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Wednesday, June 24, 2026

• Little evidence that Australia's under-16 social media restrictions have curbed use among adolescents
  There is little evidence that Australia's Social Media Minimum Age Act has led to any immediate reductions in social media use by under-16s, according to an early analysis of survey data published by The BMJ.
  

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

• AI advertising can deliver relevant content without spying on users' internet behaviors
  The idea that digital advertising depends on tracking users across websites has become a defining feature of the online economy. New research from the University of Kansas has found that artificial intelligence technology can be used to deliver relevant ads without spying on users.
  
• Top Indian tech supplier reports 'cybersecurity incident'
  A top Indian maker of iPhone parts has confirmed it was hit by a "cybersecurity incident," with media reports alleging that Apple supplier specifications had been leaked.
  

Monday, June 22, 2026

• Microscopic image changes can bypass AI guardrails, nearly doubling unsafe responses
  It may look like a picture of a panda bear to you, but to your business's AI agent, it can act like a skeleton key, bypassing safety safeguards and potentially causing the model to generate harmful, misleading or policy-violating outputs.
  
• Revocable fingerprint IDs may reduce permanent biometric theft risks, paper suggests
  The obvious problem with biometrics is that once someone has stolen your fingerprint or iris ID, you cannot simply reset those to block their access as you might a password. Now, research published in the International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics offers a new approach to protecting biometric authentication data so that the risk associated with this kind of irreversible identity theft can be largely avoided and gives users an option to reset their fingerprints and other biometrics, as it were.
  
• Understand 'phishing?' Think again: Why cybersecurity language is failing us
  Cyberattacks now cost the global economy trillions, yet most people still struggle to understand what actually happens when a breach occurs. Research by Associate Professor Sky Marsen, an applied linguist and communications course director at Flinders University, and Professor Robert Biddle, a computer scientist at Carleton University in Canada, suggests a surprising reason for this gap: The language used to explain cybersecurity may be part of the problem.
  

Thursday, June 18, 2026

• AI model predicts robberies across US cities with 86.3% accuracy
  Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence model that predicts crime more accurately than several existing approaches by combining information about where crimes occur, when they happen and wider social patterns. They report details of the approach in the International Journal of Innovative Computing and Applications.
  
• Spin-orbit torque hardware creates random keys and reveals unauthorized access attempts
  The information exchanged by modern devices is typically protected by cryptographic techniques, approaches that convert readable data into scrambled, unreadable code that can only be deciphered by authorized parties or devices. To descramble encrypted data, devices or accounts need access to randomly generated cryptographic keys, unique, randomly generated sequences of binary code, letters or numbers that are essential for encrypting or decrypting data.
  

Monday, June 15, 2026

• To hack or not to hack, that is the ethical question
  Long before a hacker ever touches a keyboard, their personal moral outlook helps predict whether they will use their skills in ethical or unethical ways, according to new research led by the University at Buffalo School of Management. Published in Technology in Society, the study found that students drawn to legitimate, authorized cybersecurity work also tend to be attracted to its illegal side, a pattern the authors warn could quietly erode ethical boundaries in the profession.
  
• Researchers propose 'copyleft' rules for generative AI
  The rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) poses challenges for the free and open-source software (FOSS) community, a global network committed to creating and maintaining publicly available software that anyone can use, modify and share. Many AI models have been built on open-source software but do not reciprocate the transparency that the FOSS community's principles require, leaving open-source developers uncertain about how these AI tools are using their code.
  
• Administration's AI security order acknowledges risks but stops short of regulating industry
  Some technology and policy watchers were surprised when President Donald Trump signed an executive order on June 2, 2026, establishing a framework for AI security. It seemed to move in a different direction from a December 2025 executive order that sought to create a "minimally burdensome" national framework for artificial intelligence and supersede state laws the administration saw as restrictive.
  
• Americans strongly support regulations on AI, according to poll
  Most Americans, even those who most appreciate AI, strongly support more regulation of it, a new survey by Johns Hopkins University researchers finds.
  

Saturday, June 13, 2026

• PhishLumos maps phishing infrastructure and finds 190,000 URLs in six months
  Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created a new paradigm for identifying online phishing campaigns. Their new system, PhishLumos, is triggered when links show signs of concealing information and looks for clues in the "infrastructure" of the website to uncover the whole campaign of which the site is only a tiny part. Real-world testing showed detection that was eight days faster than an expert's, with 190,000 URLs detected over six months.
  

Wednesday, June 10, 2026

• New OS kernel uncovers hidden Apple M1 behavior and possible Phantom attack
  A new kernel (core program) within an operating system gives researchers a cleaner view of what's happening inside a processor. Called Fractal and developed at MIT, the kernel has already surfaced previously unknown behavior in Apple's M1.
  
• Russian satellites linked to mysterious GPS disruptions across several countries
  Since 2019, GPS signals across Europe, Greenland and Canada have experienced a huge spike in sudden, widespread signal blackouts. These have resulted in disruptions and degraded performance in navigation systems that airplanes and ships rely on to travel safely.
  
