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PINE64 Halts Linux Device Production Amid DRAM and EMMC Shortages (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-20 Linux

Trump urges Congress to pass the Clarity Act at a White House event with execs including the CEOs of Coinbase and Robinhood; the bill has stalled in the Senate (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-20 Trump Senate Coinbase

Sources: YouTube is offering top creators millions to post videos exclusively on YouTube for a period and will penalize those that post to Netflix concurrently (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-20 YouTube Netflix

Rogue ransomware affiliate poses as recovery firm to steal payments (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-20

Stripe Buys AI Startup OpenRouter For $7.5 Billion (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-20 Startup AI

Former Meta engineering director Arturo Béjar testifies that Mark Zuckerberg prioritized growth and engagement over child safety on Facebook and Instagram (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-20 Facebook Instagram Zuckerberg

10 Things Engineered to Fail on Purpose (listverse.com)
2026-8-20

Whoever wins the Meta trial, the masses will remain willing slaves (www.rt.com)
2026-8-20

Amazon's Drones Will Soon Deliver to Nearly 500 US Cities and Towns (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-20 Amazon Drone

Google announces new study tools, including a student hub, notebooks, and interactive 3D visualizations in Gemini, plus student offers for Google AI plans (www.tomsguide.com)
2026-8-20 Google AI

Rogue ransomware affiliate poses as data recovery firm to steal payments (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-20

Sakura Internet hack exposes data of up to 1.36 million accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-20

Stripe agrees to acquire New York-based OpenRouter; a source says Stripe is paying $7.5B, with $1.5B going to the startup's founders and $6B to its investors (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-20 Startup New York

Healthtech firm CareCloud data breach impacts 3.7 million patients (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-20

Gold Smells a Rat (dailyreckoning.com)
2026-8-20

Music Publisher Round Hill Files $1 Billion Copyright Infringement Suits Against Suno, Anthropic (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-20

Sources: SpaceX approached AI coding startup Cognition about a potential acquisition; deal talks are inactive, but the companies are discussing working together (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-20 Startup AI SpaceX

Letter: Stripe told investors January 1 marked the “beginning of the singularity”, a major inflection point in long-term trends, and H1 revenue rose 41% YoY (www.axios.com)
2026-8-20

Sources: OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees at an all-hands that OpenAI “will be a public company in 2027”, or sooner if “our business continues to inflect” (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-20

Second ‘suspect' in Nord Stream blast case arrested (www.rt.com)
2026-8-20

Bessent Doubles Yellen's Hocus-Pocus Treasury Buybacks, Swapping Old Cheap Debt at a Discount for New Expensive Debt (wolfstreet.com)
2026-8-20

Sources: AI chip startup Fractile is in talks to raise ~$600M at a $6.5B pre-money valuation, up from ~$1B in May, and has an initial ~$250M deal with Anthropic (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-20 Startup AI

Source: Nvidia has discussed an investment in Mercor as part of a round valuing the startup at $20B; Nvidia paid Mercor tens of millions of dollars last quarter (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-20 Startup Nvidia

Give one prompt to 20+ AI models with ChatPlayground AI for $79 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-20 AI

Hackers compromise 14,500 Dahua web cameras in 35-day campaign (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-20

Stripe agrees to buy New York-based OpenRouter; a source says Stripe is paying $7.5B, with $1.5B going to the startup's founders and $6B to investors (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-20 Startup New York

Moderna, Merck Say mRNA Vaccine Prevents Melanoma From Returning (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-20

The Future of AI: The U.S. vs. China (www.gatestoneinstitute.org)
2026-8-20 China U.S. AI

Why Fusion Power Is the Answer to America's AI Challenge (www.gatestoneinstitute.org)
2026-8-20 U.S. AI

Meta launches a Mac app for Meta AI and says Meta AI can now work directly with Instagram and Facebook accounts, Meta ad campaigns, and Google Workspace (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-20 Google Facebook AI Instagram

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