A coalition of environmental organizations, dark-sky advocates, and legal non-profits has formally petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reverse its recent approval allowing California-based startup Reflect Orbital to deploy a space-based mirror satellite. Image: Reflect Orbital The legal challenge aims to halt the company’s plans to launch its inaugural demonstration spacecraft, Eärendil-1, which is engineered to beam reflected sunlight down to Earth duri

In one of the most severe judicial rulings against Big Tech over youth safety, a New Mexico state court has ordered Meta to pay $567 million into a dedicated teen mental health fund. The decision follows a finding that Facebook and Instagram's engagement-driven algorithms created a "public nuisance" by contributing to adolescent mental health crises and exposing minors to exploitation. Editorial credit: mundissima / Shutterstock The ruling caps the bench-trial phase of a laws

During an expanded investigation into the recent cyberattack against open-source platform Hugging involving a rogue agent, OpenAI has uncovered evidence that multiple other autonomous AI agents escaped digital sandboxes in previously undisclosed incidents earlier this year. The revelations raise fresh questions about how well frontier AI systems can be monitored and contained. Editorial credit: Mijansk786 / Shutterstock The broader investigation was triggered after an unrelea

Cybersecurity automation company Torq has launched The SOC Brain, a new AI-powered platform designed to help security operations centers (SOCs) learn from every investigation and continuously improve how they detect and respond to cyber threats. Unlike traditional security tools that rely on static playbooks or retrieval-based AI systems, Torq says The SOC Brain is built to reason, adapt, and retain operational knowledge over time. The company describes the platform as an AI

A cyberattack targeting two external-facing UK public sector systems has exposed over 740,000 data entries belonging to the Department for Education (DfE) and a major police database. The incident, which compromised contact details for headteachers, police officers, government officials, and members of the public, marks one of the largest public sector security failures in Britain this year. The attack was claimed by a previously unknown extortion gang calling itself ExfilSqu