The Cap Times is an independent newsroom serving Madison and Wisconsin. Sign up for the Morning Update to receive news in your inbox each morning. A multistate settlement with the owner of Facebook and Instagram will “fundamentally change” the influence of social media on Wisconsin children, the state’s top attorney said Wednesday. The state...Read More
(The Center Square) – Child-safety measures for children and $645 million from a $17.1 billion settlement are coming to North Carolina from Meta, owner of the Facebook and Instagram platforms. CEO Mark Zuckerberg was spared a spot on the stand to tell jurors his side in a California federal court. Thirty-two states sued in October...Read More
Aurora ransomware has been tied to a Russian-speaking affiliate that used an AI coding assistant while targeting more than 20 organisations. A wrongly exposed server gave investigators a detailed view of the operator’s activity, from intrusion to payment. The activity ran from April to July 2026 across nine countries. The operator gained domain-level or interactive...Read More
An attacker drained over $653,000 from card collateral vaults at Avici, a Solana neobank whose own documentation promised that only a user’s wallet could ever move that money. The token Avici (AVICI) has since fallen by about 40% to $0.24. The sum taken equals close to a fifth of its entire market value. AVICI Price...Read More
Hack One Robot, Reach the Next: Unitree G1 Security Flaws Pierluigi Paganini August 29, 2026 A researcher chained two Unitree G1 flaws to gain root access remotely and showed how a compromised robot could attack others nearby. Security researcher Olivier Laflamme spent about three months digging into the Unitree G1 humanoid robot and eventually found...Read More
One thing to notice about the First Trust NASDAQ Cybersecurity ETF (CIBR) is the strong volume trends and price action over the last five months. Since late March, a series of higher highs, higher lows in the chart shows the bullish nature of cybersecurity stocks. Palo Alto Networks (PANW), CrowdStrike Holdings (CRWD), Broadcom (AVGO) and...Read More
(InvestigateTV) — Artificial intelligence has become part of daily life for tasks like writing resumes and drafting emails, but a cybersecurity expert says the same technology is giving scammers new tools to deceive people. Adam Ely, general manager of AI security at Check Point, said AI is being used on both sides of the equation....Read More
Olivia Konar holds a banner with names of young people who advocates say died as a result of social media outside the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026, in Oakland, Calif. Her sister Coco Konar died in 2022 when she was 17. Social media company Meta agreed to...Read More
Texas will get more than $1 billion from technology giant Meta as part of a new settlement related to children’s online safety, the attorney general’s office announced Wednesday. The company, which owns social media companies Facebook and Instagram, agreed to also pay California and several other states a collective $17 billion on Wednesday as part...Read More
Meta has agreed to pay $17 billion and add child-safety measures to its Facebook and Instagram platforms to end a landmark trial over teen social media addiction and settle claims filed by 47 states, state attorneys general announced Wednesday. California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey were among 29 states that sued the tech giant in...Read More
