SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Meta and dozens of states nationwide, including Utah, agreed to settle its lawsuit over child safety practices on Instagram and Facebook, state officials confirmed on Wednesday. The Utah Governor’s Office said the settlement included $212 million to be paid to Utah over the next ten years and would force Meta...Read More
A news conference today organized by Attorney General William Tong at the State Office Building in Hartford began with the heartbreaking remarks of Tammy Rodriguez who lost her 11-year-old daughter to suicide in 2021. “Selena was exposed to many social media harms that I had no idea were going on,” Rodriguez said. “I have become...Read More
Over the last five years, efforts to make social networks Facebook and Instagram safer for young people have erupted across courts, classrooms and capitals. Now Meta Platforms, the parent company of the world’s most popular social networks, faces another big moment of reckoning. On Wednesday, Meta agreed to pay up to $17 billion over 10...Read More
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg leaves the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles after defending the company in a landmark social media addiction trial, Feb. 19, 2026. Jon Putman | Anadolu | Getty Images Meta‘s watershed social media trial just wrapped up in California, but now attention is shifting to the wider industry with TikTok, YouTube...Read More
Organizations may assume they are unlikely ransomware targets because they are not large, high-profile, or strategically important. But ransomware attackers are often motivated by economics, not prestige. That means organizations that consider themselves low-risk may be more attractive targets than they realize.The ransomware affiliate model rewards attackers for finding victims that are likely to pay,...Read More
Palo Alto Networks (PANW) has been back in focus after cybersecurity peers reported strong quarters and raised outlooks, lifting confidence in AI security spending and putting extra attention on Palo Alto’s upcoming earnings. After a sharp rally that included a 12% single day gain when peers like CrowdStrike and Okta reported strong results, Palo Alto...Read More
The evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) technology is upending the long-standing calculus of cybersecurity. The asymmetric dynamic—where attackers need to find just a single vulnerability while defenders must block every possibility—is poised to shift toward a defender advantage over the long term, as AI now enables defenders to actually examine all those possibilities. Taesoo Kim,...Read More
