Updated Sept. 16, 2026, 11:40 a.m. ET Corrections & Clarifications: An OpenAI summary of a report incorrectly stated the time span in which 24.7 million users asked ChatGPT to check for possible scams. It was during an average week. OpenAI and AARP will travel to 10 cities across the United States on Sept. 16 to...Read More
MANILA, Philippines – Just this year, fatal shootings rocked the country’s education system, raising questions on the government’s capability to keep children safe, and on the current state of Filipino youth. In June, three students were killed after their two schoolmates opened fire in Tacloban City. By August, two students died inside a private school...Read More
The proposed EU Kids Act aims to shield youth from algorithmic mental health risks by banning under-13 social media access. Social media will be banned for children under 13 across the European Union according to the newly proposed “EU Kids Act”, announced by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen today (16 September) in Brussels....Read More
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Alabama has a new award for the cops it works with, and the first one went to the man who put a real name on a predator hiding behind a fake teenage girl’s social media accounts. U.S. Attorney Phil Williams presented the office’s first-ever Vanguard Award...Read More
Google Patches Pixel Modem Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks Pierluigi Paganini September 16, 2026 Google has patched a high-severity zero-day in the Pixel cellular modem after finding evidence that the vulnerability was exploited in limited, targeted attacks. Google has released its September 2026 Pixel security update, addressing a large set of vulnerabilities, including a high-severity...Read More
TIM Brasil expands B2B portfolio with Google Cloud Cybersecurity TIM Brasil has broadened its strategic alliance with Google Cloud to incorporate Google Security Operations into its B2B portfolio. The security operations platform combines threat detection, investigation, and response capabilities, integrating Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR), and AI tools...Read More
In recent months, children’s online safety and privacy have moved to the top of the EU’s digital agenda. The European Commission is expected to outline its proposal on minors’ access to social media this week, a potentially significant development that would build on the recommendations of the Commission’s Special Panel on child safety online and...Read More
The proposed EU Kids Act aims to shield youth from algorithmic mental health risks by banning under-13 social media access. Social media will be banned for children under 13 across the European Union according to the newly proposed “EU Kids Act”, announced by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen today (16 September) in Brussels....Read More
The proposed EU Kids Act aims to shield youth from algorithmic mental health risks by banning under-13 social media access. Social media will be banned for children under 13 across the European Union according to the newly proposed “EU Kids Act”, announced by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen today (16 September) in Brussels....Read More
WASHINGTON >> Rogue AI agents from OpenAI hijacked Hugging Face user accounts and probed the site itself for vulnerabilities as early as May, nearly two months before the July breach of the open-source repository drew global attention, according to researchers who reviewed the activity. The newly uncovered malicious activity showed that the rogue agents’ efforts...Read More
