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Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at a massive Board of Peace recovery plan for Gaza, Iran defying U.S. threats of annihilation, and calls for global safeguards on AI development. A ‘Spectacle That Should Shame Us All’ The U.S.-led Board of Peace unveiled a $2.45 billion plan on Wednesday for the reconstruction and governance of Gaza. While acknowledging that enormous hurdles continue to stand in the way of progress, the board outlined a lightning-fast, six-month proposal that includes debris removal, temporary housing, hospital reconstruction, electricity and water restoration, and the deployment of a multinational security force. Welcome back…

Minns says OpenAI agent infiltrated NSW crime data agency BoscarAchol ArokNSW premier Chris Minns says OpenAI agents may have also accessed information held by the state’s Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (Boscar).Minns said he was first alerted to the incident after a call from the PM. double quotation markThe prime minister called me late last night in Sydney, it was early morning in New York, and he told me about this breach and his real concerns as it relates to safety and security of information held by government agencies, particularly the circumstances relating to it. Minns described the incident…

The selection process means we will not see Germany’s best starting XI this time around. Instead, Klopp clearly intends to try out new players, some of whom played in Germany’s second tier only a few months ago.Take, for example, Felix Keidel, a 23-year-old full-back-midfielder hybrid from recently promoted SV Elversberg. A year ago, Keidel was as far away from the national team as the Oktoberfest from Rio Carnival. Now Keidel – just like Mika Baur, Bambase Conte, Max Rosenfelder, Philipp Treu, and Vitaly Janelt – has the chance to show he could be a valuable cog in the machine.Klopp has…

Meta is building a dedicated hardware device for its new Muse AI agent. The product, called Muse Charm, was briefly shown off by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the end of tonight’s Meta Connect presentation. It looks almost like a chunky smartwatch without the strap — just a big screen, plus a little lanyard for carrying the device around.The Muse Charm has a fingerprint sensor on the top right corner that you can press to activate and begin speaking to the agent. There appears to be a small camera on the device as well, plus what looks like at least…

Swati KhandelwalSep 23, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security A flaw in cPanel’s CalDAV and CardDAV service lets anyone with a cPanel hosting account run code as root and take “full control of the server,” the company said on September 22. A second bug in the WP Toolkit plugin, used to install and manage WordPress sites, allows an account holder to change databases that belong to other accounts. cPanel has released fixed versions for both, along with a fix for a third flaw in the same service, which stores each account’s calendars and contacts. That third flaw lets a local user on…

Coldcard owners can publicly check whether white hats recovered coins from their wallets. Galaxy researcher Alex Thorn linked a Sept. 21 Bitcoin transaction carrying a Crypto Recovery Trust claims reference to roughly 52.37 BTC from Coldcard-related clusters.He directed owners to search their public Bitcoin addresses at the trust’s site. A match can begin an ownership claim, with any return subject to verification. The check calls for a public address, never a seed phrase or private key.Mempool’s status record confirmed the transaction in block 967,948. In his Sept. 21 tracing report, Thorn said the amount represented 2.8% of the exploit funds Galaxy…

NASA’s researchers know that when you settle into your seat on a commercial flight, you expect a smooth takeoff, views over the clouds, a steady descent, and hopefully an early arrival at your destination. But when your flight gets delayed on the tarmac instead of lifting off, or it ends up in a holding pattern rather than landing on time, things start to change. Your experience goes from smooth to anxiety-inducing as you worry about making your connection or getting home in time for dinner. Large airports are among the busiest, most complex environments in aviation, with aircraft, ground crews,…

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar leads the delegation to the United Nations General Assembly for the second year in a row, three sisters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan are arrested ahead of nationwide protests, and Bangladesh and India plan to resume cross-border train service. What’s on India’s Agenda at UNGA? With all that is on the agenda at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) here in New York—the wars in Iran and Ukraine, energy security, and climate change, to name a few—it’s not a surprise that…

As Democrats release a flurry of midterm ads portraying GOP cuts to Medicaid as a threat to rural healthcare, Republicans have countered with ads claiming Democratic candidates in Texas and Pennsylvania would put dozens of rural hospitals out of business by creating a public health insurance option. But the ads cite an industry-backed study whose assumptions don’t apply to all public option proposals.  In Texas, according to ad-tracking service AdImpact, President Donald Trump’s political operation has spent more than $6.9 million on an ad claiming James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for Senate, “supports a radical healthcare plan” that “could close…

An artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI “infiltrated” an Australian government website in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said.The agent hacked a statistics portal containing “non-sensitive” data from Australia’s universal healthcare scheme Medicare, Albanese said in New York on Wednesday, local time.He had a “very frank discussion” with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for taking “too long” to tell them about the breach, believed to be one of the world’s first publicly reported AI-led hacks of a government website.OpenAI said it only became aware of the incident in August “during an ongoing review” of “misaligned model activity”, and told Australian…