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Tunis, Tunisia – For nine-year-old Yassar Naouar, visiting his father in prison has become an exercise in staying strong. He tries not to cry in front of Wael, fearing that seeing his son in tears would make an already painful situation harder for him. After leaving the prison, Yassar finds a corner where he can finally let the tears fall.Hichem Naouar, Yassar’s grandfather, says the boy has changed since his father was detained. He now sleeps beside his mother after waking up screaming at night and his results at school have worsened. When Yassar told his mother that other children…

Anthropic lost a legal battle to overturn one of the supply-chain risk labels that the US Department of Defense slapped on the company, as a federal appeals court in DC on Friday refused to second-guess the Trump administration.“The department had ample support for its conclusion that the continued integration of Claude into the department’s information systems, by the department or its contractors, presented a statutorily covered national-security risk,” the judges wrote in a majority opinion. “As Anthropic admits, the company encodes restrictions into Claude that prevent the model from performing tasks that Anthropic wishes to prevent.”Anthropic spokesperson Danielle Cohen says…

The Federal Reserve’s proposed rules for the payment stablecoin issuers it supervises include a crisis clock measured in hours. An issuer whose reserves fall below the value of its outstanding tokens would have 24 hours to notify the Fed and submit a plan to restore full backing.Unless it closes the gap or the Fed directs it to proceed with that plan, the issuer must begin liquidating reserves and redeeming tokens by 5 p.m. on the next business day. The Fed says that window comes to less than 48 hours in many cases.The 392-page proposal also lets the issuer keep minting…

The releases follow a second round of negotiations between Venezuela’s interim government and the opposition.Published On 27 Sep 202627 Sep 2026More than three dozen political prisoners have been released in Venezuela following a second round of talks backed by Washington between the country’s interim government and the opposition.Human rights group Justicia, Encuentro y Perdon (JEP) said 39 political dissidents were freed between Friday and Saturday from various prisons, including eight women accused of “narco-terrorism” in 2021 and six people accused of working with the United States in a 2020 attempt to overthrow former President Nicolas Maduro.Recommended Stories list of 3…

Amazon Prime Day deals are back, baby. The second sale of the year is officially dubbed Prime Big Deal Days and will arrive on October 6 and 7. However, early deals have already started, and I’ve been using my 13 years of deal-hunting experience to find true discounts on the gadgets and gear the WIRED Reviews team has hand-tested and would recommend to our friends. Below, you’ll find the best early deals we’ve sleuthed so far. We’ll be covering deals throughout the event and beyond. all the way through Black Friday and Cyber Monday.Don’t miss our list of Prime Day…

Two third-party GitHub Actions previously compromised in a Mini Shai-Hulud campaign were re-enabled by their maintainer and remained accessible for more than a week despite still pointing to malicious code. After being compromised on May 18, the GitHub security team removed actions-cool/issues-helper and actions-cool/maintain-one-comment, preventing any downstream workflow from downloading malware. According to researchers at application security company Socket, starting September 16 and up to September 25, the two actions became active again with the same release tags, causing workflows referencing their actions to download and execute the old payload. The Mini Shai-Hulud supply-chain attack in May affected 323 packages…

In brief Circle and Tether froze a wallet tied to the Bitget hack, blacklisting roughly 99,990 USDC and 218,023 USDT (~$318,000) at the contract level; Circle acted at 05:00 UTC Friday, with Tether following via its multisig hours later. The wallet’s ~170 ETH stayed untouched—issuers can freeze their own tokens but not Ethereum—and trackers show other exploiter addresses still hold 63,000+ ETH beyond reach. It’s a small dent in a breach pegged at roughly $387 million, with Lazarus Group a suspected culprit and Bitget’s $464 million protection fund set to cover losses. Circle and Tether have frozen a wallet linked…

Tirzepatide has become an important treatment for obesity and related conditions such as diabetes, but scientists are still working to understand exactly how it affects the body. A study in mice now suggests that the drug may improve metabolism directly by activating brown adipose tissue, a form of fat that specializes in using energy. According to the researchers, the findings provide new clues about how tirzepatide works and could help guide the development of broader treatments for obesity and other metabolic disorders. The research was led by Marion Peyrou, Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Faculty of Biology and the…

CBSNews.com, Caitlin Yilek Politics Reporter Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at, et al. Trump Gives Primetime Speech on Elections as White House Alleges Chinese Access to Voter Data. 17 July 2026, https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/trump-primetime-speech-elections-china/.Christensen, Laerke. “Image Claiming to Show Trump with Young Girl during China Visit Is Fake. Here’s Proof.” Snopes, 19 May 2026, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/trump-girl-gift-china-visit/.———. “No, China Didn’t ‘cancel’ US Beef amid Tariffs Tit-for-Tat.” Snopes, 14 Mar. 2025, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/china-cancels-us-beef/.Deng, Rae. “Did Canada Import Chinese Steel and Resell It to US to Avoid Tariffs? What We Know.” Snopes, 4 Sept. 2026, https://www.snopes.com//news/2026/09/04/canada-chinese-steel-us-tariffs/.———. “Trump Posted Conservative Radio Host’s Derogatory Statement about People of…

Police in South Africa say they have discovered another body in Ekurhuleni, to the east of Johannesburg, bringing the number of women found dead there in recent months to 10. The body was found on Saturday morning and was identified by the friend with whom she had been at a bar the previous evening.The local police commissioner said his force could not rule out the possibility that there was a serial killer on the loose, noting similarities across the 10 deaths in Ekurhuleni, as well as another in Soweto.The deaths have sparked a national outcry about the scale of violence…