A spiky armoured dinosaur from Africa causes a rethink of ankylosaur evolution Summary Researchers describe Spicomellus, an armoured dinosaur from Morocco whose body bore extravagant spines, including nearly one-metre-long spikes…
FTC Claims Gmail Filtering Republican Emails Threatens ‘American Freedoms’ Summary Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson has written to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, accusing Gmail of using “partisan” spam filtering…
Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DOD Cloud Systems Summary Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the Pentagon has halted a decade-old Microsoft “digital escorts” programme after learning Chinese nationals, remotely supervised…
WhatsApp Fixes ‘Zero-Click’ Bug Used To Hack Apple Users With Spyware Summary WhatsApp has patched a serious vulnerability in its iOS and Mac apps (CVE-2025-55177) that was chained with an…
FCC Rejects Calls For Cable-like Fees on Broadband Providers Summary The Federal Communications Commission has declined requests from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and other industry groups to impose…
Linus Torvalds Marks Bcachefs as Now ‘Externally Maintained’ Summary Linus Torvalds updated the Linux kernel MAINTAINERS file to mark bcachefs as “externally maintained,” signalling he will not be accepting new…
Reuters reports that Meta appropriated the names and likenesses of numerous celebrities to create dozens of flirtatious AI chatbots without their permission. While many bots were user-created via a Meta…
Battlefield 6 Dev Apologises For Requiring Secure Boot To Power Anti-Cheat Tools Summary EA required Secure Boot to be enabled for the Battlefield 6 PC open beta so its Javelin…
Vivaldi Browser Doubles Down On Gen AI Ban Summary Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner has reiterated the company’s decision not to embed generative AI into its browser. In a blog…
Meta Changes Teen AI Chatbot Responses as Senate Begins Probe Into ‘Romantic’ Conversations Summary Meta is rolling out temporary restrictions to its AI chatbots for teenage users after reports that…
