Blackstone N1 global head Jas Khaira will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on a panel titled 'Building the Next Generation of AI Giants,' discussing how the firm evaluates AI startups and how founders should approach capital decisions. The announcement highlights recent Blackstone deals, including up to $600 million in equity for Indian AI infrastructure firm Neysa and a $1.5 billion joint venture backing Anthropic's Ode implementation unit.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-02
Clay co-founder and CEO Kareem Amin will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 about the emergence of the 'GTM engineer,' a role Clay says it coined in 2023 for people who build automated, AI-driven revenue workflows instead of manually performing sales and marketing tasks. Clay says roughly 100 such job listings now appear monthly, including at companies like Cursor and Lovable.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-02
TechCrunch says applications to host an official Side Event during its Founder Summit 2026, taking place in Boston from November 1-7, close tonight at midnight PT. Approved hosts can run meetups, panels or workshops tied to the conference week, with organizers responsible for their own logistics and costs.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-02
TechCrunch is closing exhibit table bookings for Disrupt 2026 at 11:59 p.m. PT on October 2, or sooner if tables sell out. The event runs October 13-15 at San Francisco's Moscone West and is expected to draw over 10,000 founders, investors, operators and tech leaders. Exhibit packages include five Exhibitor-Partner passes and five Expo+ passes, plus access to lead capture through the Disrupt mobile app.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-02
GitLab issued an advisory urging immediate patching of CVE-2026-90970, a critical vulnerability in its AI Gateway service that powers GitLab Duo. The flaw lets an authenticated user with Duo Agent Platform access escape a prompt template sandbox via a crafted flow configuration and run arbitrary commands on self-hosted AI Gateway instances. GitLab released versions 19.2.4, 19.3.2, and 19.4.1 to fix the issue, noting GitLab-hosted AI Gateway customers are already protected.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-10-02
Fast Company published a feature profiling a group of executives and entrepreneurs it describes as 'growth agents' for 2026, highlighting their strategies and leadership approaches. The piece is presented as a photo-led showcase crediting a team of photographers and a photo editor rather than offering detailed narrative reporting on any single company.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-01
Fortinet has disclosed a critical path traversal vulnerability in FortiMail's management interface, scoring 9.8 on CVSS, that attackers are already exploiting to write arbitrary files without authentication. The flaw affects FortiMail versions 7.2 through 8.0.1, and was discovered internally by Fortinet's Product Security team. Patches are not yet available for most affected branches, though fixed versions are planned.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-10-01
Engadget has reviewed more than 130 tech products so far in 2026, scoring them on a 100-point scale ranging from 67 to 94. The outlet's editors selected Best of 2026 award winners by first narrowing the field to products scoring 90 or above, then comparing top contenders within categories, and rechecking prices and performance before finalizing picks. Some categories, including earbuds, headphones, tablets, Windows laptops, foldable phones and smart glasses, are still pending due to expected late-year product launches.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-01
A 1960 paper published in the journal Science used a mathematical model of human population growth to calculate that global population would reach infinity—a theoretical 'doomsday'—on November 13, 2026. The researchers based the projection on historical population growth trends extrapolated into the future.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-10-01
In his new book, Our Own Worst Enemies, Robert Pape presents data from the Chicago Project on Security and Threats showing that 90 percent of those charged over the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack had no ties to militias or militant groups. His analysis found 22 percent were business owners, nearly 30 percent held college degrees, and almost 40 percent worked white-collar jobs, with only 8 percent unemployed.
wired.com
· 2026-10-01
Kiteworks released patches addressing 126 vulnerabilities across its Private Content Network platform, including a critical bug tracked as CVE-2026-54154 affecting its Email Protection Gateway. The flaw, found via Kiteworks' bug bounty program, could let an unauthenticated attacker chain path traversal, code injection, and missing authentication issues to gain root control of an appliance without user interaction. The company also patched 11 other critical flaws spanning authentication bypass, admin takeover, and XSS issues, fixing all affected EPG versions before 9.4.1.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-10-01
Microsoft reports that attackers have been actively exploiting a critical unauthenticated command-injection vulnerability in the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, tracked as CVE-2026-73570, to access and exfiltrate email and credential data. Synacor patched the flaw on July 20 but did not publicly disclose it for over three weeks, and the Shadowserver Foundation found 274 compromised instances among roughly 10,000 servers still running the software. Microsoft observed attackers scanning for vulnerable servers, confirming exploitation, then deploying web shells, reverse shells, and persistence tools before accessing and archiving mailbox data for transfer.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-30
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