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BleepingComputer is hosting a live webinar on September 23, 2026, featuring Material Security's Rajan Kapoor and Fireside Consulting's Rick Fitzgerald, who will dissect real, publicly documented Google Workspace breaches. The session focuses on the critical early hours after a breach is discovered, including cases where attackers used social engineering paired with malicious OAuth apps to gain entry.
Binance is expanding its Capital Connect platform, previously reserved for institutions, to allow wealthy individuals meeting a $1 million asset threshold to invest in professional trading strategies. The platform runs on Binance's Portfolio Account system, which manages fees and risk metrics while trading teams handle strategy execution, similar to separately managed accounts in traditional finance. The platform has grown from 106 portfolios and 35 trading teams in May to 212 portfolios and 77 teams by September.
Air Force Secretary Troy Meink stated at the Air, Space and Cyber Conference that the US has placed weapons in orbit capable of defending against hostile action, without detailing what these systems are. This marks the first open US acknowledgment of orbital weapons deployment after decades of officially framing space activity as peaceful.
CISA has added a critical ScreenConnect vulnerability, now designated CVE-2026-84869, to its known exploited vulnerabilities catalog after confirming attackers are actively abusing it. The flaw stems from missing authorization checks that let low-privilege users transfer and execute files during active remote sessions without host confirmation, and it has been fixed in ScreenConnect 26.6.5. Federal agencies have been given three days to patch, while Shadowserver reports over 1,000 unpatched, internet-exposed ScreenConnect servers, mostly in North America and Europe.
Apple's iOS 27 update, released September 14, includes an AI-powered Siri but does not activate it automatically. Users must join a waitlist through Settings to try the new assistant, and can revert to the classic Siri at any time.
Solar panel prices have dropped from roughly $5-6 per watt in 2000 to about 12 cents today, largely due to expanded Chinese manufacturing capacity, according to Ember co-founder Dave Jones. This price collapse has pushed businesses in countries like Pakistan, the Philippines, and across Africa to install their own solar systems, with worldwide small-scale solar capacity nearing 1.2 terawatts by the end of 2025.
MartyPC is an open-source emulator for early IBM PC and compatible machines, running on Windows, Linux and macOS. Built from scratch by a hobbyist learning Rust, it now offers cycle-by-cycle accurate emulation of the Intel 8088 CPU, validated against a real 8088 chip wired to an Arduino MEGA.
Datamimic has released a Community Edition of its data engine as an open-source, MIT-licensed, Python-native tool that generates deterministic synthetic datasets and pseudonymizes PII in staging or QA exports. The CE version runs standalone across databases and file formats like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, CSV and JSON, while a paid Enterprise Platform adds governed workflows, PII scanning, access controls, audit logging and scheduling for regulated industries.
Grab Holdings will acquire an initial 60% controlling stake in Singapore-based buy-now-pay-later platform Atome Financial for $1.49 billion in cash, with an option to purchase the remaining 40% about two years after the deal closes. CFO Peter Oey said the staged structure helps de-risk the transaction while giving Grab access to Atome's merchant network in travel, beauty and e-commerce. Grab shares fell 3.64% on Nasdaq after the announcement.
Google has broadened NotebookLM's real-time voice conversation feature to support close to 100 languages, letting users talk with their notebooks beyond English. The update also adds audio recording capabilities and interactive Learning Overviews to help users engage with their materials in more ways.
Researchers publishing in Frontiers in Psychology observed that adult chimpanzees, mostly mothers, model tool-use behaviors like extracting hard-to-reach food, then pass their tools directly to young chimps so they can imitate the motions. The team calls this deliberate handoff a form of teaching, distinct from mere observation, that helps juveniles master foraging technology.
A new visualization tool called FuzzyGraph plots equations in a non-binary mode, shading regions by how close they come to satisfying an equation rather than just marking exact solutions. This approach exposes hidden structures—dubbed 'black holes' and 'quasars'—in equations like slash-dot and inverse-square forms that are completely invisible on standard graphs. Simple test cases, such as x²+y²=0 versus its inverse 1/(x²+y²)=0, show how conventional graphing hides these error-based features entirely.