An arcade sex predator, a paedophile police officer and a violent domestic abuser were among the most serious Isle of Wight court cases heard in July 2026. Throughout the month, the courts dealt with offenders who targeted children, threatened former partners with weapons, and ignored sexual harm prevention measures. Below is a round-up of five...Read More
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): A challenge by suspected cybercriminal Wang Yunhe against the police’s seizure of his belongings has been dismissed by Singapore’s highest court. In written grounds of decision issued on Aug 4, the Court of Appeal said the legal process that Wang took to contest the legality of the seizure was “fundamentally flawed”....Read More
This daylight assault was recorded on CCTV, showcasing the brutality of the attack. MUZAFFARNAGAR: A 26-year-old man from Meerut was struck 17 times with an axe allegedly by his wife’s lover over an “illicit affair” at Muzaffarnagar’s Budhana on Saturday.Police said Talib with “deep cut wounds all over his body” died at hospital and the...Read More
Photo: VCG China’s cybersecurity authority unveiled cases involving the fabrication and online spread of flood and disaster-related rumors on Monday. The cases included netizens fabricating misinformation using AI to garner attention, even extending to creating doctored official government advisories, China Central Television (CCTV) News reported. A total of 15 typical cases were made public by...Read More
The Queensland government has been accused of attempting to remove a key reporting tool depicting just how under-pressure child safety workers are. The Together Union, which represents child safety officers, said the Department of Child Safety has proposed removing the workload management tool in its latest bargaining agreement offer. The union’s assistant secretary, Dee Spink...Read More
Lots of monopoly news, as usual. Paramount had another setback in its merger plans, there was some comical villainy involving Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht, and the state of New Jersey just filed a ground-breaking monopoly lawsuit against Amazon over driver wages. Before getting to the full round-up, I want to discuss some events this week in...Read More
Andrew asked his personal assistant to book him a spot in one of his gym’s coveted morning classes. It was a task he thought was well suited to this particular assistant because the booking form was online and because his assistant was not a person — it was artificial intelligence (AI). But Andrew was shocked...Read More
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Yonhap) — Two South Korean hacking teams finished among the top three at a renowned global hacking competition, the science ministry said Monday. They were among six teams from South Korea which made it to the finals of the 2026 DEFCON Capture the Flag (CTF) 34 held in Las Vegas, the United...Read More
Seoul – A North Korean hacking group built large language model tools and collected software that could help automate cyberattacks, analyze stolen material and produce more convincing phishing campaigns, a South Korean cybersecurity firm said on Monday. The cybersecurity firm, Genians, said it found evidence that the North Korean-linked group Kimsuky had set up tools...Read More
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan majority of Americans support more government rules for how social media companies conduct business, including requiring age-verification tools to keep younger children off social media, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. The poll, which was conducted over the six days ending Aug 3, comes as companies like Meta Platforms and Google’s YouTube...Read More
