Vivaldi Browser Doubles Down On Gen AI Ban
Vivaldi Browser Doubles Down On Gen AI Ban Summary Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner has reiterated the company’s refusal to embed generative AI into its browser, arguing it dehumanises the…
Meta Changes Teen AI Chatbot Responses as Senate Begins Probe Into ‘Romantic’ Conversations
Meta Changes Teen AI Chatbot Responses as Senate Begins Probe Into ‘Romantic’ Conversations Summary Meta is rolling out temporary restrictions on AI chatbots available to teenage users after reports that…
Mastodon Says It Doesn’t ‘Have the Means’ To Comply With Age Verification Laws
Mastodon Says It Doesn’t ‘Have the Means’ To Comply With Age Verification Laws Summary Mastodon, the decentralised social network software and nonprofit behind several servers, says it cannot realistically comply…
China Turns On Giant Neutrino Detector That Took a Decade To Build
China Turns On Giant Neutrino Detector That Took a Decade To Build Summary China has switched on the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) after more than a decade of construction.…
Alibaba Creates AI Chip To Help China Fill Nvidia Void
Alibaba Creates AI Chip To Help China Fill Nvidia Void Summary Alibaba, China’s largest cloud provider, has developed a domestically manufactured AI inference chip now in testing to help fill…
London Targets Noisy Commuters With Headphone Campaign
London Targets Noisy Commuters With Headphone Campaign Summary Transport for London (TfL) has launched a “Headphones On” poster campaign asking passengers to wear headphones when streaming media or taking calls…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An independent duo of Israeli researchers built an AI-driven pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that uses LLM prompts (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0 among others), CVE…
Mapping urban gullies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mapping urban gullies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Summary This study provides the first comprehensive, nation-scale mapping and analysis of large urban gullies (UGs) in the Democratic Republic…
Microsoft Says Recent Windows Update Didn’t Kill Your SSD
Microsoft Says Recent Windows Update Didn’t Kill Your SSD Summary Microsoft says its investigation found no link between the August 2025 KB5063878 Windows security update and user reports of SSD…
FTC Claims Gmail Filtering Republican Emails Threatens ‘American Freedoms’
FTC Claims Gmail Filtering Republican Emails Threatens ‘American Freedoms’ Summary Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson has accused Google of applying partisan spam-filtering in Gmail that sends Republican fundraising emails…