(Legal Newsline) — A California prosecutor has accused Meta of designing social-media platforms to maximize the screen time of young users, turning a blind eye toward the number of preteens on Instagram and Facebook, and falsely assuring the public that its sites are safe. Meta, parent company of social media platforms Facebook and Instagram, however,...Read More
Nearly three-quarters of ransomware attacks since 2023 have targeted mid-market organisations, new research finds. According to Black Kite, this highlights the growing pressure on companies with revenues between $10 million and $1 billion The report The findings from Black Kite’s recent study, examined 13,336 disclosed cyber-incidents dating back to January 2023 and assessed the security posture of...Read More
Updated: Aug 20, 2026 1:04pm UTC Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 4 Override is here and, in a first for the battle royale, you can input lobby hacks for free rewards starting August 20, 2026! This IGN guide lists all of the Fortnite Lobby Hack codes and explains how to redeem them and what you unlock...Read More
Frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models, such as Anthropic’s Mythos model family, have drawn attention for their reported ability to find software vulnerabilities, develop exploits, and complete multistep tasks with limited human direction. While the precise extent of those capabilities may be difficult to determine, the direction is apparent: advanced AI can reduce the time and...Read More
Hempfield Area is expected to be the first school district to deploy an AI-driven weapon detection system designed with the help of a Carnegie Mellon University scientist. CurvePoint, based on Pittsburgh’s North Shore, was launched about 11⁄2 years ago by CEO Skip Smith and Chief Scientist Dong Huang — a senior project scientist in Carnegie...Read More
A former insider’s testimony has placed Meta’s leadership decisions and the personal cost of Instagram abuse at the center of a closely watched trial. A high-profile trial against Meta Platforms is underway in federal court in Oakland, California. Former company engineering director Arturo Behar testified that Mark Zuckerberg created a corporate culture in which child...Read More
SEATTLE — A bipartisan coalition of attorneys general began presenting its case against Meta as a trial opened in federal court, accusing the social media company of designing Facebook and Instagram in ways that encourage compulsive use among children and teens while misleading the public about safety. Washington Attorney General Nick Brown issued a statement...Read More
Flare, the leader in identity-first cyber threat intelligence (CTI), today announced the public launch of Darkroom by Flare Academy, a free, interactive training experience that gives security practitioners, analysts, and students hands-on exposure to the underground ecosystems they defend against. Most defenders learn about the dark web through reports, redacted screenshots, and post-incident analysis. Darkroom...Read More
AUSTIN, Texas (Aug 20): Sinan Can Demir wanted to spend the last week of July burnishing his resume. Instead, he engaged in a battle of wits with an artificial-intelligence agent unleashed by a British government lab. It started after Demir, a computer science student at the University of Texas at Dallas, stumbled across an attempt...Read More
Only a few years ago, AI was present in the workplace but peripheral, a specialized tool operating largely out of sight. Today, it’s fundamentally changing how we learn, work, and lead. Nowhere is that shift more visible right now than in cybersecurity, where frontier AI models like Anthropic’s Mythos Preview and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5-Cyber have changed...Read More
