Education Minister Dr Michael Dowlath said a zero-tolerance approach continues to be applied to serious acts of violence and threats to student safety. At yesterday’s sitting of Parliament, at the Red House, Port of Spain, he made the comment while responding to a question from Opposition MP Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly, who referenced video footage of...Read More
Roblox shares plummeted 18% on Friday after the company reported first-quarter earnings as its new child safety measures weighed on bookings. “Part of what we’re rolling out with age check, we believe, is the real, right long-term way to build this platform,” CEO David Baszucki said Friday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” In a letter to...Read More
A lot of organisations are pretty firm about whether or not they would consider paying a ransom to criminals who have locked them out of their data and are threatening to publish data online, but those convictions can change rapidly when a ransomware attack actually happens. No doubt that is the dilemma that Instructure, the...Read More
SINGAPORE – A first-of-its-kind cybercrime operation in the MENA region has led to the arrest of 201 individuals, with a further 382 suspects identified. Thirteen countries from the Middle East and North Africa took part in Operation Ramz (October 2025 – 28 February 2026) which aimed to investigate and disrupt malicious infrastructure, identify and arrest...Read More
Tools include technical infrastructure specifically designed for cybercrime, like so-called “phishing-as-a-service” kits — off-the-shelf tools that allow would-be scammers to create and run phishing campaigns with little or no technical skill — but also widely available commercial tech like AI chatbots. “What makes it so difficult is that these tools allow pretty much beginners …...Read More
The SolarWinds attack in 2020 was a humiliating all-out assault on U.S. government cybersecurity, and it’s likely that one key reason it’s not more famous is that we still know very little about what the hackers achieved. But we now have a few more crumbs to work with, because new revelations from Bloomberg have revealed...Read More
Over the past few weeks, the global cybersecurity industry has been hit by an upheaval that goes well beyond the usual response to a technology announcement. The drop in market value of publicly traded cyber companies, following the unveiling of dedicated cybersecurity models from the AI giants, among them Claude Mythos and GPT-5.4-Cyber, signals the...Read More
New York (CNN) — Since independent vehicle crash testing began in the mid-1990s, automakers have been incentivized to make safety changes that have saved thousands of lives each year. Now, a new group is hoping to take a similar approach to artificial intelligence. Nonprofit media watchdog Common Sense Media is launching the Youth AI Safety...Read More
TAX ON HIS OWN. CONGRESS WOULD HAVE TO APPROVE IT TONIGHT. THERE IS $1,000 REWARD TO HELP FIND A CONVICTED CHILD MOLESTER WHO DISAPPEARED BEFORE SENTENCING. CARL CARQUINEZ WAS CONVICTED LAST YEAR ON SEVERAL FELONY SEX CRIMES INVOLVING A CHILD. THE JUDGE ALLOWED HIM TO LEAVE COURT ON $1 MILLION BAIL, DESPITE FACING UP TO...Read More
