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Reading Time: 4 minutes On Aug. 28, Milwaukee County Judge David Borowski, during a hearing for a defendant charged with triple homicide, learned the defendant had used a county jail-issued tablet to discuss threatening witnesses.  Borowski revoked the defendant’s tablet access and ordered him confined to his cell around the clock. The judge also pointed to two other recent instances in which tablets and laptops had been used in ways detrimental to personal and public safety. “Why is the sheriff’s department handing laptops or iPads to defendants?” Borowski asked. The comments soon went viral, picked up by candidates, public relations…

Man United have won only one league game this season, leaving Michael Carrick under pressure ahead of Fulham trip.Published On 19 Sep 202619 Sep 2026Who: Fulham vs Manchester UnitedWhat: English Premier LeagueWhere: Craven Cottage, London in United KingdomWhen: Sunday, September 20, at 4:30pm (15:30 GMT)How to follow: Al Jazeera Sport will have all the build-up to our live text commentary stream from 12:30 GMT.One month into the new ‌Premier League season, excuses about bedding-in processes and newly assembled squads needing time to gel are wearing thin and for Manchester United ⁠there is an acute sense ⁠of urgency as the international…

This story originally appeared on Capital B and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.As a child in the 1950s and ’60s, Regina Martin became so used to the oil pumpjacks near her home that she assumed every child lived beside them. Everyone was made “sick to [their] tummy” by the sulfurous, rotten-egg smell that never seemed to leave, she thought.Only until she was grown did she begin to see a possible connection between growing up on top of the nation’s largest urban oil drilling field and her own sickness and the asthma that affected her sister.For over a century…

Identity visibility is a starting point for modern identity security, because stolen and misused credentials are among the most frequently reported initial access vectors in breach research, including Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report. This article explains what identity visibility means in IAM, why cloud and multicloud environments complicate it, which capabilities matter in identity visibility tools, and how to build a practical program. What is identity visibility? Identity visibility is the ability to see every identity in an environment, what it can access, and how that access is actually used at runtime. It combines inventory, entitlement mapping, and behavioral…

Kalshi has filed to offer perpetual futures tied to individual US stocks, joining Coinbase in a push to bring crypto-style derivatives to traditional equity markets.The prediction market filed the proposed rule change with the Securities and Exchange Commission and submitted it to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for approval on Friday. The CFTC has yet to approve the proposal.The proposed contracts would have no preset expiration date and would use periodic funding payments between long and short positions to keep their prices aligned with the underlying stocks. Kalshi said the contracts would be treated as security futures products and…

“The officer asked me to hand over my badge. He said that it was disabled,” MS NOW reporter Akayla Gardner said. “I asked why I was not able to get inside. He said it was above him.”Gardner added that while her and her colleague’s badges were disabled, an MS NOW producer was still able to scan her badge to get in, though she was not given an explanation as to why the producer’s badge still worked.CNN reporter Betsy Klein said a Secret Service agent told her her badge had been deactivated.Later on Saturday morning, Politico said its reporter Cheyenne Haslett…

A large plume of black smoke was seen near Riyadh’s main airport on Saturday after an overnight air raid alert, amid an escalating conflict between Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels. Reuters footage showed black smoke rising and flames near Riyadh’s King Khalid airport, while residents told AFP they heard explosions before Saudi’s civil defense issued an all-clear on Saturday morning.Flight-tracking website FlightRadar24 rated the airport at Level 5 on its disruption index, indicating a very high likelihood of delays or cancellations. Saudi authorities have not commented on the reported incident. The Saudi ministry of defense and Riyadh’s airport authorities…

In May, Gemini broke containment and hacked three different companies, but Google didn’t disclose the incident until the Wall Street Journal approached the company. The hacks happened during a test of the model’s cybersecurity capabilities run by third-party Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents involving Meta and OpenAI.According to WSJ, Google didn’t disclose the hack because it didn’t consider it to be an “example of model misalignment.” The company said that it was an instance of “mistaken identity,” and once the model realized it had brute-forced its way into a real company by guessing a password, it stopped.…

Cybersecurity firms Check Point, Kaspersky, and Tanium have each patched severe vulnerabilities in their products, including ones that can be exploited for remote code execution.  Check Point has informed customers about a critical vulnerability affecting Security Management and Log Server products. The flaw, CVE-2026-91843, can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker “to remotely execute arbitrary code with root privileges through the login process.” Threat actors appear to have set their sights on vulnerabilities in Check Point products in recent months, including zero-days. However, for CVE-2026-91843 the vendor noted that there is no evidence of in-the-wild exploitation. Nevertheless, it has shared…

In brief The Senate failed to advance the Clarity Act in a 49-50 vote, with Democrats voting as a bloc and three Republicans joining them; the breakdown sparked finger-pointing, though seven negotiating Democrats called it “a setback, but not the end.” With industry fatigue mounting, attention has shifted from Congress to regulators, with figures like the Solana Policy Institute’s Kristin Smith calling agency guidance “the more viable path forward right now.” Both agencies are moving: SEC Chair Paul Atkins tied a new tokenized-stock innovation exemption to the bill’s failure, while the CFTC issued no-action relief and sent a broader crypto…