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During the 25 years Gerardo Pachuca has spent investigating thieves who steal cargo from semitrucks, he says he’s never seen behavior this brazen. The consultant and former Los Angeles sheriff’s detective claims that two times in recent months, robbers stole pricey hardware destined for AI data centers using a confrontational new tactic. It’s left the freight industry on edge.The incidents involved two different shipments of high-value technology traveling from Silicon Valley to Southern California, according to Pachuca, who says he learned about the thefts from law enforcement authorities. Each truck was tailed by private security professionals driving unmarked escort vehicles,…

More than 2,500 organizations and over 430,000 CI/CD pipelines were affected by the LiteLLM supply chain attack earlier this year, CloudSEK reports. The LiteLLM compromise was disclosed shortly after the supply chain attack on Aqua Security’s Trivy open source vulnerability scanner and was a direct result of it. According to CloudSEK, TeamPCP, the threat actor behind multiple high-profile open source software (OSS) compromises, never targeted LiteLLM directly. The open source Python library and proxy server was compromised after its CI pipeline installed the compromised Trivy version automatically. Two LiteLLM versions, namely 1.82.7 and 1.82.8, were pushed to PyPI, providing the…

A group of cryptocurrency companies has urged frontier artificial intelligence (AI) labs to give Bitcoin developers early access to their most capable models.The letter, published by the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) on Monday, said many digital asset defenders, including Bitcoin Core developers, lack access to lab cyber programs and can be blocked by guardrails on publicly available frontier systems, leaving them to rely on less capable open-weight models.The signatories urged frontier AI labs to “establish or expand standing trusted-access programs for qualified defenders of open-source financial infrastructure.” The letter said open-source software supports critical digital and financial infrastructure, while Bitcoin (BTC)…

Illegal gold mining in Ghana’s Greater Cape Three Points Forest Reserve threatens vulnerable and endangered species in the protected forest, say conservationists.Sediment and toxic chemicals from the mining also threaten the adjacent waters of a newly declared marine protected area just offshore.Conservation NGOs want the government to act against illegal miners, including establishing permanent camps in the forest to protect a wider area.See All Key Ideas Ghana’s land ministry is failing to act against illegal gold mining in the Greater Cape Three Points Forest Reserve, say conservationists. Their call comes as pollution threatens vulnerable and endangered species in…

Reporting Highlights Locked Down: Interviews with dozens of former staff and youth reveal how Wayne Halfway House failed to report suspected abuse to state officials across youth prisons in Tennessee. A Company’s Mandate: According to several former employees at Wayne Halfway House’s youth prisons, an expectation to keep serious incidents secret came from the top: CEO Jason Crews. Under Investigation: Tennessee said it is investigating the incidents WPLN and ProPublica uncovered at the company’s facilities. These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. The video clip lasted less than two minutes, but Tonya Webb…

Early in the Iran war, the Houthis declared that if Iran came under attack, the Red Sea would run “red with the blood of its enemies.” That warning hung in the air for months as the Houthis continued to issue threats of closure without any action. But Tehran picked the moment carefully. As the White House insisted that the Strait of Hormuz remained open—a claim that Tehran denied—Tehran activated the Houthis at Bab el-Mandeb to demonstrate at the second chokepoint what Iran could not settle at the first. Kicking off events, Tehran flew a sanctioned Iranian aircraft into Yemen’s Sanaa…

Elena Rybakina stages a huge comeback to beat Naomi Osaka and will now play Coco Gauff for a place in the final.Published On 12 Aug 202612 Aug 2026Second-seeded Elena Rybakina fought back from a set and a break down to prevail 4-6, 7-6(5), 6-4 in her Canadian Open quarterfinal against Naomi Osaka in Toronto on Tuesday.Rybakina, the 2022 Wimbledon and 2026 ⁠Australian Open champion, will meet fourth-seeded Coco Gauff for a place in the final after the American’s opponent, Belinda Bencic, withdrew due to a hip injury.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listIn ⁠the first tour-level meeting between Osaka…

Parts of UK brace for another heatwave as government convenes emergency Cobra meetingParts of the UK will face the fifth heatwave of the summer this week with temperatures forecast to reach highs of 38C, prompting the Met Office to issue an amber weather warning for extreme heat.The record-shattering heatwave has caused wildfires and drought in many parts of the country, with this summer on course to be the UK’s hottest since records began, according to the Met Office. The National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) said firefighters have responded to 966 wildfires across England and Wales this year, including 185 in…

On Tuesday, probation officers voted in favour of strike action over the scheme, with probation union Napo saying 90% of its members had backed potential industrial action.”This ballot wasn’t about members being too busy,” Napo national chair Ben Cockburn said. “It was professionals warning they cannot protect the public properly when there are not enough people to do the work.”The MoJ said it was “disappointed” by the ballot outcome.Inspectorate reports published between January and March 2026 highlight staffing gaps in probation, a lack of experience, significant issues with information sharing, as well as “the burden placed on overstretched staff by…

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.By now, most of us have seen videos of the power bank fires on commercial airliners. If you haven’t, well, here you go:I’m flying again in a few days. As I’ll be taking a power bank with me, I’m keen not to be in the news — or in a national air accident investigation body’s report — as the owner of a power bank that went rogue on a plane. And to be honest, it’s not just power banks on aircraft that bother me. I don’t want that issue happening in the car,…