Researchers at Carnegie Mellon, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Washington found that the 3D folding of DNA is disrupted in brain cells affected by Alzheimer's disease, changing how key genes switch on and off. Published in the journal Science, the discovery adds a new layer beyond the classic amyloid plaques and tau tangles for a disease that already affects seven million Americans.
A new study published in the journal Science, led by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and the University of Washington, has found that the three-dimensional folding of DNA is organized differently in brain cells from people with Alzheimer's disease. Using a technique called GAGE-seq and a new AI model called Hicformer, the team linked this genome reorganization, a pattern they call increased compartment mingling, to weaker neuron and synapse activity and to changes in the brain's immune cells. The researchers frame the finding as a new layer of Alzheimer's biology alongside the classic amyloid plaques and tau tangles, and as a framework for future research into potential treatment targets, not a treatment itself. Alzheimer's disease currently affects seven million Americans, a number the researchers say continues to grow.
CISA added 44 vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog between 2026-08-15 and 2026-09-14. 36 are from this year. 0 are 16+ years old. 1 are linked to known ransomware campaigns. Source: cisa.gov/kev.
Oldest CVEs in this batch: CVE-2015-3246 (Red Hat), CVE-2
CISA added 44 vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog between 2026-08-15 and 2026-09-14. 36 are from this year. 0 are 16+ years old. 1 are linked to known ransomware campaigns. Source: cisa.gov/kev.
Oldest CVEs in this batch: CVE-2015-3246 (Red Hat), CVE-2015-5287 (Red Hat), CVE-2019-1068 (Microsoft), CVE-2021-23758 (Ajax.NET Professional).
A CVSS 10.0 flaw in Adobe $ADBE Commerce and Magento, dubbed StyleSmuggler, was exploited in the wild from September 4 to plant backdoors before Adobe shipped a fix on September 7. Per The Hacker News / BleepingComputer.
A maximum-severity vulnerability in Adobe $ADBE Commerce and Magento Open Source, tracked as CVE-2026-75650 and nicknamed StyleSmuggler, let unauthenticated attackers execute code on victim stores by abusing Magento's template system through a 'Payment Transaction Failed Reminder' email. Security firm Sansec found exploitation in the wild starting September 4, 2026, days before Adobe released an emergency hotfix on September 7. Investigators identified two separate payloads on compromised stores: a Rust-based Linux backdoor disguising its command-and-control traffic as NTP server communication, and a 485-byte PHP web shell. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 8, ordering federal agencies to patch by September 11. Sources: The Hacker News, BleepingComputer.
# Al-Qaeda's Fuel War Is Strangling a Capital A landlocked city of nearly three million is being brought to its knees by a simple tactic: burn the tankers that keep it alive.
Bamako has not fallen. The trick is that it may not need to. Since September 2025, the al-Qaeda-linked coalition Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin has run a blockade on the fuel that Mali imports by road, and a year on the tactic is still holding. More than 300 tankers have been destroyed on the highways from Senegal and Ivory Coast. The capital now drinks fuel through a straw: armed convoys, escorted by soldiers and Russian mercenaries, that get through when they can and burn when they cannot. This is a siege without a front line. And it is working better than any of JNIM's failed direct assaults ever did. ## The Context Mali is landlocked, and roughly 95 percent of its fuel arrives by truck from the coast, most of it up National Road 1 through the western city of Kayes from the port of Dakar, the rest from Ivory Coast. JNIM, an al-Qaeda affiliate stitched together in 2017 and now fighting across Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, understands that arithmetic exactly. Its spokesman announced the blockade on September 3, 2025, first framing it as pressure to drop fuel taxes in rural areas, then broadening the demand to the imposition of Sharia law. What followed was methodical. The first ambush hit a convoy of 80 tankers moving under Malian and Russian escort in the Kayes region; satellite imagery later showed more than 50 trucks at the site, around 30 of them blackened. In October, a single attack near Sikasso destroyed more than 40 tankers, and another near Kolondieba left over 50 burned. The Wall Street