Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting...Read More
A man was arrested in Sonoma County on Monday for allegedly participating in a plot to scam an elderly woman out of money, authorities said Tuesday. The Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety said in a community alert that detectives learned on Monday that the woman was targeted by an organized criminal network with a...Read More
(KNSI) – The books and the homework are in the backpack, but experts recommend packing a safety plan, too. With school back in session, Alison Feigh, Director of the Jacob Wetterling Resource Center, recommends getting a safe network together, saying, “We know that kids are at less risk when they have involved, connected adults in...Read More
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers worried about the existential risk posed by new artificial intelligence products demanded information from OpenAI on Thursday with separate queries that underscored growing concerns in Washington about the technology’s potential to elude human control. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., launched an investigation Thursday into OpenAI for its artificial intelligence system hacking into...Read More
Anthropic says malicious actors are moving beyond using generative artificial intelligence as a source of technical advice and are increasingly deploying it as an operational layer capable of coordinating cyberattacks, processing stolen data, maintaining infrastructure and adapting malware with limited human involvement. The AI company’s September 2026 Threat Intelligence Report describes a broad collection of...Read More
A new survey finds strong support among parents for new social media safeguards designed to give families more tools to protect teens online. The research, released by the Coalition to Empower Our Future, found that 81% of parents nationwide support the recent agreement between states and Meta to implement additional online safety measures. The survey...Read More
(TNND) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed bills aimed at making social media safer for kids by limiting so-called addictive features and raising penalties for platforms found negligent in harming children. Assemblyman Josh Lowenthal, a Long Beach Democrat and the lead author of the bills, said Friday that he’s “ecstatic” to see them...Read More
In May, hundreds of malicious and spam packages were uploaded to RubyGems, causing a serious disruption for the host. Now independent researchers have said that a swarm of OpenAI agents were responsible for the attack. Not only that, but the AI tried to steal users’ API keys. At the time, RubyGems described it as a...Read More
LANSING, Mich. (News 10) – Local business owners met in Lansing to learn how to use artificial intelligence to protect themselves from growing cyber threats. Grassroots Giving Lansing and LAFCU teamed up for a Black Business Mixer on Marketplace Boulevard. The event focused on ways to use cybersecurity to protect small businesses and strategies to...Read More
