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Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a Travel Rule that will require supervised crypto platforms to collect and transmit information identifying the people or entities behind coin transfers.The regulator announced the rule on Sept. 2, and an associated notification is dated Aug. 25. It takes effect Feb. 27, 2027, after a 180-day implementation period from publication in the Royal Gazette.The lead time lets operators prepare systems for exchanging transfer data, checking transactions, and requesting required information from customers, according to the SEC’s customer-facing Q&A.How crypto transfers will changeSEC-supervised digital-asset operators must collect information on customers and their counterparties when…

Ontology said its mainnet resumed normal operation on Sept. 2 after an emergency security pause and told every sync-node operator to upgrade to version 3.1.5. Sync nodes are infrastructure that keep their copy of the blockchain synchronized with the network.The restoration notice says the new software is required to maintain compatibility with the restored chain and ensure stable synchronization. Ontology told operators to upgrade as soon as possible, confirm that their nodes are fully synchronized, and verify normal operation afterward.Older software therefore carries a compatibility and synchronization risk, although the notice does not say that every unupgraded node has already…

Are you a January resolutions or a September reset person? The latter has always felt more propitious to me, light of the exhaustion of Christmas and with the weather still on our side. Last week, when the Pavlovian response to buying new stationery (for my kids) kicked in, I found myself following a rote impulse to sort my life out by replacing the bag in the vacuum cleaner and committing to an unsustainable course of personal change. This is it! The beginning of a new way of life, driven by sharp pencils and the crispness of autumn.I mean, it won’t…

Irish Foreign Minister Helen McEntee says the bloc ‘should be moving collectively’ in upholding international law.Published On 3 Sep 20263 Sep 2026European Union foreign ministers remain divided after talks on imposing trade sanctions against Israel amid increasing settler violence in the occupied West Bank.Ireland, the current holder of the EU council presidency, hosted an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Wicklow on Tuesday and Wednesday.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listReporting from Wicklow, Al Jazeera’s Peter Smith said Ireland and Spain, with the support of Belgium and the Netherlands, led the call for EU-wide restrictions against goods imported from…

What they leave behind in Gravelines is a scene of dejection and exhaustion. A limp toddler is carried past me towards a police officer, who revives him with a light shake.This all unfolds next to four or so men casting their fishing rods into the increasingly choppy waters. It is peak holiday season here. They and other dogwalkers barely glance at the crestfallen migrants wading back to the sand.Before, the gangs would often launch boats in the dead of night, but with increased police patrols, charity workers tell us the gangs now see the middle of the day as a…

Palo Alto Networks paid $500 million in cash and stock to acquire Console, a two-year-old startup that uses AI agents to automate routine IT help desk tasks, according to two people with knowledge of the deal. The companies officially announced the acquisition on Tuesday but didn’t reveal terms of the deal. Since its founding in 2024, Console has raised $29 million across two rounds: a $6.2 million seed led by Thrive Capital and a $23 million Series A co-led by DST Global and Thrive. Before the sale, Console was valued at $157 million, according to PitchBook, delivering a rapid return…

A California federal grand jury has indicted a Russian national for his role in a phishing campaign that infected thousands of freelancers with TVRAT and DarkVNC malware. 40-year-old Searzhudin Tamirlanovich Aktulaev was extradited to the United States after being arrested in Cyprus at Larnaca Airport in May 2025. According to court documents filed in June 2021 and unsealed this week, Aktulaev allegedly infected thousands of users of an unnamed freelance employment technology company from the Northern District of California by exploiting the online messaging platform in phishing attacks. Between June 2016 and November 2017, the defendant used 255 fake user…

In brief Claude accessed real systems after cyber testing environments exposed the models to the internet. Anthropic paused high-risk evaluations and added stronger isolation, monitoring, and controls for outside evaluators. Tests suggest reward hacking during training can make models more willing to take harmful actions to complete a task. Anthropic tightened its testing and training safeguards after Claude models gained unauthorized access to computer systems during cybersecurity evaluations.In a blog post on Monday, Anthropic said the incidents reflected operational-security failures and two alignment failures: motivated reasoning and a willingness to cause harm.Myriad: When will OpenAI release GPT-6? Click to make…

The world has entered a “danger zone of extreme weather” as the impacts of El Niño start to be felt globally, UN head António Guterres has warned.The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released the latest data on the natural weather phenomenon showing it could be the strongest for more than 70 years and last until at least February 2027.El Niño changes weather patterns around the world, pushing some regions into drought whilst others experience stronger typhoons and flooding.Forecasters also say El Niño will boost temperatures in some places, coming on top of rising heat globally from human-induced climate change.”El Niño…

U.S. President Donald Trump has made coercion a central element of American statecraft—and not just against Washington’s adversaries. In his second term, Trump has liberally wielded sanctions, tariffs, trade policies, and other threats to pressure allies and partners. Attimes, he’s even demanded that they set aside critical legal and institutional commitments. There are, however, limits to Washington’s coercive leverage. The United States retains enormous advantages over its allies in finance, technology, markets, and security. But those advantages become most powerful when allied governments leave their own citizens, companies, and institutions to face Washington alone. U.S. allies cannot eliminate the structural…