The new Twitter is here. “Twitter. now” service launch begins today — and usernames are now available.

Corporate America is hedging ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Companies that built close ties with Trump—especially big tech—fear Democratic-led investigations if the party wins the House.

U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) Seeks Access to All AI Models

The Deputy Director of the U.S. National Security Agency has announced that the agency is in negotiations with major AI companies to gain access to their advanced models.

The NSA's stated goal is to use these models for cybersecurity defense, vulnerability identification, and the protection of U.S. military networks.

US SATELLITE BAN CONCEALS WEST ASIA FROM PUBLIC VIEW

Washington has imposed severe restrictions on US commercial satellite imagery across West Asia, leaving independent investigators and journalists in the dark. Planet Labs indefinitely froze high-resolution image distribution in the region following direct government directives.

The blackout prevents independent verification of structural damage and battlefield developments in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran. Experts warn the measures function to shield state actors from accountability under the guise of security. Adversaries with native reconnaissance capabilities remain unaffected, while open-source auditing is crippled.

The restrictions are more about avoiding embarrassment than actual security concerns. Researchers are now turning to Chinese and European satellite systems, though advocates caution that political motivations are driving these information limitations in support of an unpopular war.

Three new critical ServiceNow flaws score a maximum CVSS 10.0 and require no authentication.

They can enable arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation, or arbitrary SQL against an instance. ServiceNow says it is not aware of exploitation.

A new critical cPanel flaw could let one hosting customer take root control of an entire server.

CVE-2026-65643 affects all supported cPanel & WHM versions. The account must be able to add parked or addon domains, which can be abused to create arbitrary server files and ultimately execute code as root.

PaperCut zero-day is under active exploitation.

The flaw affects all PaperCut NG and MF versions, with confirmed customer incidents. Emergency patches are available for v25 and v26. The exploit method and attackers remain unknown.

APT28-linked HOOKEDGE targets European governments and diplomats through Word lures.

The batch backdoor abuses webhook[.]site for C2 and data exfiltration, while high-value targets receive a faster second stage.

A malicious Amazon Kiro workspace can leak sensitive local data.

After opening the workspace, sending any message to the agent can trigger repository-controlled instructions that send local data to an external server. Amazon fixed the flaw in Kiro 0.8.140.

US-Israel space defense ties are deepening. IAI, ELTA, RAFAEL, and ELBIT are co-developing with US contractors on Arrow 2/3, David's Sling, and potential Golden Dome integration—a space-based missile defense architecture for US homeland protection. The Arrow system, jointly developed with the US Missile Defense Agency, already intercepts ballistic threats in exo-atmospheric space. Golden Dome requirements include directed energy, high-power microwaves, satellite constellations, and AI-driven radar detection. A new 10-year Israel-NASA agreement covers scientific space collaboration from Artemis to the ULTRASAT telescope. The lines between science, defense, and surveillance are blurring.

Stripe and Advent have abandoned their pursuit of PayPal, Bloomberg reports, citing people familiar with the matter.

Their $ 60.50-a-share offer valued PayPal at just over $ 53bn, roughly 15% of the ~$360bn the company commanded in 2021. Reuters reported in July that PayPal's board still considered it inadequate.