Labubu vs. Lafufu: How a viral toy unleashed a global wave of counterfeits

Labubu reached explosive popularity in early 2025, when public figures such as BLACKPINK's Lisa, Rosé, and Rihanna were seen using the character's charms ...

Should India Ban Social Media For Minors As Macron Recommended At AI Summit?

Experts warn blanket ban could   destroy online anonymity, creating a massive surveillance infrastructure and centralising ...

Let me see some ID: age verification is spreading across the internet

Apple is bringing age verification to the UK, as the latest iOS 26.4 beta prompts users to verify that they’re over 18 following installation. As shown in screenshots posted to Reddit, Apple says ...
Security Boulevard

Why Browser Security Alone Will Not Protect Us in the Agentic AI Era

Introduction: The Evolution of Browser Security For two decades, the web browser served as the primary security frontier for digital interactions. The logic was clear: the browser represented the lens ...
G News Network

Meta will ruin its smart glasses by being Meta

Whenever I write about Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, I already know the comments I'm going to get. Cool hardware, but hard pass on anything Meta makes; will wait for someone else to come along. It's ...
Pew Research Center

What parents say about their teen’s AI use

About this research This study is Pew Research Center’s latest effort to explore the landscape of teens and technology today. It focuses on artificial ...
AMBCrypto

Vitalik Buterin is trying to fix crypto’s biggest blind spot: ‘The goal is to…’

But recently, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has been bringing the discussion back to a more basic question. In his latest X post, Buterin noted that security is about reducing the gap between ...

Usage Intelligence: The Next Frontier Of Consumer Understanding

As consumer behavior shifts more rapidly, understanding in-home usage helps leaders reduce risk, innovate and stay ahead of ...
Push Square

God of War: Sons of Sparta Review (PS5)

Kratos has earned an Eiren's pass, allowing him (alongside his younger brother Deimos) to explore beyond the walls of Sparta. Because of this freedom, the brothers are charged with tracking down a ...

Password managers’ promise that they can’t see your vaults isn’t always true

All eight of the top password managers have adopted the term “zero knowledge” to describe the complex encryption system they use to protect the data vaults that users store on their servers. The ...
The Financial Express

Slop: The internet’s wasteland

From ‘shrimp Jesus’ to a lungi-dancing Vecna, the ballooning AI slop phenomenon has grown to more than just empty hilarity ...
The Independent

Hacking the grid: How digital sabotage turns infrastructure into a weapon

The integration of internet-connected computers into power grids is creating a world where the line between code and physical destruction is blurred COMMENT | SAMAN ZONOUZ | The darkness that swept ...