2026-09-11 15:00 UTC | BLOCK 966517
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1. Russian Drones Kill Two in Kyiv Fuel-Station Strikes and Hit Kyivstar Building
-- President Zelensky said Russian Shahed drones deliberately struck gas stations across Kyiv, killing two people and wounding at least 12, and also hit the building of Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile operator, on a second straight day of attacks on the capital's fuel infrastructure.
-- Shifting from frontline targets to fuel outlets and a telecom hub inside the capital forces Ukraine's military to stretch air-defense coverage across civilian energy and communications sites, driving up the cost of keeping the capital's fuel supply and networks running.
2. Newsom Signs California Bill Barring Under-16s From Social Media
-- Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 1709 on Thursday, a measure the EFF describes as a functional ban on social media use for people under 16, with age-gating rules obliging platforms to verify every user's age.
-- Verifying ages at scale pushes platforms to collect identity data from adults as well as minors, eroding privacy statewide, and sets up a court fight over free-expression limits that other states are watching as a template.
3. CISA Flags Two Actively Exploited MikroTik RouterOS Flaws
-- CISA added CVE-2026-67277, a missing-authentication flaw, and CVE-2026-86060, a command argument-injection bug, both in MikroTik RouterOS, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after confirming active exploitation.
-- RouterOS powers ISP and enterprise edge routers worldwide, giving attackers ready pivot points into network infrastructure, and the listing activates federal BOD 26-04 duties to patch fast and check whether systems were compromised before fixes landed.
4. UBS Buys Back $7.9 Billion of Credit Suisse Bonds in Largest Repurchase
-- UBS Group is repurchasing $7.9 billion of legacy Credit Suisse bonds, its biggest single step yet to shrink the debt load inherited in the 2023 emergency takeover of its crosstown rival, Bloomberg reported.
-- Retiring the bonds cuts interest expense and points to comfortable capital levels, supporting sentiment in European bank debt markets while compressing the premium investors demand to hold takeover-era paper.
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