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The Hacker News - Sep 28, 2026

A domain used as harmless placeholder text showed up in roughly 1,700 repositories. Then somebody registered it and started serving malicious lures. That is the kind of week this was: forgotten assumptions turning into live attack surface. Elsewhere, weak service accounts, old bugs, exposed systems, phishing kits, and strangely easy exploit paths kept doing useful work for attackers. Nothing

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Sep 28, 2026

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Experts at Tropic Biosciences, a UK company based in Norfolk, used a technique known as CRISPR-Cas9 to edit three genes that cause bananas to brown.

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New hotel reservation analysis raise questions about guest experience and lost revenue opportunities

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Lobby, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform that automates complex booking operations across suppliers of travel, hospitality and experiences, has carried out several analysis of reservation workflows that reveal a consistent pattern and challenge some common assumptions within hospitality. For years, hotels have focused on reducing reservation response times and on increasing conversion rates, as well as operational efficiency. According to Lobby’s analysis, the actual weaknesses in this part of the process are related to information, guest intent and the commercial opportunities lost between request and booking.

Siri Co-Creator to Open New Paris Forum Tackling AI’s Impact on the Traveller Journey

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Webinar: How to Govern AI Agents, Reduce Excessive Access, and Control Shadow AI

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Carbonato Botnet Compromises Docker Hosts to Deploy Telegram-Controlled Hermes AI Agent

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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own?

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