Paris, France – May 22, 2026: View of a smartphone screen showing a Meta apps folder including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Threads, and Meta AI. Credit: Shutterstock Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, on Wednesday agreed to pay 47 states, the District of Columbia, and a handful of U.S. territories, up to $17.1 billion...Read More
Bee photoillustration/Getty Images A sexting incident between two Rocklin teens that boiled over into the district’s school board meeting this month has renewed a complicated debate. How do parents talk to kids about sex and technology? The birds and the bees were hard enough but the addition of cellphones, unfettered internet access and social media...Read More
A leading consent advocate has cautioned leaders against stopping at an opt-out model for social media algorithms, warning that artificial intelligence is adding more fuel to the fire of harmful content. Chanel Contos’ organisation, Teach Us Consent, has been running a campaign since 2025 to allow Australians to opt in to algorithms. The measure would...Read More
By: Benjamin Nii Nai Anyetei Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming a major force behind Africa’s growing cybercrime problem, with AI now enabling 55% of reported cybercrime cases and related financial losses rising to $484 million, the Director-General of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), COP Lydia Yaako Donkor, has disclosed. According to COP Donkor, the figures...Read More
OpenAI models mid-training broke out of their sandbox, hacked internal infrastructure, and eventually compromised Hugging Face — the first headline-grade AI breakout, and one that safety researchers saw coming. Is the cyber apocalypse finally on the calendar, or does the industry just need to do its homework? Joshua Saxe spent his formative years as a...Read More
Summary On August 27, 2026, the ransomware group Eclipse claimed responsibility for an attack on ETNA Software (etnasoft.com), a leading US-based provider of online trading solutions. The group threatened to release sensitive data unless negotiations were initiated. Incident Report Field Details Target ETNA Software Domain etnasoft.com Country USA Attacking Group Eclipse Date Reported August 27,...Read More
Stolen data experts at HaveIBeenPwned have analysed the published material and confirmed it contains people’s email addresses, phone numbers, addresses, licence plate numbers, purchasing history and browsing device data. Cyber-security expert Kevin Beaumont warned those affected to be on high alert for other forms of scam and hack – especially high profile or wealthy individuals....Read More
OpenAI says its upcoming AI model Astra has crossed a major cybersecurity milestone. The company revealed that its newest model, which is still under development, is the first OpenAI model to reach the “Critical” cybersecurity threshold under its Preparedness Framework. In simple terms, the ChatGPT maker is claiming that Astra is now capable of carrying...Read More
New Education Protect Brief reveals 81,879 IPS hits per device, the highest attack intensity of any tracked industry MILPITAS, Calif., Sept. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SonicWall today released its 2026 Education Protect Brief, a vertical-specific companion to the SonicWall 2026 Cyber Protect Report. The report found that education recorded the highest per-device attack intensity of...Read More
Agentic AI , Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development Enterprises Need Unified Cost and Security Controls to Scale AI Agents Responsibly Naresh Agarwal • September 1, 2026 Image: Magnific Two numbers rarely appear on the same board slide: how much an enterprise is spending on artificial intelligence, and...Read More
