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The accountability and authority asymmetry In most enterprises, the executive responsible for the availability of a business service — the head of payments, the head of trading, the plant manager, the head of clinical systems — does not have the authority to prevent that service from being taken offline during an incident. The SOC has the authority. The business owner has the accountability. These are different people, often in different reporting lines, and the asymmetry only becomes visible when something is actually shut down. NIST’s SP 800-61 Revision 3, finalized in April 2025 by Amy Nelson, Shanée Rekhi, Murugiah Souppaya…

In brief A searchable database built from New York City’s public property records has sparked backlash. Crypto executives say organizing public records into a searchable tool increases security risks. Critics point to a rise in violent attacks targeting cryptocurrency holders. A searchable database built from New York City’s public property assessment records is drawing backlash from prominent figures in the crypto industry, who argue that making the information easier to search effectively creates a directory of wealthy property owners and could expose them to physical danger.The controversy centers on data published by the New York City Department of Finance, which…

Jupiter and Saturn are the two largest planets in the Solar System, and both are surrounded by enormous families of moons. Jupiter currently has more than 100 reported moons, while Saturn, which is also encircled by an extensive ring system, has more than 280. The makeup of those moon systems is very different. Jupiter has four especially large moons, including Ganymede, the biggest moon in the Solar System. Saturn, by comparison, is dominated by Titan, the Solar System’s second largest moon. A Longstanding Moon Formation Mystery Because Jupiter and Saturn are both gas giants, astronomers have struggled to explain why…

Archaeologists believe the Upton Lovell Shaman, who lived in what is now Wiltshire 4,000 years ago, was an important religious leader and metalworker because of the artefacts and tools buried with the body. Until very recently it was also believed, on considerably slimmer evidence, that this shaman was a man: it was simply assumed that someone of such status must be male, and the view was barely questioned over the years. Now ancient DNA analysis performed at the Francis Crick Institute has revealed that the body, held by the Wiltshire Museum, is in fact a woman.That should cause a stir in bronze-age…

PM salutes ‘giants of the labour movement’Dan Jervis-BardyIn a statement, the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, described Sally McManus and Michele O’Neil as personal friends and “giants of the labour movement”.He said: double quotation markWorking families are in a stronger financial position today than they would otherwise be because of the tireless advocacy and strong leadership of Sally McManus and Michele O’Neil. Sally and Michele secured incredible successes for working people in their eight years together leading Australia’s union movement – the first all-female leadership team in the Australian Council of Trade Unions’ 99-year history. It is fitting that Sally and…

Reform UK have reported Green Party leader Zack Polanski to the police, after he shared an Instagram post including a photo of a man wearing a top featuring the name “Nigel” alongside an image of a guillotine.One of several images showed a man in a black t-shirt with a large guillotine below the words “We’re only making plans for Nigel”.Sharing a screenshot on X, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said: “If I was to post anything as inciteful then I would expect to be arrested, and so should Polanski.”A Green Party spokesperson said: “Once this image was brought to [Zack’s]…

Andy Burnham has appointed three new ministerial aides from Labour’s most leftwing faction, the first time members of the Socialist Campaign Group have been part of the government.The new chief whip, Anneliese Midgley, has also promised MPs that the government will beef up the role of ministerial aides – known as parliamentary private secretaries (PPSs) – who traditionally go under the radar, allowing them to do more media appearances, take on parliamentary roles and contribute more directly to policy direction.Burnham has said he wanted to end the Labour factionalism that divided the party under both Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer…

An untold number of Claude chats and Artifacts — the interactive mini apps and documents users can build inside Claude — were found publicly searchable on Google over the weekend, after Reddit users discovered that typing search operators like “site:claude.ai/share” into Google surfaced a long list of shared conversations. Some reportedly contained health records, private company documents, and the names and phone numbers of children. The issue appears to have originated from Claude’s “share chat” feature, which allows users to create links that enable anyone with the assigned URL view a conversation or project. “Anyone with the link can view,”…

Apple is being sued by three people who claim approximately $1.8 million in Bitcoin was stolen after downloading and using a fraudulent Sparrow Wallet application from the App Store. The complaint, filed on July 24 in California, alleges that Apple failed to adequately review and monitor applications distributed through the App Store while promoting the marketplace as a safe and trusted source for software. Plaintiffs James Ramirez, Christopher Ellis, and Jalen Delgado say the malicious application impersonated the legitimate Sparrow Bitcoin wallet and instructed them to enter their seed phrases. After entering those secret recovery credentials, the victims allegedly had their…

The WEMIX team said compromised ownership of a contract tied to its WEMIX$ stablecoin enabled approximately 5.23 million tokens to be minted without authorization, prompting it to suspend bridges, liquidity pools, and several services on the WEMIX3.0 network.Contract-owner breach tested WEMIX$’s 1:1 designThe WEMIX3.0 whitepaper describes WEMIX$ as 100% collateralized by USDC held in a Treasury and says its supply should remain equal to the Treasury’s USDC volume. It also says minting is accessible only through Authorized Mint Access, which is granted solely to the DIOS stability protocol.WEMIX’s preliminary incident update said the abnormal transactions began at 18:17 on July…