6 September 2026

CISA added CVE-2026-53362, affecting Linux Kernel, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Linux Kernel contains an unspecified vulnerability that can allow for privilege escalation via IPv6 networking subsystem. This vulnerability can impact multiple products, including but not limited to Suse, Red Hat, and other products using Linux.

The catalog lists 2026-08-30 as the due date; that date had passed by this edition.

Several workers described a gloomy atmosphere at the agency since Mr Trump ordered the federal government to refer to Lake Ontario as Lake America amid a trade dispute with Canada.

Both companies changed Lake Ontario to Lake America for US users as a result, causing anger towards Mr Trump to spill over on to the two US technology giants.

The company is staring down controversy after reports of abuses of its cameras by police officers in multiple states, who have used them to stalk ex-lovers and track people seeking abortions.

Republican senator Josh Hawley has launched an investigation into potential Flock privacy abuses, and Democratic congressman Ro Khanna is cosponsoring a bill with Republican congressman Thomas Massie to prevent federal funds from being used to purchase Flock cameras.

Hartzog predicts the actions against Flock Safety will continue at the state and local level amid this growing popular outrage.

CISA added CVE-2026-59822, affecting BerriAI LiteLLM, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

BerriAI LiteLLM contains an improper authentication vulnerability in the MCP Streamable HTTP endpoint that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to establish an authenticated MCP session using an arbitrary Bearer token.

The catalog lists 2026-09-16 as the due date for the required action.

Rohini Lakshané, an independent technologist, told MediaNama that a live system cannot determine who is on a watchlist until after comparison.

Meta will have to regularly test its age-assurance systems for accuracy, privacy and circumvention, while limiting how age-assurance data can be used and retained.

This essentially means there will be no changes to how Google displays news results in its search engine in India.

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has dismissed a writ petition filed by Anand Kumar Kedia, promoter group member managing Associated Alcohols and Breweries, challenging the demolition notice issued by the Indore Municipal Corporation to initiate a proposed widening of a 30-metre road near his residential home.

Noting that Kedia has suppressed material facts, the bench of Justice Sandeep N Bhatt imposed a cost of ₹20,000.

Rajasthan says cool drinking water during hot weather will be provided in every factory that employs over 250 workers.

Exposure to heat stress could lead to exhaustion or illness, resulting in loss of productivity and wages, according to a 2026 paper in Scientific Reports.

When droughts or floods strike, agricultural output could drop, raising local food prices, reads a 2026 research article published in Ecological Economy.

Some researchers even estimate that this number could rise to 16,700 by the end of the century.

A 2016 study by Sivadas found that the distribution of polychaetes, gastropods and bivalves along the east and west Indian coasts was shaped by a combination of environmental conditions, habitats and oceanographic processes rather than geography alone.

Sivadas stressed that the aim should not only be to add more species names, but to understand their distribution and how they are responding to changing environments.

RBI issued directions under the Banking Regulation Act.

At 21:12 BST/22:12 CEST Isar Aerospace’s two-stage launch vehicle soared from the launch pad.

This phase III trial provides evidence that resmetirom improves MASH resolution and fibrosis improvement in MASH after 52 weeks, leading to accelerated approval in this indication.

Resolution of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis with no worsening of fibrosis after bariatric surgery improves 15-year survival: a prospective cohort study.

Efficacy and safety of ervogastat alone and in combination with clesacostat in patients with biopsy-confirmed metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis and F2-F3 fibrosis (MIRNA): results from a phase 2, randomised, double-blind, double-dummy study.

This communication is intended to provide some of the regulatory considerations for adopting non-invasive tests in lieu of liver histology as an RLSE in drug development for metabolic dysfunction–associated steatohepatitis.

The argument rests on the fact that linoleic acid, an omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid found in seed oils, can be converted in the body to arachidonic acid, a molecule involved in inflammatory signalling.

The anti-seed-oil narrative is particularly compelling because seed oils are common in ultra-processed foods, many of which have been linked to poor health outcomes.