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
The U.S. reinstated blockade in the Gulf of Oman has effectively stopped Iran from exporting crude, with Kharg Island no longer exporting and McNally saying Iran is no longer a factor in oil market export balances.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
The SEC’s new crypto proposal would let certain crypto issuers raise up to $5 million over four years without registering their offerings, while other issuers could raise up to $75 million in any 12-month period with additional disclosure and ongoing reporting requirements.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Treasury will at least double planned buybacks of longer-term government bonds to a maximum of at least $4 billion, starting September 9 and running through November 4, after long-term yields surged to multiyear highs.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Japan’s exports rose 23.2% year-on-year to a record 11.5 trillion yen in July, while imports climbed 27.8% to a monthly record 12.1 trillion yen on elevated oil prices and energy costs.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
BP has loaded 400,000 barrels of heavy fuel oil on the tanker Monte Lema for delivery via PDVSA, marking its return to direct involvement in Venezuela’s oil trade.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies are ending Link’s robotic Swift-rescue mission after “ongoing attitude control issues,” meaning Link will not complete boosting Swift into a safer, higher orbit before reentry risk increases.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Ars Technica
OpenAI said it has “temporarily” slowed scaling and put reinforcement learning training on a two-week pause, with its largest planned frontier RL run “on hold” while it runs smaller-scale training and evaluations to validate safeguards and alignment evidence.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Coal is expected to generate 10,974 TWh of electricity in 2026—nearly a third of the world’s 33,313 TWh—far ahead of natural gas at 6,976 TWh.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
HYPE jumped 17% after President Donald Trump said CFTC Chair Michael Selig is working to bring Hyperliquid’s perpetual futures platform into the U.S. in a “fully compliant and legal fashion.”
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Five US federal agencies say attackers are using AI-assisted exploitation scripts to compromise internet-exposed Siemens S7 Series PLCs in active intrusions across critical industries, including water and wastewater, with read/write access via the S7comm protocol.
Aug 19, 2026 ·The Register
HoverAir’s $750 Versa was FCC-approved on August 9, 2025, but the article argues the “not a drone” classification may be challenged because the FCC foreign drone ban also covers “UAS critical components” like cameras with radios.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
The Verge
Japan’s 10-year JGB yield is near 3% (2.945% on Tuesday and ~2.89% on Wednesday), raising the risk that borrowing costs will exceed the government’s fiscal assumptions and put PM Sanae Takaichi’s spending agenda in jeopardy.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Google won Spirit Airlines’ auction for a workplace dataset covering nearly the airline’s entire employment record, including about 100 million employee emails, HR and payroll data, and data on employee behavior, activity, and productivity, for $10 million (with an alternative $7.5 million deal contingent on Google failing to complete scrubbing).
Aug 19, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Offshore sportsbook BetOnline Sports & Casino offered Little League World Series odds and said bettors wagered twice as much on the 2025 LLWS as in 2024.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
The FCC said that as of mid-2025 about 94% of Americans had access to fixed wireline broadband meeting its 100/20 Mbps benchmark, 97% with fixed wireless, and 99.7% if satellite is included.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Ars Technica
The dollar fell against major currencies after the U.S. Treasury said it would double liquidity-support buyback operations for longer-dated bonds, with the 30-year yield dropping almost 10 basis points to 5.1942% and the 10-year yield falling 4.56 basis points to 4.66%.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Brent crude settled at $91.62 a barrel (up 0.7%) and U.S. West Texas Intermediate settled at $85.83 (up 1.1%)—both at the highest since July 24—as Middle East tensions escalated after the UAE suspended financial and economic transactions with Iran and Strait of Hormuz ship traffic stayed slow.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
52% of Americans now say they are “more concerned than excited” about AI—up from 37% in 2021—while a Pew study and other polls also show broad distrust of AI leaders and concern that AI is advancing too quickly.
Aug 19, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Fed minutes from the July 28–29 meeting say participants believed policy tightening would likely be necessary if inflation does not decline and that financial conditions may not be restrictive enough to return inflation to 2%.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
CNBC
