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Trump also reiterated his support for the rapid expansion of data centres – the crucial computing infrastructure that powers AI.The rollout of data centres has drawn pushback around the country over concerns about electricity usage and their potential impact on from communities.Data centre construction has also emerged as a potential political obstacle for Trump’s Republican party ahead of the US midterm elections in November.A survey conducted by Marist Poll in partnership with NPR and PBS News, external earlier this month found that 65% of registered voters opposed data centres being built in their areas.Responding to those concerns, Trump said tech…

AI agents are moving into production faster than security teams can track them. They hold credentials, carry entitlements, and act on systems of record, yet most enterprises cannot say which agents are running, who owns them, or whether anyone can stop them. Gartner expects a typical Global Fortune 500 enterprise to run roughly 150,000 AI agents by 2028, up from fewer than 15 in 2025, while only 13% of organizations believe they have the right agent governance in place. At The AI Conference in San Francisco, RSA announced RSA Agent ID, an agentic identity security platform for regulated industries such…

Signal, the secure messaging app, released version 8.30, completing the rollout of its secure backups feature across all supported operating systems (Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows). The feature, introduced on Android nearly a year ago, lets users create end-to-end encrypted backups of their chats and restore them on other devices if they lose their phone. The backup system supports two options: Signal-hosted backups, limited to 45 days of media and 128 KB per message for free users (100 GB in paid plans), and on-device, local backups, with no size restrictions. Backups for both options are encrypted and require a…

When Bitcoin fell from $125K to $60K, not one of the 15 major institutions Bitwise interviewed sold, and many bought more. Ryan Rasmussen, head of research at Bitwise, breaks down the firm’s first institutional crypto adoption report, covering pensions, endowments, foundations, and sovereign wealth funds, and why they treat Bitcoin alongside gold as a hedge against debasement. Chapters:0:00 Ryan Rasmussen on Bitwise’s Institutional Crypto Adoption Report0:49 Why No Institutions Sold Bitcoin During the Bear Market1:45 Wells Fargo’s 2–3% Bitcoin Allocation and the Debasement Thesis3:45 Fidelity, BlackRock, and 2–8% Bitcoin Allocations4:50 How ETFs Made This Bitcoin Bear Market Shallower6:24 $2.5B in…

A natural compound the body produces after consuming foods such as pomegranates may improve heart function by as much as 80% in experimental models of a form of heart failure that currently has relatively few treatment options. Researchers at King’s College London found that urolithin A, which is produced in the body after eating foods including pomegranates, walnuts and some berries, can help the heart relax more effectively. The compound also reduced scarring and limited harmful enlargement of the heart. A Difficult Form of Heart Failure to Treat The findings could eventually benefit nearly half a million people in the…

David Shoebridge has declared he wants to replace Labor and has accused the government of creating the circumstances for One Nation’s rise in his first remarks after being elected the Greens federal leader.The party’s 10 senators and lone MP met to decide the new leadership team during a pre-planned two-day retreat in Sydney following the shock resignation of Larissa Waters on Monday, due to ill health.The leadership became a three-way race after Shoebridge announced his run on Wednesday morning. The South Australian senator Sarah Hanson-Young had declared her candidacy on Tuesday, followed by a joint ticket of New South Wales…

Three Egyptian security officials have been convicted by a Rome court over the kidnapping of an Italian student whose tortured body was found in Cairo a decade ago.The men, who were tried in absentia, denied the charges. On Monday they were sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of aggravated kidnapping. A fourth Egyptian defendant was acquitted. Giulio Regeni, 28, was studying for a doctorate at Cambridge University when he went missing while on a research trip in Egypt in 2016.Days later, his mutilated body was found in a ditch near Cairo. An autopsy later revealed he had been…

Contribution by Frank Elderson, Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the ECB and Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the BCBS international conference of banking supervisors panel on “Navigating the new financial landscape”Bali, 30 September 2026Banks are operating in an increasingly complex environment shaped by geopolitical fragmentation, rapid technological change, volatile energy and commodity prices, rising inflation, demographic changes, growing interconnectedness with non-bank financial institutions, and persistent climate and nature-related risks. What does it take for supervisors to remain effective and impactful in this new reality?The challenge facing supervisors today is not simply that there are more…

Sandwiched between the launch of the long-awaited full-fat Range Rover Electric at the start of September and the upcoming final reveal of the much-anticipated Jaguar Type 01 in New York City next week, comes—with considerably less fanfare—JLR’s Range Rover Sport Electric.However, considering that Range Rover Sport sales often run close to, or occasionally slightly higher than, the flagship Range Rover, thanks in part to its lower price, this all-electric version of the Sport could be just as important for an embattled JLR. The automaker announced earlier this month that it is cutting 4,000 jobs over the next two years.According to…

Ravie LakshmananSep 29, 2026Vulnerability / Enterprise Security Kiteworks on Monday said it worked with federal intelligence authorities over the weekend as it identified and addressed a critical security vulnerability during the scheduled precautionary shutdown. “During the shutdown, this activity led to the discovery of a previously unknown critical vulnerability confined to a capability that is enabled for less than 1% of the customer base,” the company said in a statement. “Kiteworks developed and deployed a fix during the window, [and] applied an additional protective layer across all environments.” There is no evidence that the vulnerability has ever been exploited in…