On September 11, an attacker exploited two flaws in Symbiosis Finance's smart contracts: a hidden privilege-escalation bug granting fake admin rights, and a missing check that allowed negative transaction fees. Using just 330 satoshi, roughly 25 cents, the attacker set fees to negative values across 12 transactions, minting 46 billion wrapped syBTC tokens on a network meant to represent real Bitcoin. They then sold the fabricated tokens against legitimate wrapped-BTC pairs like WBTC and cbBTC, draining liquidity pools and converting about $336,000 into cash via Uniswap before being blocked.
Samsung has released Gallery Assistant, a Good Lock module that adds seven new tools to the Gallery app on Galaxy phones, including size reduction, rotate and flip, image clipping, watermarking, image comparison, and PDF export. Many of these tools support batch processing, letting users apply the same edit to multiple images or videos simultaneously instead of repeating actions one by one.
ATF agents arrested 19-year-old Emani Rey Justavino of Jacksonville after he sold undercover agents 3D-printed 'Glock switches,' devices that convert semiautomatic pistols into fully automatic weapons, in two separate transactions in August. Investigators traced the sales back to Instagram accounts advertising the parts, with Justavino allegedly offering dozens more printed devices and a Glock 19 handgun during the deal. He was formally charged on September 3 and taken into custody on September 10.
Microsoft has fixed a glitch that made the Windows Security app falsely warn users that Defender Antivirus was disabled, even though it was running normally. The fix arrived in Defender Antivirus update version 4.18.26080.4, released September 17, after the problem had persisted since at least June in Windows Insider builds.
An antisense oligonucleotide therapy targeting the faulty CHCHD10 gene produced improved symptoms in the first ALS patient treated with it, who remained functional as a physician a year later. Separately, a study found that Chinese companies placed on the US Entity List appear to have increased their science patents and publications compared with non-sanctioned firms, though causation remains unproven.
Oskar Flodstrom, a 23-year-old Los Angeles artist who skipped college to pursue creative work, transformed a free acrylic base found on Facebook Marketplace into a pill-bottle-shaped side table. The design went viral on social media, leading to a partnership with the brand NO LOGO and roughly $150,000 in sales within two weeks.
Adidas CEO Bjørn Gulden and SVP of Innovation Marc Makowski discussed how the company rebounded after severing ties with Yeezy in 2022. They credited a renewed focus on culture and performance for pushing Adidas to record 2025 revenues of $28.7 billion, outpacing rivals in the athletic apparel sector.
The United Nations unveiled the UN System Data Commons, a new platform built on Google's open-source Data Commons technology that lets people query UN statistics using plain-language questions and supports the Model Context Protocol so AI systems can pull data directly. It replaces the older UNData portal, which relied on manual browsing rather than conversational search. The announcement came alongside a UNICEF study showing leading chatbots answered development-data questions correctly only about 21% of the time.
Spencer Rascoff, CEO of Match Group, discussed how he is steering the dating-app company through a strategic reset as it confronts changing customer behavior and the rise of AI. He described leadership approaches meant to inject more speed, accountability, and entrepreneurial drive into a large, established organization.
Brown Brothers Media, run by Justin, Lachlan and Brendan Brown, has been acquiring established online publications covering topics like space travel, parenting and business, then laying off much of their writing staff and replacing them with mass-produced AI-generated articles. The company says its network now draws over 50 million page views monthly, a figure roughly corroborated by third-party analytics firm Similarweb, which estimates about 64.7 million average monthly visitors — putting BBM's reach ahead of outlets like CBS News and Forbes.
Maersk announced plans to fit a 35-meter rotor sail to one of its 8,700-TEU containerships, with trials on Atlantic routes set to begin in 2027, marking the first such installation on a containership. The move follows a broader trend across shipping, with the International Windship Association reporting more than 100 large vessels now carrying modern wind-assist systems totaling over 5 million deadweight tons.
Executives Johanna Faries of Blizzard Entertainment, Justine Palefsky of Kindred, and Alphonzo Terrell of Spill joined a panel moderated by Fast Company's Morgan Brady to discuss how companies can turn passive audiences into engaged communities. They emphasized that authentic community cannot be created through marketing gimmicks but must be built by listening to customers and relinquishing some corporate control.
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