Meta Created Flirty Chatbots of Celebrities Without Permission Summary Reuters reports that Meta allowed the creation — and in some cases directly produced — dozens of flirtatious chatbots impersonating celebrities…
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…
Summary Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner has reiterated his company’s refusal to embed generative AI into its browser, arguing it dehumanises the web, diverts traffic from publishers to chatbots, and…
Meta Changes Teen AI Chatbot Responses as Senate Begins Probe Into ‘Romantic’ Conversations Summary Meta is rolling out temporary restrictions on its AI chatbots for teenagers after reports showed they…
Mastodon Says It Doesn’t ‘Have the Means’ To Comply With Age Verification Laws Summary Mastodon says it cannot comply with Mississippi’s new age-verification law because its decentralised software lacks built-in…
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 provider, has developed a domestically manufactured AI inference chip now in testing. The chip is…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-driven offensive research system built by two Israeli cybersecurity researchers—dubbed Auto Exploit—uses prompts to a large language model, CVE advisories and…
Microsoft Says Recent Windows Update Didn’t Kill Your SSD Summary Microsoft has investigated user reports that the August 2025 Windows security update (KB5063878) caused SSD and HDD failures and data…
The FTC chair, Andrew Ferguson, has accused Google of partisan spam filtering in Gmail, alleging Republican fundraising emails are routed to spam while Democratic messages reach inboxes. Ferguson sent a…
