Mastodon Says It Doesn’t ‘Have the Means’ To Comply With Age Verification Laws Summary Mastodon, the non-profit behind the decentralised Mastodon software, says it cannot comply with Mississippi’s new age…
China Turns On Giant Neutrino Detector That Took a Decade To Build Summary China has powered up JUNO (Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Experiment), the world’s most sensitive neutrino detector after more…
Alibaba Creates AI Chip To Help China Fill Nvidia Void Summary Alibaba, China’s largest cloud provider, has developed a domestically manufactured, general-purpose AI inference chip now in testing. The move…
New Python Documentary Released On YouTube – Slashdot Summary An 84-minute documentary tracing Python from its 1991 origins in Amsterdam to its role in powering today’s tech, released on YouTube…
Is a Backlash Building Against Smart Glasses That Record? Summary The article reports rising public concern and online backlash against smart glasses that record audio and video without clear visible…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary Two independent Israeli security researchers built an automated pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that uses an LLM (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0) plus CVE advisories and…
Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DOD Cloud Systems Summary Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the Pentagon has halted a decade‑old Microsoft ‘digital escorts’ programme that allowed China‑based coders, remotely supervised…
WhatsApp Fixes ‘Zero-Click’ Bug Used To Hack Apple Users With Spyware Summary WhatsApp has patched a vulnerability in its iOS and Mac apps (tracked as CVE-2025-55177) that was being chained…
FCC Rejects Calls For Cable-like Fees on Broadband Providers Summary The Federal Communications Commission issued a Report and Order rejecting requests from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and some…
Linus Torvalds Marks Bcachefs as Now ‘Externally Maintained’ – Slashdot Summary Linus Torvalds updated the kernel MAINTAINERS file to mark bcachefs as “externally maintained,” signalling he will not be accepting…
