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A Typo Landed an Innocent Gamer in Prison for 18 Months

One missing underscore in a Skyrim-themed username put an innocent Nova Scotia man in prison for 18 months.

A 2018 child-luring investigation, which began in Madison, Wisconsin, and eventually extended to Halifax, Canada, was based on a false premise.

Police were looking for a man using the Kik messaging service under the name “fus__ro_dah” (two underscores after “fus”), but they accidentally requested records for the username “fus_ro_dah” (one underscore after “fus”). This one-character difference led them not to the perpetrator but to a Canadian man named Brandon Klayme.

(Readers may recognize “fus ro dah” as the Unrelenting Force “dragon shout” from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.)

Despite finding no evidence of the crime on his digital devices, Canadian police arrested Klayme in 2020 on child sex abuse charges. He was convicted after a trial in 2023 and sentenced in 2024 to 18 months in prison. He served the...

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OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face

OpenAI said Tuesday that the rogue AI agent that breached Hugging Face’s platform also hacked multiple third-party accounts and services as part of the attack. It's now clear that the unprecedented security incident, which arose during an internal test of OpenAI’s latest AI models, was more

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Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents

In Brief 5:09 PM PDT · July 28, 2026 Data security company Cyera, which recently raised $600 million at a $12 billion valuation, announced Tuesday that it signed a letter of intent to acquire Oasis Security for approximately $1 billion in a deal expected to be paid mostly in cash,

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American Airlines Flights Resume After Being Grounded by System Outage

Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. American Airlines says it has resumed flights on Tuesday evening after a brief grounding of its fleet of jets blamed on a

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Security- and AI-related startups have raised $855M across more than 150 reported seed-stage rounds this year, on track for an all-time high

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OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face

Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents

American Airlines Flights Resume After Being Grounded by System Outage

Security- and AI-related startups have raised $855M across more than 150 reported seed-stage rounds this year, on track for an all-time high