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Foresight to delist Tel Aviv shares, keep Nasdaq ADS listing
Research Radar, September 30, 2026: 11 new AI and security papers to know
The most relevant new AI and security research from Nature & arXiv, with the authors' own summaries and links to the papers.
FCA opens crypto authorisation gateway with 2027 deadlines
UK crypto firms can now apply to be regulated, with applications due by 28 February 2027 before the regime starts on 25 October 2027.
BreakingCisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager flaw CVE-2026-76504 is being actively exploited, CISA warns
NCSC New Zealand sets Cyber Smart Week 2026 for October 5-11
Google says CVE disclosures doubled in 2026 as AI finds bigger bugs
Rubio says US first-time passport applications move online
GAO: Only 7 of 22 US Agencies Meet IoT Inventory Rules
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NASA Sets Crew-13 Launch for Oct. 1 With Fastest ISS Trip
NASA says the SpaceX Crew-13 mission will reach the International Space Station in 7 hours, 50 minutes, the fastest by a U.S. spacecraft in station history.
Crypto Market Watch, September 30, 2026: Bitcoin at $85,429, up 1.3% in 24 hours
Prices and market caps for the 10 largest cryptocurrencies as of September 30, 2026, 12:57 UTC.
NASA Awards Omitron $23.5 Million Orbital Safety Contract
The five-year contract covers conjunction assessment screening for NASA's uncrewed spacecraft and support for human spaceflight and the Office of Space Commerce.
Vulnerability Watch, September 30, 2026: 12 critical CVEs and 55 new vendor and CERT advisories
Every critical-severity CVE NIST published in the past day, plus the latest advisories from national CERTs and vendors.
GAO panel finds US cybersecurity rules duplicate and conflict
Industry representatives from energy, financial services and healthcare told GAO that overlapping federal incident reporting rules make it harder to respond to cyber threats.
How to check and update your Android version in Settings
Google's help page explains where to find your Android version, security update and Google Play system status, and how to download updates from the Settings app.
ESA and CAS Smile mission begins science operations in orbit
ESA says the European-Chinese Smile spacecraft was cleared on 23 September to start studying how Earth's magnetic field responds to the solar wind.
Hong Kong prices HK$20 billion digital green bond with tokenised deposits
The HKSAR Government said its fourth tokenised bond sale is the world's largest digital bond issuance and the first to settle an HKD tranche using tokenised deposits.
BreakingWhite House launches America.gov as single federal services portal
The White House says a new executive order requires agencies to plug high-traffic online services into America.gov, with passport renewal and Medicare enrollment due later this year.
BreakingState Department launches NExT super intelligence tech partnership
The US says a new public-private network with Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and NVIDIA will push its "Super Intelligence" tech stack to foreign startup ecosystems.
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Microsoft: Phishing Campaigns Abuse MSP360 RMM for Persistent Access
Microsoft Defender Experts says attackers used fake meeting and PDF lures to install legitimate MSP360 remote management software, then added ScreenConnect as a backup channel.
Microsoft says Star Blizzard uses RedFlick to deploy CosmicPulse
Microsoft says the Russian state actor shifted to mass phishing and a one-click malware delivery technique, affecting more than 100 organizations, mostly in the US and UK.
Cloudflare applies to become a public certificate authority
The company says it has applied to four root programs and agreed to buy a trusted root from GlobalSign, with free ACME-based issuance and post-quantum certificates planned.
CISA flags two high-severity flaws in Lantronix G520 gateways
Two vulnerabilities in the cellular gateway's update mechanism could let attackers run code with root privileges, CISA said, with fixed firmware available from Lantronix.
Google Research unveils Diffusion Controller for image steering
Google says its lightweight add-on network improves prompt alignment in text-to-image models, including closed-source systems, without altering the frozen base model.
Microsoft Research unveils Quine, an AI world model of biology
Microsoft says its experimental Quine system combines a multimodal biology model with a research harness, and ranked cancer compounds later tested with the Broad Institute.
Google shows Android agentic workflows using ADK, AG-UI and A2UI
Google's Android Developers Blog details how cloud-hosted agents can stream interactive UI to Jetpack Compose apps using new alpha A2UI renderer libraries.