Journal ran the headline "Al Qaeda Is on the Brink of Taking Over a Country." The Atlantic Council warned of a turning point that risks a disastrous domino effect. The state's answer has been to convoy through the chokepoints by force. Since late October 2025, more than 1,200 tankers have reached Bamako under military protection, and the government leaned on Russia's Africa Corps and Turkish drones to keep the roads open. Russia announced plans to ship in 200,000 tons of petroleum. The United Nations drew down its emergency fuel stockpile in the country. For ordinary Malians the effect was immediate. Schools and universities were shut for roughly two weeks in late October and November. Fuel was rationed to the military and government. Bamako went visibly darker at night as generation fell, a change captured in satellite imagery. Foreign embassies told their nationals to leave. On October 28, the US embassy urged Americans to depart immediately, and both Washington and London pulled diplomatic staff. ## The Implications The near-term picture is a capital that functions on rations. The blockade eased in early 2026 during negotiations, then JNIM reimposed a full blockade on Bamako on April 28, framing it as retaliation for residents who helped the army during a government offensive. A February convoy attack near the Senegalese border killed at least 15 people. The pattern is neither collapse nor relief. It is managed strangulation, where the group tightens and loosens the tourniquet to extract concessions and to demonstrate, month after month, that the state cannot guarantee the one thing a modern city cannot live without. The losers are easy to name. The Malian economy, already fragile, runs closer to a standstill each time the convoys stop. The wider region loses too, because the same roads carry trade for Senegal and Ivory Coast, and Senegalese truckers have been kidnapped and killed on them. The winner is JNIM, and the win is strategic rather than territorial. The group failed to storm Bamako as recently as July 2025, when simultaneous assaults on military sites were repelled. It has since made the capital ungovernable from a distance instead, taxing what moves, burning what does not, and letting the shortages do the political work. That is a cheaper and more repeatable model than conquest. ## What the Coverage Misses Most reporting frames this as a fuel crisis. It is closer to a governance experiment. In the areas it controls, JNIM has spent years building the apparatus of a shadow state, taxing vehicles and goods along the roads between Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. The blockade extends that logic to the capital. The group is not merely denying fuel. It is asserting that it, and not the government in Bamako, sets the terms on which the country's arteries operate. The Diarra Transport case made this plain. JNIM had barred one large transport company from its roads, then lifted the ban only after the firm agreed to segregate male and female passengers, require women to wear the burqa, and pay compensation for accidents. The Malian government responded by suspending the company. For a moment, a private business was answering to the insurgents' rulebook rather than the state's. That is what erosion of authority looks like in practice, and it rarely makes the fuel-queue photographs. The second blind spot is the Russian factor. The junta traded Western and UN security partnerships for Moscow's after the 2020 and 2021 coups, betting that Wagner, and later the Africa Corps, would deliver what French and UN forces had not. The blockade is that bet coming due. Russian forces have kept some convoys moving, yet their broader campaign has coincided with an insurgency that spread south rather than shrinking, and Wagner's own drawdown from Mali this year has thinned the Russian presence at the worst possible moment. ## The Regional Calculus Mali does not sit alone. It anchors the Alliance of Sahel States alongside Burkina Faso and Niger, three junta-led governments that quit the West African bloc ECOWAS and reoriented toward Russia. All three face versions of the same insurgency. The Sahel now accounts for more than half of all deaths from terrorism worldwide, according to the 2026 Global Terrorism Index, a concentration without modern precedent. If the blockade succeeds against Bamako, it becomes a template. Ouagadougou and Niamey are landlocked too, dependent on the same coastal ports and the same exposed roads. A tactic that can throttle one Sahelian capital can, in principle, throttle the others. The fracture line runs between the coastal states