Five years – that’s how long Anthropic will store Claude chats unless you opt out Summary Anthropic is changing the default retention for Claude chat conversations: unless users opt out…
Microsoft Says Recent Windows Update Didn’t Kill Your SSD Summary Microsoft has reported that its August 2025 security update (KB5063878 for Windows 11 24H2) is not linked to the wave…
FTC Claims Gmail Filtering Republican Emails Threatens ‘American Freedoms’ – Slashdot Summary Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson has accused Google of applying partisan spam filtering in Gmail that diverts…
Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DOD Cloud Systems Summary The Department of Defense has halted a decade-old Microsoft “digital escorts” programme after learning that China-based coders, remotely supervised by US…
WhatsApp Fixes ‘Zero-Click’ Bug Used To Hack Apple Users With Spyware Summary WhatsApp has patched a serious vulnerability (CVE-2025-55177) in its iOS and Mac apps that was being used in…
FCC Rejects Calls For Cable-like Fees on Broadband Providers Summary The Federal Communications Commission has rejected a petition 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 MAINTAINERS file to mark bcachefs as “externally maintained”, signalling he will not accept new bcachefs pull…
Meta Created Flirty Chatbots of Celebrities Without Permission Summary Reuters found that Meta’s chatbot tools were used to create dozens of public chatbots that used the names and likenesses of…
Battlefield 6 Dev Apologises For Requiring Secure Boot To Power Anti-Cheat Tools Summary EA required Secure Boot in Windows and the BIOS for the Battlefield 6 PC open beta so…
Vivaldi Browser Doubles Down On Gen AI Ban Summary Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner has reiterated the company’s decision not to integrate generative AI into its browser, arguing that embedding…
