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Iran says ‘fully prepared’ for football team’s World Cup participation | World Cup 2026 News

Iran says ‘fully prepared’ for football team’s World Cup participation | World Cup 2026 News

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Tehran says all necessary arrangements has been made for participation in the tournament cohosted by the US. Published On 22 Apr 202622 Apr 2026 Iran says that the country’s institutions are fully prepared for its national football team’s participation in the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico. In a statement made to state broadcaster IRIB, government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani said on Wednesday that the Ministry of Youth and Sports ensured all necessary arrangements for the team’s effective participation in the tournament. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list She also said the preparations were made under the directive of the sport minister, with a focus on providing the required facilities for a successful performance. FIFA President Gianni Infantino said on April 16 that Iran is expected to participate in the upcoming World Cup, taking place from June 11 to July 19, noting that the team has qualified and expressed its willingness to compete despite the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran. “But Iran has to come, they represent their people, they have …

Vercel breach exposes the OAuth gap most security teams cannot detect, scope or contain

Vercel breach exposes the OAuth gap most security teams cannot detect, scope or contain

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One employee at Vercel adopted an AI tool. One employee at that AI vendor got hit with an infostealer. That combination created a walk-in path to Vercel’s production environments through an OAuth grant that nobody had reviewed. Vercel, the cloud platform behind Next.js and its millions of weekly npm downloads, confirmed on Sunday that attackers gained unauthorized access to internal systems. Mandiant was brought in. Law enforcement was notified. Investigations remain active. An update on Monday confirmed that Vercel collaborated with GitHub, Microsoft, npm, and Socket to verify that no Vercel npm packages were compromised. Vercel also announced it is now defaulting environment variable creation to “sensitive.” Next.js, Turbopack, AI SDK, and all Vercel-published npm packages remain uncompromised after a coordinated audit with GitHub, Microsoft, npm, and Socket. Context.ai was the entry point. OX Security’s analysis found that a Vercel employee installed the Context.ai browser extension and signed into it using a corporate Google Workspace account, granting broad OAuth permissions. When Context.ai was breached, the attacker inherited that employee’s Workspace access, pivoted into Vercel environments, …

Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meetings

Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meetings

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Meeting platform Zoom has announced a partnership with World, Sam Altman’s human ID verification company, to ensure that the people attending meetings are actually human and not AI-generated imposters. The threat is real and growing fast. The most dramatic example came in early 2024, when engineering firm Arup lost $25 million after an employee in Hong Kong authorized a series of wire transfers during what appeared to be a routine video call with the company’s CFO and several colleagues. Every person on that call — except the victim — turned out to be an AI-generated deepfake. A similar attack hit a multinational firm in Singapore in 2025. Across the board, financial losses from deepfake-enabled fraud exceeded $200 million in just the first quarter of last year, according to one estimate, and the average loss per corporate incident now tops $500,000, according to security industry reports. So while deepfake video-call fraud may not be something most people ever encounter personally, it represents a serious risk for businesses, especially those that regularly conduct high-value transactions over video. …

Politico says merger of energy teams has boosted Iran war coverage

Politico says merger of energy teams has boosted Iran war coverage

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Politico deputy editor-in-chief Joe Schatz interviews American Petroleum Institute president Mike Sommers at the Politico Pub in CeraWeek in March 2026. Picture: CatchLight Group for Politico The impact of a major restructure of Politico’s energy and environment reporting teams was “immediately apparent” after the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran, bosses have said. In February the publisher merged its two, previously siloed teams of energy and environment reporters who comprise about a dozen working on Politico Pro Energy and several dozen journalists on E&E News which was acquired by Politico in 2020. Politico told Press Gazette that March was its highest single month for energy and environment consumer page views since at least January 2022, the furthest back it can compare its internal data. It said page views to its energy section were up 142% in Q1 compared to the same period last year. Politico also said the reach of B2B subscriber product Politico Pro Energy, defined as site page views and email opens combined, was up 115% this year so far compared to …

US, Iranian Teams Could Return to Islamabad for Peace Talks This Week, Multiple Sources Say

US, Iranian Teams Could Return to Islamabad for Peace Talks This Week, Multiple Sources Say

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By Ariba Shahid and Mubasher Bukhari ISLAMABAD, April 14 (Reuters) – Negotiating teams from ⁠the ⁠U.S. and Iran could return to ⁠Pakistan later this week to resume negotiations to end the war in the ​Gulf, Pakistani and Iranian officials said on Tuesday, days after the first peace talks ended without a breakthrough. There was no ‌immediate confirmation from U.S. officials about ‌the plans, which the Iranian and Pakistani officials discussed on condition of anonymity. A source who has been involved ⁠in the ⁠talks said a proposal had been sent to Washington and Tehran for the ​delegations to return to Islamabad to resume discussions. No date had yet been decided but both countries could return as early as the end of this week. An official at the Iranian embassy in Islamabad said: “The coming rounds of talks can come ​sometime later this week or earlier next week. But nothing is finalised as of now.” Earlier, a senior ⁠Iranian ⁠source told Reuters: “No firm date ⁠has been set, ​with the delegations keeping Friday through Sunday open.” A …

