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Hardware crypto wallet provider Trezor says the personal information of nearly 14,000 people was compromised in a data breach. The incident, it says, did not involve Trezor’s systems but rather its third-party shipping provider, ShipMonk. Trezor was notified of the attack on August 10. Customers in the US, the UK, Sweden, Colombia, Brazil, Italy, and Portugal who placed orders between May 10 and August 8 were affected.   “We’re extremely sorry to inform our community that customer personal information, including full names, phone numbers, email addresses, and shipping addresses, has been accessed by an unauthorized actor during this breach,” Trezor says…

Israel’s Bank Leumi has partnered with Galaxy Digital to let customers trade Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), and Solana (SOL) through the bank’s investment platform, with the service expected to launch in early 2027.The companies said Friday that customers of Leumi and Pepper, its mobile banking arm, will be able to buy, hold and sell the three cryptocurrencies through a dedicated section of the Leumi Trade app. Leumi and Galaxy said the rollout would make Leumi the first Israeli bank to offer digital asset trading services to customers.Leumi will use GalaxyOne Institutional for trading and related services, while Galaxy’s custody infrastructure…

When laboratory mice experience brain damage, e.g., from an injection, Jan Deussing repeatedly notices the same response. A particular group of cells appears and becomes active around the damaged area. Although Deussing, a research group leader and experienced neurobiologist, had observed the phenomenon many times, he did not know exactly what type of cells were involved. The mystery became an ideal research question for a master’s student. Clemens Ries, who had recently joined the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry for an internship as he approached the end of his biology degree, took on the challenge. Identifying the Brain’s Repair Cells…

Officially recognized as a collection of quilombos, or traditional Afro Brazilian communities, by the government in 2023, Brejão dos Negros is still awaiting the land titles it has been demanding for 20 years.The federal land reform agency has demarcated more than 8,000 hectares (19,800 acres) of the territory, but the communities have been authorized to use less than a tenth of this area.This delay has left them vulnerable to land disputes; the encroachment of shrimp farms into mangrove areas, which harms fishing and shellfish gathering; and increased salinization of the São Francisco River, which affects their crops and hinders…

This spring, during Holy Week, a priest visited a Ukrainian drone unit near Zaporizhzhia. He prayed with the combatants for their protection, then sprinkled holy water on a Gara strike drone, consecrating the machine before it flew against Russian lines. That drone still required a human operator, but many of those envisioned by the world’s advanced militaries do not. As weapons become increasingly autonomous and artificial intelligence displaces human decision-making, wars can become easier to start and harder to control. Few leaders have addressed these concerns as pointedly as Pope Leo XIV did in his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas: On…

Studies have shown no connection between COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy and increased risk of miscarriage. Despite this, Republican Sens. Rand Paul and Ron Johnson resurrected a long-debunked claim of an astronomical rate of miscarriage after vaccination while also accusing Dr. Anthony Fauci of deceiving the public about the safety of the shots during pregnancy. On Aug. 10, the lawmakers released texts from the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’s government-issued cell phone from January 2021. “Privately over text, Fauci admitted concerns about COVID vaccine side effects ‘associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester,’ yet told…

US President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to allow him to continue building a $400m (£295m) ballroom at the White House without congressional permission. The emergency application comes one week after an appeals court ordered construction to stop until Congress approves, upholding a ruling won by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which sued the administration last year. In the latest filing, US Solicitor General D John Sauer asked that work be allowed to continue while the administration appeals the stop-work order, which he called “dangerous”.Trump has long argued the White House lacks a large event space and…

“We have a fire and rescue service across the country that isn’t properly set up to deal with these incidents,” Burnham said.”We don’t have the capability in the way that we should have to fight these fires.”There’s thousands of firefighters out there today doing back-breaking work, in full kit, in the most difficult conditions”, he added.He said the UK must face up to the “changing climate” and transition to “more clean energy”.His comments came ahead of the appointment of Baroness Blake of Leeds as fire minister.Friends of the Earth urged the prime minister to tackle the “root cause” of the…

In Thrive Capital’s first-ever investor letter, founder Joshua Kushner has some unexpected things to say about his venture capital rivals on the West Coast. “It is difficult to overstate the magnitude of the opportunity,” Kushner wrote about AI in the letter, leaked to Bloomberg. “It would also be a grave error in our minds to let excitement weaken our investment discipline. … Within Silicon Valley in particular, the industry can become fixated on hyperincremental technological turns rather than where the technology ultimately leads.” While his secretive New York-based firm, just like those in Silicon Valley, is betting heavily on AI,…

A maximum-severity SAP Commerce Cloud remote code execution vulnerability patched three days ago is already being targeted in attacks, according to threat intelligence company Defused. Commerce Cloud (formerly known as SAP Hybris) is a cloud-based e-commerce platform used by online stores owned by high-profile global brands and large retailers. Tracked as CVE-2026-58231, this critical flaw stems from an improper authorization weakness in the core Data Hub Adapter extension for Commerce Cloud that threat actors without privileges can exploit in low-complexity attacks to execute arbitrary code. “SAP Commerce Cloud allows an unauthenticated attacker to abuse a default authentication client and submit…