that still hold the ports (Senegal, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin) and the interior juntas that depend on them, and JNIM has already pushed cells toward the northern edges of Benin and Togo. For outside powers the position is uncomfortable. Western militaries were asked to leave. Russia is stretched and drawing down. The coastal states have every incentive to keep their trade corridors open and every reason to fear the violence moving south with the trucks. ## The Watch List These are markers worth tracking, not predictions. First, whether the escorted convoys keep their cadence into Bamako or thin out, the clearest single gauge of whether the state is holding the roads. Second, any renewed negotiation channel between the junta and JNIM, and what is traded for what. Third, the pace of the Russian Africa Corps drawdown and whether anything replaces it on convoy duty. Fourth, incidents in northern Benin, Togo and Ivory Coast, the early sign the model is exporting toward the coast. Fifth, fuel and food prices in Bamako and Kayes as a real-time read on the squeeze. A year into the blockade, the striking thing is how little has had to change on the ground for the balance to shift. No capital has been stormed. No government has fallen. A group that could not take Bamako by force has spent twelve months showing it may not have to, one burned tanker at a time. Sources: The Wall Street Journal (Oct 30, 2025); The Washington Post (Oct 21, 2025); BBC (Sep 17 and Oct 27, 2025); Bellingcat with ACLED (Dec 3, 2025); Atlantic Council (Nov 25, 2025); Reuters (Oct 31, 2025); France 24 (Oct 28, 2025); Human Rights Watch (Oct 28, 2025); Africanews (Feb 2, 2026); Critical Threats Project, AEI (Apr 30, 2026); Global Terrorism Index 2026 (Institute for Economics and Peace).
Germany's government meets UniCredit $UCG face to face for the first time today, as Berlin shifts from opposing its pursuit of Commerzbank $CBK to negotiating terms.
UniCredit is set to control close to 50% of Commerzbank's shares before the next shareholder vote; Berlin holds 13% as the second-largest shareholder, its main point of leverage, one that counts for less once UniCredit locks in a majority. Berlin wants a Frankfurt listing, board seats and no forced layoffs. Per Reuters.
A Russian drone struck a train two kilometers from the Ukraine-Poland border and a truck near the crossing, minutes after a diplomatic delegation left the station. No injuries were reported. Per CNN, i24NEWS, and AP.
A Russian drone hit the locomotive of a passenger train at Yahodyn, Ukraine, about two kilometers from the border crossing into Poland, early Sunday morning. A separate drone strike destroyed a truck and hit a gas station less than one kilometer from the border. A diplomatic delegation that included former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt had left the Yahodyn station shortly before the strike; former CIA Director David Petraeus was reportedly still at the station when the drone hit. No injuries were reported on either the Ukrainian or Polish side. Ukrainian Railways said it is "quite likely" the drone deliberately targeted the diplomatic train. Ukraine's government said Russia fired more than two thousand drones at the country in the past week. Sources: CNN, i24NEWS, AP wire reports.
Five journalists and three crew members have been missing in Indonesia's Sunda Strait for six days after their boat lost contact near the erupting Anak Krakatau volcano. Search teams have deployed 15 vessels, a helicopter, and roughly 300 personnel, with no trace found so far.
Five journalists and three crew members have been missing in Indonesia's Sunda Strait for six days after setting out on September 7 to document the eruption of Mount Anak Krakatau. Their last message said they had reached waters near the volcano; no contact has been received since. Indonesia's search and rescue agency has deployed 15 vessels and a helicopter, backed by roughly 300 personnel, across a search area now exceeding 6,000 square nautical miles. Anak Krakatau's 2018 eruption triggered a tsunami that killed more than 400 people, and the original 1883 Krakatau eruption killed over 36,000. Sources: Antara News, AP.
Nvidia's $NVDA growth increasingly rides on a handful of buyers.
Three unnamed customers made up 44% of its revenue in H1 fiscal 2027 (ended July), per its SEC filing - up sharply from a few years ago when no customer topped 10%. A pullback from any one of them would hit results directly.
Russia's overnight drone and missile assault on Ukraine hit within 800 meters to two kilometers of the Polish border.
