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A Chinese-speaking threat actor has been exploiting vulnerabilities in ZyXEL GS1900 Smart Managed Switches and WordPress to steal sensitive data from 996 devices and more than 18,500 records stored in backend databases. The adversary targeted multiple technologies, including PAN-OS Global Protect, FlowiseAI, Nuclio, Proxmox, Ubiquity, with exploits for known security issues. Scans and attacks attributed to the adversary originate from the same IP address and have been recorded since early June 2026, and have been attributed to a threat actor related to the Red Heron group, linked to exploiting a critical flaw in the Gitea self-hosted Git service. The activity…

Crypto lender Arch Lending plans to expand into loans backed by tokenized equities as the market for onchain stocks expands and lenders begin exploring new uses for the assets as collateral.Arch co-founder and chief revenue officer Himanshu Sahay told Cointelegraph’s Chain Reaction podcast that the lender plans to enter the market “pretty soon,” pointing to a need for credit against tokenized stocks.Sahay said tokenized equities have grown rapidly over the past year, but lending against the assets remains limited, and predicted that more lenders will enter the market.He pointed to tokenized equities issued by firms including Superstate, Robinhood and Securitize, predicting…

A single-celled blob living in a California hot spring has smashed a heat tolerance record for an entire domain of life. The newly described “fire amoeba” can grow at 63° Celsius (145° Fahrenheit), a temperature that’s fatal to all other known eukaryotes, researchers report September 22 in Cell. Eukaryotes include all life-forms with nuclei and organelles, such as plants, fungi and animals. Little was known about the genetic adaptations of microbial eukaryotes that live in extreme environments. From 2023 to 2025, microbiologist Beryl Rappaport and her colleagues brought water samples from geothermal hot springs in California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park…

A $20 billion data center campus announced in July near Rincon, Georgia, is now facing its second lawsuit from Effingham County residents and environmental advocates. OpenAI, best known for creating ChatGPT, is planning a massive campus that would include about 4.4 million square feet of data-center space 30 miles northwest of Savannah. The project, known as Project Camellia, is expected to require up to 3.2 gigawatts of electricity and to be built in phases beginning in 2028. The project has received key approvals from the Effingham County Industrial Development Authority and the county Board of Commissioners, although the county has…

PTTEP Energy Development Company, a subsidiary of PTT Exploration and Production Public Company (PTTEP), and Canada-headquartered Valeura Energy have taken a final investment decision (FID) to move forward with an initial gas development at an offshore natural gas field in Block G3/65, located in the Gulf of Thailand. Illustration; Source: PTTEP With the final investment decision for the Bussabong gas field in the G3/65 project now out of the way, the development is expected to take approximately two years; thus, first natural gas production is targeted for 2028 at a rate of around 30 million standard cubic feet per day…

Claim: A Facebook graphic authentically showed that the price of some household goods and utilities rose more during U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration than during President Donald Trump’s second term. Rating: Context The graphic presented an unfair comparison of changes to the inflation rate for 12 household goods and utilities during the Biden and second Trump administrations. The graphic’s comparison wasn’t accurate because it compared Biden’s full 48-month term to only 20 months of Trump’s. Additionally, Snopes could not replicate the figures the graphic presented using the database it listed as a source. In September 2026, a Facebook graphic (archived)…

Settlement is largest of its kind in any US city and is set to affect 260,000 delivery drivers.New York City has finalised a more than $131m settlement with DoorDash amid allegations that the delivery company underpaid its workers.The administration of Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the settlement on Tuesday. It marked the largest settlement for delivery workers in any city in the United States, set to affect 260,000 workers. Of the total, $115m will go directly to the workers, while $16m will go towards civil penalties and other costs.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listA nearly 70-page consent order, provided…

EU governments, including France, are lobbying the Irish presidency of the Council of the EU — which is steering the budget talks — to reflect their positions in a new budget negotiating document, known as a negobox, that is expected to be unveiled in early October.  Several capitals have signaled that savings to the Global Europe Fund — a €200 billion pot governing the bloc’s support to foreign countries — are preferable to cuts to domestic policies, such as agriculture, defense and regional payments. The European Commission has internally simulated the impact of slashing its development aid budget by as much as 40% in…

How do you deal with a problem like The Donald? The simple answer is that you don’t. You can’t. The normal rules of political engagement don’t apply. The US president is like a five-year-old child with the world as his set of toys: a King Baby.Nothing is ever constant or predictable. What’s agreed one day can be forgotten the next. Any deal can be interrupted with a temper tantrum at any time. Trying to second-guess Donald Trump is a fool’s errand.So the primary aim of Andy Burnham’s first face-to-face meeting with Trump was to get out alive with his –…

Donald Trump has asserted his relationship with the UK is “more up” with Andy Burnham than under Keir Starmer despite tensions between the two countries on a range of thorny issues including regulation of artificial intelligence, the Chagos islands and the war in Iran.At their first face-to-face meeting, the US president praised Burnham, who sat nervously alongside him, as a “natural businessperson”, saying he thought he had “lots of assets on his side” and would be a “great” prime minister.Burnham, who was joined in the talks by Ed Miliband, the foreign secretary, and Jonathan Powell, his national security adviser, said…