What happened to Julio Urías? ‘Teams ask me about him all the time,’ agent says

What happened to Julio Urías? ‘Teams ask me about him all the time,’ agent says

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The only player twice suspended under baseball’s domestic violence and sexual assault policy has yet to decide whether he wants to resume his career, according to his agent. Former Dodgers pitcher Julio Urías, whose second suspension expired last July, has not signed with any team since then. Scott Boras, the agent for Urías, declined to say whether any team had offered Urías a contract this year but said he has not solicited offers from any clubs. “I have to have the authority from my client even to talk about the subject,” Boras said, “and I don’t have that yet.” In January, the Mexican baseball site Puro Beisbol posted pictures of Urías throwing with children in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, with the Spanish-language site Diario AS calling it “the first time he had been seen throwing a baseball in public since September 2023,” the month he last pitched for the Dodgers. Urías sat out the 2024 season during a Major League Baseball investigation. His suspension covered the first half of the 2025 season. When he …

US, Iran Teams in Pakistan for Peace Talks but Doubts Emerge Over Lebanon, Sanctions

US, Iran Teams in Pakistan for Peace Talks but Doubts Emerge Over Lebanon, Sanctions

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By Ariba Shahid and Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD, April 11 (Reuters) – Senior U.S. and Iranian leaders were in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Saturday for negotiations ⁠to ⁠end their six-week-old war, https://www.reuters.com/world/iran/ although Tehran threw the talks into doubt by ⁠saying they could not begin without commitments on Lebanon and sanctions. The U.S. delegation, nL6N40T12G led by Vice President JD Vance and including President Donald Trump’s https://www.reuters.com/world/us/donald-trump/ special envoy Steve Witkoff and ​son-in-law Jared Kushner, landed in two U.S. air force planes at an air base in Islamabad on Saturday morning, Pakistani sources said. The Iranian delegation, led by parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, arrived on Friday. These will be the highest-level U.S.-Iran talks since the Islamic ‌Revolution of 1979 and the first official face-to-face negotiations between the two ‌sides since 2015, when the two sides reached a deal on Iran’s nuclear programme.     Trump scrapped the nuclear deal in 2018 during his first term in office. That same year, Iran’s then-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed at …

BYD teams up with fast food giant to offer 9 minute EV charging

BYD teams up with fast food giant to offer 9 minute EV charging

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By the time you’re done eating, your electric vehicle will be charged and ready to go. BYD is partnering with KFC to offer EV drivers a 9-minute one-stop shop and charge service. BYD and KFC launch one-stop 9-minute EV charging Fast food is, well, usually pretty quick. You can get a snack or meal almost instantly, but can you sit down, eat it, wash your hands, etc, in under 10 minutes? Through its new partnership with KFC, EV drivers can “enjoy a burger while their eco-friendly car is fully charged,” BYD said on its Weibo account on Wednesday. BYD and KFC’s parent company, Yum China Holdings, are launching a network of drive-thru locations in China that will feature BYD’s Flash chargers. Drivers will be able to order directly from the vehicle’s infotainment system using a new “smart ordering” function. Advertisement – scroll for more content The in-car service will initially be available in the Fang Cheng Bao Tai 7, BYD’s luxury off-road plug-in hybrid electric SUV, before it rolls out to other vehicles. BYD and …

Mythos autonomously exploited vulnerabilities that survived 27 years of human review. Security teams need a new detection playbook

Mythos autonomously exploited vulnerabilities that survived 27 years of human review. Security teams need a new detection playbook

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A 27-year-old bug sat inside OpenBSD’s TCP stack while auditors reviewed the code, fuzzers ran against it, and the operating system earned its reputation as one of the most security-hardened platforms on earth. Two packets could crash any server running it. Finding that bug cost a single Anthropic discovery campaign approximately $20,000. The specific model run that surfaced the flaw cost under $50. Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview found it. Autonomously. No human guided the discovery after the initial prompt. The capability jump is not incremental On Firefox 147 exploit writing, Mythos succeeded 181 times versus 2 for Claude Opus 4.6. A 90x improvement in a single generation. SWE-bench Pro: 77.8% versus 53.4%. CyberGym vulnerability reproduction: 83.1% versus 66.6%. Mythos saturated Anthropic’s Cybench CTF at 100%, forcing the red team to shift to real-world zero-day discovery as the only meaningful evaluation left. Then it surfaced thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system and every major browser, many one to two decades old. Anthropic engineers with no formal security training asked Mythos to find remote …

Anthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything

Anthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything

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Following leaked revelations at the end of March that Anthropic had developed a powerful new Claude model, the company formally announced Mythos Preview on Tuesday along with news of an industry consortium it has convened, known as Project Glasswing, to grapple with the cybersecurity implications of the new model and advancing capabilities more generally across the AI field. The group includes Microsoft, Apple, and Google as well as Amazon Web Services, the Linux Foundation, Cisco, Nvidia, Broadcom, and more than 40 other tech, cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, and financial organizations that will have private access to the model, which is not yet being generally released. The idea, in part, is simply to give the developers of the world’s foundational tech platforms time to turn Mythos Preview on their own systems so they can mitigate vulnerabilities and exploit chains that the model develops in simulated attacks. More broadly, Anthropic emphasizes that the purpose of convening the effort is to kickstart urgent exploration of how AI capabilities across the industry are on the precipice, the company says, of …