Social media companies paid a school district more than its annual budget to avoid trial
Social media companies paid a school district more than its annual budget to avoid trial

The financial terms of the Breathitt County social media settlement have been disclosed for the first time. Meta is paying $9 million. Snap and TikTok are each paying $8 million. YouTube negotiated a payout of slightly more than $2 million. The combine…

Microsoft threatened a security researcher with criminal prosecution. The cybersecurity community is furious.
Microsoft threatened a security researcher with criminal prosecution. The cybersecurity community is furious.

Microsoft published a blog post on Wednesday criticising a security researcher known as “Nightmare Eclipse” for publicly disclosing a series of unpatched vulnerabilities in Windows Defender and BitLocker. The company then invoked its Digital Crimes Uni…

Dutch police seized 800 servers used by Russian hackers to attack Europe
Dutch police seized 800 servers used by Russian hackers to attack Europe

Dutch financial crime investigators have seized 800 servers and arrested two men in a crackdown on hosting companies that provided infrastructure for Russian state-sponsored cyberattacks across Europe. The Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Ser…

NATO just formalised cybersecurity partnerships with Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and ESET
NATO just formalised cybersecurity partnerships with Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and ESET

NATO has signed strategic cybersecurity partnerships with Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and ESET, formalising what the alliance describes as non-commercial agreements to strengthen collective resilience in cyberspace. The partnerships were announced o…

YouTube will now automatically label AI-generated videos, whether creators disclose them or not
YouTube will now automatically label AI-generated videos, whether creators disclose them or not

YouTube has announced that it will begin automatically detecting and labelling videos that contain significant photorealistic AI-generated content, using internal signals rather than relying on creators to disclose it themselves. The change marks a shi…

The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the cloud provider that runs Dutch digital identity
The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the cloud provider that runs Dutch digital identity

The Dutch government has imposed a “complete prohibition” on the acquisition of Solvinity, a Dutch cloud provider, by Kyndryl, the American IT infrastructure company spun out of IBM in 2021. The deal, valued at roughly €100 million, would have given a …

Iran-linked hackers reached LA Metro’s rail-yard control display in March, Israeli firm finds
Iran-linked hackers reached LA Metro’s rail-yard control display in March, Israeli firm finds

Iranian hackers were behind the cyber-attack that forced parts of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority offline in March, according to research published on Tuesday by Gambit Security, a Tel Aviv cybersecurity firm that says it t…

Most organisations still store their passwords wrong. Here is what actually works.
Most organisations still store their passwords wrong. Here is what actually works.

A password manager feels like a solved problem. Pick one, store your credentials, move on. Yet breach after breach tells a different story: compromised passwords remain the single most common entry point for attackers, responsible for over 80 per cent …

The AI security gap nobody wants to admit is already here
The AI security gap nobody wants to admit is already here

On March 31, 2026, Anthropic accidentally shipped the entire source code of Claude Code to the public npm registry. Around 512,000 lines of TypeScript across 1,906 files, including 44 hidden feature flags and references to an unreleased model codenamed…

HP pushed a critical BIOS update through Windows Update. It bricked its most expensive laptops.
HP pushed a critical BIOS update through Windows Update. It bricked its most expensive laptops.

HP customers are reporting that BIOS updates pushed through Windows Update are rendering premium laptops unbootable. The affected devices include the ZBook Ultra G1a, a mobile workstation that costs upwards of £4,000, and the EliteBook X G1a. The updat…