Scattered Spider members Owen Flowers (18) and Thalha Jubair (20) were sentenced to five years and six months on July 16, 2026, for a TfL attack that cost about £29 million. In summer 2024, they disabled TfL’s ticketing and real-time arrival systems for weeks; the FBI alleged Jubair targeted 120+ companies via social engineering.
U.S. prosecutors have charged three Russian nationals and two web hosting companies with hacking, conspiracy, and money laundering for their alleged roles in facilitating cyberattacks that caused…
Eight current/former OpenAI employees gave $215,000+ to Guardrails Alliance for stricter frontier‑AI regulation, opposing Greg Brockman’s pro‑industry PAC. Juan Felipe Cerón Uribe gave $200,000 ahead of Guardrails’ July 15, 2026 FEC filing; it launched with $5M and aims for $15M.
A group of major publishers and authors filed a class action lawsuit against Google in July 2026, alleging the company used copyrighted works without permission to train its AI platform, Gemini.
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Google announced in July 2026 a major redesign of Google Images that shifts the platform from a pure search tool into a browsable, discovery-focused gallery — a format closely resembling Pinterest….
On July 14, 2026, a widespread Plex outage hit live TV and on-demand, plus the plex.tv API and Discover Together, and some users even reported degraded local LAN playback (“takes ages” and may not work). Plex confirmed the issues on its status page and X, noting an outage lasting over an hour at the time of reporting.
X has adjusted its feed algorithm to give greater visibility to posts from users’ mutual followers — people who both follow and are followed back by a given user. The change was announced on Monday,…
Microsoft announced in July 2026 that it is testing a stripped-down version of the Windows 11 search menu, removing ads, recommended content, and other distractions. The update is currently rolling…
Ursula von der Leyen says the EU may propose new child social media rules within months: no screens under 3, supervised access under 13, and tighter limits for older teens, with platforms required to prove safety for younger users. The Commission will review the report “after the summer,” but any law needs approval from the European Parliament and all 27 EU member states, amid DSA scrutiny over Meta’s addictive design and TikTok’s 2026 findings.
A security firm has discovered a critical Linux kernel vulnerability that went undetected for 15 years, allowing any logged-in user to gain full root access on an unpatched machine. Nebula Security…
Surveillance technology company Flock Safety is denying that it sent cease and desist letters to groups discussing its technology, saying the letters are forgeries created as part of a disinformation…
Johannes Heidecke, OpenAI’s head of safety systems, told staff in a July 2026 memo he’s leaving as safety moves under Mia Glaese. Mark Chen says faster training cadence and shorter release cycles are increasing coordination demands, with Saachi Jain serving as interim safety head.
