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.

Excessive use of social media is linked to an increased risk of depression.

A study conducted over 11 years with 183,000 adults found that individuals who spend at least 150 minutes per day on social media are more likely to experience depression.

RaidForums domain has been suspended.

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ShinyHunters claims a U.S.-based financial technology.

🇺🇸 Jack Henry & Associates - A U.S.-based financial technology company providing core banking, payment processing, digital banking, and other technology services to banks and credit unions.

Critical CVE-2026-73125 impacts Ebyte NE2-D11 devices

A critical missing-authentication vulnerability in the Ebyte NE2-D11 web management interface could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to access administrative functionality.

CVE-2026-73125 carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.8 and requires no privileges or user interaction. Successful exploitation could allow attackers to:

• Access sensitive configuration data
• Modify device settings
• Disrupt device availability

Affected firmware: FW-9167-0-11

The Google engineer accused of making $1.2M on Polymarket insider trading says he was just gambling, not swapping, which places him outside of US commodities law.

Michele Spagnuolo's lawyers filed to dismiss on Wednesday. They aren't denying the trades, they argue Polymarket bets aren't swaps under the Commodity Exchange Act, putting a Switzerland-based gambler outside US jurisdiction.

Argentina’s Ministry of Interior Data Allegedly Leaked.

CYBERATTACK HITS MANCHESTER AIRPORTS GROUP — CUSTOMER DATA STOLEN ACROSS THREE UK AIRPORTS.

Android 17 can hide the sites you visit from network providers.

Google is bringing ECH across the OS, obscuring destination domain names for supported sites and apps. Android 17 also adds local-network permission prompts and carrier-controlled 2G blocking.

قاصران يحرجان منظومة أمن الاحتلال.. من إعلان عمل على تلغرام إلى مهام تجسس داخل "إسرائيل"

The German Digital Industry Association (Bitkom) announced that cyberattacks attributed to foreign intelligence services against companies in Germany have increased.

CYBER ALERT: Israel has been hit by a sharp escalation in cyber attacks over the last 48-72 hours—volume and intensity surging across multiple sectors. Critical infrastructure, defense systems, and civilian networks under sustained pressure. Digital momentum clearly building against Israel.

#CyberAttack #Israel

DoJ corrected its claim that several U.S. agencies were QTFY victims.

NASA, the Fed, DOE, DOJ, HHS, NIH and the U.S. Senate are now listed as targets instead. The revised statement does not establish that those agencies were compromised.

Top AI tools including Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed suspicious code inside corporate networks.