Wednesday opens on a payments earthquake—Stripe and Advent’s fifty-three-billion-dollar PayPal bid—while chip gear maker ASML lifts forecasts again, Wall Street banks print record quarters, and Venezuela finally sets a date for opposition talks.
Stripe and Advent International have offered more than $53 billion to take PayPal private, a blockbuster fintech bid that sent PayPal shares sharply higher and would reunite payments infrastructure with one of its breakout rivals.
Oxford researchers began human trials of a vaccine against the Bundibugyo Ebola strain as Congo confirmed spread into two more provinces; the outbreak has killed more than 700 people since May with WHO warning true cases may be several times higher.
Tripling U.S. union density to 1950s-era levels would lift median pay about 14.5% and shift roughly $1.2 trillion a year from capital to workers while narrowing racial wage gaps, the Economic Policy Institute estimates.
Donald Trump's deputy-turned-nominee Todd Blanche faced the Senate Judiciary Committee as he seeks the attorney general post, fielding questions on DOJ purges, Epstein files, and his record steering the department toward the president's political priorities.
Venezuela's interim government says formal talks with parts of the opposition begin August 1, framed as a democracy roadmap six months after U.S. forces seized Nicolás Maduro and Delcy Rodríguez kept power with Washington's backing.
Hong Kong authorities arrested booksellers accused of distributing seditious titles, the latest crackdown under national-security rules that have squeezed the city's once-thriving independent publishing scene.
Russia's foreign ministry said any postwar Western troop deployment to Ukraine would be unacceptable and treated as legitimate military targets, pushing back on the 'coalition of the willing' force plan discussed in Paris.
Britain's home secretary Shabana Mahmood is lined up to become chancellor under Andy Burnham's expected leadership, succeeding Rachel Reeves at the Treasury in a looming UK government reshuffle.
Researchers pursuing thermodynamic computing want to harness thermal noise rather than fight it, using energy flows to perform calculations in a field that has moved from theory toward simulated prototypes since 2019.
Dutch lithography giant ASML lifted its sales outlook for the second time this year as AI-driven chip demand fuels orders, even as investors parsed mixed signals in the quarterly print.
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation is piloting tokenized securities settlement with major banks and asset managers, testing how Wall Street's post-trade plumbing could move onto blockchain-style rails.
Morgan Stanley posted record quarterly revenue and profit, with equities trading revenue jumping about 69% as market volatility and deal flow lifted the bank's Wall Street engine.
U.S. producer prices fell 0.3% in June, defying expectations as gasoline costs dropped; the wholesale inflation gauge offers a cooler read ahead of Fed testimony and rate-path debate.
New York Fed President John Williams said inflation has likely peaked and interest rates are well positioned, offering a dovish-leaning read as markets parse wholesale price data and Chair Kevin Warsh's Senate testimony.
A deep dive into the bespoke Unix workstations and custom software that powered Jurassic Park’s on-screen control rooms.
A 27-billion-parameter-class model packaged to run on a phone, pushing local inference into laptop-and-handset territory.
A security researcher shows how prompt and tool tricks can coax Claude into exfiltrating secrets users thought were sandboxed.
A large study finds consistent sleep timing predicts mortality risk more strongly than how long you sleep.
Secondary trading suggests a recent SpaceX bond trades about ten percent below issue price, raising junk-debt chatter.
Vancouver police added a Quick Escape button that wipes browsing history instantly for people seeking help on an abusive partner’s device.
A long essay argues constant phone panic undersells how teens actually navigate online life.
Tailscale patched TS-2026-009, a serious SSH argument-handling bug that could grant root on misconfigured nodes.
Microsoft’s July patch batch addresses more than 570 CVEs, one of the largest monthly security drops in years.
A developer memoir on burnout, team communication, and why mental health needs explicit priority in engineering culture.
Researchers train a JEPA world model on Super Mario Bros, exploring predictive representations for game environments.
An essay on why convenience products beat homemade alternatives and what that means for SaaS business models.
Telegram documents a serverless execution layer for bots and lightweight backend tasks inside its ecosystem.
An investigation-style piece on how Telegram’s data-center architecture is structured and obscured.
AI-cloned voices can defeat bank voiceprint checks in seconds, outpacing fraud defenses built for human impersonators.