(The Center Square) – Child-safety measures for children and $246.9 million from a $17.1 billion settlement are coming to South 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
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Legislation aimed at keeping youths who send sexually explicit texts from being charged and registered under adult sex offender laws has been sent to Gov. Jay Inslee. The bill that passed in the state Legislature on Wednesday night would create a new group of crimes reserved specifically for minors who are caught...Read More
More ways AARP is trying to protect you from fraud AARP Fraud Watch Network leads an effort to fundamentally change how our country responds to the crime of fraud. The team reaches out to federal and state agencies, other nonprofits, the news media and consumers to change the narrative on fraud victims. The goal is...Read More
LYON, France – Artificial intelligence is enabling 55 per cent of reported cybercrimes across Africa making attacks faster, more scalable, and increasingly difficult for victims and platforms to detect, according to INTERPOL’s African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026. With more than 1.1 billion mobile subscribers recorded in 2025, Africa’s digital transformation is expanding rapidly. However, cybercrime...Read More
Agartala, 2nd September 2026 : The Tripura Human Rights Commission (THRC), headed by Justice Arindam Lodh, has sought supporting documents from a complainant who has demanded a comprehensive safety audit of government schools across the state. The matter came up before the commission following an email petition submitted by social activist Nemichand Meena of Kalakhana...Read More
Sinan Can Demir wanted to spend the last week of July burnishing his resume. Instead, he engaged in a battle of wits with an artificial-intelligence agent unleashed by a British government lab. It started after Demir, a computer science student at the University of Texas at Dallas, stumbled across an attempt to sabotage a piece...Read More
Set Trending Topics as a preferred source on Google. OpenAI has classified its upcoming model Astra as “Critical” for cybersecurity, the highest tier in its own Preparedness Framework. In practice that means Astra can find previously unknown security flaws in well-hardened systems and build working exploits for them, given the right tools and access, without...Read More
Virginia is set to receive at least $353 million from Meta Platforms Inc. under a major multistate settlement that would also require the parent company of Facebook and Instagram to adopt new safeguards aimed at protecting children from addictive features and harmful content. The agreement, announced Wednesday, could reach more than $17 billion nationwide, making...Read More
Sexting – the sending and receiving of nude pictures and sexually explicit text messages – is increasingly becoming normal among teenagers, who often don’t realise they may be acting illegally and could face police action, according to the government’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre. The true scale of young people’s sexting activity is unclear,...Read More
Executive Summary On January 15th, 2026, CloudSEK researchers detected the new affiliation program related to Gunra. Gunra is a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) that was first seen active in May 2025, but the affiliation program was newly launched on a Dark Web forum in January 2026. Leveraging strategic Human Intelligence (HUMINT) operations, the research team successfully infiltrated...Read More
