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
Engadget
Brent crude rose more than 2% to $93.56 a barrel on President Trump’s “ECONOMIC D-DAY” threat against Iran, but it remains well below the earlier 2026 $120 panic peak.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
GuidePoint Security says an outfit called “Ransom Busters” (likely a ransomware affiliate) contacts ransomware victims before attacks become public and offers file recovery and data deletion for $20,000–$60,000, using the same tooling and fingerprints as prior ransomware incidents tied to DragonForce, Settra, and Anubis.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
The Register
Comcast says its WiFi Motion feature can store motion event information in the Xfinity app for up to 7 days when a customer enables it, but it does not capture images, video, audio, or identifying information about people or pets.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
The Verge
Decommissioning about 40,000 SpaceX AI1 satellites each year would burn them up in the atmosphere, while roughly 160,000 more would be moved to an outward “disposal” orbit, removing about 1,000 tons of copper and 170 kilograms of gold per year from Earth’s material life cycle.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Bitcoin rose more than 10% in the past 24 hours to trade above $70,000, while Ethereum climbed nearly 15% to break above $2,000.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A misconfigured ClarityCheck people-search service left roughly 450 GB of images of adults, teenagers, and children—about 9 million photos of faces in an Amazon S3 bucket—publicly accessible via URLs found in the company’s website code.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Ars Technica
HM Revenue & Customs awarded Capgemini a £37 million contract to migrate ETMP from SAP ECC 6.0 to S/4HANA, extending the supplier relationship from 2004 to a potential 28 years through 2032.
Aug 20, 2026 ·The Register
U.S. debt has topped $40 trillion for the first time, contributing to rising government borrowing costs across the G7.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
NASA’s Swift Observatory rescue effort is effectively over, and Katalyst Space’s Link spacecraft will stop trying to capture or boost Swift to higher altitude because of an ongoing “attitude control issue.”
Aug 20, 2026 ·The Verge
Bitcoin rose above $71,000 to a two-month high as short liquidations surged and risk-on sentiment pushed crypto stocks higher.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
DJI Osmo Pocket 4 Pro and Pocket 4 Pro combo listings that are “banned from import into the United States” are being sold in the US on Temu, AliExpress, eBay, Mercari, Amazon, and Newegg with delivery to customers in days, because the cameras are already inside the country (the article describes an Oregon fulfillment shipment arriving in four days).
Aug 20, 2026 ·The Verge
U.S. security agencies warn hackers are targeting “all” Siemens S7 programmable logic controllers used in water and other critical infrastructure, with AI-assisted exploit scripts that can cause downtime, safety incidents, or equipment damage.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
France’s tax authority (DGFiP) says a raid confirmed last week exposed data tied to about 600,000 taxpayers, including message contents for roughly 250 people and personal/tax details for slightly more than 350,000 individuals.
Aug 20, 2026 ·The Register
Australia’s eSafety commission said tests found Roblox still let adult users contact Australian children without parental consent, including via connection requests, community forums, and public visibility of underage users’ connection and profile information.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Engadget
Trump is reportedly considering a bigger capital gains tax exemption for home sales and indexing capital gains to inflation, with the current capital-gains exclusion limits for primary residences ($250,000 for individuals, $500,000 for married couples filing jointly) set to remain through at least 2028 unless changed.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Bitcoin rose to about $71,700 in premarket trading, up 3.4%, and ether rose 3.3% after Trump urged Congress to pass a “fair version of the Clarity Act.”
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Cryptocurrency-related shares jumped after the U.S. Treasury said it would double buyback sizes for long-duration debt, helping push 30-year Treasury yields (after a major selloff to their highest since 2007) into a more risk-friendly mood for crypto.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
NASA and Katalyst Space have abandoned the plan to boost the Swift observatory into a higher orbit; LINK will attempt rendezvous but not grapple or reboost it because of an ongoing commercial spacecraft attitude control issue.
Aug 20, 2026 ·The Register
