
cbc.ca
U.S. alcohol bans must end for trade deal to happen, Canada's ambassador told council: sourceshttps://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-ambassador-trade-council-alcohol-9.7316347?cmp=rssCanada's ambassador to the U.S. said on a video call Thursday that putting American alcohol back on Canadian shelves is a mandatory prerequisite toward locking in a deal with the U.S. to avoid new tariffs, CBC News has learned.Aug 21, 2026 10:22 PM
cbsnews.com
Psychiatrist testifies that Lindsay Clancy told children "go to God"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lindsay-clancy-trial-watch-live-day-18-dr-phillip-resnick/The defense rested in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial Friday in Massachusetts. The prosecution has started calling rebuttal witnesses.Aug 21, 2026 10:19 PM
theverge.com
TikTok will pay $400 million to settle DOJ child privacy lawsuithttps://www.theverge.com/tech/983531/tiktok-settle-doj-lawsuit-coppaThe US Department of Justice announced on Friday that TikTok will pay $400 million to settle a lawsuit filed in 2024 over allegedly violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). In the lawsuit, the DOJ alleged that TikTok collected data from children without notifying parents or obtaining consent and did not delete the accounts […]Aug 21, 2026 10:13 PM
bing.com
NASA Cancels Its Rescue Mission for the Aging Swift Telescopehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a1f80f64c46128afaa272b2ff9661&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Fnasa-cancels-its-rescue-mission-for-the-aging-swift-telescope%2F&c=262846168604342691&mkt=en-usThe LINK probe was supposed to use robotic arms to capture Swift and lift it into a safe orbit. Problems with its control system forced NASA to call off the attempt.Aug 21, 2026 10:00 PM
bing.com
NASA Cancels Its Rescue Mission for the Aging Swift Telescopehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a1f85fe1147e7abb7b3f97421f77e&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Fnasa-cancels-its-rescue-mission-for-the-aging-swift-telescope%2F&c=262846168604342691&mkt=en-usThe LINK probe was supposed to use robotic arms to capture Swift and lift it into a safe orbit. Problems with its control system forced NASA to call off the attempt.Aug 21, 2026 10:00 PM
aljazeera.com
TikTok settles with US Justice Department for $400m over child privacy lawshttps://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/8/21/tiktok-settles-with-us-justice-department-for-400m-over-child-privacy-laws?traffic_source=rssTikTok and the US government settled to resolve allegations that the app violated children's online privacy laws.Aug 21, 2026 9:59 PM
theverge.com
Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop buttonhttps://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/983502/linkedin-ai-slop-button-one-million-people-messageLinkedIn actually announced a "Seems like AI slop" button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it. According to a Thursday post from chief product officer Hari Srinivasan, "over a million people" have clicked on the button, which is accessible from the three dots menu on a […]Aug 21, 2026 9:25 PM
cbsnews.com
TikTok agrees to pay $400 million to settle child privacy lawsuithttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/tiktok-settle-child-privacy-lawsuit/The Justice Department sued TikTok in 2024, alleging that it violated a U.S. law prohibiting the collection of kids' data.Aug 21, 2026 9:08 PM
cbsnews.com
8/21: The Takeout with Major Garretthttps://www.cbsnews.com/video/082126-the-takeout-with-major-garrett/USS Lincoln leaves Middle East after 9-month deployment; Supreme Court temporarily allows White House to continue ballroom construction.Aug 21, 2026 9:00 PM
cbsnews.com
8 dead in charter plane crash near remote military radar site in Alaskahttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/charter-plane-crash-cape-newenham-alaska/The crash of a small plane in Alaska chartered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is under investigation.Aug 21, 2026 8:57 PM
news.google.com
Trump Announces Move to Lift Ground Beef Tariffs in Bid to Lower Prices - The New York Timeshttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMif0FVX3lxTE45X3NWUUZ6aWRON0pOb2h0c0VhVWU5eGZndTFBYjk5SGNTbHpqZ21xYWMyc3hYcU1vS0NVUXFuaklONU1FRGd5ajFreUVRMEt0RlJTa0Y4OUVLWURuRV9ZRGlPaWU3RFpCOUFOdlRTX2ZISjdkaUtQb1Z3Yno1Tm8?oc=5Trump Announces Move to Lift Ground Beef Tariffs in Bid to Lower Prices The New York TimesTrump to allow import of 300,000 metric tons of ground beef without tariff CNBCTrump defends pause on beef tariffs amid criticism from US cattle producers CNNAug 21, 2026 8:49 PM

france24.com
