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Ravie LakshmananSep 25, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on Thursday, added two critical security flaws impacting WSO2 and Adobe Commerce and Magento to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-5430 (CVS score: 9.8) – A path traversal vulnerability in WSO2 API Control Plane, API Manager, Traffic Manager and Universal Gateway that could allow unrestricted file upload and lead to remote code execution. CVE-2026-71362 (CVSS score: 9.1) – An incorrect authorization vulnerability in Adobe Commerce and Magento that could allow an attacker…

Is a $1 million Bitcoin price target thinking too small? Jeff Booth thinks so, and he explains why valuing Bitcoin in dollars means pricing it from a game that’s rigged by debasement. He argues that Bitcoin isn’t just a coin or an asset, but the beginning of a decentralized, secure, and private protocol stack that will look a lot like the internet. In his view, Bitcoin is evidence of the first free market that has ever existed. Chapters:0:00 Jeff Booth, The Price of Tomorrow & Technological Deflation0:30 AI Valuations & Why Free Markets Push AI Prices Toward Zero1:29 AI Deflation…

Astronomers are finding that the first generations of galaxies do not always behave the way existing models predict. One possible reason is that their most massive stars may have evolved very differently from massive stars in the modern Milky Way. A new survey led by the University of Utah is using the Hubble Space Telescope to investigate those differences. The project, known as the Treasury of Extremely Metal-Poor O Stars (TEMPOS), relies on ultraviolet (UV) measurements from Hubble’s Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) to examine massive stars in nearby galaxies that resemble the environments found in the early universe. The unusually…

Sagal Abdi-Wali does not want to be the prime minister. She doesn’t even want to lead her party. Labour’s candidate for Holborn and St Pancras laughs and shakes her head with unusual vigour when asked if she would like to follow in the footsteps of the last member of parliament for the constituency, Keir Starmer.“No, no, no, no, that’s not at all, in any way, what I’m trying to do,” she says during a break in campaigning in the Primrose Hill cafe in Regent’s Park. “I’m literally trying to get through the next few weeks and trying to be the…

A Swiss security strategy released earlier this month warns of a “drastically deteriorated” security landscape and calls for the procurement of long-range missiles and drones.  Since 2025, Bern has participated in selected projects under the EU’s Permanent Structured Cooperation defense framework, or PESCO. Switzerland has also intensified its long-standing partnership with NATO with closer political dialogue and efforts to improve the Swiss military’s ability to operate alongside allied forces, including in areas such as air power, communications, space and resilience. However, Switzerland remains outside the alliance. Supporters of the neutrality initiative argue that this shift has already gone too far…

As certainly as the moon pulls on the tides, Labour governments improve the lives of the poorest children. Just as surely, Conservative governments pull back and reverse the good done. Here we go again: despite the social devastation caused by George Osborne’s cuts last time, Kemi Badenoch announces that she wants to impose cuts to universal credit for the poorest if she gets the chance.She doesn’t do subtle, none of Iain Duncan Smith’s cruel-to-be-kind routine, but goes straight for populist rabble-rousing, stirring up fact-free contempt for anyone on benefits, with a proposed ban on buying cigarettes and alcohol, or gambling,…

As Jensen Huang puts it, AI can help fight climate change — but only if it inflicts “an enormous amount of pain and suffering” first.The Nvidia CEO discussed the future of energy and AI’s impact on our planet in the latest episode of The Ezra Klein Show. But his comments boil down to the same accelerationist spin we’ve seen from a variety of tech leaders as well as President Donald Trump. They promise that AI will be such a gift to humanity that it’s worth the damage caused by data centers currently running on dirty energy.Huang’s extreme level of privilege…

Threat actors have been exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in Roundcube, the popular open source webmail client, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security warns. Tracked as CVE-2026-48842 (CVSS score of 8.1), the security defect is described as an SQL injection in the virtuser_query plugin that can be exploited without authentication. The plugin resolves email addresses to mailbox usernames and uses the preg_replace() filter with backslash escaping to neutralize injection attempts. CVE-2026-48842, however, allows attackers to bypass the protection by using crafted queries containing backslash sequences that defeat the plugin’s regular-expression escaping mechanism. The attacker’s malicious input invokes the virtuser_query plugin to…

Outgoing Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner Hester Peirce has said that regulators should rethink how they monitor the financial system, and to press for less personal data collection, not more.  In a speech Wednesday focusing on digital identity systems and decentralized networks, Peirce took aim at know-your-customer and anti-money-laundering rules. U.S. regulators are now racing ahead with crypto rulemaking. Peirce, who earned the nickname “crypto mom” for her friendly approach to watchdogging the space, is set to leave the SEC in November.  “Today society is at a crossroads,” Peirce said at the SIFMA’s Digital Assets Conference in New York.  “Down…

A molecular geneticist at Montana State University has uncovered a previously unknown survival mechanism that allows mammalian cells to produce the amino acid cysteine even when the cellular systems normally responsible for supplying it stop working. Scientists once thought this kind of survival was impossible. The finding, published in Nature Chemical Biology, could eventually point researchers toward new ways to make some cancers more vulnerable to treatment. “All cells need a constant supply of an amino acid called cysteine in order to stay alive,” said the paper’s lead author Ed Schmidt, a professor of genetics and development in the Department…