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[Update, 12:55 UTC, Sept. 25: This article was updated with Magic Eden’s statement identifying the affected protocol and its guidance for former users.]A whitehat moved 3,832 non-fungible tokens from hundreds of wallets on Friday amid concerns about a vulnerability involving NFT marketplace Magic Eden. NFT community member who goes by Cirrus on X flagged the activity on Friday, saying a single wallet moved 3,832 NFTs from hundreds of wallets. Cirrus said the transactions appeared as sales through Magic Eden and advised NFT holders to revoke permissions as a precaution.Shortly afterward, Yuga Labs’ pseudonymous vice president of blockchain, 0xQuit, said the transfers…

For more information, contact Donald S. Parker, Kennedy Space Center, donald.s.parker@nasa.gov Download the PDF version Improper casting and forging processes in the manufacture of aluminum alloy 2219 can lead to microstructural defects that result in a sub-optimal response to anodic surface treatments and an increase in corrosion susceptibility. This Technical Bulletin communicates the risks of improper casting and recommends a homogenizing step followed by multidirectional deformation after conventional direct chill casting, especially for larger castings. 09/24/26 DOC ID: 20260008373 BackgroundAluminum 2219 is an age-hardenable, over-saturated, aluminum-copper alloy developed by Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) in 1954, for service up to…

NY-17: Second in a series on the environmental stakes of one of the nation’s most fiercely contested congressional races. Nancy Vann’s resolve has become the subject of a local jingle. Its chorus goes: “If she can do it, so can we.” Vann, 78, moved to Peekskill, 40 miles north of New York City, after September 11, 2001. Brown & Wood, the law firm at which she worked, occupied five floors of the World Trade Center. She watched both towers fall before her 10:30 a.m. call-in.  Over the next 10 years, her dawn and sunset hours were spent on the Metro-North,…

Offshore engineering specialist Vantris Energy has fortified its financial pipeline after clinching two major transportation and installation (T&I) deals worth a combined RM1.8 billion ($441.8 million) from Petronas Carigali, a subsidiary of Malaysia’s Petronas, and PTTEP HK Offshore and PTTEP Sarawak Oil, subsidiaries of Thailand’s PTTEP. Illustration; Source: Petronas Vantris Energy’s Engineering & Construction (E&C) segment has secured two work orders from Petronas Carigali and PTTEP for the provision of offshore transportation and installation services in Malaysia. These work orders were awarded to VTEB Offshore, formerly known as Sapura Offshore, the company’s indirect wholly owned subsidiary. The work order with…

The new U.S.-Saudi Arabia nuclear cooperation agreement, which is now with Congress for its mandatory review, upholds “the highest standards of nuclear safety and nonproliferation,” at least according to U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright. U.S. President Donald Trump posted on social media that there will be “no enrichment” in Saudi Arabia under the deal. But anyone reading the agreement would be surprised to learn that it includes a two-year study on the feasibility of uranium enrichment in the kingdom—a technology that can be used to produce fuel for reactors or nuclear bombs. It also does not require Riyadh to adopt…

Claim: The reason for high U.S. gas prices in 2026 wasn’t the Iran war but instead California Gov. Gavin Newsom forcing four California refineries to close. Rating: What’s True Two California refineries, not four, recently shut down, including Phillips 66’s Los Angeles Refinery in October 2025 and Valero’s Benicia refinery in April 2026. Valero’s leadership cited state regulations as part of the reason the company closed its plant in the Bay Area. Also, California gas prices rose nearly 40 cents per gallon between January and February — prior to the start of the Iran war — with some analysts blaming…

A record £66m of emergency security funding was issued by the Home Office for mosques and related community sites in the UK when violent disorder spread in the aftermath of the Southport attacks in 2024.Exclusive figures obtained by the Guardian also reveal a record of about £41m of security funding was issued for mosques and related community sites for the year from April 2025-26 as part of the protective security scheme.The chief executive of the British Muslim Trust, the government’s partner for monitoring anti-Muslim hatred, said the figures “tell an incredibly sombre story about the rise in anti-Muslim hostility that…

Andy Burnham was not even in the audience for the prime minister’s speech at the Labour party conference this time last year. As Keir Starmer made the case for continuity to his restive party, Burnham was spotted slipping out over the bridge towards Liverpool’s Albert Dock.The Manchester mayor had been vying for the spotlight throughout the party’s annual gathering, presenting the argument for change. But even he could not have envisaged the schism that would take place in the ensuing 12 months and would put him on the main stage as prime minister at this year’s conference, beginning in Merseyside…

The US government is trying to get Elon Musk and his social media platform X out of a $137 million fine by the European Union in an escalation of its criticism of the bloc’s tech rules.The US Department of Justice said it had filed an application with the help of the Department of State to support a legal challenge by Musk to annul the case in the EU’s General Court. The Luxembourg-based court will now decide whether the US has a right to intervene.The US government is arguing that it should be involved in the case to protect American companies.…

Perplexity Research published a new post-training study. It trains a model inside Perplexity Computer on real user sessions, including failed ones. The method pairs rejection sampling fine-tuning with hint-guided self-distillation. In a live A/B test, tool-call failures fell from 2.24% to 1.77% between 2 trained checkpoints. Perplexity team reports this as a statistically significant 21.2% relative reduction. Is it deployable? Not directly. Perplexity has not released the post-trained weights or training code. The model runs only as a model option inside Perplexity Computer. The base model, GLM 5.2, is openly available on Hugging Face. Why Outcome-Only Filtering Falls Short Standard…