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IEC 62443 already provides the vocabulary for acting on those answers: zones and conduits to define exposure, plus compensating countermeasures where patching is not feasible on the required timeline — segmentation, allow-listing, virtual patching at the network boundary, removal of unnecessary reachability and tightened monitoring for exploitation attempts against the specific flaw (TR 62443-2-3 covers patch management in industrial environments in detail). Official doctrine now points the same way: in late July, an ASD-led coalition with CISA, the FBI, NCSC-UK and CCCS published CI Fortify, joint guidance on isolating vital OT systems and running them disconnected for extended periods —…

Binance is putting options on more than 1,000 selected US stocks and exchange-traded funds inside the same account that already offers crypto and several forms of equity exposure.The product is limited to eligible users outside the US, and the securities machinery behind the offer does not belong to Binance.The company said on Sept. 1 that Nest Trading Limited will introduce the orders and route them to Alpaca Securities LLC. Alpaca will execute, clear, and settle the trades, then custody any shares delivered when an option is exercised.Eligible customers can move among more products without leaving Binance, while Nest and Alpaca…

In the forests of the Philippines’ Mindoro Island, an urgent effort is underway to record the vanishing ecological knowledge of the Indigenous Iraya Mangyan community. As elders age and fewer young people learn beside then, and deforestation and infrastructure development threaten the island’s endemic wildlife, traditional knowledge holders are partnering with conservationists to document wildlife, medicinal plants, and culturally important places, reports contributor Keith Anthony Fabro for Mongabay. The community’s roughly 40,000-hectare (100,000-acre) ancestral domain overlaps with the UNESCO-designated Puerto Galera Biosphere Reserve, a protected ecological region on the northern tip of the island. There, the Center for…

Texas-headquartered offshore energy services provider Helix Energy Solutions and Hornbeck Offshore Services, a Louisiana-headquartered supplier of offshore transport services, have completed their merger, establishing what they describe as a premier integrated offshore services company.Helix Energy Solutions (Illustration) As announced in April, Hornbeck shareholders will own approximately 55% and Helix shareholders will own approximately 45% of the combined company, which has assumed the Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. name and will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange as of today, September 2, under the ticker symbol “HOS.” Helix’s common stock ceased trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol…

Reporting Highlights A New Model: Alpha School is a fast-growing chain of AI-driven private schools that claim academics take up only two hours of the day. Repeated Rejections: Texas is one of at least nine states that have rejected Alpha School’s pitch to open a publicly funded charter school. A Pivot: But after the state board of education voted down its charter bid, another state agency accepted most of Alpha’s private schools into Texas’ new school voucher program. These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. The rejections piled up one after another as…

The claim that authorities in Florida rescued 163 missing children is still under investigation pending the release of more detailed information.  The offices of Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier and Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Mark Glass said on Aug. 25, 2026, their agencies had made “46 recoveries by the Tampa Bay region, 41 by Miami, 32 by Jacksonville, 21 by Orlando, 12 by Fort Myers, 8 by Pensacola, and 3 by Tallahassee.”  They said victims’ ages ranged from 2 months to 17 years. “Many recovered children had experienced various levels of abuse, neglect, exploitation, or exposure to other…

A massive flash flood, believed to have been triggered by a glacial collapse, swept through a Himalayan valley last Wednesday, wiping out villages. Nearly 12,000 people have since been rescued, according to Nepal’s disaster management agency. But thousands more, including hundreds of foreign nationals – from India, the UK, Australia, the US, Malaysia, and more – are still missing. A week on, fears are growing that the death toll will only rise.Chinese state media has not reported any survivors on the Tibetan side of the border, but the search continues. Beijing, which annexed Tibet in the 1950s, tightly controls the…

“We follow the evolution of the platform, in particular the status of developments regarding data protection and cybersecurity concerns,” the Commission said. There is little sign the Commission’s policy is about to change. Dana Spinant, the Commission’s director-general for communications, opposes creating an official account, according to another official familiar with the discussions. Spinant did not respond to a request for comment. A third official said there was frustration in some commissioners’ cabinets that Brussels was absent from a platform where young Europeans increasingly derive their news and views. A second official argued that Russia has no such qualms about…

I can’t even remember when I decided to stop paying the sewage element of my Thames Water bill. It might have been after reading this headline from the Guardian in July 2025: “Serious pollution incidents by English water companies rose 60% last year,” with the subheading: “Environment Agency records 75 serious incidents among total of 2,800, with Thames Water being worst offender.”Living in London means that my supplier is Thames Water, which makes a profit out of pollution. I decided that if the government wouldn’t act, I could at least do my part and not pay for this travesty.The case…

Amazon secretly overcharged more than a million advertising customers by manipulating online auctions it uses to set ad prices, according to a lawsuit filed by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a bipartisan group of 22 states.According to the lawsuit, filed on Monday, the alleged scheme has likely netted the firm $20bn (£14.8bn) from advertising customers since 2019.”Amazon overrides and replaces the actual auction results with higher prices set by Amazon to increase its profits,” says a complaint filed in the company’s home state of Washington.In a statement to the BBC, Amazon said it “strongly disagrees” with the premise…