The bill, known as the GUARD Act, also requires that AI companions advise users of all ages that they are not human and lack professional credentials. It also makes it a crime for AI companions to knowingly ask kids for sexual content or to produce it.
Incident responders at Rapid7 said successful exploitation of CVE-2026-41940 “grants an attacker control over the cPanel host system, its configurations and databases, and websites it manages.”
Britain’s cyber agency warned that organizations should prepare for a surge of urgent software updates as artificial intelligence accelerates the discovery of security flaws, raising the risk of widespread exploitation.
In this GCN article, Staffan Truvé, CTO and Co-Founder at Recorded Future, explores how machine learning is speeding the processing of cybersecurity data.