Berkeley report maps human rights risks of LLMs in three fields
A Human Rights Center study based on 56 interviews across 24 countries finds privacy and freedom-of-thought risks as law, journalism and education adopt large language models.
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Meta launches Forum, a standalone app for Facebook Groups
Meta says the app, now downloadable in the US on iOS and Android, syncs a user's Facebook Groups and adds AI-powered search and a new member role.
Microsoft ships Windows 11 26H2 as small enablement package
Microsoft says the Windows 11 2026 Update installs like a monthly update on eligible 25H2 and 24H2 devices and resets the support lifecycle.
Google Play adds team seats and usage-based billing to subscriptions
Google says Android developers will be able to sell multiple subscription seats in one transaction, meter AI usage and bundle subscriptions with other developers.
Cloudflare launches Threat Signals for all accounts, free
Cloudflare says its new agentic skills turn open-source threat reports into tagged, contextualized indicators that can feed WAF rules, with one RSS feed free per account.
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MIT uses AI to make RNA vaccines stable at room temperature
MIT researchers say an algorithm trained on small datasets found lipid nanoparticle formulations that kept mRNA Covid-19 vaccines stable for a year without cold storage.
NASA Maps 1,943 Hidden Valleys Beneath Greenland’s Ice Sheet
A NASA-led study says a new satellite-based method revealed a vast subglacial valley network that could sharpen long-term projections of how Greenland's ice will retreat.
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NASA Glenn develops Moon dust composite for in-space manufacturing
NASA says the biodegradable plastic mixed with simulated lunar and Martian dust could let crews build and repair tools on site, cutting resupply needs.
NASA Armstrong Marks 80 Years, Named Flight Test Center
NASA said Administrator Jared Isaacman recently designated Armstrong its Center of Excellence for Flight Test and Aircraft Operations as the X-59 continues testing.
ESA marks start of new Martian year at 11:43 UTC
The European Space Agency says Mars began a fresh orbit around the Sun on 30 September 2026, opening the 38th year of a martian calendar counted since 1955.
NASA targets uncrewed Starliner-1 flight, crew return by 2028
NASA says Boeing's Starliner will fly uncrewed as soon as December to validate thruster fixes, with astronauts not expected back aboard until Starliner-2 in 2028.
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Crypto Market Watch, September 28, 2026: Bitcoin at $83,554, down 1.5% in 24 hours
Prices and market caps for the 10 largest cryptocurrencies as of September 28, 2026, 12:57 UTC.
Crypto Market Watch, September 27, 2026: Bitcoin at $84,146, down 0.3% in 24 hours
Prices and market caps for the 10 largest cryptocurrencies as of September 28, 2026, 01:07 UTC.
Crypto Market Watch, September 27, 2026: Bitcoin at $84,757, up 0.6% in 24 hours
Prices and market caps for the 10 largest cryptocurrencies as of September 28, 2026, 00:29 UTC.
Crypto Market Watch, September 27, 2026: Bitcoin at $84,726, up 0.6% in 24 hours
Prices and market caps for the 10 largest cryptocurrencies as of September 28, 2026, 00:28 UTC.
Business
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Bain Capital Takes Minority Stake in Kahua Above $1 Billion
The construction software company said the growth investment will fund AI and product development after it reached $100 million in annualized revenue.
AWS Sunsets Managed Blockchain, DevOps Guru and Mechanical Turk
Amazon Web Services said several services will close to new customers or end support, with Amazon Mechanical Turk already unavailable as of September 29, 2026.
Policy & Regulation
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GAO Says DOD IT Programs Lack Fraud Training, Zero Trust Plans
The watchdog's seventh annual review of 18 major Pentagon IT business programs found gaps in fraud risk awareness, cybersecurity strategies and performance reporting.
ESMA to deploy AI supervision tools, widen DORA oversight in 2027
The EU markets regulator says its 2027 work programme includes AI-based supervisory tools, oversight of critical ICT providers under DORA and continued MiCA crypto supervision.
Hong Kong pitches AI partnership to Austria at Vienna conference
Hong Kong's technology chief told an Austrian audience the city has made AI a core industry and is building computing capacity of 180,000 PFLOPS by 2032.
US and China Launch “Super Intelligence” Dialogue on AI Risks
A White House fact sheet says the two governments agreed to drop the term artificial intelligence, open an SI dialogue by November 2026 and build an incident hotline.
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