Senate Judiciary advances bill that would bar minors from interacting with AI companions
2026-05-02T08:52:00Z•b1670d313a3723a2d011c7fb4f3a26ab319b99e7d98d28a25060a14993c049aa
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What happened
Multiple security developments: CISA ordered federal agencies to urgently patch a critical cPanel vulnerability (CVE-2026-41940) that Rapid7 says can give attackers full control of host systems, configurations, databases and hosted sites. British cyber agency warned of a looming ‘patch wave’ as AI accelerates vulnerability discovery. Separately, Russian-focused cyber espionage is targeting aviation firms to steal satellite and GPS geospatial data, two incident responders were sentenced to four years for abusing access to deploy ransomware, and the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the “
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