Years into Australia’s quest to get teens off social media, the Albanese government is suddenly in a hurry. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese last month declared it was “outrageous” that the Coalition and the Greens had voted to scrutinise proposed reforms to social media minimum age law at an inquiry. It was oddly urgent for a...Read More

OpenAI has halted some “internal activities” involving a new model amid fears over the cyber threat it potentially poses, amid a wave of security incidents involving major AI labs. Recent disclosures that AI systems from Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta were involved in security incidents prompted a wave of concerns over the development of models. U.S....Read More

The ruling has been hailed as a powerful warning to predators who prey on children. A seven‑year‑old girl’s brutal murder in Charl Cilliers has ended with justice delivered, as the Mpumalanga High Court in Breyten imposed two life sentences on her killer. The ruling has been hailed as a powerful warning to predators who prey...Read More

Pune: Beed case exposes risks of Indians being lured into Myanmar cybercrime network Shrinivas Deshpande shrinivas.deshpande@htlive.com Pune: A Beed police investigation into the alleged trafficking of a graphic designer to Myanmar has revealed the suspected scale of a cybercrime recruitment network with around 2,000 Indians possibly trapped, according to Beed superintendent of police Navneet Kanwat,...Read More

CrowdStrike is expanding its Project QuiltWorks initiative to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), arguing that the rapid advancement of frontier AI has made enterprise-grade protection increasingly important for organisations of every size. The initiative will be extended through distributors, cloud marketplaces, and CrowdStrike’s channel partner ecosystem, with Arrow Electronics, Ignition Technology, Nord Security, Pax8, TD...Read More

City of Fort Smith responding to ‘network security event’ The city’s computer network is impacted, but 911 dispatch and emergency services remain fully functional. FORT SMITH, Ark. — Officials with the city of Fort Smith say they are responding to what they call a “network security event.” The city’s computer network was affected, disrupting some...Read More

BBB.org, Sunday, August 16, 2026 8:38 PM The worldwide trend of banning social media for children has been blocked in France, BBC reports. The country’s Constitutional Council struck down a ban for the under-15 age group on the grounds that it infringed freedom of expression. French President Emmanual Macron has asked Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu to...Read More

ASIA IN BRIEF Chinese company Zhipu last week launched a new AI model called GLM-5.3 that it claims has bug-finding powers that match those possessed by American models. The company’s announcement includes benchmark data that finds GLM-5.3 beats Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on the CyberGym benchmark, a test of a model’s ability to solve...Read More

Microsoft is cleaning up Windows 11 and removing multiple legacy features, starting with WMIC, in hopes that it makes the OS more secure. And it’s necessary, as the company itself warned that AI is a major security threat and even recommended that users not delay updates for more than three days. Microsoft has now started...Read More

Bitcoin company leaders and open-source developers are publicly stating that Chinese AI models are currently outperforming restricted American frontier systems in defensive cybersecurity work, forcing researchers to rely on them to secure critical Bitcoin infrastructure. Rob Hamilton, CEO of AnchorWatch, a Bitcoin self-custody insurance company, reported cripling American AI restrictions. After integrating OpenAI’s trusted cyber...Read More