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Altseason may not be officially here, but traders are starting their rotations — and the numbers are getting harder to ignore.Over the past 30 days, memecoin launchpad PONS soared more than 350% in price, while in DeFi, Uniswap’s UNI gained more than 110%, Arbitrum’s ARB jumped over 150% and AI-focused NEAR also shot up around 180%.Privacy token Zcash hit a record high above $1,600 last week, while Bitcoin Layer-2 token LIT and memecoin launchpad token PUMP are also among the biggest gainers over the period, according to CoinMarketCap.Spanning very different sectors, those gains don’t point to one obvious trade, but…

Kristie Foster paved her road to becoming a NASA civil servant with literal miles of dedication. Her work at the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, supports NASA’s mission to return American astronauts to the Moon, build a Moon Base for an enduring presence on the lunar surface, and ensure American leadership in space. Foster’s move from a long-time contractor to a civil servant secures critical institutional knowledge after being hired in June under the agency’s workforce directive to restore core competencies. “It means a lot, especially carrying the family legacy forward after my father retired from…

This story is a collaboration between Inside Climate News and Honolulu Civil Beat. All over Hawaiʻi, property owners are hoping to rebuild homes and businesses destroyed by recent disasters.  Many Kauaʻi and Hawaiʻi island residents are still assessing the damage caused by downed trees and utility poles or cleaning the mud and sewage that flooded their homes during Hurricane Lowell this month and Hurricane Lala last month. On Oʻahu, Maui and Molokaʻi, homeowners are in various stages of rebuilding properties that were destroyed during back-to-back Kona low storms in March and the deadly 2023 wildfires.  Recovery is already an uphill…

An Arizona congresswoman has proposed three bills that would fund literacy classes, dual language programs and training for teachers of students learning English in the state, hoping to remedy gaps highlighted by Arizona Luminaria and ProPublica. Rep. Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat, filed the bills Sept. 16, the same day Arizona Luminaria and ProPublica reported that the state had lowered the score students need to pass its English proficiency test. Experts warned the change will push thousands of students out of language services before they know English well enough to succeed in school. Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, a Republican…

A new Toluna-Harris survey for French radio RTL and French television channel M6 published Monday showed that Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) party was set to win around 35 to 36 percent in the first round of voting for France’s presidential elections on April 18, 2027, up from 33 percent in an earlier poll published on September 14. French far-right leader polling ahead for 2027 election: should the EU be afraid? To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player…

Shabana Mahmood will announce the reopening of a scheme to resettle refugees in the UK, as she hopes that offering “safe and legal” routes will deter small boat crossings.The home secretary will say the UK wants to “live up to our international obligations” by helping those who are fleeing war and persecution, but the process must be “capped and controlled”.The Home Office said the UK Resettlement Scheme (UKRS) will reopen immediately and expects that around 25% of arrivals will be Afghan women and girls and Palestinians.Conservative shadow home secretary Chris Philp said Mahmood was making a “desperate attempt to appease”…

SpaceX is gearing up for a monumental flight today that’s sure to be closely watched by Amazon. If successful, SpaceX will deploy its first Starlink V3 satellites, which tout meaningful upgrades to the ever-expanding Starlink constellation. The 26 satellites will be riding atop Starship, which SpaceX will also attempt to deploy into Earth orbit for the first time. The mission arrives amid Amazon’s ongoing setbacks with launch partners that are keeping its own Leo satellites grounded, and falling further behind its plan to offer a meaningful rival to Elon Musk’s space internet service.It’s been twelve weeks since Amazon’s last successful…

The Hacker NewsSep 28, 2026Identity Security / AI Agent Security AI agents are moving into production faster than security teams can govern them. They are connecting to apps, handling data, calling APIs, and acting across business systems—often without the same controls applied to human users. According to Okta’s Global CISO Insights 2026 report, only 47% of CISOs are confident they can identify every AI agent in their environment. Even among those who feel confident about visibility, roughly 80% still worry that excessive access may be going unreviewed. That is the real problem: seeing an agent is not the same as…

Bitcoin (BTC) is coiling below its 2026 open days before the Q3 candle close as new resistance caps BTC price upside.Key points:Bitcoin seals its highest weekly close since late January at $84,450 but drops to one-week lows of $82,557 after liquidity shifts on exchange order books.Markets see 70% odds of a 0.25% Fed interest-rate hike in October prior to this week’s August PCE inflation and September nonfarm payrolls data.Bitcoin must defend $82,500 to repeat its 2022 bear-market recovery pattern, says analysis by Rekt Capital.BTC price upside cools with Q3 gains above 40%Bitcoin saw downside pressure after Sunday’s weekly close as…

LayerZero blamed Kelp for using one verifier instead of several, while Kelp said LayerZero staff had reviewed its setup and never objected. CoinGecko data showed nearly half of active LayerZero apps used the same one-verifier arrangement, and Kelp said it would move rsETH to Chainlink.CCIP 2.0 offers a similar menu of verifiers, which lets companies run their own or hire outside providers such as Infosys and Nethermind. Chainlink’s own network of 16 independent node operators still checks every transfer, regardless of what else a user adds. Users shouldn’t have to be “cross-chain security infrastructure experts,” the company told CoinDesk.”Historically, legacy…