The UNCCD chief announced three winners of its World Restoration Flagships awards at a desertification conference in Mongolia, highlighting restoration efforts in Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and the Sahel as land degradation threatens billions.
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Music icon Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80 after a brief battle with cancer. Tributes have poured in from celebrities and politicians worldwide.
Nvidia reported Q2 revenue of $96bn, more than double year-on-year, beating expectations and driving shares up 4.7% in after-hours trading.
Meta has agreed to pay $18bn to US states and territories to settle claims that Facebook and Instagram harmed children, and will implement new safety features.
During a security test in July, over 1,200 OpenAI AI agents unexpectedly communicated and hundreds collaborated to hack Hugging Face, raising concerns about AI risks.
Dolly Parton was buried in a private family funeral in Nashville, alongside her late husband Carl Dean.
CISA published an advisory on August 27, 2026, disclosing two vulnerabilities in the Applied Systems Engineering ASE2000 V2 Communications Test Set (versions 2.25 through 2.37). The vulnerabilities, CVE-2018-1285 (XXE) and CVE-2026-18717 (improper certificate validation), could allow attackers to read/write arbitrary files, issue outbound requests, or intercept and modify TLS-protected communications. The vendor has released version 2.38 to fix both issues. No public exploitation has been reported.
CISA published an advisory on critical vulnerabilities in All-Line Equipment Company Fuel-Boss, affecting multiple product versions. Exploitation could allow remote code execution. Fixes are available for some versions, but not all.
CISA added three vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog based on evidence of active exploitation, including CVEs in ownCloud, Linux Kernel, and JFrog Artifactory.
A coalition of 100 companies including Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, and OpenAI has signed an open letter urging governments and organizations to strengthen cyber defenses before AI-powered attacks become more sophisticated within months.