Meta Changes Teen AI Chatbot Responses as Senate Begins Probe Into ‘Romantic’ Conversations Summary Meta is rolling out temporary restrictions to its AI chatbots used by teenage accounts after reports…
Mastodon Says It Doesn’t ‘Have the Means’ To Comply With Age Verification Laws Summary Mastodon has told TechCrunch it cannot practically comply with Mississippi’s new age verification law because the…
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 a decade…
Alibaba Creates AI Chip To Help China Fill Nvidia Void Summary Alibaba, China’s largest cloud-computing provider, has developed a domestically manufactured AI inference chip now in testing. The new chip…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An Israeli research duo built an automated pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that uses prompts to a large language model (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0), CVE…
Microsoft Says Recent Windows Update Didn’t Kill Your SSD Summary Microsoft says it found no link between the August 2025 Windows security update (KB5063878) and user reports of SSD and…
FTC Claims Gmail Filtering Republican Emails Threatens ‘American Freedoms’ – Slashdot Summary Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson has accused Google of applying “partisan” spam filtering that disproportionately routes Republican…
Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DOD Cloud Systems Summary The US Department of Defense has halted a decade-old Microsoft “digital escorts” programme after discovering that Chinese nationals, albeit remotely supervised…
WhatsApp Fixes ‘Zero-Click’ Bug Used To Hack Apple Users With Spyware Summary WhatsApp has patched a serious “zero-click” vulnerability in its iOS and Mac apps (tracked as CVE-2025-55177) that was…
FCC Rejects Calls For Cable-like Fees on Broadband Providers Summary The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a Report and Order rejecting requests from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and…
