LEBANON, Ohio (WXIX) – Two 14-year-olds face weapons charges after a photo showing at least one of them holding what court records say was a real handgun in a Lebanon High School locker room surfaced on social media. Both teens have denied the charges. Lebanon City Schools Superintendent Isaac Seevers said someone told a school...Read More
A recent study conducted by researchers from multiple universities, including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, reveals that mental health alerts on social media can effectively reduce teenagers’ screen time. Published on Friday (September 4), the study tested various warning pop-ups on over a thousand teenagers using simulated social media platforms. The results...Read More
In this week’s edition of the weekly recap, Polymarket pursued a $1 billion funding round at a proposed $21 billion valuation, while Cronos reversed its blockchain after a $75 million exploit. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs also posted their strongest daily inflow since January as BTC briefly crossed $82,000. Summary Polymarket’s planned $1 billion round would...Read More
Mustafau | Istock | Getty Images The stakes have never been higher for senior cybersecurity leaders at top companies. “It feels like my job has doubled or quadrupled,” said Wally Dalrymple, chief security officer at global education and talent solutions firm ETS. “It’s coming at us so fast and at such large volumes,” he said....Read More
(Credit: Upper Room) Mark Lee is poised to drop a single on Sept. 10, his agency Upper Room announced Wednesday. “My Friend” will mark Mark’s first new music since leaving NCT. The performer struck out on his own in April, choosing to part ways with both the boy band and label SM Entertainment after 10...Read More
Ransomware has become a serious cybersecurity problem for businesses of every size. It is a type of malware that can lock users out of systems or encrypt files, leaving data unreadable. Criminals then demand a ransom in exchange for restoring access — though payment does not guarantee recovery. The threat goes back decades. In 1989,...Read More
Sophos, a global cybersecurity leader, recently released its annual State of Ransomware in Education 2026 Sophos State of Ransomware in Education report, which found that identity-based attack techniques were used in 85% of ransomware attacks against education institutions. Those techniques include malicious email, phishing, compromised credentials and brute force attacks. The 85% rate exceeded the...Read More
The FBI seized three internet domains Wednesday that prosecutors say Chinese government-backed hackers used to target U.S. agencies, critical infrastructure and other networks. The Justice Department attributed the tools, known as QScan and QTRouter, to a hacking group called QTFY. Court records say the group operates through Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Company, a private Chinese...Read More
Anthropic has launched Claude Fable 5.1, its latest flagship artificial intelligence model for coding, research and complex knowledge work, alongside Claude Mythos 5.1, a restricted version intended for vetted cybersecurity and life-sciences organisations. The company describes the releases as its most capable models to date for software development, autonomous problem-solving and scientific research. Although the...Read More
Analysis Palo Alto Unit 42 documented the first confirmed AI-agent-launched cyberattack, compressing weeks of intrusion into under 10 hours. The market response was immediate. On September 2, 2026, a human threat actor did something that would have previously required a small army of specialists working for weeks. Using frontier AI models and specialized agentic frameworks,...Read More
