A recent US decision to significantly upgrade the UAE’s export status will bolster AI technology security, not weaken it, Core42 chief executive Talal Al Kaissi has said. “I’ve seen pockets of commentary from folks saying that as a result of this well-earned recognition by the US government of the ‘gold standard (as the US Department...Read More
By Michele Selon Miles She’s Balanced Founder It’s a familiar sight: a child or teenager hunched over a glowing screen, seemingly absorbed in a world only they can see. For many parents, the question isn’t if their children will be on social media, but when and how much. While social media platforms promise connection,...Read More
Connecting P2P Lending and Security Tokens Building a Gateway for Global Alternative Investments On July 20, Eight Percent, an online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending company, announced that it has made a strategic investment to become the largest shareholder of Apanda Partners, a blockchain-based security token offering (STO) operator. View original image Eight Percent plans to support...Read More
U.K. police said on Thursday that the jailing of two hackers has “severely” hampered the activities of the infamous cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider. Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, pleaded guilty earlier this year to hacking Transport of London (TfL), the government body overseeing the U.K. capital’s public transit system, in 2024....Read More
F5 announced new fleet management capabilities for F5 Insight that help enterprises update and manage BIG-IP and F5OS-A environments faster and more safely as frontier AI accelerates vulnerability discovery and shortens vulnerability response timelines.
The new capabilities provide fleet-wide visibility, guided update management, AI-assisted operational intelligence, and governance controls that help organizations move...Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A bill establishing permanent daylight saving time is headed to the U.S. Senate after passage in the House of Representatives, but Senator Shelley Moore Capito questions what the potential law would mean for school children. As the Sunshine Protection Act moves forward, Capito expressed safety concerns related to the possibility of children...Read More
A previously unseen ransomware family, named Spirals by its operators, was deployed in a double extortion attack against an IT services company in South Asia in June 2026, the Symantec Threat Hunter Team can reveal. The Rust-based payload is either a new ransomware threat or one purpose-built for this attack. The actor behind the attack...Read More
The Hollywood image of a cybercriminal is a lone wolf in the shadows; a renegade thief or saboteur. But cybercrime today looks very different. The lone wolves have formed organized groups and are working together, learning from one another, and growing more sophisticated. As the cybercriminal ecosystem has matured, it has pivoted toward economies of...Read More
More than 80% of under-16s in Australia said they were still using social media three months after legislation banning them from it came into force, research shows. Australia is the first country to ban social media for children. Since December 2025, under-16s have been prohibited from having accounts with many social media platforms including TikTok,...Read More
