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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…

Kangaroo populations are surging across Australia, driven partly by large-scale deforestation and few natural predators.This year, a controversial government cull program in the Australian Capital Territory logged one of its highest numbers of kills.Scientists and conservationists say there’s no easy way to control the species’ growing numbers.Other possible solutions include reforestation efforts and reintroducing native predators like dingoes.See All Key Ideas CANBERRA — Australia has a problem with the very creature that is its official national symbol: The kangaroo. Endemic to Australia, they live across the country, from north to south, and from east to west. Australia has…

Outlining its updated strategy to investors in New York, TotalEnergies reaffirmed its core production targets for the decade. The French giant confirmed its trajectory for 4% annual growth in overall energy production, covering oil, gas, and electricity, through the end of the decade, running parallel to operational emissions targets, including a 50% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions from oil and gas operations by 2030 compared to 2015 levels, and an 80% slash in methane emissions.According to the company, the oil and gas production is projected to grow by more than 3% annually on average between 2025 and 2030,…

As a mum to a two-year-old in 2026 there is no shortage of things to make me feel bad about my capabilities as a parent. His snacks aren’t always organic or made from scratch. Some of his toys are plastic and noisy, not wooden and Montessori-inspired. And – most heinous of all – he is sometimes allowed screen time.Like any good, middle-class millennial mother, I try to approach it “consciously”. There are specific TV conditions in our house – he can watch post-nap to ward off an afternoon meltdown, we always watch together, and we have a strict time-limit of…

The White House factsheet made no mention of Taiwan, but the issue was clearly a priority for Xi Jinping.According to Beijing’s accounts of the talks, Xi urged Donald Trump to formally oppose Taiwan independence and handle the issue with caution.After their previous meeting in May, Trump revealed that Xi directly asked him if the US would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese attack.He told reporters, “There’s only one person that knows that, and it is me,” and he raised the question whether it made sense for US forces to “travel 9,500 miles to fight a war” over the…

A 10-year-old child and two 30-year-old women have died after a small boat that was attempting to cross the English Channel got into difficulty off the northern coast of France, local authorities have said.Officials responded to a distress call from the boat, which was carrying 105 people, after it departed from the Blériot Plage in Sangatte on Monday morning.Three passengers were treated on board but were later confirmed dead by an emergency medical team flown out by helicopter, the French Maritime Prefecture of the Channel and the North Sea said.Pas-de-Calais prefecture said its initial findings suggested the deaths were caused…

OpenAI said it has paused training its most powerful artificial intelligence models as incidents of agents breaching websites’ security controls or posting to third-party sites continue to pile up. On Friday, OpenAI said it had notified “dozens” of bodies, including governments, universities, and public agencies, who might have been impacted by its models’ activities on the internet during training and evaluation.The company has identified cases of OpenAI agents breaching security controls and impairing the availability—or otherwise negatively impacting—websites and online services. A company spokesperson confirmed to WIRED it would only resume training when confident that it could prevent models from…

Ravie LakshmananSep 28, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Sunday added two critical Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-88771 (CVSS score: 9.5) – An improper input validation vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands. CVE-2026-88772 (CVSS score: 9.5) – An improper restriction of operations within the bounds of a memory buffer vulnerability that could allow for remote code execution or denial-of-service. While CVE-2026-88771 affects all NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway…