PENSACOLA, Fla. — The University of West Florida officially broke ground on a “new advanced intelligence, cybersecurity and engineering research building” Thursday. The building is called “The Synapse.” It’s partly funded by Triumph Gulf Coast’s $32.5 million award, with more than $21 million in state dollars. “The 55,000-square-foot building on the Pensacola campus will house...Read More
The HHS Office for Civil Rights announced four settlements with HIPAA-covered entities stemming from separate ransomware investigations it conducted under the HIPAA Security Rule. The incidents, though not related, collectively impacted more than 427,000 individuals and exposed unsecured protected health information. The affected entities paid OCR a total of $1.17 million, agreed to implement corrective action plans and consented to OCR monitoring for two years to resolve the...Read More
Montgomery, Ala. (WDNews) — Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced a $12.2 million settlement with the gaming platform Roblox aimed at strengthening online child safety and funding school resource officers statewide. According to Marshall, the funds will support the Attorney General’s Safe School Initiative, helping expand school resource officer presence across Alabama. “Alabama stepped in...Read More
WESTLAKE, La. (KPLC) – One of Texas’s previously most wanted sex offenders is in custody after investigators learned he was living near a public school in Westlake. Spencer Giron, 49, of Port Arthur, Texas.(Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office) Spencer Giron, 49, a registered sex offender in Texas, was approaching children and offering them money to go...Read More
There is no practical benefit for Kyber developers to have chosen a PQC key-exchange algorithm. The Kyber ransom note gives victims one week to respond. Quantum computers capable of running Shor’s algorithm—the series of mathematical equations that allow the breakage of RSA and ECC (elliptic curve cryptography)—are, at a minimum, three years away and likely...Read More
In a groundbreaking move, Toronto Police arrested three individuals and seized several ‘SMS blasters’—devices that mimic cell towers to send fraudulent messages. The operation, known as Project Lighthouse, unfolded across downtown Toronto, with significant raids in Markham and Hamilton. These devices tricked people’s phones into connecting, leading them to receive scam messages appearing to be...Read More
CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio — Marie Willis-Guarneri was recently elected Cuyahoga Falls Ward 7 Councilperson, so she should be celebrating. Instead, she’s battling Meta over losing several social media accounts on both Instagram and Facebook. Willis-Guarneri tried logging on to her Facebook accounts on Dec. 17, but couldn’t. She told me she then started being bombarded...Read More
When people try to explain why tech feels so strange right now, they usually start with the big names. Sam Altman. Elon Musk. Mark Zuckerberg. The argument is that a handful of odd men now have an extraordinary amount of influence over how the rest of us live, work, communicate, date and think. That is...Read More
The conversation about screens and kids has shifted — it’s not just about how much time they spend, but what they’re doing and how parents can help. CLEVELAND — Every parent has wondered it: how much damage is all that screen time really doing to my kid? The answer, according to a leading adolescent medicine specialist,...Read More
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: ServiceNow credits five hypergrowth areas in setting the stage for customers to harness enterprise AI, Chairman and CEO Bill McDermott said on the company’s Q1 2026 earnings call. Security, core IT, agentic, AI native capabilities and...Read More