• Mathematical proof reveals why fixed AI guardrails can never block every jailbreak
  Can we make artificial intelligence impervious to adversaries who want to twist the technology to nefarious ends? Though AI is among the newest of technologies, the answer to that question is nearly a century old.
  

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

• Researchers discover hidden chip threats and a way to stop them
  Every day, billions of people trust computer chips to protect their most sensitive information, ranging from banking passwords to national security secrets. But what if those chips were secretly compromised before they even left the factory?
  
• Self-testing quantum chip generates certified random numbers while checking its hardware in real time
  Randomness forms a crucial backbone of modern society, where every encryption key, secure transaction and digital signature depends on random numbers that no adversary can predict. But every random number generator ever deployed, classical or quantum, has asked its users to take the hardware's honesty on faith.
  

Monday, June 8, 2026

• Social media accounts uncover how fake jobs trap people in cross-border scam compounds
  Under the pretext of employment prospects, hundreds of thousands of job seekers are lured by scammers to cross the border into countries such as Myanmar, Laos or Cambodia. Instead of the promised lucrative positions, they are forced to work long hours in heavily guarded scam compounds, facing strict quotas and violence as punishment. Their main task is to fabricate online identities and defraud people, for example by operating "pig-butchering" scams, in which they introduce fraudulent investment schemes after establishing romantic relationships with random targets online.
  
• Blockchain framework could curb credential fraud in online degrees, tests suggest
  Research in the International Journal of Information and Communication Technology has looked at potential security and privacy weaknesses in remote higher education systems, focusing on centralized virtual learning platforms.
  
• From Verizon to Apple, a hidden texting flaw has finally been patched
  A major security vulnerability that allows attackers to easily fake their identity in smartphone text conversations has been fixed in the United States thanks to a team of computer scientists at the University of California San Diego. The vulnerability affected both Android and Apple smartphones as well as all major wireless carriers, including Verizon, T-Mobile and Google Fi, and smaller independent operators such as Mint Mobile.
  
• System designed to detect and track potential attacks on electric vehicle charging stations
  The increasing adoption of electric vehicles is creating growing demand for charging infrastructure, driving a transformation in access to and use of energy through the controlled deployment of fast, efficient and secure charging stations.
  

Friday, June 5, 2026

• Q&A: How organic glass scintillators could improve nuclear security
  As the demand for nuclear security solutions grows, distinguishing a benign medical isotope from a potential threat is critical. Organic glass scintillators can help meet the need for accurate, cost-effective radiation detectors.
  
• New WebAssembly memory layout could stop Heartbleed-style browser attacks with no visible slowdown
  Google Earth, Zoom, Twitch.tv or Photoshop—thanks to the WebAssembly standard, many powerful applications now run directly in a browser without installation. However, some of these web apps have serious security vulnerabilities. Researchers from paluno—The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology at the University of Duisburg-Essen—have developed a solution to secure COTS applications by automatically reorganizing their memory.
  

Thursday, June 4, 2026

• Stronger security measures are needed as the energy retail sector faces escalating cyber threats
  A doctoral dissertation by Mikko Suorsa, to be defended at the University of Vaasa, Finland, reveals that the energy retail sector is an essential yet vulnerable part of the energy industry's value chain and of critical infrastructure. Having received comparatively little attention in cybersecurity efforts, the sector requires strengthened resilience, and the study introduces concrete methods to achieve this. It is one of the first studies to focus specifically on energy retail organizations.
  
• AI worm adapts across networks, turning any online device into potential target
  A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has discovered a new class of cyberthreat that gives hackers more power and reach at far less cost. It can be built with free AI models. Every online device is a potential target. And current cyber defenses are not yet ready for it.
  

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

• Two animal-inspired algorithms just changed how software-defined networks catch attacks before disruptions spread
  Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence-based system designed to improve cyberattack detection in software-defined networks (SDNs), a networking architecture widely used in data centers and enterprise systems.
  

Monday, June 1, 2026

• Quantum computers could expose our digital secrets, but there are much better reasons to build them
  Quantum computers are coming. Or, at least, that's what current predictions say. These machines harness the power of quantum mechanics, the set of rules governing how physics operates at atomic and sub-atomic scales.
  
• A retention-aware system turns a computer's storage chip into a cybersecurity shield
  Hackers are ruthless. They can take control of your computer, delete files and disappear without a trace. However, FIU cybersecurity researcher Weidong Zhu has discovered a way to transform a computer's storage chip into an additional tool for cyber defense. Working with collaborators at the University of Florida, Zhu created a system that makes data on these chips last longer—extending the lifespan of your files in the critical window after your computer is compromised. The work is published in the journal Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security.
  

Friday, May 29, 2026

• AI and ultralow-energy lasers enable an ultrafast authentication system
  The security of modern communications heavily relies on systems that can rapidly and reliably verify users and the devices they are using. This process, known as authentication, essentially entails confirming that users or devices are legitimate (i.e., who or what they claim to be).