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The developers of the OpenSSL and WolfSSL open source cryptographic libraries announced patches for roughly a dozen vulnerabilities each, including high-severity flaws. Of the 14 vulnerabilities fixed in OpenSSL, one has been assigned a high severity rating. Tracked as CVE-2026-84782, it could allow a remote peer to obtain fragments of heap memory or crash applications that use Datagram TLS (DTLS), a protocol commonly found in VPNs, VoIP and IoT products. The flaw is triggered during the DTLS handshake, when OpenSSL retransmits a message while sending another one is stalled. This can cause leftover heap data to be sent to the…

Aave DAO would own the contracts for a proposed Ethereum lending market, but Sentora would make the day-to-day decisions that shape its credit risk.In a governance proposal posted Sept. 28, the DeFi risk manager asks to operate an isolated Aave V4 Hub and its lending Spokes through revocable roles. The split puts an immediate risk response in Sentora’s hands and leaves the DAO with ownership, a review path for new markets and the power to withdraw those roles.Sentora would choose its collateral, interest-rate curves, liquidation settings, and oracles. Aave’s existing risk service providers would have no assignment to monitor the…

The 2026 tropical cyclone season in the northeastern and central Pacific basins has been busy. By September 28, the number of named storms in the region had grown to 20, of which nine had reached hurricane strength. For comparison, the 1991-2020 average by that date is 13.5 named storms with 7.4 hurricanes. An image from NASA’s EPIC (Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera) on the DSCOVR (Deep Space Climate Observatory) satellite, acquired on September 27, shows the basin again rife with powerful storms. Hurricane Nolo near Hawaii and Hurricane Polo off the Baja California peninsula were lashing land with high winds, storm surge, and heavy rain.…

G20 trade ministers are set to open talks Wednesday in the United States, in meetings strained by President Donald Trump’s tariffs as Washington targets partners regarding forced labour and overcapacity. The gathering of officials from the Group of 20 major economies – which includes China, India, Russia, Japan, Germany and France – takes place in the Midwestern city of Milwaukee. But analysts expect the two days of talks to be deadlocked as Trump’s tariffs weigh on relationships while China rejects concerns about its exports, which critics see as driven by excess industrial capacity. Read moreTrump announces double digit tariffs on 60 countries…

Presented by EFPIA By CLAUDIA CHIAPPA with DOMINIC GIANNINI Want to receive this newsletter straight to your inbox? Sign up here to receive the reporting and intel from the Gastein Health Forum. — Don’t shy away from regulating food, alcohol and tobacco to tackle Europe’s biggest threat to society — chronic diseases — says the head of Austria’s food and drugs agency. — An expert panel in Germany hands down a proposal to reward pharmaceutical companies that invest in Germany through clinical trials or manufacturing. — One MEP remains unconvinced on a critical patent proposal on the table for the…

Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Burnham said he did not want to leave the question of the EU relationship “hanging” and he wanted to be clear on “where we want Britain to go in the next decade”.Asked whether he wanted the UK to rejoin the EU, he replied that he wanted to “look at the options”.He added he had previously advocated such a move within his lifetime, whilst acknowledging it was “not necessarily the case that that is now”.”We could stay as we are. That’s definitely an option, if people think this is the right place to stay,”…

Half a million trees will be planted across England in the next three years to protect against extreme weather, the environment secretary, Angela Eagle, will pledge on Wednesday morning.Mayors, local authorities, charities and grassroots groups will be given new funding and responsibilities for restoring natural landscapes such as wetlands, river edges and meadows, which can provide natural flood management and reduce the damage done by droughts.The £79m package, to be set out in Eagle’s speech to the Labour party conference in Liverpool, will include £53m for tree-planting and £26m for “local nature recovery strategies”.This summer’s drought showed the urgent need…

For months, people have wondered when OpenAI will go public. CEO Sam Altman says it won’t happen until the company can make better promises about model safety, with no firm timeline in sight. “We intend to continue with AI progress … but as the models have had this surge forward in capability, and we see more of that ahead of us, we have got to be able to make confident safety claims,” Altman said Tuesday during a Q&A with reporters after his DevDay keynote. At the same time, he said, waiting too long for an IPO would be “bad for…

The US Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), which maintains personnel records for the Pentagon, has started notifying people that their personal information was exposed.  According to the DMDC’s notice, unauthorized users had access to one of its file-sharing servers for roughly nine months. A copy of the notification letter, dated September 18 and shared online by a recipient, says the problem was discovered in mid-July. “On July 16, 2026, a security vulnerability in a DMDC file sharing system was discovered, which allowed unauthorized users to access files. DMDC immediately updated the file sharing system to patch the vulnerability and the…

In brief Bitwise’s Near ETF began trading Tuesday on NYSE Arca under the ticker NRR, with a 0.75% annual fee. Bitwise calls it the first spot NEAR product in the U.S. Near traded around $5.09 on Binance on Tuesday, roughly triple its August lows around $1.60. The fund plans to stake its Near to chase average rewards of about 5%, which Bitwise says are not guaranteed. Bitwise began trading its Near ETF on Tuesday, giving U.S. investors a way to bet on the AI-focused Near blockchain from an ordinary brokerage account. The fund trades on NYSE Arca under the ticker…