Oklahoma filed a lawsuit against Roblox on Thursday, becoming the latest state to take legal action against the popular gaming platform over child safety concerns. “Roblox marketed itself as a safe place for children but turned a blind eye as predators targeted and exploited minors on its platform,” Attorney General Gentner Drummond said in a press...Read More

Social media platforms dominate our culture. It would be extremely difficult to find someone who had never heard of Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube. But there used to be a number of other platforms that were once in the running to become the most popular. They just couldn’t keep up with the competition and faded into...Read More

Dive Brief: Companies around the world have been keeping the vast majority of ransomware attacks secret, according to a new report from the security firm BlackFog. The number of undisclosed attacks in the first quarter of 2026 was almost 10 times as large as the number of disclosed attacks, according to the report published Wednesday....Read More

Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Independent MP Zali Steggall’s WhatsApp account was hacked in March as part of a phishing scheme believed to have been orchestrated by the Russian government that led to the messaging platform being blocked on parliamentary...Read More

Anthropic updates on Glasswing progress in tracking cybersecurity bugs Anthropic has provided a glimpse at early partner activity in its AI cybersecurity initiative, Project Glasswing, which aims to leverage its frontier AI model Claude Mythos Preview AI model to identify software bugs at unprecedented scale. With over 50 partners enrolled in the initiative, including the...Read More

White House officials pressed the need for a uniting federal artificial intelligence regulatory framework on Tuesday, following the Trump administration’s March 20 recommendations to Congress. They underscored the passage of child safety bills as a critically important legislative step to comprehensive AI law.  Speaking on various panels during the Hill and Valley Forum, White House Office...Read More

For over a decade, U.S. lawmakers have promised guardrails for children on social media. They’ve grilled the chiefs of Meta, Snap, YouTube and TikTok about the dangers of their sites. They’ve introduced dozens of child safety bills. Little has come from the noise. But this week, two juries held social media companies accountable for harming...Read More

Instead of pursuing a straight ban on social accounts for children, Indiana lawmakers are now looking to give parents more control and force social media companies to redesign their platforms to be less addictive for kids. Lawmakers previously proposed language in SB 199 that would have banned children 12 and under from owning any kind...Read More

WIRED reports that Foxconn acknowledged that some of its North American factories “suffered a cyberattack” in recent days, after the ransomware group Nitrogen claimed to have stolen 8TB of data from the company. Here are the details. Foxconn successfully attacked yet again According to WIRED, a ransomware group known as Nitrogen claims to have stolen...Read More

A twenty-sided die (d20) is a common thing in tabletop gaming, and [kati]’s slightly sentient d20 is a PCB that not only delivers random results on demand, but responds to hot and cold streaks and may even tweak the results a little to reflect its mood. On its face the unit is a touch-sensitive PCB...Read More