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Trust & Security

JFrog Artifactory Auth Bypass Turns Fortune 100 CI/CD Pipelines Into Supply Chain Attack Surface

A CVSS 9.8 improper authentication flaw in self-hosted Artifactory instances enables unauthenticated administrative access. WatchTowr observed exploitation within 96 hours of disclosure.

Heath Callahan Forkast mind 3h ago

Trust & Security

21,000 Exchange Servers Exposed to Public PoC Exploit After Pwn2Own $200K Chain Demo

A three-bug SYSTEM-level RCE chain demonstrated at Pwn2Own Berlin has been commoditized into a public exploit, leaving thousands of unpatched servers at risk.

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

Money & Markets

LSE Partners With Kraken to Bring UK Equities Onchain—Excluding British Investors

The London Stock Exchange's partnership with Payward marks tokenization's move into institutional equity infrastructure, but the regulatory gap between global access and local exclusion reveals the real tension.

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

Models →

Chinese Open-Weight Frontier Compresses: Five Labs, Thirty Days, Two Licensing Models

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

OpenAI’s Cursor Termination Turns Model Supply Into a Competitive Weapon

◆ Lena ParkAug 29

Anthropic’s $45B Nscale Deal Adds an Eighth Compute Corridor — and a Pattern of Betting on Startups

◆ Lena ParkAug 28

Infrastructure →

CISA Adds Linux Kernel + JFrog Artifactory CVEs to KEV After OpenAI Agent Exploitation

◆ Blair HayesAug 31

Apple’s Agent Seer Signals MCP’s Shift From Connectivity to Evaluation Layer

◆ Blair HayesAug 30

NVIDIA AgentPerf and the Battle to Define the Agent Infrastructure Benchmark

◆ Blair HayesAug 26

Money & Markets →

OSL Group’s H1 2026 Results: 88% of Revenue Now Comes From Stablecoin Payments

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

NYSE Dual-Vendor Strategy Signals Institutional Shift in Tokenized Securities

◆ Nolan PrattAug 31

Revolut Launched a Euro Stablecoin to 80 Million Customers. The Real Story Is Who Controls the Distribution.

◆ Nolan PrattAug 31

Commerce →

Fasset’s $1B Valuation Bets Stablecoins Can Settle the Agent Economy — If Trust Follows

◆ Tessa VaughnAug 24

Proof’s x401: The First Protocol Answering Who Is Behind the Agent

◆ Tessa VaughnAug 22

Visa’s Agentic Ready Program Moves Issuer-Layer Readiness From Theory to Production

◆ Tessa VaughnAug 17

Agents at Work →

The Build-vs-Buy Shift: 32% of Enterprises Bet on Agentic Coding Tools

◆ Dana EllisonYesterday

The Hidden Math Behind the AI Agent Cost Crisis

◆ Dana EllisonAug 31

Serval Bets It Can Automate the Work IT Admins Used to Do — and ServiceNow Should Pay Attention

◆ Dana EllisonAug 30

Agents at Home →

OpenClaw: The Open-Source Framework Quietly Becoming the Smart Home’s AI Agent Standard

◆ Mila CohenYesterday

Smart Home Security Debt: When Your Router Becomes the Agent’s Attack Surface

◆ Mila CohenAug 31

Google Is Replacing the Most Reliable Voice Assistant With One That Works Half the Time

◆ Mila CohenAug 30

Trust & Security →

ash_ai 6-CVE Cluster Exposes the Full Agent Stack in Elixir’s First Coordinated AI Framework Disclosure

◆ Heath CallahanAug 31

CLOP Is Mass-Exploiting PTC Windchill at Scale. Every AI Agent Connected to It Inherits the Breach.

◆ Heath CallahanAug 30

AI-Generated Scripts Eliminate the Expertise Barrier for Attacking Industrial Control Systems

◆ Heath CallahanAug 29

Policy →

The Fiduciary Frame: Agent Governance Converges on Duty of Loyalty

◆ Priya NairAug 31

Stanford HAI Proposes Fiduciary Duty for AI Agent Developers

◆ Priya NairAug 31

The FTC’s Latest AI Crackdown: Why ‘Active Listening’ Was Just a Marketing Mirage

◆ Priya NairAug 29