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A Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-65660 is now being exploited in attacks, roughly six weeks after Microsoft announced patches and a couple of days after researchers disclosed technical details. CVE-2026-65660 is a remote code execution vulnerability fixed by Microsoft with its August 2026 Patch Tuesday updates. The company’s advisory describes it as a code injection issue that lets an authenticated attacker with low-level access to an affected server execute arbitrary code without user interaction.  “As of 9/25/2026, Microsoft had reliable evidence of observed attacks against exploitation of this vulnerability,” Microsoft said in its updated advisory.  CISA added CVE-2026-65660 to…

Buying a tokenized stock sounds as though it should be simple. You pick a company you know, buy a token representing its shares, and hold it in a digital wallet. The appeal is familiar stock investing with some of the convenience of crypto, potentially including trading beyond the hours of a traditional exchange.Then you encounter a rule saying trading might have to stop for three months, and the idea of always-available stocks needs a little more explanation.The pause is part of the SEC’s Sept. 17 framework for experimental Tokenized Securities Venues, or TSVs. Repeat breaches of a stock’s trading volume…

This investigation was reported in a collaboration between Inside Climate News and Columbia Journalism Investigations. MCDERMITT CALDERA, Ore.—On a cold and overcast spring morning, Katie Fite stood in one of the country’s last sage-grouse strongholds, contemplating the wooden stakes in the ground that she fears warn of its destruction. Every spring, males of the chunky bird species with spiky tail feathers come to a dwindling number of locations to strut, pop their inflatable white neck pouches and make a “paloop, paloop” sound in an attempt to court a mate. As their name suggests, sage-grouse need sagebrush, the green-brown shrub that…

What happens when Germany’s domestic intelligence service is monitored by the very people it is meant to spy on? The once speculative question has acquired sudden urgency – for both Germany and its allies – in the wake of a regional election that has put the German far right on the cusp of power for the first time since 1945. The Alternative for Democracy (AfD) party scored a resounding election win in Saxony-Anhalt earlier this month and is trying to form a coalition government in the small eastern state of Land, one of 16 that enjoy broad powers under Germany’s federal system.…

Burnham says NHS will ‘break’ without social care reformBurnham claims the NHS won’t survive without social care reform. double quotation markLouise Casey is still doing an official review for us, so I will set out the vision, if you like, on Tuesday [in his speech to the conference]. Louise will then help us with the how. How do we make this happen? When can we make it happen? But what I’m saying to you this morning, Laura, is I am not going to do what others have done and just say, ‘Oh, I’m looking in a different direction. This is…

Farmers around the world face a pressing problem: The equipment they use to till, plant, and harvest their fields is killing their margins. Studies have estimated that soil compaction can reduce yields by 20% to 60%.  Plowing can help, but it’s a laborious and expensive task that harms soil health in different ways. Muju Earth has developed an alternative, the Aeropod, that automatically aerates the soil without machinery or robotics. The startup says it can promote better soil health while cutting farmers’ tilling costs by half or more. The device is “built like a seed, it sows like a seed,…

Swati KhandelwalSep 27, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Two new unpatched zero-day vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances that allow remote code execution are being actively exploited in the wild, security firm watchTowr said on September 26. Citrix has not confirmed the flaws or published a fix. Some administrators say they have taken appliances offline rather than wait for one to be available. NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway sit at the edge of enterprise networks, where they handle VPN and remote access, load balancing, and user authentication. The new flaws are not the authentication bypass, CVE-2026-19490, that Citrix…

In brief Magic Eden warned that NFTs listed on its now-closed EVM marketplace between roughly February and October 2024 could be exposed to an exploit in Limit Break’s Payment Processor V2. Yuga Labs’ 0xQuit said a whitehat operation rescued 23,155 NFTs worth more than $5.7 million, but 660 WETH couldn’t be recovered. Users should revoke the contract’s approvals on Ethereum, Polygon and Base. Revoking won’t return tokens that have already moved. Magic Eden may have left Ethereum behind, but some of its old users’ NFTs were still exposed.The marketplace warned Friday that NFTs listed on its EVM marketplace between roughly…

Scientists studying the chemistry of Cannabis leaves have uncovered something that had never been documented in the plant before: evidence of a rare group of natural compounds known as flavoalkaloids. Analytical chemists at Stellenbosch University (SU) made the discovery while examining the complex mixture of chemicals found in commercially grown Cannabis from South Africa. Their findings suggest that the leaves, which can be treated as low value plant material or waste, may contain a much richer collection of potentially useful compounds than previously recognized. Rare Compounds Hidden in Cannabis Leaves Flavoalkaloids belong to a broader family of plant chemicals known…

Ten NHS staff have been removed from duty or suspended after a data breach involving the medical records of three-year-old Noah Woods.Launching an “urgent” investigation, Dr Martin Mansfield, deputy chief medical officer at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, said that any unauthorised access of patient data was “completely unacceptable”.The trust has apologised to Noah’s family and said disciplinary action would be taken if needed.A major search for Noah was carried out in the village of Brantham, Suffolk, after the child went missing on 15 September. His body was found the next day in nearby water by police…