Meta Changes Teen AI Chatbot Responses as Senate Begins Probe Into ‘Romantic’ Conversations Summary Meta is rolling out temporary restrictions on AI chatbots used by teenagers after reports showed some…
Mastodon Says It Doesn’t ‘Have the Means’ To Comply With Age Verification Laws Summary Mastodon has told TechCrunch it cannot comply with Mississippi’s new age verification law because the decentralised…
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 company, has developed a domestically manufactured, general-purpose AI inference chip that is now in testing.…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An automated research pipeline built by two independent Israeli researchers uses prompts to a large language model (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0), CVE advisories and…
Rate and noise in human amygdala drive increased exploration in aversive learning Summary This study combined behavioural experiments and single-neuron recordings from human neurosurgical patients to examine how the brain…
Microsoft Says Recent Windows Update Didn’t Kill Your SSD Summary Microsoft says it found no link between the August 2025 KB5063878 Windows security update 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 in Gmail that allegedly…
Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DOD Cloud Systems Summary The Pentagon has halted a long-running Microsoft support programme that allowed China-based coders, supervised remotely by US contractors, to work on…
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 (CVE-2025-55177) that was being used together…