A truck was struck near the Dorohusk-Yahodyn crossing, briefly halting it, per Polish border guards. A drone also hit a Kyiv-Warsaw train's locomotive nearby; no passengers were hurt. The wider assault killed at least six and injured 43. Among the closest hits yet to NATO territory. Per Reuters and the Kyiv Independent. More analysis: https://substack.com/@shortinfonews
A peer-reviewed CERN ALICE measurement, published in Physical Review Letters, finds a pattern in gluon behavior inside atomic nuclei that conventional nuclear-shadowing theory doesn't fully explain.
The ALICE Collaboration at CERN's Large Hadron Collider measured incoherent J/psi particle production inside lead nuclei across collision energies of 20 to 633 billion electron volts, probing structures down to 0.2 femtometers - about a quarter the size of a proton. At the smallest scales, particle production was suppressed more than the long-standing 'nuclear shadowing' theory predicts, a result with roughly three-sigma statistical significance. University of Kansas physicist Daniel Tapia Takaki, who helped lead the study, says the pattern is consistent with a different phenomenon called gluon saturation. Three-sigma is treated by physicists as evidence, not the five-sigma threshold typically required to call something a confirmed discovery. Published in Physical Review Letters.
A CVSS 10.0 authentication bypass in Cisco's Secure Firewall Management Center is being actively exploited, per Cisco's own advisory. CISA added it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog with a September 12, 2026 federal patch deadline, alongside flaws in Citrix and Fortinet products.
A maximum-severity (CVSS 10.0) authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20079, affects Cisco's $CSCO Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software. Cisco confirmed active exploitation beginning in August 2026, after first disclosing the flaw in March. The company said three distinct hacking clusters, internally tracked as UAT-12197, UAT-11823 and UAT-11988, used the bug to deploy web shells and malware on compromised devices. CISA added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, ordering US federal agencies to patch by September 12, 2026, alongside separately exploited flaws in Citrix NetScaler (CVSS 9.3) and Fortinet FortiOS (CVSS 7.3). Sources: The Hacker News, BleepingComputer.
A University of Warwick review of 1.9 million people across 23 studies found ADHD is linked to significantly higher rates of digestive symptoms, including nearly double the odds of constipation and a 58% higher rate of irritable bowel syndrome. Researchers stress this shows an association, not proof that ADHD causes gut problems.
Researchers at the University of Warwick combined data from more than 1.9 million people across 23 studies in 11 countries and found that people with ADHD have nearly 50% higher rates of digestive symptoms overall, almost double the odds of constipation, a 58% higher rate of irritable bowel syndrome, and more than four times the odds of encopresis. Possible explanations include ADHD medication side effects, irregular eating patterns, and differences in gut bacteria linked via the vagus nerve. The study, published in the Journal of Attention Disorders, is the first systematic review focused specifically on this link. The researchers stress this is an association, not proof that ADHD causes gut problems, and call for further research to separate biological factors from medication effects.
Saudi Arabia has shut down its East-West pipeline, which normally moves up to five million barrels of oil a day, after drone strikes hit it near Riyadh and Medina. Iraq says the drones launched from its Maysan province; no group has claimed the attack.
Saudi Arabia has shut down its East-West pipeline, the artery moving up to five million barrels of oil a day, after drone strikes hit it near Riyadh and Medina, injuring people and damaging equipment. Iraq's government says the drones launched from its southeastern Maysan province, and its prime minister has dismissed the local military commander and ordered a formal investigation. No group has claimed responsibility. President Trump said he believes Iran is probably behind the attack, calling it likely but not confirmed. Brent crude is now trading above $104 a barrel, up from about $72 before the war began in February.
A newly patched SAP bug rated the maximum 10.0 severity score let anyone on the internet run system commands on SAP servers with admin rights, no password needed.
CVE-2026-44756 (OVERPASS) sat in code reachable via the web, GUI, and RFC layers. SAP $SAP shipped the fix. Per Onapsis.
A Russian drone hit just 800m from the Polish border near Yahodyn overnight, forcing a temporary crossing closure.
Part of a record assault: 453 Shahed/Gerbera drones plus S8000 missiles, killing six, injuring 43. A second drone hit a train 2km from the border. Per Kyiv Independent, RFE/RL.
