Senate Judiciary advances bill that would bar minors from interacting with AI companions
2026-05-01T20:51:55Z•8fe101386e600fd09832a6498db10de06244c5066e6d9e552484f9df9f3040ec
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What happened
Collection of security and policy developments: the Senate Judiciary advanced the GUARD Act to restrict minors’ interactions with AI companions and require disclosure that AIs aren’t human or credentialed; CISA ordered federal agencies to urgently patch a severe cPanel vulnerability (CVE-2026-41940) that Rapid7 says can give attackers full control of host systems; two incident responders were sentenced to four years for abusing access to deploy ransomware; the UK cyber agency warned of an imminent 'patch wave' as AI accelerates vulnerability discovery; and a cyber-espionage group targeted俄罗斯航空
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