(IN)SECURE Newsletter - September 9, 2026

A smorgasbord of knowledge and news - View in browser  (IN)SECURE Newsletter  September 9, 2026 A smorgasbord of knowledge and news Inside the CISO mind In this edition, we explore how CISOs are deciding what deserves attention now, what can be automated, and where conventional approaches to risk and security need to evolve.  From AI agents and vulnerability overload to executive protection, data exposure, OT environments, and supply chain risk, our conversations reveal how security leaders are translating an expanding set of threats into practical priorities and where they believe the biggest gaps still remain. National Life Group CISO expects more vulnerabilities in six months than in thirty years Cohesity Global Field CISO on what vulnerability prioritization looks like when KEV, EPSS, and CVSS disagree Versa Field CISO Prasad Tharippala on what 90 days and a small budget can buy in AI agent security Tricentis CISO Erika Dean on how production data in testing is still common, and she wants it gone BlackCloak Field CISO, Client Advisory Brian Hill on how digital executive protection is a strategic imperative for CEOs Marathon Petroleum CISO Mary Rose Martinez on OT security automation, supply chain risk Things to know, ideas to consider, practices to implement Your threat feed is someone else’s database: What ingesting malware intel at scale takes When AI quietly breaks things, who pays? A battery storage cyberattack would look exactly like a badly tuned controller What your vendor says about PQC tells you if they are ready https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/27/rob-janssens-hikv... AI supply chain risk is showing up in developer workflows first Four corporate investigation mistakes organizations make under pressure (Video)             Get our news via e-mail Subscribe to get regular updates from Help Net Security. Choose between our daily and weekly newsletters, or you can also opt for specialized newsletters: Cybersecurity news alerts – sent for major events and breaking news Cybersecurity jobs – sent weekly Open-source cybersecurity tools – sent monthly   Open-source cybersecurity tools you should check out Sift - A scanning tool that hunts credentials in Microsoft 365, Slack, and Jira Halo-record - Audit trails for AI agents HOL Guard - Antivirus for AI agents       Resources Broaden your knowledge and resolve issues (registration may be required): Download: The Agentic Software Development Guide Download: 2026 Credential Risk Report Download: The High-Performance Team Playbook Download: The ultimate guide to network operations management Download: The IT and security field guide to AI adoption   Copyright © 2026 Help Net Security, All rights reserved.  You are receiving Help Net Security daily security news because you opted in at our web site located on www.helpnetsecurity.com. Our mailing address is:  Help Net Security  Astus d.o.o.  Kastav 51215  Croatia  Add us to your address book No longer interested in receiving these emails? Unsubscribe Missed an issue? Access our past newsletters here: Archive

