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Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-Edit, the image editing version of Qwen-Image, supporting modifications of Chinese and English text while preserving font and style (venturebeat.com)
2025-8-20 China Alibaba

Wyoming Launches First State-Backed Stablecoin on Seven Blockchains (news.slashdot.org)
2025-8-20

Austin-based Aalo Atomics, which is building a modular nuclear reactor and data center, set to finish construction in 2026, raised a $100M Series B led by Valor (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-8-20

San Francisco Car Rental Startup Kyte, Once Seen as Hertz Rival, Shuts Down (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-8-20 Startup San Francisco

PyPI now blocks domain resurrection attacks used for hijacking accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-20

Amazon Cloud Chief Says Replacing Junior Staff With AI is 'Dumbest' Idea (slashdot.org)
2025-8-20 Amazon AI

Federal prosecutors charge an Oregon man with operating the Rapper Bot, one of the most powerful DDoS botnets ever seen, which knocked X offline earlier in 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-20

Okta open-sources catalog of Auth0 rules for threat detection (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-20

Bullish says it has received all $1.15B in capital raised from its IPO in stablecoins, including USDC, USDG, and PYUSD, marking a first for US public markets (www.coindesk.com)
2025-8-20 IPO

Source: Pylon, which uses AI to automate B2B customer service, raised $31M led by a16z and Bain Capital at a valuation in the hundreds of millions of dollars (www.theinformation.com)
2025-8-20 AI

Protect your whole family with this AdGuard lifetime plan deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-20

Microsoft shares workaround for Teams "couldn't connect" error (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-20 Microsoft

Okta open-sources Auth0 rules catalog for threat detection (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-20

Wyoming launches a stablecoin, FRNT, marking the first time a US state has issued a blockchain-based, fiat-pegged token to be used by retail and enterprises (www.theblock.co)
2025-8-20 Blockchain Retail

Mark Zuckerberg Plans To Shake Up Meta's AI Efforts, Again (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-8-20 AI Zuckerberg

Robinhood, in partnership with Kalshi, launches a sports prediction market on Robinhood Derivatives, letting users trade on pro and college football games (www.theblock.co)
2025-8-20

Meta rolls out AI-powered voice translations for creators on Facebook and Instagram globally, supporting English-Spanish translations with lip syncing (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-20 Facebook AI Instagram Spain

Google will pay $30M to settle a class action lawsuit alleging it violated kids' privacy on YouTube by collecting data without parental consent for targeted ads (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-20 Google YouTube

Windows Power Users Frustrated as Microsoft Forces Automatic App Updates (it.slashdot.org)
2025-8-20 Microsoft

Sources: Meta considers downsizing its AI division, with some executives expected to leave, and is exploring using third-party models for its AI products (www.nytimes.com)
2025-8-20 AI

Elastic rejects claims of a zero-day RCE flaw in Defend EDR (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-20

Memo: Meta restructures Superintelligence Lab; Alexandr Wang heads TBD Lab, Robert Fergus heads FAIR, Nat Friedman heads products, Aparna Ramani heads Infra (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-20

OpenAI releases $4 ChatGPT plan, but it's not available in the US for now (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-20

Functionize, which offers a cloud platform that uses AI to speed up software testing, raised a $41M Series B, bringing its total funding to $67M+ (siliconangle.com)
2025-8-20 AI

Google proposes Play Store changes in the EU, like making it easier for developers to direct users to websites and a new tiered fee structure, after EU scrutiny (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-20 Google

Three-Quarters of Countries Face Below-Replacement Fertility by 2050 (news.slashdot.org)
2025-8-20

What to expect from Google's “Made by Google” Pixel hardware event on August 20: four Pixel 10 phones, including a 10 Pro Fold, Pixel Watch 4, and Pixel Buds 2A (www.theverge.com)
2025-8-20 Google

Tether hires Bo Hines, who stepped down as White House Crypto Council Executive Director earlier in August, as an adviser to help it expand in the US (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-20

Gates Funds $1 Million AI Alzheimer's Prize (science.slashdot.org)
2025-8-20 AI Alzheimer

Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk retires as CTO and leaves the board; Chief Product Officer Lee Klarich, who joined in 2006, becomes CTO and joins the board (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-20

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