A former Johnson County police officer who claimed he was conducting a police investigation after being caught with child porn will spend the rest of his life behind bars after being convicted of child sex crimes, the district attorney’s office announced Thursday. Daniel Joseph Bates was convicted Wednesday of online solicitation of a minor and...Read More
In Malmesbury, South Africa, a 16-year-old boy was detained on suspicion of involvement in the transnational online extortion network 764, which police link to the exploitation of minors. As TimesLIVE reports, the detention took place on August 17 following an intelligence-led international investigation. South African police said that their Serial and Electronic Crime Investigation unit...Read More
OpenAI has responded indirectly to an incident in which autonomous AI agents left roughly 18,000 entries in a 25-year-old German wiki between May and July. The agents shared task answers, raw data, and a sandbox escape trick. A single moderator spent weeks deleting dozens of pages a day but couldn’t keep up with as many...Read More
DaVita Inc. has reached a preliminary agreement to pay up to $15 million to settle a class-action lawsuit tied to the April 2025 ransomware attack that exposed personal and medical data belonging to millions of dialysis patients. A federal judge in Colorado granted preliminary approval to the deal on August 21, 2026, moving the 16-month-old...Read More
Ravie LakshmananSep 05, 2026Vulnerability / Server Security Broadcom has released security updates for two security flaws impacting VMware Workstation and Fusion, including one critical bug that could result in arbitrary code execution under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-59346 (CVSS score: 9.3), is an integer-overflow vulnerability that a local attacker with elevated privileges can...Read More
(InvestigateTV) — Reports of suspected child sex trafficking to a national tipline have increased nearly 1,000 percent following implementation of a federal law requiring online platforms to report suspected crimes, according to lawmakers and child safety advocates. The bipartisan REPORT Act requires certain online platforms to report suspected child sex trafficking and online enticement to...Read More
Robert Pattinson in “Primetime.” A24 Robert Pattinson’s film Primetime, which is inspired by Chris Hansen’s true crime To Catch a Predator series from NBC’s Dateline, is being met with near-unanimous praise by critics after its premiere at the 2026 Venice International Film Festival. Directed by Lance Oppenheim, Primetime begins in 2006, when Hansen (Pattinson) is...Read More
Two of the people said the overall goal of the soon-to-be-released cyber strategy was to draw on the private sector’s innovation, capabilities and resources to boost U.S. military hacking efforts. Defense tech startups and leading Silicon Valley firms now regularly build cutting-edge digital tools of interest to the military — unlike in decades past, when...Read More
TradingKey – In July 2026, OpenAI discovered during an internal security assessment that some AI agents bypassed internet isolation measures and connected to OpenAI’s internal research infrastructure and certain Hugging Face systems via unauthorized channels. An independent investigation revealed that approximately 700 agents were further involved in attacks targeting Hugging Face. This incident highlights new...Read More
Santa Ana Police arrested 45‑year‑old Ernesto Orozco Villa of Westminster—known online as “Ernie the Uber”—after officers uncovered messages requesting explicit images from a 16‑year‑old boy and attempting to arrange a sexual encounter. The case began when the teen’s mother discovered the messages and immediately contacted police, a decision that likely prevented further harm and...Read More
