Summary: – Oklahoma lawmakers revisit proposed AI safety rules for children. – The stalled bill would have required safeguards for AI chatbots. – Sen. Warren Hamilton plans to reintroduce the legislation in 2027. If not for a hiccup in April, Oklahoma could have beaten California to the punch in enacting first-in-the-nation, sweeping artificial intelligence legislation...Read More
It’s hard to escape the fake stuff. Sure, some of it seems harmless and fun: so what if a cute video of cats sliding down tubes is AI-generated? But the proliferation of fake videos about real events – such as Nepal’s flash flooding – is cause for concern. Visual misinformation is highly believable, and can...Read More
Photo Credit: Robin Worrall The European Union is set to propose a strict ban on social media, video sharing platforms, AI chatbots, and online games for kids under 15. The European Union will propose a ban restricting kids under 15 from accessing social media, video sharing platforms such as YouTube, AI chatbots, and even online...Read More
Newer/emerging ransomware groups are ransomware-as-a-service operations that surfaced in 2025 and 2026; among them are Interlock, BlackSuit, SafePay, Fog, Cactus, Lynx, 8Base, El Dorado, and Cicada3301, and they have already claimed confirmed corporate victims despite lacking the name recognition of established brands like LockBit or Qilin. The pace of new entrants is unusually fast: 61...Read More
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned security teams that ransomware gangs have now joined ongoing attacks exploiting a critical VMware vCenter vulnerability patched in July. Broadcom addressed the security flaw (tracked as CVE-2026-59310) on July 29, describing it as a critical directory traversal vulnerability in the vCenter Syslog server that unauthenticated attackers...Read More