McKesson moves roughly a third of the prescriptions filled in the United States each year.
The people who broke into its cloud systems did not find a software flaw or crack a password vault. They picked up the phone and talked their way in. On August 25 the company discovered data leaving its environment, and by then an extortion group was already holding what it claims is about a terabyte of records pulled from a healthcare backbone that most Americans have never heard of. ## The context McKesson is one of three companies that sit under almost the entire US drug supply. Together with Cencora and Cardinal Health, it accounts for more than 90 percent of American pharmaceutical distribution, according to industry analysts at IntuitionLabs. IBISWorld puts McKesson alone at roughly a quarter of the wider drug wholesaling market, and the company says around a third of all US prescriptions pass through its network each year across more than 340 distribution facilities serving over 40,000 customers. When something goes wrong inside McKesson, it does not stay inside McKesson. The company disclosed the incident in a Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, saying it detected the intrusion on August 25 and that the investigation is in its early stages. Francisco Fraga, McKesson's EVP and Chief Information and Technology Officer, confirmed that attackers reached certain third-party applications and exfiltrated data tied to a subset of customers in the Oncology and Multispecialty and the Medical-Surgical business units. McKesson said it does not consider the incident material, that it is not proactively disconnecting systems, and that customers may see occasional service degradation. The how came from the attackers, not the company. The ShinyHunters extortion group told BleepingComputer it got in by placing voice-phishing calls, or vishing, to several McKesson employees, then used the stolen credentials to take over Okta single sign-on accounts. From there, according to the group, it moved into McKesson's Salesforce and Snowflake environments and pulled out about a terabyte of data over four days, between August 21 and 25. A separate source told BleepingComputer the attackers used a lookalike domain, mckesson.claims, to impersonate the company's own IT and help desk. ReliaQuest's threat researchers have been tracking a wider ShinyHunters pattern of registering domains under the .claims extension carrying a target's name, built for exactly this kind of help-desk impersonation. ## The implications The near-term damage is uncertain by design, because McKesson's investigation is young and the only detailed account of the theft comes from the thieves. The group says it demanded 55,236,150 dollars and gave McKesson 72 hours, and that the company never responded. In this crew's past cases, an unmet deadline has been followed by the stolen data being published or auctioned. That exposes patients whose prescription, billing, and medical records may be in the set, and it exposes McKesson to the litigation and regulatory machinery that follows any large health-data loss in the United States. The medium-term shift is structural. ShinyHunters does not encrypt anything. It steals and extorts, which means the victim's operations keep running while its data walks out the door. McKesson's own statement, that it is not disconnecting systems and expects only intermittent degradation, is the tell: the prescriptions still flow. That is small comfort for the tens of millions of people whose information sits in those Snowflake tables, but it changes who absorbs the pain. In an encryption attack the company bleeds first. In an exfiltration attack the patients bleed later, quietly, through fraud and exposure they may never trace back to a phone call in August. Who wins is easy to name. A crew that treats social engineering as a production line, working through Okta tenants one help desk at a time, is winning against an industry that spent a decade buying tools to stop the last kind of attack. ## The deeper angle The number everyone repeated is wrong, and the correction matters. Early coverage said 284 million patients were exposed. ShinyHunters itself walked that back to BleepingComputer, clarifying that 284 million is a raw count of database rows, not unique people, and that it has not analyzed the data closely enough to say how many individuals are actually in it. One patient can generate dozens of rows: every prescription, every shipment, every appointment. The real human total is unknown and almost certainly far smaller than the headline. This is not a footnote. Breach-scale figures drive litigation exposure, regulatory penalties, insurance math, and the public's sense of how bad a year this has been. A rows-versus-people error inflates all of it. SHORT INFO flags it because the official count, when it comes, will land at the Department of Health and Human Services, not on a Telegram channel