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[Update 09:15 UTC, Sept. 23: This article was updated with comments from SlowMist on how FomoPeek operated, what its researchers verified and its advice for people who installed affected versions.]A malicious iOS app distributed through Apple’s App Store has been linked to nearly $580,000 in stolen crypto after researchers found it contained multiple kernel exploits capable of escaping Apple’s sandbox and accessing sensitive wallet data.According to an investigation published by blockchain security firm SlowMist, the app, called FomoPeek, introduced two malicious modules that could exploit iOS vulnerabilities, gain elevated privileges and access Keychain data and files belonging to other apps. SlowMist…

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have developed an experimental drug called CS18 that may help cancer treatments work against tumors that have become resistant to therapy. The study, published in Science Advances, provides early evidence supporting further investigation of CS18 as a possible future cancer treatment. “Therapeutic resistance is a main obstacle to achieve effective and durable cancer treatments,” said corresponding author Dr. Weei-Chin Lin, professor of medicine – hematology and oncology and of molecular and cellular biology at Baylor. “While some therapies are effective at the beginning, many patients eventually relapse because cancer cells can activate compensatory and…

In February 2023, George Garrow jumped in his car and hurried to help people impacted by a freight train that had derailed in East Palestine, Ohio.  The crash happened about a quarter-mile west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania state line and sent plumes of toxic smoke and hazardous chemicals into the air above the small town. A medical doctor by training, Garrow was on his way there when it dawned on him that he was in over his head. “I realized I don’t know the first thing about what we were supposed to do to care for someone who may be exposed…

Armed men open fire at a house party in a Durban township, killing a pregnant woman and 10 others.Published On 23 Sep 202623 Sep 2026At least 11 people, including a pregnant woman, have been killed after armed men stormed a house in a township in the South African city of Durban.The attack took place late on Tuesday, according to Thamsanqa Ntuli, the premier of KwaZulu-Natal province, of which Durban is the main city. Assailants entered the home shortly before 11pm (21:00 GMT) while the victims were gathered at a house party.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listTwo people survived…

Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, this year joined by the 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 too. The company describes both new phone chips as flagships, and the spec differences are relatively minor, mostly limited to improved AI processing, video capture, and gaming performance on the Extreme model.Both Gen 6 chips are built on a 2nm process, and share much in common, including their modems, display specs, security features, GPS, and memory and storage support. Qualcomm no longer publishes detailed breakdowns of the cores across its silicon, but the CPU details given are identical, with two big…

Nokia’s applied research team has open-sourced AnyJev, a Python library that turns an open LLM into a decision model. It needs no training. It targets a common production job: picking one answer from a fixed set instead of writing a sentence. Is it deployable? Yes, it installs from PyPI, ships under Apache-2.0, and has transformers and vLLM backends with shared-prefix scoring. What is AnyJev? AnyJev borrows its interface from Jev. Jev is the System One decision model that TypeSafe AI launched in September 2026 (our coverage). You give AnyJev a typed question and get back a decision with a probability…

An Armenian man was sentenced to 24 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release for hacking U.S. companies and encrypting their systems in Ryuk ransomware attacks. 35-year-old Karen Serobovich Vardanyan (also known online as “Maneeken” or “Karl Lagerfeld”), who specialized in gaining initial access to corporate networks, pleaded guilty in July after being extradited from Kyiv, Ukraine, following his April 2025 arrest. According to court documents, Vardanyan hacked into the networks of multiple U.S. organizations in Ryuk ransomware attacks between March 2019 and approximately June 2020. In one of these attacks, Vardanyan and his accomplices breached a Michigan…

In brief Bitcoin traded near $86,559 Tuesday, up 12.2% over the past week, after clearing the resistance band that had capped it since early September. The Crypto Fear & Greed Index sits at 79, deep in “Greed.” The Nasdaq Composite touched a fresh intraday record as chipmakers extended a multi-day winning streak. Bitcoin punched through $86,500 on Tuesday, holding just above the ceiling that had capped its rally through most of September. The move puts total crypto market capitalization above $3 trillion, with the Crypto Fear & Greed Index reading 79—solidly in “greed” territory—and the Altcoin Season Index at 49,…

Snow drought and unusually warm conditions across the Colorado Basin in 2026 sharply reduced water flowing into major reservoirs across the U.S. West. By summer, the effects of the weak 2025-2026 mountain snowpack in the Upper Colorado Basin had reached Lake Powell. With far less snowmelt than usual feeding the Colorado River, inflows dwindled, and the second-largest reservoir in the United States fell to record-low levels in late August and early September. Lake Powell Falls Below Its Previous Record Satellite images captured the dramatic change in Lake Powell near Glen Canyon Dam. The images were collected by the OLI (Operational…

The UK will grow by less than expected next year amid the ongoing US-Israel war in Iran, an international agency has said. It is one of many countries whose economic prospects are facing a hit due to the prolonged conflict, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said. The downgrade to the UK’s economic growth outlook is moderate, according to the OECD, which predicted it will grow by 1% in 2027, against an earlier forecast of 1.1%. The agency also upgraded the UK’s growth outlook for 2026, from an expected 0.9% to 1.1% for the year. The prediction comes…