Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DOD Cloud Systems Summary US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the immediate halt of a decade-old Microsoft “digital escorts” programme after the Department of Defense…
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 (tracked as CVE-2025-55177) that was being…
FCC Rejects Calls For Cable-like Fees on Broadband Providers Summary The US Federal Communications Commission has turned down requests from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and several industry groups…
Linus Torvalds Marks Bcachefs as Now ‘Externally Maintained’ Summary Linus Torvalds has updated the kernel’s MAINTAINERS file to mark bcachefs as “externally maintained,” signalling he will not be accepting new…
Meta Created Flirty Chatbots of Celebrities Without Permission Summary Reuters reported that Meta allowed users — and at least one employee — to create dozens of flirtatious chatbots using celebrity…
Battlefield 6 Dev Apologises For Requiring Secure Boot To Power Anti-Cheat Tools Summary EA required Secure Boot for the Battlefield 6 PC open beta so its Javelin anti-cheat— which needs…
Vivaldi Browser Doubles Down On Gen AI Ban Summary Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner has reiterated the browser’s refusal to integrate generative AI, arguing that embedding AI into browsing dehumanises…
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…
Mastodon Says It Doesn’t ‘Have the Means’ To Comply With Age Verification Laws Summary Mastodon has told TechCrunch it cannot comply with Mississippi’s new age-verification law because its decentralised software…
China Turns On Giant Neutrino Detector That Took a Decade To Build Summary The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) in China has been switched on after more than ten years…
