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Enveda, a biotech startup using AI to identify drugs from plants and microbes, closed a $311 million Series E funding round at a $2 billion valuation. Catalio Capital Management led the round, with Iconiq and other investors participating. The valuation doubles what the company achieved a year earlier.
Eclypsium's September InfraTrust Pulse report logged 158 new security advisories across 17 vendors between August 25 and September 17, covering 1,699 vulnerabilities. Of these, 42 were rated critical, eight scored a maximum 10.0 severity, 71 could be exploited remotely without authentication, and five advisories included flaws later added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The report singles out a maximum-severity Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center authentication bypass, CVE-2026-20079, which Cisco confirmed on September 9 was being actively exploited, allowing attackers to run commands as root without credentials.
Android Authority found Spotify developing a 'Cache Limit' feature for its Android app, letting users set a maximum size for the app's temporary storage cache. The tool would warn that smaller limits increase mobile data use and could affect playback, while suggesting a default size for balance. Downloaded music and podcasts stored offline would remain unaffected by this cache limit.
Author Caroline Webb has released a book, 'Leadership Intelligence: Science-Backed Strategies for Mastering 21 Everyday Management Challenges,' applying behavioral science research to workplace leadership. She shares five specific insights from the book aimed at helping managers handle common challenges more effectively.
A workplace analysis argues that organizations often lean on high-performing employees to compensate for unclear responsibilities and broken processes. Because these employees consistently step up and deliver, leaders increasingly pile more work onto them rather than fixing underlying structural issues.
Check Point Software has issued emergency hotfixes for CVE-2026-93616, a critical path traversal vulnerability in its Security Management Server that lets unauthenticated attackers upload and run arbitrary scripts. The company confirmed the flaw is being actively exploited, with a handful of customers already compromised, and released a fix in R82.20 Security Hotfix covering Security Management Server, Multi-Domain Security Management Server, Log Server, Multi-Domain Log Server, and SmartEvent.
A leadership contributor for Entrepreneur describes how a project manager felt safe enough to flag risks that could have derailed a major initiative, allowing the team to address problems before they escalated. Publicly recognizing that manager's foresight later inspired a company-wide peer recognition program.
A management guide outlines three frequent mistakes leaders make during one-on-one meetings with direct reports, arguing that these missteps undermine the meetings' value despite their importance to team health. The piece emphasizes that effective 1:1s require deliberate preparation and structure rather than being treated as routine check-ins.
According to reports from The Washington Post, New York Times and Politico, the White House is drafting an executive order that would let OMB Director Russell Vought approve or reject every grant awarded by the NIH. The move follows a meeting in which NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya reportedly failed to stop the effort, marking the latest attempt by Vought to steer the agency's funding decisions after earlier attempts to cut its budget and impose political criteria on grants were blocked by Congress and the courts.
This 2019 explainer breaks down how traffic signals manage competing streams of cars, bikes and pedestrians at urban intersections, describing them as the key bottleneck limiting a roadway's overall capacity. It draws an analogy between city road networks and human anatomy, showing how arterial roads rely on at-grade, signal-controlled intersections rather than ramps or overpasses to regulate right-of-way.
Cisco says many organizations already have AI agents operating without proper identities, owners, or access controls, often connected directly to production systems by developers without IT's knowledge. The company's identity product lead, Matt Caulfield, is developing Duo Agentic Identity to address this gap as traditional identity and access management tools were never designed for autonomous, machine-speed actors.
An engineering leader recounts advising a friend who took a demanding new senior role and felt pressure to prove himself by working 60-80 hour weeks. He describes a recurring pattern he calls the 'senior engineer death spiral,' where engineers overcommit to ambitious projects, go silent for weeks, give vague positive updates, and quietly fall behind while trying to compensate by working even harder in secret.