Taking fusion out of the lab

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Researchers have spent decades studying how to recreate the processes that power the sun to produce an energy source humans can use on Earth. Now, investors are putting real money behind companies that say they’re getting closer to commercializing fusion. And, we explain the impact El Niño, summer droughts and war in Iran are forecast to have on UK food prices. Subscribe to Bloomberg.com for unlimited access to all our coverage. More than a science experiment By Will Wade and Michelle Ma About 10 minutes south of the Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport, scientists are preparing to create tiny stars, right here on Earth, in hopes of powering the world. Inside an unassuming office park, Pacific Fusion Corp. is assembling a pulser module, a tubelike device roughly the length of a city bus, studded with hundreds of phone-book-size capacitors that store electricity. The futuristic-looking mechanism, plus 155 more just like it, will be installed at the $1 billion demonstration site that Pacific Fusion just started building in Albuquerque, New Mexico. When the system is up and running in 2030, the capacitors will be charged with electricity and then discharged, creating a powerful magnetic field that will compress a pellet the size of a pencil eraser filled with deuterium and tritium, two hydrogen isotopes. This process should create conditions similar to those of the sun for a fraction of a second as the atoms fuse to form helium. In short, they’ll create energy — and perhaps prove in the process that fusion is more than just a very expensive science experiment. Pacific Fusion will need more than 150 pulser modules. Photographer: Poppy Lynch/Bloomberg Researchers have been studying fusion as a potential power source since the 1950s. With stars, immense gravity and extreme heat force small atoms to combine into larger ones, releasing energy; scientists have long imagined the same process someday fueling our homes and machines. But replicating the conditions within a star is pretty hard. Until recently, the energy needed to set off a fusion reaction was greater than the energy it produced. Then, in late 2022, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, east of San Francisco, researchers used the world’s biggest laser to deliver about 2.05 megajoules of energy to a target, triggering a fusion reaction that released 3.15 megajoules. The test made worldwide news, boosting excitement for the dozens of global companies that had been laboring to bring fusion systems to market. Until that breakthrough, there had always been skeptics and doubters, even a long-standing joke in the science community: “Fusion is 20 years away, and it always will be.” Now there’s growing confidence that fusion might be viable as a power source — and possibly at a cost that doesn’t put it out of reach. “Demonstrating fusion is just a small step to building a commercial power plant,” says Greg Twinney, chief executive officer of Canada’s General Fusion Group Ltd., which operates a large-scale demo system outside Vancouver. “It’s been proven in labs. Now it has to be proven that it can be commercialized.” The payoff would be huge: Fusion offers the potential of abundant clean power. Compared with fission, the nuclear process that generates energy by splitting large atoms, fusion is expected to produce much less waste and present lower radiation risk to workers. And if it works on a big enough scale, it would operate around the clock in any weather, unlike wind and solar. Investors have already bet more than $14 billion on the emerging technology, with a record $4.5 billion of that coming in the last year. Startups are piling in: The Fusion Industry Association, a trade group, is tracking more than 50 companies worldwide that are seeking to develop power plants based on all of this very complicated physics and engineering. Read more Financial backing $14 billion The amount spent by investors on emerging fusion technology. The ultimate test “It’s been proven in labs. Now it has to be proven that it can be commercialized.” Greg Twinney, CEO, General Fusion Group Ltd. UK’s food price shocks By Tom Rees A string of shocks from El Niño, summer droughts and war in Iran will push UK food inflation above 6% next year, according to forecasts by the country’s food producers. The Food and Drink Federation warned that food inflation will hit almost 4% by Christmas, more than double the current rate, before accelerating to a peak of 6.4% in July 2027. It would be the highest annual increase since early 2024 when grocery costs were still being affected by the energy shock from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine two years earlier. The UK trade body for food and drink manufacturers said a £100 ($135) weekly shop in 2020 would cost almost £150 by next summer should prices rise as fast as it forecasts, intensifying cost-of-living pressures that are already top of Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s agenda. He has signaled that more help for households and businesses is on its way but is facing a deteriorating fiscal backdrop ahead of the autumn budget. Explainer: Why the World Is Bracing for a Rare ‘Super’ El Niño “The persistently higher costs of energy, logistics and packaging, compounded by this summer’s extreme heat, mean that food prices will rise this year, and we believe that rise will be sustained into 2027,” said Karen Betts, chief executive at the Food and Drink Federation. Read more 🎥 Attention all filmmakers! Working on a short documentary about climate change? Don’t miss your chance to submit it to the Bloomberg Green Docs film competition. Grand prize: $25,000. Submissions will be accepted through October 2, 2026. See official rules at bloomberg.com/greendocs. More from Green Massachusetts Will Require New Data Centers to Use Clean Energy Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey announced major restrictions on data center development, including a requirement that companies procure their own renewable energy supply. Read more Texas Camp Hit by Floods Must Be Under Trustee, Families Say Camp Mystic, the Texas girls camp where 28 people were killed in flash floods last summer, should be taken over by a bankruptcy trustee who can settle lawsuits filed against the company and the family blamed for the deaths, a committee of parents said in a court filing. Panda Bonds Can Help Fund Energy Transition, Ex-PBOC Official Says More foreign governments and companies should aim to take advantage of cheaper yuan-denominated debt to finance energy transition projects, according to ex-People’s Bank of China official Ma Jun. Intense Los Angeles Heat to Send State’s Power Demand Soaring California faces a short but sharp rise in temperatures that will boost electricity demand as unusually warm nights offer little relief. Your Zero listen Zero Climate Change is Making Mountains Less Stable On the morning of August 26, a glacial collapse in the Himalayas triggered a flash flood that sent ice, mud, rocks and fast-moving water through a valley in Nepal, wiping out entire communities. This week on Zero, Akshat Rathi is joined by Lou Del Bello, who has been reporting on the disaster for Bloomberg News from New Delhi. 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