White House finalizes AI hacking tests with tech giants after rogue models breach corporate systems Representatives from major artificial intelligence companies, including Google, Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic, have been invited to meet White House officials in Washington on Tuesday to discuss voluntary government safety testing for the most advanced US AI models. As reported, the...Read More
The Senate’s CR would keep the government open through Dec. 11, while extending cyber information sharing authorities and the Technology Modernization Fund. Justin Doubleday@jdoubledayWFED August 3, 2026 5:58 pm 4 min read The Senate’s bill to keep the government funded past the midterm elections would extend critical cybersecurity authorities and allow the Technology Modernization Fund...Read More
A teenager looks at her mobile phone in London, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) FILE – A 12-year-old boy plays with his personal phone outside school in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, June 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File) LONDON | The British government announced plans Wednesday to introduce a six-hour social media curfew from...Read More
SINGER wants to protect kids from schoolyard and online abuse. Amapiano sensation Thatohatsi is proving that her mission goes far beyond making hit songs. The 22-year-old star, whose real name is Thato Raphadi from Springs in Ekurhuleni, has launched an anti-bullying campaign aimed at protecting kids and young people from bullying, cyberbullying and social media...Read More
THE internet has delivered the world to our fingertips, but it has also constructed a borderless arena for abuse. According to UNICEF, 30% of young people across 30 countries have experienced cyberbullying. This digital violence extends far beyond mean comments; it includes targeted harassment, impersonation, the spreading of malicious rumors, and cyberstalking. While the virtual...Read More
Ghana, Czech Republic expand ties through major cybersecurity initiative. (Image source: Czech Republic Embassy) Ghana has launched a Czech-backed project to equip community media practitioners with the skills to report on cybercrime and educate the public about online safety. The National Community Media Cyber Capacity Building Project was launched in Accra on Monday, 3 August....Read More
OpenAI’s self-reported breach in which an agent escaped testing and autonomously hacked the open-source AI tool company Hugging Face is generating interest in a congressional investigation. In a Friday open letter, dozens of public interest groups, progressive organizations, and academics urged lawmakers to open an investigation into the incident to determine whether stronger safeguards and...Read More
Story Highlights • Officials from local municipalities say they were not targeted by cyberattacks over the weekend. • The cyberattacks targeted water systems and several of the local municipal water systems aren’t connected to the internet, meaning they could not be hacked in this way. • Some officials said they also take a number of...Read More
Anthropic disclosed on July 30 that three Claude models reached the open internet from inside cybersecurity capability evaluations and gained unauthorized access to the production infrastructure of three organizations. It found them only after reviewing 141,006 evaluation runs, a sweep it began after OpenAI published its own breach report nine days earlier. Ordinary weaknesses became...Read More
AI security is in the spotlight after the recent OpenAI agent incident at Hugging Face and fresh claims that China could overtake U.S. labs through open-weight models. That combination of geopolitical competition, open source collaboration, and higher cyber risk is reshaping how investors think about companies tied to AI cybersecurity. Some stocks could see stronger...Read More
