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Artificial intelligence (AI) could trigger financial market shocks and the UK needs to be prepared for them, the governor of the Bank of England has warned.Andrew Bailey said the central bank is watching the huge amounts of money being invested in AI “very carefully” and cautioned that “not everybody always wins”.The money that has been spent on and loaned to AI firms over the last few years in the hope of large returns is causing markets to value some of them as multi-trillion dollar businesses.Asked if he believed an AI bubble could burst, Bailey said: “You could see some correction…

The Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) says that the breach of its network was possible by exploiting a chain of two zero-day vulnerabilities in the open-source Zammad ticketing system. Previously, the nonprofit organization of volunteer security researchers said the attack was “loud and very, very messy,” driven by an AI agent that moved autonomously and decided its next steps without external intervention or direction. DIVD retrieved extensive details about the attack because the AI agent left behind clear explanations of its decisions, allowing the organization to reconstruct the incident. According to the cybersecurity nonprofit, the two flaws, now identified…

Researchers have proposed a way to make Bitcoin private without changing Bitcoin itself. Misha Komarov, co-founder of alloc/init, explains Shielded Bitcoin: zero-knowledge proofs that hide the sender, receiver, and amount of a Bitcoin transfer, with no soft fork, no custodians, and no bridges. He covers how Bitcoin PIPEs make it possible and what the proposal still needs. It is a research proposal, not a finished product. Chapters:0:00 Shielded Bitcoin: Private Bitcoin Transactions With Zero-Knowledge Proofs0:38 How Bitcoin PIPEs Make Privacy Possible Without a Soft Fork1:42 Do Indexers and ZK Rollups Require Trust?3:16 Shielded Bitcoin vs. Monero and Zcash4:21 What Privacy…

For many in Latvia, the Baltic nation of just over 1.8 million people, the dangers of Russia’s war in Ukraine are increasingly real. In the sky, the country has had to cope with Ukrainian drones pushed off course by Russian electronic warfare. After two such drones struck Latvia in May, the country’s prime minister resigned. In June, Ukraine agreed to send anti-drone specialists to Latvia to help with drone defense, but in the meantime, Latvia must rely on rushing jets into the sky to shoot the errant drones down. Russia, meanwhile, is showing a rising appetite for sabotage targeting Ukraine’s…

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a conservative, granted Wednesday evening’s application to vacate the stay of the execution. No explanation was provided in the order.The top court’s three liberal justices – Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson – dissented.Sotomayor wrote that the decision cleared the way for Tennessee to execute Pike before her pending legal challenges to her conviction “can be properly considered”.”Tennessee’s desire to expedite Pike’s execution by a few days or even weeks cannot outweigh her ‘fundamental interest in [her] own life,” she said.The latest Supreme Court ruling landed just before 18:00 local time. The state’s…

Recent research highlights how a small group of large commercial owners, acting through fishing industry associations, has opposed stronger seabed protection in Brussels by questioning the science and warning of socio-economic disruption. Yet real-world evidence shows that well-enforced PAAs, where bottom trawling is prohibited, strengthen the resilience of small-scale fleets, accelerate fish stock recovery and protect coastal livelihoods. Ghana may not offer Europe a ready-made blueprint for preferential access, but the country’s experience demonstrates that governments can make significant policy changes when the voices of affected communities, evidence and objective political leadership come together. A decade on the frontlines —…

ZDNET’s key takeaways Bose announced a new pair of wired USB-C earbuds. They support ANC and 24-bit/48kHz audio streaming. They’ll be available beginning Oct. 15 for $99 Shortly after announcing new wireless, clip-on-style open-ear earbuds, Bose aims to appease a different kind of fan by introducing a new product category: wired USB-C earbuds. The Bose Noise Canceling Earbuds are one such hybrid digital/analog pair, fitted with Bose’s famed sound quality and noise cancellation without the hassle of wireless connectivity and frequent charging. Wired audio with ANC The Bose Noise Canceling earbuds feature Bose’s Quiet, Aware, and ANC-Off modes, allowing users…

Ravie LakshmananSep 30, 2026Endpoint Security / Social Engineering Microsoft has warned of phishing campaigns distributing an installer for the MSP360 Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software under the guise of meeting invitations, PDF-themed lures, software update prompts, and other social-engineering content. “Once executed, the legitimate MSP360 installer, distributed under a deceptive file name established remote management access on affected devices and enabled threat actors to gain an initial foothold using trusted administrative software,” the Microsoft Security Research team said. The initial foothold is then used to download and install a ConnectWise ScreenConnect client, offering threat actors a redundant remote-access channel…

In brief An internal FBI memo reportedly told employees to assume the hacker group ShinyHunters stole personal data on every staffer after a breach of FBIjobs.gov. The group claims 2 to 3 terabytes of data on agents, job applicants, and some spouses; the FBI says it is investigating and has not confirmed the scale. FBI Cyber Division chief Brett Leatherman addressed the hackers on Sept. 29, pointing to a Dutch arrest, as the one-week window the group set for a retraction ended. The FBI has told its own employees to assume hackers stole their personal information, according to an internal…

Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 18, 2026 Curiosity surprised us at the beginning of the week with a change in rock texture — instead of the finely layered bedrock blocks we’ve been seeing in our recent sulfate unit workspaces, suddenly we were looking at blocks covered (and likely filled) with a jumble of small disc-shaped lumps. We’ve seen somewhat similar features before much earlier in the mission — for example, close to the Pahrump Hills back in the Murray mudstones, and they’re sometimes seen in Earth rocks as well,…