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Organizations now have more to worry about with agentic AI than just external threats.Katie Moussouris, CEO of Luta Security and a bug bounty program pioneer, spoke with Dark Reading’s senior news director, Rob Wright, at the News Desk at Black Hat USA 2026 recently to discuss how dramatically the threat landscape has changed in recent weeks following the Hugging Face breach.Specifically, the attacks committed by rogue agents of frontier models will put additional burdens on enterprise security teams to make sure their own technology is not breaking containment and behaving maliciously. And although Moussouris is optimistic that human ingenuity can…

Centralized crypto exchanges lost 31.2% of their spot crypto trading volume in July, falling to $727 billion and marking the lowest monthly total since October 2023. Decentralized exchanges also lost volume, but only 9.82%, settling at $176 billion.That gap pushed DEXs to a record 19.5% share of combined spot volume.Venue typeJuly spot volumeMonthly changeWhat the number showsCentralized exchanges$727B-31.2%CEX spot activity collapsed to the weakest level since Oct. 2023Decentralized exchanges$176B-9.82%DEXs also fell, but proved more resilientDEX share of combined spot19.5%Record highShare rose because the denominator shifted, not because DEX volume surgedWhere the CEX collapse concentratedBlockBeats’ July crypto trading-platform ranking shows spot…

Illinois is the latest example of how a state can embrace virtual power plants and see results almost immediately. Today, Solrite Energy is announcing its entry into the Illinois market with a program that provides households with battery energy storage for $20 per month and makes the batteries available to support the local power grid. A virtual power plant, or VPP, is a network of resources at homes and businesses that can support the larger community by sending electricity to the grid or by reducing demand. Solrite, based in Fort Worth, Texas, joins companies such as Base Power and Energywell…

MacGregor has been selected to supply a 165-ton active heave-compensated (AHC) crane for Jan De Nul’s newbuild vessel that is being built at the China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) shipyard. The crane will be delivered for the Ulstein SX121 newbuild, with the order being part of a 1+1 vessel program. Source: MacGregor Delivery is scheduled for February 2028. According to MacGregor, its local presence and production capabilities in China provide CMHI with direct access to design, installation, and commissioning support throughout the build, helping the yard maintain schedule discipline through to the planned delivery. “This crane’s lightweight design gives higher…

Reporting Highlights “Permanently Ineligible”: An oversight group found that Texas girls’ volleyball coach Ryan Richardson engaged in sexual misconduct with a minor, among other allegations, and banned him. An Inappropriate Relationship: One mother alleged that Richardson began having sex with her daughter, one of his players, when she was 16 and he was 36.   Still Coaching: Despite the ban, major sports organizations failed to keep him from interacting with children even as allegations of inappropriate behavior and abuse piled up. These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. The first time Ryan Richardson was…

When Channel 4 announced that it would air a documentary titled The Great ADHD Myth?, an outpouring of fury followed. Despite this, I set out to approach it as a scientist – not just as a scientist whose own work has dealt with developmental disorders, but as someone who has enormous respect for the scientific process and for the importance of evidence-led debate.Channel 4’s press release claimed the documentary sought to determine whether attention deficit hyperactivity disorder was a “genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct”. At one level this is a brave enterprise. ADHD is recognised worldwide as a…

Claim: Lemons are not a “naturally occurring” fruit as they are a manmade hybrid of a sour orange and a citron. Rating: Context Thousands of years ago, bees likely facilitated the transfer of pollen between the sour orange and the citron, which resulted in the creation of lemons – a natural hybrid of the two species. Humans later propagated the fruit through grafting and cuttings to preserve its desirable traits, but humanity did not invent the lemon. In August 2026, social media users recirculated a claim that lemons were created by humans, rather than developing naturally.  For instance, one Instagram…

From the outside, the city of Avenal appears to embody every bit of its motto – an “oasis in the sun”. Approaching the community, passing through the dusty yellow hillsides of the Central Valley, Avenal emerges with a sudden burst of green on the horizon.Its small-town feel and quiet tree-lined streets offer respite from the bustling Interstate 5 some five miles away. But trouble is brewing here that has brought this lonesome city national attention.In April, voters in the city of 13,500 people recalled four of five city council members, in what recall organizers said was a first in California.…

German investigators believe they have now identified an arsonist who set fire to a Jewish community centre in Munich in 1970, killing seven people.For decades the man’s identity remained a mystery. But Munich prosecutors now believe he was a 25-year-old lone neo-Nazi with known antisemitic opinions. The seven killed were all Holocaust survivors aged 59 to 71. Another 15 people were injured.The prosecutors’ revelations come too late to secure justice for the victims. The suspect, identified by Der Spiegel magazine as Bernd V, died in 2020.At about 20:40 on 13 February 1970, prosecutors say the killer poured petrol into the…

Security for the couple has long been a point of tension, with Prince Harry losing a legal challenge last year over how much he and his family were entitled to when visiting the UK.Now that they are moving back to the UK, Ravec will have to make a new decision on their security as previous arrangements were based on them not living here permanently.The Home Office has said the UK’s protective security system was rigorous and proportionate, but “it is our long-standing policy not to provide detailed information on those arrangements, as doing so could compromise their integrity and affect…