run by the people doing the extortion. The other thing mainstream coverage tends to skip is that McKesson is not an outlier. It is the biggest name in a campaign that has been running all year. Researchers tracking ShinyHunters counted roughly 400 victim companies by March, including Canada Life, Kemper, McGraw-Hill, TransUnion, and the security firm ADT. Health-ISAC, the healthcare sector's own threat-sharing body, has warned members specifically about rising ShinyHunters social-engineering attacks aimed at cloud and SaaS accounts. Other 2026 healthcare targets already named in reporting include Medtronic, DentaQuest, iRhythm, OneMedical, and AdaptHealth. McKesson is the loudest name in that campaign, and far from the only one. ## Where the risk concentrates The lineage is worth tracing, because it explains why this keeps working. ShinyHunters, tracked by Mandiant as UNC5537, ran the mass Snowflake campaign of 2024 that hit around 160 organizations through stolen credentials, including AT&T, whose 109 million call records leaked after a reported 370,000 dollar ransom, plus Ticketmaster, Santander, and Neiman Marcus. In August 2025 the group folded together with the Lapsus crew and Scattered Spider into a loose extortion-as-a-service outfit. The same technique, credentials plus a convincing voice, has now been industrialized and franchised. Two concentrations make US healthcare especially exposed. The first is physical: three wholesalers under almost the entire drug supply. The second is digital: the same handful of SaaS platforms, Salesforce, Snowflake, and Okta, sit under a huge share of enterprise data, so one social-engineering method scales across hundreds of companies without modification. Multifactor authentication, the control most firms lean on, does not stop an employee from reading a real code to a caller who sounds like the help desk. The precedent that should worry health systems is Change Healthcare. In February 2024 a ransomware crew took down that clearinghouse, which processes a large share of US medical claims. UnitedHealth Group later put the total cost near 2.87 billion dollars, advanced more than 8.9 billion dollars in temporary funding to stranded providers, and the American Hospital Association found that 74 percent of surveyed hospitals reported direct hits to patient care. Change Healthcare and McKesson are different failures at the same kind of chokepoint: one froze the money, the other drained the records. Both show what happens when a single node carries a nation's healthcare load. ## The watch list These are markers to watch, not predictions. First, McKesson's SEC filings and its cybersecurity page for any amended 8-K, a materiality determination, or a confirmed count of affected individuals. Second, the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal, where the official patient number will eventually appear and can be checked against the 284 million rows figure. Third, whether ShinyHunters publishes or auctions the data now that the stated deadline has passed. Fourth, Health-ISAC and ReliaQuest advisories on the .claims impersonation domains, which point to who gets called next. Fifth, action from state attorneys general, following the Change Healthcare template, where Nebraska's lawsuit has already survived a motion to dismiss. ## Closing A drug distributor that touches a third of American prescriptions lost a terabyte of data to a phone call, and the loudest number attached to it turned out to describe spreadsheet rows rather than people. Both halves of that sentence are the story: the fragility of a backbone almost no one thinks about, and the speed at which a scary figure travels before anyone checks what it counts. SHORT INFO will track the official individual count as it lands at HHS. Sources: BleepingComputer (Aug 28, 2026); Help Net Security (Aug 31, 2026); McKesson SEC Form 8-K and customer cybersecurity notice; ReliaQuest threat research; Health-ISAC; IntuitionLabs and IBISWorld (McKesson market share); Picus Security and stateofsurveillance.org (ShinyHunters campaign tracking); Wikipedia and reporting on the 2024 Snowflake campaign (UNC5537); BankInfoSecurity, HIPAA Journal, and IBM (Change Healthcare 2024 scale and cost); American Hospital Association March 2024 survey.
Ukraine's navy says its Sargan 3000 sea drone destroyed a Russian unmanned boat in the Black Sea. The navy says it used a 12.7 mm remotely operated turret in an operation carried out with military intelligence.
The startup has raised $650 million in primary capital in 2026 as it prepares for high-volume manufacturing.
Ayar Labs announced another $150 million in funding on September 10, bringing its primary capital raised this year to $650 million.
The startup is developing optical connections between AI chips as an alternative to copper links. The funding supports preparations for high-volume manufacturing and a chip design center in Bengaluru, India.
