Senate Judiciary advances bill that would bar minors from interacting with AI companions

2026-05-03T14:51:53Zb5fe24d9718533dfeccf351f84b33659ff461ab5bacf3675dc87aea6939aa731
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Collection of security and policy developments: the Senate Judiciary advanced the GUARD Act to bar minors from interacting with AI companions, require AI to disclose non-human status and ban solicitations for sexual content; CISA ordered federal agencies to urgently patch a critical cPanel vulnerability (CVE-2026-41940) that Rapid7 says can give attackers full control of hosts; Britain’s cyber agency warned of a looming ‘patch wave’ as AI accelerates discovery of flaws; a cyber-espionage group targeted Russian aviation firms to steal satellite/GPS data; and two incident responders were jailed

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