Children and families in Cleburne County will soon have access to specialized child advocacy services without traveling outside their community. The Child Safety Center has announced plans to open a new office inside Heber Springs City Hall this fall. The expansion is designed to improve access to trauma-informed care while strengthening the local response to...Read More

Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe has been slammed for maintaining a close relationship with Elon Musk while holding shares in an online child safety business. Far-right tech billionaire Musk, the richest person in the world, owns the social media site X (formerly known as Twitter), which has been used to produce sexually explicit images of...Read More

Key takeaways Security researchers have documented an AI agent running a full ransomware operation on its own against a live production target, planning, adapting, and executing every step from the first exploit through data destruction. This is early real-world evidence of the shift to autonomous criminal operations that our research forecast. Agent-run attacks change what...Read More

A New Mexico court has ordered Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta to pay $567 million to address harms to young people from its platforms in the second phase of a landmark trial. Judge Bryan Biedscheid said in a ruling late Thursday that the bulk of the money — $420 million — will be used...Read More

Source: Antonio Guillem/Shutterstock As a parent, I’ve been fairly liberal in letting my kids use technology. When they were in their early teens, I did monitor their use somewhat, but now that they are nearly adults, I hardly think about their technology use. Yes, they are on their phones too much, but we all are....Read More

Bybit sued North Korea, its Reconnaissance General Bureau, and Lazarus Group in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. The exchange won a preliminary injunction blocking unnamed defendants from moving or selling stolen crypto. Public court reporting describes the order as covering those identified assets, without confirming the full $1.5 billion stolen in...Read More

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. OpenAI’s internal evaluations indicate that its upcoming frontier model, Astra, may have reached the “Critical” cybersecurity threshold. Pradeep Viswanathan Neowin @pradeepviswav · Aug 8, 2026 12:46 EDT Image generated by ChatGPT Over the past few months, we...Read More

As each week goes by, it’s becoming more clear that cyberattacks no longer need a human hacker. Not when a machine can do the heavy lifting. In July, an OpenAI agent identified a zero-day flaw in a package registry proxy, escalated its own privileges, moved laterally across OpenAI’s internal network, then exited its testing environment...Read More

Weeks after NDTV’s investigation exposed sexually suggestive videos involving minors, AI-generated exploitative content, coded hashtags and captions, and networks directing users to Telegram channels, Meta has acknowledged limitations, saying that its current automated enforcement systems ‘often rely on straightforward patterns’ and ‘aren’t as good at capturing nuance’. The tech giant disclosed that it is developing...Read More

A New Mexico judge on Thursday ordered Meta to pay more than half a billion dollars over the state’s claims that the social media giant created a “public nuisance” and harmed children. Meta was previously ordered to pay $375 million in damages to New Mexico in March when a jury found the company liable for endangering children by...Read More