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There are only two days left to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass, and we’re on reason 4 of 5 why you should attend. While most tech events can give you plenty to think about, the useful ones also give you something to do differently when you get back to work. Before we dive into the next reason, secure your pass before these savings disappear after September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Bring a second guest at 50% off. Reason No. 4: Practical answers Across three days at Disrupt, happening October 13-15 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, some…

The logistics sector has become the target of a new malicious cyber campaign that distributes an Android spyware codenamed Corp MDM. According to Have I Been Squatted, the campaign uses fake Google Play pages branded as CEVA and TKW Logistics to distribute an Android Package Kit (APK) file that’s dressed up as a system service. The delivered app has the package name “com.corp.mdm” Corp MDM is a “compact surveillance implant designed to exfiltrate newly received SMS content, divert calls, and maintain a hidden foreground service,” security researcher Ben Folland said. The malware has been described as narrow by design, lacking…

Investor confidence in stablecoins is tied to the issuer’s ability to redeem them for fiat currency at any time. To ensure that, stablecoin companies keep backup funds to secure their value. They hold actual U.S. dollars at a 1:1 ratio, alongside safe investments like U.S. government debt that earns interest.Under the U.S. Genius Act law, stablecoin issuers are required to hold reserves including dollars and short-term Treasuries. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently described dollar-backed stablecoins as a tool supporting the dollar’s dominance, noting that the dollar accounts for nearly 90% of the foreign exchange transactions.With aggregate holdings approaching $200 billion,…

New research suggests that the characteristics of children and teenagers receiving attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnoses have shifted over the past decade. The study, led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the “la Caixa” Foundation, and Aarhus University, found that young people diagnosed with ADHD or ASD in Denmark now more closely resemble the broader population than those who received the same diagnoses 10 years earlier. The findings suggest that the increase in ADHD and ASD diagnoses may partly reflect changes in who is being identified and diagnosed, alongside…

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump responded to rising public concerns about artificial intelligence with a post on Truth Social. “The same people that said, ‘We’ll all be dead in twelve years because of Global Warming,’ a name since ‘reborn’ to Climate Change, because the Planet was cooling, not warming, and nobody was dead, are the people that are now saying that AI is going to kill us, that robots are going to attack us, and everything is a DISASTER,” he wrote on Truth Social. He then declared fear of AI “a hoax.” I found it notable that he injected…

U.S.-headquartered technology player SLB has added more than 450 wells to its job list in one fell swoop by locking down a four-contract quadfecta with Saudi Arabia’s energy giant Aramco. Illustration; Source: SLB SLB has secured four integrated well construction contracts with Aramco to support oil and gas development across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where it will manage end-to-end well construction services, delivering more than 450 wells during the three-year term, with an optional extension of up to two years for each. Steve Gassen, Executive Vice President of Geographies for SLB, commented: “Delivering hundreds of wells across a multi-year…

Some of the earliest outsiders to discover the Chernobyl accident were workers at a Swedish nuclear power plant, when the building’s radiation monitors went off. After checking for leaks, the workers eventually realized the radiation came from abroad. The Swedes demanded answers from their neighbor, the Soviet Union. Yet when Soviet news acknowledged the accident, it only gave a terse description. In many cases, the Soviet government attempted to downplay the disaster to the outside world. This secrecy cost European governments valuable response time. That September, countries, including the United States and Soviet Union, signed a treaty to notify affected…

Claim: A video and a screenshot from that footage authentically show the overflow crowd at a Minnesota rally for U.S. President Donald Trump in September 2026. Rating: Context The footage and the screenshot are both from a pro-Trump rally held in Minnesota in July 2024, not September 2026. In September 2026, a video and screenshots from the same footage circulated online purportedly showing supporters at a Minnesota rally for U.S. President Donald Trump that same month. Examples of the clip were posted on X and Instagram, and the screengrabs appeared on X and Facebook. The captions were similar, in one…

PRESS REVIEW – Thursday, September 24: The Spanish press express outrage after the forced eviction of an elderly woman from her Madrid residence. Unrest in the Tigray region sparks fears of a new war between rebels and Ethiopia’s central government. Australian authorities reveal that the national health insurance system Medicare was hacked by an AI agent. Finally, we look at Britain’s rudest-sounding street names! The eviction of Maricarmen, an 87-year-old pensioner, amid Spain’s housing crisis has shocked the nation. El Mundo documents the eviction of Maricarmen in photos. She lived in the upmarket Madrid neighbourhood of Retiro for 70 years until…

But despite the reprieve in what has been a steady drumbeat of bad economic news for Merz until this point, economists warned of more trouble ahead, including rapidly rising debt levels and rising political turmoil.Forecasters for Germany’s five leading economic institutes warned that domestic political developments could weaken the outlook going forward, warning the German coalition is backpedaling on needed but unpopular reforms to the healthcare and pension systems in the wake of historic AfD wins in regional elections this September.  “The economy has performed more robustly than expected,” said Oliver Holtemöller, head of economic forecasting at the Halle Institute…