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Fomopeek, a malicious iPhone app distributed through Apple’s App Store, has been linked to nearly $580,000 in stolen USDT.Blockchain security firm SlowMist began investigating the app over the weekend after receiving reports of stolen assets linked to exposed private keys.Some victims had previously installed versions 1.1 or 1.2 of the Fomopeek app, which was marketed as a read-only tool for tracking large cryptocurrency transactions across Ethereum, Solana and Tron.What is Fomopeek?Working with security researchers at crypto exchange OKX, SlowMist found two modules embedded in those versions that had no connection to FomoPeek’s advertised monitoring functions.One communicated with external command-and-control infrastructure,…

Tiny flying robots may one day help rescuers search for people trapped beneath collapsed buildings after earthquakes. Because of their small size, these robotic insects could potentially move through narrow spaces that larger drones cannot enter while avoiding walls, debris, and falling objects. Until recently, however, aerial microrobots have been far less nimble than the insects that inspired them. They typically moved slowly and followed relatively simple flight paths. Researchers at MIT have now demonstrated a new approach that gives an insect-scale flying robot much greater speed and agility. The team developed an AI-based controller that allows the robotic bug…

The U.S. state of California has returned 55 hectares (136 acres) of Northern California coastline, including Blues Beach and the village site of K’etim, to three Coastal Yuki tribes.It is the first land Caltrans, the state transportation department, has ever returned to Indigenous ownership.Tribes first asked for the site in 2005, after learning looters were digging into archaeological sites and uncovering ancestral remains.The tribe hopes to use the land for education and gatherings, but the beach will remain open to the public.See All Key Ideas On the Northern California coast, where the tall trees meet the sea, ancestors…

What happens when a major development project comes to a rural community and residents feel they aren’t being heard?That’s the question at the center of our first Rooted Coffee Chat.Andy and Tammy Orem help run Orem Family Farm, a fifth-generation farm in Shelby County, Indiana. Their family has farmed regeneratively for about 25 years, raising grass-finished Angus cattle, pastured pigs and chickens, eggs and honey.Their main farm is about 10 miles from the proposed data center site. But farmland owned by Tammy’s family is adjacent to the land where the project is planned. On Oct. 7 at 10 a.m. CT…

Your report (One in five black, Asian and minority ethnic NHS managers in England plan to quit amid racism, report finds, 15 September) rightly highlights racism, exclusion and blocked career progression in the NHS. But it also points to a wider risk: patient safety. Care mistakes already cost the NHS £14.7bn a year.A March 2025 report by the NHS Race & Health Observatory notes that Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) staff, who make up more than 40% of the medical and dental workforce, still face harassment and discrimination in promotion, everyday work and disciplinary processes. This fuels stress, burnout…

Garces Perez’s immigration lawyer, Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, has filed a federal lawsuit for a temporary restraining order to prevent his removal from the country. Since the judge ordered that her client appear in person on 30 September, he cannot be deported before then, she said.”For now, we have secured a temporary block on his deportation while his case moves forward,” Lincoln-Goldfinch wrote on social media.”This is an important step, but our work is not over,” she wrote. “Wilber still needs appropriate medical care, and we will continue fighting to protect his rights.”The gunshot fractured his clavicle and he is wearing a…

England’s mayors should face much greater official scrutiny to avoid Andy Burnham’s devolution agenda being “derailed by one bad decision”, a thinktank has said.Ministers will set out plans next month to give regional leaders control over potentially billions of pounds of additional funding under a “transformational” shift of power outside Whitehall.From 2028, mayors will be able to keep a share of income tax generated in their areas – giving them greater scope to borrow for major infrastructure projects – as well as retain business rates from 2027 and raise further funds through a “tourist tax”.IPPR North, whose researchers have worked…

On November 4, TechCrunch’s Founder Summit will bring a vital one-day crash course on startup building to Boston’s SoWa Power Station. Founders shouldn’t have to learn the hardest lessons the hardest way, and this event is designed to make the challenges of starting a company easier and the highs that much greater. Instead of months of trial and error, you get direct access to the investors and founders who’ve already made the calls you’re now facing. We’re talking everything from fundraising and hiring to AI strategy, and topping your category. Don’t take our word for it. Explore the full agenda…

Swati KhandelwalSep 22, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security WordPress has fixed a critical flaw in its core software that lets an attacker with no account make a site load a PHP file from outside its theme folders. On some servers, that can go further, allowing the attacker to run their own code. The fix shipped on September 22 in WordPress 7.1.2, with fixes for every branch the project still supports, back to 4.7, and WordPress is telling site owners to update now. WordPress rates the flaw as critical, assigns it a CVSS score of 9.2, and assigns it CVE-2026-87902. Reaching it…

In brief Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek, and Moonshot are all set to address the UN Security Council on AI risks Wednesday. The briefing follows Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to slow AI development while urging continued U.S. chip export restrictions on China. The meeting lands two days before President Trump’s September 24 summit with Xi Jinping. The UN Security Council will spend Wednesday afternoon listening to the people who build the technology it’s most worried about.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, AI safety researcher Yoshua Bengio, and Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue are all scheduled to brief the 15-member…