Treasury’s August 19, 2026 plan to raise long end buybacks from $2 billion to at least $4 billion per operation helped lower long term yields and weaken the dollar, supporting a broad risk on rally—but the r...
The Zombie Card attack used two NFC capable phones to relay an expired Visa card’s payment exchange and replace its old expiration date with a future one.
The Odyssey reached roughly $1.34 billion worldwide by August 19, 2026, overtaking Deadpool & Wolverine to become the highest grossing R rated film ever—but the often cited $1.6 billion finish remained only...
Pew found a sharp post-ChatGPT rise in webpages showing significant signs of AI authorship or substantial AI editing—not proof that every flagged page was entirely machine-written. Its key result is that AI-...
Anthropic plans to keep a 30 day retention requirement for prompts and outputs from its most capable covered models, but qualifying enterprises may be able to store that data in their own cloud.
Bitcoin climbed from roughly $64,100 to above $72,000 in two sessions, but the move is best classified as a bullish setup—not confirmation of a new bull market.
As of August 20, 2026, OpenAI’s Apple Messages plugin is available on all ChatGPT plans in the macOS desktop app, but only on Apple silicon Macs.
XRP’s reported 16% surge to about $1.15 was a meaningful technical rebound: it recovered from roughly $0.98, broke a descending trendline in place since July 2025 and closed above its 50 day EMA for the firs...
On August 20, 2026, North Korea fired more than 10 short range ballistic missiles toward the East Sea, hours after Trump said he planned to meet Kim Jong Un.
North Korea launched more than 10 short range ballistic missiles on Thursday, August 20, 2026, hours after Donald Trump said he expected to meet Kim Jong Un later in the year.
Version 1.70 launched free on August 20, 2026, with Nanashi Uchiha becoming playable alongside her costumes; the update also expands online progression and events.
Riot will end active development of 2XKO at the end of December 2026, but the League of Legends fighting game will not immediately shut down: servers and online play are expected to remain available beyond 2...