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WALMART AND AMAZON ARE EXPLORING ISSUING THEIR OWN STABLECOINS

Several multinational giants, including Walmart and Amazon, are discussing potential efforts to issue stablecoins. Whether these initiatives will go ahead depends on a bill still yet to clear the Senate and House called the Genius Act, which establishes a regulatory framework for stablecoins. Stablecoins could allow merchants to bypass traditional payment rails, which cost them billions of dollars in fees each year. A regulatory framework for stablecoins would enable an alternative payment type for merchants that could significantly lower their expenses and create competition against Visa and Mastercard.

PALO ALTO NETWORKS FIXED MULTIPLE PRIVILEGE ESCALATION FLAWS

Palo Alto Networks fixed seven privilege escalation vulnerabilities in its products, the most severe of which was CVE-2025-4232 (CVSS 7.1), which allows non-administrative macOS users to escalate privileges to root through a wildcard vulnerability in GlobalProtect's log collection feature. The company also patched two authenticated admin command injection flaws in PAN-OS (CVE-2025-4231 and CVE-2025-4230) that enabled authenticated administrators to execute commands as root users. Palo Alto also integrated 11 Chrome security patches and addressed a cache vulnerability in Prisma Access Browser. There were no known active exploits of these vulnerabilities.

WALMART, AMAZON CONSIDER ISSUING OWN STABLECOINS

Walmart and Amazon are reportedly exploring issuing their own dollar-backed stablecoins to cut transaction costs and speed up e-commerce and cross-border payments by diverting billions in banking fees onto onchain rails. These brand-specific tokens would capitalize on growing regulatory clarity under the GENIUS Act, which aims to standardize stablecoin collateralization and AML compliance. Their moves follow Shopify's planned USDC integration and discussions among banks like JPMorgan and Bank of America about joint stablecoin launches, signaling a broader institutional embrace of regulated digital dollars.

ANNE WOJCICKI WINS BIDDING FOR 23ANDME

Anne Wojcicki, co-founder and former CEO of 23andMe, has been named as the new buyer for the company's assets. Biotech company Regeneron won the bidding last month during a bankruptcy auction but bidding reopened earlier this month after Wojcicki's nonprofit, TTAM Research Institute, made an unsolicited offer. Regeneron declined to submit a higher bid based on its assessment of the company's value. If the sale goes through, 23andMe's equity holders could recover some of their investment in the company, a relative rarity in bankruptcy.

SOLAR ORBITER GETS WORLD-FIRST VIEWS OF THE SUN'S POLES

The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft has imaged the Sun's poles from outside the ecliptic plane. The spacecraft's unique viewing angle will help scientists better understand the Sun's magnetic field, the solar cycle, and the workings of space weather. The complete dataset from Solar Orbiter's first full pole-to-pole flight past the Sun is expected to arrive on Earth by October 2025. A video of the Sun from an angle of 17 degrees below the solar equator - enough to deficiently see the Sun's south pole - is available in the article.

ONCE-A-WEEK PILL FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA SHOWS PROMISE IN CLINICAL TRIALS

Lyndra Therapeutics has created a once-a-week pill for treating the symptoms of schizophrenia. The pill contains a widely used medication for managing the disease. A phase 3 clinical trial conducted by Lyndra Therapeutics showed that the patients who took the once-a-week pill maintained consistent levels of the medication just as well as daily doses of the drug. Making the drug easier to administer makes it easier to ensure that patients are receiving their medication.

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