BRICS leaders issued a joint declaration in New Delhi on Saturday expressing concern over escalating Middle East tensions. The agreement follows a May meeting at which BRICS foreign ministers failed to produce a joint statement over the Iran war.
Mercury may have contracted up to 30% more than earlier estimates suggested, according to a new study. Impact debris may hide some of the ridges recording the planet’s shrinkage over its history.
An explosion triggered a fire at an EMCO ammunition depot near Tsareva Livada in central Bulgaria overnight. No injuries were reported, according to Reuters.
Terrorism ranks among the biggest national challenges for 25% of respondents in France, down from 35% in 2022. The U.S. share fell from 22% to 17%; Germany rose from 15% to 17%. These are survey perceptions, not measurements of attacks. Source: Statista
A Pew Research survey finds 51% of US adults now say Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence, up from 25% in March 2002. The partisan gap has widened too: 76% of Republicans vs 29% of Democrats hold that view. Source: Pew Research via Statista.
A new Pew Research Center survey shows that 51% of US adults now believe Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence, the highest share recorded in over two decades of polling and up from 25% in March 2002, six months after the September 11 attacks. The share has climbed unevenly: it stood at 38% in 2009 and 48% in 2019 before reaching its current level. The partisan divide has also widened sharply. In this year's poll, 76% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said Islam encourages violence, compared with 29% of Democrats and Democratic leaners, a gap far larger than the 32% vs 23% split measured shortly after 9/11. Pew notes the figures come from representative surveys of up to 12,600 US adults, conducted by telephone in earlier years and later through its American Trends Panel, and reflect self-reported opinion rather than a measurement of Islam or actual acts of violence. The data was published as part of a broader Pew report marking 25 years since the September 11 attacks. Source: Pew Research Center via Statista.
Google confirmed an exploit for CVE-2026-85046, a type confusion bug in Chrome's V8 engine, is already active in the wild. It is the sixth actively exploited Chrome zero-day patched in 2026.
Google has patched CVE-2026-85046, a type confusion vulnerability in V8, Chrome's JavaScript and WebAssembly engine, after confirming an exploit for the flaw already exists in the wild. A single crafted webpage can trigger the bug and run code inside Chrome's sandbox. Security researcher Salvatore Gulizia reported the underlying issue on August 4, 2026, and earned a ,000 bug bounty. Google has not disclosed who is behind the in-the-wild exploitation or who has been targeted. It is the sixth actively exploited Chrome zero-day Google has patched in 2026. The fix is rolling out in Chrome and to Chromium-based browsers including Edge and Brave. Users are advised to update via Settings > About Chrome and restart the browser.
Poland is pursuing its own military satellite communications network. ICEYE and state-owned PGZ have signed a letter of intent to develop the system, which Prime Minister Donald Tusk describes as a future Polish Starlink.
An M5.9 earthquake struck near Timor on 11 September at 11:56 UTC, according to USGS. The map shows 84 M4.5+ earthquakes recorded by USGS over the seven days to 19:52 UTC on 11 September.
MI5 chief Ken McCallum says Britain must prepare for terrorism and state-backed threats at the same time. On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, he called for government, businesses and academia to work together to strengthen resilience.
Germany registered 12,812 business insolvency applications in the first half of 2026, up 6.7% from a year earlier. It was the highest first-half total since 2013, according to Destatis.
August 2026 tied July 2023 as the warmest month recorded globally, according to Copernicus. 16.96°C was the global average surface air temperature in August 2026. That was 0.85°C above the August average for 1991–2020, according to Copernicus.
August 2026 tied July 2023 as the warmest month recorded globally, according to Copernicus.
16.96°C was the global average surface air temperature in August 2026.
That was 0.85°C above the August average for 1991–2020, according to Copernicus.
Poland's PM Donald Tusk says Polish and Ukrainian services averted a threat to a border crossing on the night of 9-10 September. He warned that Russia could target crossings linking Ukraine with Europe, including Poland.