Security company Viking Security has reported an increase this year in the number of cases in which minors openly sell or use drugs in shopping centres and entertainment venues in Estonia. This concerns not only cannabis but also harder narcotic substances, ERR News reports. Case in Tartu Sander Nurgamaa, head of Viking Security’s video surveillance...Read More
If OpenAI stops reinforcing reward hacking in its models—and that’s a huge “if”—that would be a huge step forward. But it wouldn’t solve the alignment problem. The first time a model communicated with other agents or hacked its infrastructure during training, those behaviors had never been reinforced, so agent misbehavior can’t only be attributed to...Read More
Ravie LakshmananAug 30, 2026Social Engineering / Malware Microsoft has disclosed details of a new ClickFix variant, dubbed TerminalFix, that aims to trick users into running a malicious command in Windows Terminal or PowerShell. “While traditional ClickFix campaigns direct victims to the Windows Run dialog, TerminalFix campaigns apply the same technique but direct users to Windows...Read More
Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb today announced a landmark multistate settlement with Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta). It is the largest state consumer protection settlement in history outside of the Big Tobacco settlements of the 1990s. The District will receive at least $90,395,940 and up to $129,356,762 to resolve the lawsuit the Office of the Attorney...Read More
X A 61-year old man with host of charges relating to sexual violence against adolescents and pre-pubescent girls remained employed at a B.C. post-secondary school for years, despite being deemed a high-risk to reoffend. John Walter Sam has convictions that date back as far as 1982, including a 2002 charge where he pleaded guilty to...Read More
Picture this: An inner-Melbourne bowls club on a sultry Saturday afternoon in February. Sausages sizzle and pop on the barbecue. Crowds in bare feet wobble bowls down the length of the green. Here I am with my wife and our son, 11, and daughter, 14, to celebrate the wedding anniversary of a couple we befriended...Read More
Events happening this past week serve to unite Democrats and Republicans towards unity on these topics of concern and sadness. Both the Meta settlement and the passing of Dolly Parton have brought many of us together. Meta settles with 47 states for over $17 billion Meta announced last week that it would reach a settlement...Read More
Human rights activist and 2027 presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has reacted to the suspension of his cybercrime trial by the Department of State Services (DSS), describing the development as a victory for resistance against oppression. Sowore, in a statement, said the DSS had been “forced to eat humble pie” after what he described as an...Read More
The smarter cars are getting, the more exposed they are to cyberattacks that previously targeted PCs and phones. This is the case with modern vehicles running Android, as security researchers at Kaspersky discovered new malware that can compromise an infotainment unit to provide attackers with control of the head unit and the ability to deploy...Read More
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Unpatched Zimbra servers are falling to CVE-2026-73570 attacksAt least 274 internet-facing Zimbra instances have been compromised by unknown attackers via CVE-2026-73570, the Shadowserver Foundation shared on Monday. AI supply chain risk is showing up in developer workflows firstIn this Help...Read More
