FTC Claims Gmail Filtering Republican Emails Threatens ‘American Freedoms’ – Slashdot Summary Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson has accused Google of using partisan spam filtering in Gmail that routes…
Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DOD Cloud Systems Summary The Department of Defence has halted a decade-old Microsoft programme that allowed China-based coders, remotely supervised by US contractors, to work…
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 Federal Communications Commission has rejected a request from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and several industry trade groups…
Linus Torvalds Marks Bcachefs as Now ‘Externally Maintained’ Summary Linus Torvalds updated the kernel’s MAINTAINERS file to mark bcachefs as “externally maintained”, signalling he will not be accepting new bcachefs…
Summary Reuters has reported that Meta allowed the creation of dozens of flirtatious chatbots modelled on real celebrities without their consent. Many were created by users using Meta’s chatbot tools,…
Battlefield 6 Dev Apologises For Requiring Secure Boot To Power Anti-Cheat Tools Summary EA required Secure Boot (enabled in both Windows and the PC BIOS) for the Battlefield 6 PC…
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 that such integration…
Meta Changes Teen AI Chatbot Responses as Senate Begins Probe Into ‘Romantic’ Conversations Summary Meta is rolling out temporary restrictions on AI chatbots that interact with teenagers after reports revealed…
Mastodon Says It Doesn’t ‘Have the Means’ To Comply With Age Verification Laws – Slashdot Key Points • Mastodon (the not-for-profit behind the software) says it cannot comply with Mississippi’s…
