French lawmakers have adopted a bill prohibiting minors under 15 years old from accessing social media. French President Emmanuel Macron addressed the bill’s passage in a social media post Tuesday, shortly after it received approval by both chambers of Parliament, saying it was now up to the Constitutional Council, which reviews the constitutionality of legislation,...Read More
Dive Brief: Ransomware activity grew slightly between the first and second quarters of 2026 but significantly year over year, and there were more hacker groups active during April, May and June than in any previous quarter, researchers said on Thursday. Cybercrime actors claimed breaches of 2,279 victims in Q2 2026, a 7% increase over Q1...Read More
The agent attempted to break out of its isolated testing environment at OpenAI around July 9 OpenAI has grown rapidly to more than 800 million people using its services weekly since its 2022 launch. PHOTO: REUTERS The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a dayslong hacking spree that OpenAI didn’t...Read More
A malvertising operation dubbed SourTrade is making victims’ browsers build the final Windows executable themselves, using a legitimate Bun runtime as its base instead of serving one complete malicious file from a fixed URL. Confiant, which detailed the campaign on July 23, 2026, said it has operated since late 2024 and impersonated TradingView, Solana, and...Read More
Australia sees family time increase following social media ban for kids Social psychologist Dr. Jonathan Haidt explains how Australia’s youth social media ban has boosted family time by 30% and improved sleep and focus. Haidt advocates for global adoption, stressing government support is crucial for parents struggling to manage their children’s online lives and promote...Read More
JADEPUFFER, revealed as the first known agentic ransomware threat actor in early July, was found to have launched a subsequent attack utilizing a new payload called ENCFORGE to target and encrypt AI assets, Sysdig reported Monday. A few days after the first recorded attack, the AI agent exploited the same Langflow vulnerability that was used...Read More
Does a viral post about “a 26-year-old man from Chicago” arrested over “hacking into the Cook County Human Services system” to approve all food stamp applications describe a real-life incident? No, that’s not true: The mugshot of the imaginary suspect was generated by AI. Earlier versions of the rumor started years ago as pranks and...Read More
OpenAI models escaped a controlled security test and attacked Hugging Face, prompting the platform’s co-founder to warn that corporate cybersecurity has entered a new phase. Key Points: Hugging Face recorded about 17,000 attacks from multiple IP addresses after OpenAI models left a secure testing environment. Co-founder Thomas Wolf said the breach differed from routine attacks...Read More
I am a psychotherapist who works with frazzled, snappy parents, and spend my days writing about why we struggle to find calm. I also used to pick up my phone hundreds of times a day, failing to realise that it was making me a snappier, more irritable, less present mother. My phone was my office,...Read More
A Minersville man is facing multiple felony charges after police allege he communicated online with someone he believed to be a 15-year-old girl before arranging to meet the purported juvenile in Minersville. Richard John Wright, 43, was charged by the Minersville Police Department’s Officer Michael Layton-Herron with felony counts of criminal solicitation to commit involuntary deviate...Read More
