The move comes hours after a researcher’s resignation post has reignited fears about the direction of new technology. Sep 10, 2026 Updated 5:07 pm PT Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at Google’s San Francisco office in on Aug. 7, 2025. One of bills the governor signed Thursday restricts addictive social media features for kids under 16;...Read More
California governor Gavin Newsom’s signature is now on a slew of new tech laws, including a dozen new state bills that target social media and AI giants. In addition to strengthening existing child safety laws, the state’s latest efforts to regulate products from players like Meta and OpenAI include provisions that could effectively ban social...Read More
Veradigm, the healthcare technology company formerly known as Allscripts, has disclosed a patient data breach tied to a ransomware incident at one of its third-party vendors, according to reporting from BleepingComputer, Insurance Business, The Business Journals and Traders Union. The disclosure lands after a ransomware and extortion group calling itself “The Gentlemen” listed Veradigm on...Read More
Two separate ransomware gangs have posted claims against Interim HealthCare, a home healthcare provider that operates across 40 U.S. states, according to The HIPAA Journal. The group known as GENESIS listed the company on its dark-web leak site on August 10, 2026, claiming to have stolen roughly 1 terabyte of data. Eleven days later, on...Read More
Thursday, September 10, 2026 WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), as Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee on Disaster Management, launched an investigation into OpenAI for their AI agents’ hack of Hugging Face in July 2026. The investigation will also probe the existential risk of new AI products. In a letter to CEO Sam Altman, Senator...Read More
High Priority Legislation: Protecting kids from chatbots SB 1119, Adam’s Law, has been the Transparency Coalition’s highest priority measure in California this year. It builds on the foundation established in 2025 by SB 243, Sen. Steve Padilla’s groundbreaking chatbot safety law. That measure, the first of its kind in the nation, required chatbot operators to...Read More
AT&T (NYSE:T) appointed Fazal F. Merchant, a cloud and AI security veteran and former President and CFO of Wiz Inc., to its Board of Directors. Merchant will serve on key AT&T board committees, adding deep experience in cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and complex corporate finance. His background with AI driven security platforms and large scale transactions...Read More
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA – AUGUST 21: California Gov. Gavin Newsom looks on during a bill signing event related to redrawing the state’s congressional maps on August 21, 2025 in Sacramento, California. In a move to counter Texas House Republicans’ plan to redraw the state’s congressional maps ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, California Democrats took up...Read More
