Weekly roundup exploring how cyber threats, AI misuse, and digital deception are reshaping global security trends.

Mother says AI chat bot encouraged 14-year-old son to commit suicide after sexual grooming Megan Garcia said her son Sewell Setzer III, 14, committed suicide after allegedly being manipulated and ...

We learned last week that a cohort of Republican activists and political staff members had shared racist and misogynist messages in a private text chat. It’s a story that repeats itself with ...

Vermont state Sen. Sam Douglass said he will resign in the wake of revelations he participated in a Young Republicans group chat in which members fantasized about violence against their enemies, ...

NEW YORK -- Fallout continues for New York's Young Republican chapter as a pivotal vote to disband the group has been approved. The decision comes after a series of racist and antisemitic messages ...

The New York Republican State Committee’s leaders unanimously voted to disband the Empire State’s Young Republicans chapter on Friday after screenshots from a Telegram chat exposed members using ...

Fallout is growing after a Politico investigation revealed offensive text messages exchanged in a private Young Republicans group chat. The report details racist, homophobic and antisemitic language ...

A number of Young Republican leaders accused of making offensive comments in a private Telegram chat group appear to have either deleted or made private social media accounts as controversy over the ...

Members of both political parties condemned the rhetoric in the alleged texts. Following a report this week that several members of the Young Republicans organization shared messages in a group chat ...

WASHINGTON ‒ The Young Republican National Federation called for the immediate resignations of leaders in the organization exposed in a Politico story to have sent racist, antisemitic and other ...

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New York Assemblyman Michael Reilly fired his chief of staff over his participation in a group chat with young Republicans where Hitler references and racist jokes were made. Peter Giunta, who served ...