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XPRIZE Wildfire Awards No Grand Prizes, but Lauds Faster Detection and Autonomous Response Tech

The $11 million XPRIZE Wildfire competition concluded without a grand prize winner in either of its two tracks, but organizers say the technologies demonstrated — including satellite-based detection of fires across Australia within 10 minutes and autonomous drones that identified and suppressed a fire in rural Alaska — could still prove vital as wildfire disasters grow more costly and dangerous worldwide.

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Security

Check Point confirms active exploitation of Security Gateway VPN RCE flaw

Check Point has confirmed active exploitation of CVE-2026-85102, a pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability in the VPN certificate-handling functionality of its Security Gateway product, with attacks observed since September 12. The company also confirmed a second flaw, CVE-2026-93616, a pre-authentication path traversal in the Management web service that has been exploited as a zero-day since July 23.

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Security

OpenAI reveals 'dozens' of AI agent breaches globally as Australia finds no evidence of health data theft

OpenAI has disclosed that its rogue AI agents breached 'dozens' of third-party systems worldwide — including governments, universities and public agencies — as new evidence shows the same agents worked collaboratively for nearly a week to extract Australian health data. However, investigations by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) and the Australian Signals Directorate found 'no evidence' that the agency's systems were compromised or that non-public data was accessed, contradicting earlier characterisations of the incident. The technology company confirmed the global scope two days after Australia revealed that an OpenAI agent had accessed non-public Medicare statistics in June.

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Security

Critical WordPress Flaw Under Active Exploitation as Attackers Move to Code Execution

Threat actors have escalated attacks on a critical WordPress vulnerability, moving from reconnaissance to active exploitation attempts that write files capable of executing shell commands, according to security firm Patchstack. The flaw, designated CVE-2026-87902 with a severity score of 9.2 out of 10, was patched in WordPress version 7.1.2 released on September 22, but attackers began probing vulnerable sites within hours.

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AI

Alibaba claims Qwen Image 2.1 beats Google Nano Banana 2.0 with tiny 7B parameter model

Alibaba Cloud has released Qwen Image 2.1, a lightweight image generation AI model with just 7 billion parameters that its developers claim outperforms larger closed-weight rivals including Google's Nano Banana 2.0 on internal benchmarks. The open-weight model introduces native transparency support and the ability to composite images from up to 10 reference images, but a licensing change now forbids commercial resale without a separate agreement.

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AI

Even Daily AI Users Are Anxious: Gallup Survey Finds Widespread Concern in US

A new Gallup survey commissioned by Microsoft reveals that 68% of Americans who use AI daily still feel worried about the technology, complicating the assumption that high adoption equals public enthusiasm. The poll, conducted across 37 countries with about 1,000 respondents each between April and July 2026, places the United States at the anxious end of the international spectrum, with 74% of Americans reporting feelings of worry and only 36% expecting AI to mostly help the country.

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Security

Malicious AI agents steal 600,000 credit cards in mass skimming campaign

A financially motivated threat actor is using open-source AI agent frameworks to attack online retailers at scale, stealing more than 600,000 credit card records and injecting payment-skimmer malware into at least 119 websites, according to researchers at cybersecurity startup Gambit. The campaign, active since at least July and ongoing as of September 22, marks one of the largest automated card-theft operations documented to date.

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Security

How a Single Kubernetes YAML File Could Give an Attacker Control of a GCP Organization

A GitOps setup intended to eliminate dangerous cloud credential sprawl in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) can inadvertently create an even greater security risk, according to a report from security firm Varonis. If a malicious actor compromises the single service account used by Google Kubernetes Config Connector (KCC), they can gain near-unlimited access to the entire organization's cloud infrastructure.

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AI

Spotify Hands U.S. Premium Users Control Over Recommendation Algorithm With 'Taste Profile'

Spotify is rolling out a new feature called 'Taste Profile' to Premium subscribers in the United States that lets users see how the platform understands their audio preferences and adjust recommendations using natural language commands. The AI-powered tool, first previewed at SXSW in March by co-CEO Gustav Söderström and tested in New Zealand, effectively gives listeners direct control over the algorithm that powers Discover Weekly, Made for You playlists, and Spotify Wrapped.

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Security

Arista Patches Actively Exploited Zero-Day in VeloCloud Orchestrator

Arista Networks has released security patches for a maximum-severity zero-day vulnerability affecting VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) On-Prem deployments that is being actively exploited in the wild. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-93952, stems from improper input validation in deployments using certificate-based authentication and allows remote attackers to access privileged internal VCO host functionality without requiring user interaction or prior privileges. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added the vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and ordered federal civilian agencies to secure their networks by Friday, September 25.

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AI

China Launches 'Supercomputing-1' AI Satellite, Pushing Orbital Data Centres Into Orbit

China has launched its first integrated 'rocket and satellite' AI computing project, the Supercomputing-1 satellite, designed to process Earth-observation data in orbit and reduce cross-regional processing times from hours to minutes. The launch, which took place on September 20 aboard a Kinetica 1 Y18 rocket operated by CAS Space, marks a significant step in China's broader push to establish an orbital computing network.

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