Search continues after deadly mine collapse on Cameroon-Central African Republic borderhttps://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/eye-on-africa/20260821-search-continues-after-deadly-mine-collapse-on-cameroon-central-african-republic-borderIn tonight’s edition: a deadly landslide at a gold mine in the Central African Republic leaves dozens dead, with victims from Cameroon and Chad. Meanwhile, Ethiopia is turning to Bordeaux expertise and grapevines in a bid to become East Africa’s next wine destination. Finally, Belgium continues to confront its colonial past, more than a century after Congolese people were displayed at the 1894 Antwerp World’s Fair.Aug 21, 2026 8:46 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: How do you host your vibe coded tools/sites?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49393465I've been building a lot of tools for my company internally and have been doing a combination of self-hosting on VPS/Vercel/whatever else. Super curious how everyone is going from localhost to sharing in your team.Aug 21, 2026 8:36 PM
techcrunch.com
TikTok reaches $400M settlement over children’s privacy lawsuithttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/tiktok-reaches-400m-settlement-over-childrens-privacy-lawsuit/Two years after the U.S. Department of Justice alleged that TikTok violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, it has reached a $400 million settlement.Aug 21, 2026 8:25 PM
bing.com
McDonald's launches Red Bull Dragonberry Energizer as its first energy drinkhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a56e670cb4695b00ce46fdf23b015&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Ffood-and-drink%2Fbeverages%2Fmcdonald-s-launches-red-bull-dragonberry-energizer-as-its-first-energy-drink%2Far-AA2aGPfw&c=10960076319093361920&mkt=en-usThe fast-food giant is officially entering the energy drink business with one of the biggest names in the category.Aug 21, 2026 8:24 PM
github.com
Show HN: Zroar – Serialized Roaring Bitmaps in Zighttps://github.com/manishrjain/zroarzroar is a ground-up implementation of Roaring Bitmaps data structure in Zig. zroar stores both the keys and (array, bitmap) containers in a single flat byte buffer, making the in-memory representation equal to the on-disk or over-the-network representation, eliminating the serialization/deserialization step entirely.The design was originally aimed at systems which keep their posting lists on disk, but zroar performs faster than CRoaring even for purely in-memory ops, due to CPU cache locality.Against CRoaring 5.0's benchmarking suite (ported to Zig), zroar is faster in 339 out of 360 tests, being 2x-9x faster (geometric mean), and up to 600x faster on serialize/deserialize.zroar avoids complex mechanism (like adaptive radix trees), uses Zig native SIMD ops and is simpler. The main logic is written in ~2000 lines of code, while CRoaring's 64-bit bitmap codebase is over 17000 LOC.Not yet: By choice, zroar doesn't support run containers, and is 64-bit only.There are more details in the GAug 21, 2026 8:18 PM
aljazeera.com
US, Canada negotiators race to ink a deal as Trump’s tariff deadline loomshttps://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/8/21/us-canada-negotiators-race-to-ink-a-deal-as-trumps-tariff-deadline-looms?traffic_source=rssExperts say even a last-minute breakthrough will not result in the US lifting all its tariffs on Canadian goods.Aug 21, 2026 7:20 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Windmill.dev is not "fully open-sourced (AGPLv3)"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49392365I think Windmill.dev (https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill) is really cool, and fully support their desire to be paid for their work.However, their README says:> “Windmill is fully open-sourced (AGPLv3)…”But their LICENSE says:> ... The files under backend/ are AGPLv3 Licensed, except any snippets of code under the compile flag ‘enterprise’. Those snippets and files are under a proprietary and commercial license. Private and public forks MUST not include the proprietary/commercial code mentioned above.I dove deeper into the code, there are around 300 files in the codebase that contain references to enterprise or private features, so it's not a clearly separated directory that can just be removed.They have 1.1k forks of their repository that I can see on Github, and I doubt all of them took the time to strip the proprietary code to comply with the license.So at this point, it feels like a licensing trap for anyone that clicks the fork button on Github or is attracted by the AGPL liAug 21, 2026 6:50 PM
github.com
Show HN: Lore – build and monetize personal contexthttps://github.com/dipakkrishnan/lore-mcpPersonal context will have its own market. Large-scale market research and simulation (and more) require context that isn't available on the Internet. Lore allows you to take what your agent knows about you, augment it with your files / dictations and sell it at a price you set. You control what memories stay private and what becomes available to buyers. This is the first step towards a personal context market, focused on the seller experience today, and powered by personal agent human interactions!Would love feedback on the core premise / shape!Aug 21, 2026 6:25 PM

nytimes.com
Prince Harry, Elton John and Others Told to Pay Daily Mail Publisher $13 Millionhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/world/europe/prince-harry-daily-mail-publisher-pay.htmlHarry and six other high-profile figures lost a privacy lawsuit against Associated Newspapers. They may eventually have to pay more than twice the initial sum, a judge said.Aug 21, 2026 6:22 PM