Mastodon Says It Doesn’t ‘Have the Means’ To Comply With Age Verification Laws Summary Mastodon has told TechCrunch it cannot realistically comply with Mississippi’s new age-verification law because the decentralised…
Summary China has switched on the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) after more than a decade of construction. The facility is buried about 700 metres under a mountain and centres…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary Two independent Israeli researchers built an AI-driven offensive research pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that uses LLM prompts, CVE advisories and open-source patches…
Macron Vows Retaliation If Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Attacked Summary French President Emmanuel Macron warned he will respond strongly if any country takes measures that undermine Europe’s digital sovereignty. His remarks…
Microsoft Says Recent Windows Update Didn’t Kill Your SSD Summary Microsoft says it found no connection between the August 2025 KB5063878 Windows security update and the user reports of SSD…
FTC Claims Gmail Filtering Republican Emails Threatens ‘American Freedoms’ – Slashdot Summary Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson has accused Google of using partisan spam filtering that disproportionately sends Republican…
Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DOD Cloud Systems Summary The Department of Defense has halted a long-running Microsoft “digital escorts” programme that allowed China-based coders, remotely supervised by US contractors,…
WhatsApp Fixes ‘Zero-Click’ Bug Used To Hack Apple Users With Spyware Summary WhatsApp has patched a “zero-click” vulnerability in its iOS and Mac apps that was being used to deliver…
FCC Rejects Calls For Cable-like Fees on Broadband Providers Summary The US Federal Communications Commission has declined a request from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and several industry trade…
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…
