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Ravie LakshmananAug 06, 2026Hacking News / Cybersecurity News Apparently, opening the thing is now enough. A repo can run before the first prompt, a package can hide among hundreds, and a harmless-looking PDF can finish the job. This week runs on cheap leverage: exposed servers, recycled bugs, poisoned agent instructions, remote-access tools dressed as support software, and trusted defaults doing attackers a favor. Nothing here is especially mystical. Just ordinary systems trusting slightly too much, slightly too early. The full list follows. The threats change every week. Subscribe, and we’ll alert you when each new ThreatsDay Bulletin is out. China-linked…

Developed by Breez in partnership with Bitcoin Spark, the Glow app lets users send stablecoins from their Bitcoin balance, while empowering developers to build better user experiences without having to worry about the difficult parts of building on top of Bitcoin. Breez’s SDK takes care of asset exchange in the background while supporting lightning payments through its Spark integration.  “Glow is a Bitcoin app for everyone,” said the company in a press release shared with Bitcoin Magazine. Users can access the app on both Apple and Android app stores. Glow re-invents the Bitcoin wallet experience, deviating from the seed phrase…

Fertilization is commonly portrayed as an intense contest in which millions of sperm race toward a single egg. New research from evolutionary biologists at Syracuse University, University of Siena, Italy, and University of Szeged, Hungary, points to a more complex picture. In some species, reproductive success may depend not only on competition, but also on sperm working together. The researchers examined arthropods, the enormous group of animals that includes insects, spiders, crabs and centipedes. They investigated examples from across evolutionary history in which arthropod sperm joined into organized groups or structures that may help them reach and fertilize an egg.…

When money and power collide, local reporting keeps San Diego informed.Give $10 Private prison company CoreCivic said Thursday that it expects to use a substantial portion of proceeds from the recent sales of four immigration detention facilities to the Department of Homeland Security to buy back stock, creating a potential windfall for investors.  DHS purchased the facilities for $2.2 billion, over seven times the book value — the amount invested in the property minus depreciation — that CoreCivic reported in a 2025 financial disclosure.  The largest transaction of the four involved Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego, which sold…

Julian Coman’s article about Andy Burnham resonated with me, as I share his belief in compassion, social responsibility and concern for those who are struggling (Like Burnham, I was an altar boy. His Catholic upbringing is shaping the way he governs, 1 August). Where I differ is in the suggestion that these values are rooted primarily in Catholicism.I grew up in inner-city Manchester during the Thatcher years, in a low socioeconomic working-class community facing unemployment, poverty and drug misuse. My parents were not religious, but they instilled in me a humanist outlook based on empathy, fairness and our shared responsibilities…

A New Mexico judge on Thursday ordered Meta to pay more than half a billion dollars over the state’s claims that the social media giant created a “public nuisance” and harmed children. Meta was previously ordered to pay $375 million in damages to New Mexico in March when a jury found the company liable for endangering children by making them vulnerable to predators on its platforms, among other harms. “We disagree with the ruling and will appeal,” Meta told AFP in a statement Thursday.  “We work hard to keep people safe on our platforms and have been transparent about the challenges of identifying and removing…

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the scientist who led America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, exercised his right to remain silent more than 100 times last week during an hourslong hearing before the Senate Homeland Security Committee.Facing aggressive questioning about his handling of the pandemic, Dr. Fauci responded by invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, a refrain more commonly used during traffic stops and police interrogations than in the halls of Congress.Invoking it carries no implication of guilt, but “in the public eye, it makes you look guilty,” said Mark Osler, a law professor at University of St. Thomas in…

According to Jonathan Nicholson at the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), for the airline industry, lithium-ion batteries are “if not number one, within the top three risks for a good few years now”.A US recent study showed, external the industry was affected by two lithium-ion battery related incidents a week worldwide, he adds. Those incidents could range from passengers belatedly realising they’d left a device in checked baggage, to devices smoking or catching fire in airport baggage halls, or on flights.But the results can be far more extreme. In January 2025 an Air Busan plane was destroyed on the tarmac…

Ravie LakshmananAug 06, 2026Network Security / Vulnerability Cisco has rolled out updates to address multiple critical security vulnerabilities impacting Catalyst SD-WAN and IOS XE Software as part of a comprehensive internal security review. The security issues affect Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Software, regardless of device configuration, and Cisco IOS XE Software when it is running in autonomous or controller mode. “These vulnerabilities were found during internal security testing using existing testing processes as well as frontier AI models […] and are not known to be actively exploited,” Cisco said, urging customers to apply the necessary updates for optimal protection. The vulnerabilities…

Demand for US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has accelerated over the past week, with a string of daily inflows coinciding with the Coldcard wallet hack — timing that has prompted speculation about whether some investors are reconsidering self-custody.According to Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC), Bitwise Bitcoin ETF (BITB), ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF (ARKB) as well as Defiance Daily Target 2X Long MSTR ETF (MSBT) have recorded inflows every trading day since the weekend exploit, totaling roughly $620 million. The cumulative figure is consistent with Cointelegraph’s recent reporting…