A legal battle is playing out this week between an artificial intelligence company and a grieving mom claiming her 14-year-old son took his life over being in love with an AI chatbot. “I miss him all the time, constantly,” said the mother, Megan Garcia, of her late son Sewell Setzer III. That scene—of defendants Character...Read More
Washington DC [US] March 30 (ANI): The House Foreign Affairs Committee has passed bipartisan legislation aimed at curbing the smuggling of advanced American semiconductors to foreign adversaries, according to a release by the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (SCCCP). According to the SCCCP release, the proposed Chip Security Act, introduced last year, comes...Read More
A video, claiming to show FBI Director Kash Patel dancing to a Bollywood song, amid the ongoing controversy over an alleged email hack, is being widely shared on social media. The clip surfaced at the same time as reports that a hacking group had targeted Patel’s personal email account, leading people to believe that it...Read More
Africa’s cybersecurity market is expanding steadily, valued at about $0.68 billion in 2025 and projected to reach $1.44 billion by 2031. But the real story is not market size; it’s urgency. From what I see across the region, industries are digitising faster than they are securing themselves. Cybersecurity is no longer a back-office IT concern....Read More
Summary: A new national study finds that all forms of cyberbullying—not just direct threats—can cause trauma in teens, suggesting it should be considered a serious childhood adversity. Even subtle behaviors like exclusion from chats or online rumors were found to cause PTSD symptoms as severe as overt harassment. Researchers analyzed data from nearly 2,700 U.S....Read More
Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has been hacked. The agency says the cybersecurity breach was limited to a single human resources database used specifically by job seekers for online applications. A cybercrime group known as XP95 has claimed responsibility for the ransomware attack. The group has reportedly demanded about R1.7 million in exchange for not...Read More
A New Mexico jury found Tuesday that social media conglomerate Meta is harmful to children’s mental health and in violation of state consumer protection law. The landmark decision comes after a nearly seven-week trial. Jurors sided with state prosecutors who argued that Meta — which owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp — prioritized profits over safety....Read More
Two days after Christmas 2022, “John Doe” found himself being booked in Highlands County on 15 counts of possession of child pornography-enhanced and two counts of possessing obscene material. He quickly paid his bond and was released. The anonymous Doe, 21, faced 15 years in prison on each of the 15 counts of enhanced child...Read More
London, March 2026 — DOS & Co., the trusted advisor to entrepreneurs, family offices, and significant wealth-holders, proudly marks the first anniversary of its pioneering UK Security for Expenses Scheme. Launched in January 2025, this innovative fintech solution has transformed the Party Wall Security for Expenses landscape by replacing a traditionally slow, paper-based, and costly process with a...Read More
Aroostook Mental Health Services Aroostook Mental Health Services Inc., a nonprofit behavioral health provider in northern Maine, disclosed that it recently experienced a ransomware attack that disrupted some of its business operations. The total number of individuals potentially affected by the incident has not been disclosed. AMHC posted a public notice about the incident on...Read More
