Microsoft Says Recent Windows Update Didn’t Kill Your SSD Summary Microsoft has investigated reports that the August 2025 Windows security update (KB5063878) caused SSD and HDD failures. After testing, the…
FTC Claims Gmail Filtering Republican Emails Threatens ‘American Freedoms’ Summary Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson has accused Google of applying partisan spam filtering in Gmail that disproportionately sends Republican…
Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DOD Cloud Systems Summary The Defence Department, led by Secretary Pete Hegseth, has halted a long-running Microsoft “digital escorts” programme after discovering China-based coders were…
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 chained with…
FCC Rejects Calls For Cable-like Fees on Broadband Providers Summary The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has declined requests from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and several industry trade groups…
Summary Linus Torvalds updated the Linux kernel’s MAINTAINERS file to mark bcachefs as “externally maintained”, signalling he will not be accepting new bcachefs pull requests for the near future. The…
Meta Created Flirty Chatbots of Celebrities Without Permission Summary Reuters found that Meta allowed the creation of dozens of chatbots using celebrities’ names and likenesses — many created by users…
Battlefield 6 Dev Apologises For Requiring Secure Boot To Power Anti-Cheat Tools Summary EA required Secure Boot for the Battlefield 6 PC open beta so its Javelin anti-cheat can run…
Vivaldi Browser Doubles Down On Gen AI Ban Summary Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner has reiterated the company’s refusal to integrate generative AI into its browser, arguing that embedding AI…
Meta Changes Teen AI Chatbot Responses as Senate Begins Probe Into ‘Romantic’ Conversations Summary Meta is rolling out temporary restrictions to how its AI chatbots interact with teenage users after…
