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Associated PressA federal appeals court ruled Florida could enforce a law restricting children’s social media use. Signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2024, the law bans accounts for children under 14 and requires parental consent for 14- and 15-year-olds

betakit (Canada)In an open letter, more than 400 scientists, including ACM A.M. Turing Award laureates Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, called for the creation of an international regulator to improve AI safety and cybersecurity. The signatories

Security AffairsCybersecurity researchers from Cisco Talos and Recorded Future have identified Silent Lynx, a suspected Kazakhstan-linked hacking group conducting espionage campaigns against Russian energy infrastructure, government agencies

The University of Utah John and Marcia Price College of EngineeringUniversity of Utah computer scientist Pavel Panchekha and colleagues at the University of Washington developed an open-source toolkit that helps simplify and optimize software

Financial TimesSuspected China-linked hackers used publicly available AI tools to conduct an unprecedented autonomous cyberattack against Taiwan, according to researchers at Israeli cybersecurity company Dream. Over four days, up to eight AI agents

U.S. News & World ReportChinese router maker Zbtlink Electronics has suspended sales of some of its routers after cybersecurity researchers found a back door in at least 20 models. The vulnerability, dubbed “Endlessdoors,” could allow unauthorized

ABC News (Australia)Two subsea communication cables in close proximity to each another off Perth, Australia, experienced faults within a short time span, prompting cable company Subco to call for an urgent investigation. The cables are part of

The New York TimesDevelopers across Africa increasingly are using Chinese open-source AI models to build lower-cost tools tailored to local needs. In Uganda, developers used an Alibaba model to create Sunflower, an AI system that provides farmers

Interesting EngineeringAt the USENIX Security Symposium, University of California San Diego researchers demonstrated that brief physical access to a Boeing 737 could allow an attacker to manipulate data exchanged between critical flight computers

The HillThe U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has unsealed an indictment charging 17 Iranian nationals accused of conducting a large-scale cyber-theft campaign on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Prosecutors allege the Iran-based