Meta Platforms agreed to pay up to US$16.68 billion to settle claims from 29 US states over child data misuse and addictive platform design. The decision could affect advertisers, telecom operators, and platform-dependent businesses, which now face rising pressure to anticipate stricter child-safety standards ahead of formal regulation.   Meta Platforms agreed to pay a maximum...Read More

Good morning. It was supposed to be Meta’s big tobacco moment, but the tech company’s share price barely flinched on Wednesday – and fluttered upwards, even – after it settled a landmark lawsuit. The case was brought by 29 US states who accused the company of harming children with addictive and dangerous products. Against a...Read More

Meta on Wednesday agreed to pay up to $18 billion and implement stronger child-safety measures across its products after reaching a settlement with 47 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories over claims that its social media platforms were endangering children. Make Your Inbox Smarter Sign up for these free email newsletters from U.S....Read More

Oakland, California, the US – During the COVID-19 pandemic, Erin Popolo’s then-16-year-old daughter Emily took a job at a cafe near her home in Bridgewater, New Jersey, making pizza. Emily had always battled mental health issues, but when some classmates posted photos of her with an apron and hairnet on social media and began cyberbullying her,...Read More

(KSTP) – Winona County says it paid more than $128,000 after a January ransomware attack as officials continue investigating a separate attack found in April. The attack was discovered Jan. 22. More than a dozen cybersecurity experts were called in to help. County officials said the ransom was paid with help from the county’s insurance...Read More

If you’re worried your personal information has been exposed, the fastest way to find out is to run your email or phone number through a data leak checker, which scans known breach databases and the dark web for matches associated with your identity. From there, the signs to watch for and the next steps depend...Read More

Wia dis foto come from, URI CORTEZ/AFP via Getty Images Published 25 August 2026 Read am in 4 mins Di International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) don arrest 58 scammers for inside one operation wey target organised crime groups for West Africa. Interpol say dis operation take dem eight months for different kontris as dem identify...Read More

An FBI investigation found that an attempted intrusion into NASA was unsuccessful after the agency patched the software targeted by the hackers. US authorities have corrected earlier claims that several major government agencies had been hacked by a Chinese state-sponsored cyber group, clarifying that some were targeted but not necessarily compromised.The US Department of Justice...Read More

In July, in an incident that has the whole AI community on edge, OpenAI’s AI systems hacked Hugging Face, and on July 21 OpenAI came out and revealed that they were responsible for the attack. This was made possible by the fact that OpenAI had disabled the normal guardrails that prevent this sort of thing...Read More

The federal AI cybersecurity clearinghouse aims to accelerate vulnerability sharing and remediation as AI increases the pace of discovery. The federal government’s new AI cybersecurity clearinghouse could help defenders keep pace with a growing volume of AI-discovered vulnerabilities, but its success depends on whether industry trusts the system enough to share what it finds. The...Read More