Sep 10, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
Uzbekistan has started a supervised pilot for HUMO, a stablecoin pegged to the national som and backed by government securities. Humo Digital is registered under a special regime overseen by the National Agency for Prospective Projects and the central bank. More than 20 merchants will test payments for goods and services, with banks providing payment and blockchain infrastructure. The initial trial is set for 12 months, while the overall project is capped at three years.
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Sep 10, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
Trezor and BitBox have issued warnings about phishing emails that impersonate urgent security notices following suspected compromises of third-party email services. Trezor said its email provider was breached and flagged a fraudulent 'Critical Security Alert: STM32 Entropy Vulnerability' message. BitBox said its newsletter provider was likely compromised and that multiple Bitcoin companies appeared to be targeted through a shared provider. The alerts follow recent data breaches and firmware vulnerability disclosures across the hardware-wallet sector.
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Sep 10, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
A critical memory corruption vulnerability in NGINX, tracked as CVE-2026-42945 and dubbed NGINX Rift, is being actively exploited in the wild. Attackers can trigger denial-of-service and potentially remote code execution by sending crafted HTTP requests to vulnerable instances. The flaw affects NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus, along with some integrated products. Patches and mitigations are available, but organizations must act quickly because millions of servers may be exposed.
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Sep 10, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
Researchers have developed a continuous authentication system that uses the accelerometer in wireless earbuds to identify a wearer by heartbeat-induced vibrations in the ear canal. In a 33-person study, the system kept error rates low across common positions and activities, and it detected handoffs to another person within seconds. However, walking, running, and talking degrade accuracy, and long-term drift remains unresolved. The design also depends on whether earbud makers expose raw sensor data, which most currently do not.
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Sep 10, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
AI-assisted vulnerability research has created a firehose of low-quality, duplicate security reports. Maintainers at the Linux kernel, GitHub, and open-source projects are struggling to separate signal from noise. GitHub now requires validated findings and proof of concept, while cURL has experimented with eliminating bounties. The Open Source Security Foundation is developing guidance to help maintainers handle AI-generated submissions.
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Sep 10, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
Large language models are moving from drafting tickets to executing changes against production infrastructure. That shift creates a confused-deputy problem: the agent has legitimate access, but its inputs can be poisoned by tickets, runbooks, logs, or metrics. A strict propose-commit split, non-bypassable gates, and adversarial evaluation data are the minimum defenses. Read-only assistance is low-risk, but open-ended self-healing across large environments remains harder than vendors suggest.
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Sep 09, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
Global time experts may soon stop adding leap seconds to UTC to avoid a negative leap second that most computer systems cannot handle. The CGPM will vote on a plan to let UTC and Earth-based time drift by as much as one hour. Analysts say the proposal could prevent widespread IT failures and fragmented time standards.
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Sep 09, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
IBM has signed a $240 million deal with Together AI to offer large-scale open-source AI inference workloads in the cloud. The service will be powered by Nvidia HGX B300 systems with Spectrum-X networking inside IBM Cloud. Together AI's platform supports open models including DeepSeek, Nemotron, and GLM, enabling enterprise customization and fine-tuning. The partnership arrives as Gartner projects AI-optimized IaaS spending to reach $42 billion in 2026.
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Sep 09, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
Tape capacity shipments reached 160.3 exabytes in 2025 and rose sharply in early 2026. AI datasets and security concerns are driving renewed interest in tape. Low power use, high capacity, and offline protection make it attractive.
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