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Russia and Ukraine sat down for nearly four hours of U.S.-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi Tuesday — the first such session in nine months. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called it very productive, and President Zelenskyy described the conversation as constructive and quite substantive. Whether words become movement remains the real question.
On the financial technology front, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and a coalition of global banks have committed two hundred seventy million dollars over five years to back a U.S.-incorporated stablecoin issuer operating under the codename Project Faro. The move signals that traditional finance is done watching from the sidelines as Tether and Circle dominate the space.
And for anyone running Adobe software — that's most creative professionals — the company patched one hundred ten vulnerabilities across nine products this week, including Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, and Audition. That's a wide attack surface, and security researchers are urging users to update immediately rather than wait for a convenient moment that never quite arrives.
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