As mysterious as the Dark Net seems to be, the reality is that it’s much like any other online resource but often filled with sales of illegal products. We took a deep dive into the Dark Net to show people what really happens in the cyber underworld and why companies that build security products always...Read More

Gov. JB Pritzker signed sweeping regulations Friday aimed at social media companies and cracking down on “addictive algorithms” that keep kids glued to their screens. House Bill 5511, known as the Children’s Social Media Safety Act, imposes a series of requirements on social media companies and how they are to interact with users under 18...Read More

Earlier this month, the Canadian government announced that it had signed the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime.  Speaking with Michael Geist of Law Bytes, senior research associate Kate Robertson argues that the convention is a cross-border surveillance and electronic evidence sharing agreement that Canada originally opposed, which carries significant adverse implications around the world for...Read More

Welcome to this week’s Food Exec Brief, your strategic intelligence roundup for food and beverage manufacturing leaders. This week, we’re covering: Grocery unit sales fell 1.8% year over year in June, the fifth consecutive monthly decline, as pricing growth of 2% to 3% can no longer offset a sustained pullback in items purchased, according to...Read More

(AP) – Authorities were working Thursday to find the source of cyberattacks that targeted over 30 water systems in Minnesota and came amid warnings that Iranian hackers have been focused on such systems. Minnesota IT Services said state officials had yet to identify who was behind the attacks that took place Sunday and Monday. There...Read More

OpenAI models going rogue, the first documented agentic ransomware operation, and an emergent AI-driven supply chain threat made for a packed July roundup 31 Jul 2026 With July coming to a close, ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe looks back at some of the top cybersecurity stories that made the news over the past month...Read More

Tonic Security is an Agentic Exposure Management Platform that helps security teams transform fragmented exposure data into actionable risk decisions and coordinated remediation campaigns. The platform combines contextual risk prioritization, automation, and orchestration to help organizations reduce cyber risk rather than simply detect it. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Tonic Security Co-Founder and CEO Sharon Isaaci to...Read More

TOKYO – A Singapore-based private school operator has scrapped plans to open an international school in Sapporo, citing concerns over child safety and operational risks after suffering an intense anti-immigration backlash fuelled by xenophobic rhetoric and misinformation. The decision by Global Indian Education (GIE), part of the Singapore-headquartered Global Schools Group (GSG), marks the end of...Read More

Article Summary JB Pritzker signed the Children’s Social Media Safety Act — a bill designed to protect children online and limit their access to addictive social media algorithms. The bill would require social media companies to verify a child’s age on the device’s operating system and use stricter features for minors like limiting location-sharing and...Read More

NEWS Published: July 31, 2026 at 12:22 PM Hayden Anthis, a geometry teacher at Harmony High since 2017, was arrested after detectives with the St. Cloud Police Department’s Internet Crimes Against Children unit say he began corresponding in an online forum with who he thought was a 14-year-old girl. Back in June, detectives say the conversations...Read More