Kaleb Christopher Merritt, 26, of Spring, Texas, pleaded guilty to leading an online neo-Nazi group that coerced children into producing abuse and self-harm material. Operating since 2020, the group ...

A critical security vulnerability in F5's BIG-IP application security product line, which was first disclosed in October as a high-severity denial-of-service (DoS) flaw, is under active exploitation ...

Meta has lost the first of three child safety trials it’s facing this year after a jury in a New Mexico state court found that the social media giant’s platforms do not effectively protect kids from ...

A New Mexico jury on Tuesday, March 24, found Meta Platforms violated state law in a lawsuit brought by the state attorney general, who accused the company of misleading users about the safety of ...

Jury Orders Meta to Pay $375 Million in Child Exploitation Lawsuit New Mexico AG Raúl Torrez conducted an undercover investigation that saw adult users sending explicit material to accounts set up as ...

A New Mexico jury ruled Tuesday that Meta enabled child exploitation on its platforms and misled users about the platforms’ impact on children’s mental health—a landmark decision that could set ...

The New Mexico ruling comes as a Los Angeles jury is still debating whether Meta's social media platforms are addictive to children. Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home ...

A New Mexico jury on Tuesday found Meta Platforms violated state law in a lawsuit brought by the state attorney general, who accused the company of misleading users about the safety of Facebook, ...

Meta must pay $375 million for violating New Mexico law in child exploitation case, a jury ruled. Deliberations began Monday, and jury members found that Meta willfully violated the state's unfair ...

A jury on Tuesday found Meta violated New Mexico law in a case accusing it of failing to warn users about the dangers of its platforms and protect children from sexual predators. The jury found Meta ...

In one of the company’s first major losses, New Mexico jurors found that it had misled consumers about the safety of its platforms, enabling sexual exploitation of young users. By Cecilia Kang and Eli ...

AI and automation helped threat actors to rapidly accelerate attacks in 2025, collapsing the “predictive window” between vulnerability disclosure and exploitation, according to Rapid7. The security ...