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ZDNET’s key takeaways PwC reveals business leaders can’t agree on who is responsible for AI. AI agents may lack the identity controls that manage employees today.  Is a dedicated AI executive or leader the answer? Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption continues to surge, with agentic AI and large language models (LLMs) now integrated into everything from enterprise applications to chatbots that help you with food delivery. Also: LLMjacking can run up your business’ AI bill fast – how to stop it The benefits of AI are clear: it can streamline business operations, reduce manual workloads, serve as a research and analysis…

Microsoft announced that Windows settings backup and restore is now enabled by default on all Microsoft Entra-joined or Microsoft Entra hybrid-joined enterprise systems upgraded to Windows 11 26H2. The Windows settings backup tool (formerly known as Windows Backup for Organizations) backs up and restores enterprise users’ Windows settings after a device is reset, replaced, upgraded, or reimaged. Microsoft unveiled it two years ago at the Ignite conference in November 2024 as an opt-in feature (disabled by default), and it reached public preview in May 2025 and general availability in August 2025. As announced in July, Microsoft has enabled the Windows…

Bitcoin BTC$83,896.70 closed the third quarter up 40%, outrunning every major asset even as Treasury yields climbed to their highest in more than two decades. Investors poured billions of dollars into exchange-traded funds tied to BTC and other tokens, and several altcoins rallied even harder, leaving analysts convinced a new bull run has arrived.Yet amid the rally, one familiar stain on the industry’s image kept spreading. That’s hacks and exploits. The money lost in these incidents is small next to the billions flowing into ETFs, but the damage to crypto’s reputation is harder to wave away.Crypto suffered 247 security incidents…

NASA will offer live coverage of preparations, liftoff, and docking for the SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station. The broadcasts will be available across several NASA platforms. Viewers can find streaming options at: https://www.nasa.gov/live Crew-13 Launches Oct. 1 Crew-13 is scheduled to lift off at 11:10 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 1, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Docking with the International Space Station is targeted for about 7 p.m. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will transport four crew members: NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut…

Available for over a yearNew York state prosecutors say they will reopen a criminal inquiry into the alleged rape of a woman at Cornell University in 2024. The woman, referred to in court documents as Jane Doe, alleges in her lawsuit that seven men from Cornell’s Chi Phi fraternity chapter assaulted her in an incident involving alcohol and the drug ketamine. The case was investigated by university police but will now go before a grand jury. The case has been discussed widely online, with many including actress Florence Pugh reacting with fury over the reported disciplinary actions taken by the…

PLYMOUTH, N.C.—Fall had just arrived when a nor’easter began stewing in the Atlantic Ocean, its gale-force winds carrying the pungent smell of chlorine westward, away from downtown. Against the backdrop of dingy stratus clouds, the Domtar pulp mill loomed. The plant occupies 2,400 acres at the confluence of Welch Creek and the Roanoke River, where logs are turned into absorbent materials used in diapers and other paper hygiene products. But those goods come at an environmental cost.  For 50 years, Domtar’s predecessor, Weyerhaeuser, discharged toxic dioxins, furans and mercury—byproducts of the bleaching process—into the Roanoke River. Scientists have found dioxins…

UN general assembly meetings are not usually riveting occasions. But this year’s encapsulated a world in flux and crisis, an international law and organisation structure that is falling apart, and a humanitarian order machine running hot. What unfolded was less a gathering for resolution and resolve than a display of showboating, frustration and fractiousness.It was a snapshot for the history books of four huge destabilising conflicts for which there seems to be no means of, or interest in, resolution – Ukraine, Iran, Palestine and Sudan. Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered an account of five years of Russian aggression: the staggering loss of…

Two doses of a lethal injection drug have failed to kill Christa Gail Pike, a 50-year-old woman who was due to be executed on Wednesday. Pike was taken to hospital after it was found that her heart was still beating following the procedure.Pike would have been the first woman in more than 200 years to be put to death in Tennessee and was the only woman on the state’s death row. Her attempted execution with doses of the sedative pentobarbital went ahead despite a last-minute stay by a federal appeals court on Wednesday, which was overturned just an hour before…

When DoorDash set out to build a drone delivery business, it started with the tricky logistics that happen on the ground before it looked up. The autonomous drone came last, according to the company, which unveiled its new six-propeller aircraft at its annual Dash Forward 2026 event on Wednesday. Before DoorDash worked on the aircraft, the company focused on ground infrastructure, including loading systems, how food would be handed off from a restaurant’s kitchen, and packaging. DoorDash Labs, the R&D team that built its autonomous sidewalk delivery bot Dot, created the drone delivery service now called DoorDash Air. The same…

PRESS RELEASESan Francisco, CA, Sept. 29, 2026 – Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced its intent to become a public Certificate Authority (CA), an open service that issues the digital certificates websites need to encrypt traffic and prove their identity to visitors. The new CA will support both traditional encryption and next-generation post-quantum Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs), giving every website a path to stay protected as computing power advances—with no new tools or rebuilds required. Additionally, Cloudflare has agreed to acquire established, publicly trusted Root CA key material from GlobalSign, which will provide ubiquity across…