Meta Created Flirty Chatbots of Celebrities Without Permission Summary Reuters reports that Meta allowed the creation and public sharing of dozens of AI chatbots impersonating celebrities — often in flirtatious…
Battlefield 6 Dev Apologises For Requiring Secure Boot To Power Anti-Cheat Tools Summary EA required Secure Boot to be enabled in Windows/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 browser’s refusal to embed generative AI features, arguing that doing so would dehumanise…
Summary Meta is rolling out temporary restrictions on its AI chatbots for teenage users after reports they engaged in “romantic” conversations with minors. The company says the chatbots are being…
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 and…
Collapse of Critical Atlantic Current Is No Longer Low-Likelihood, Study Finds Content summary A new analysis reported on Slashdot (sourcing The Guardian and a paper in Environmental Research Letters) finds…
China Turns On Giant Neutrino Detector That Took a Decade To Build Summary China has switched on the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) after more than a decade of construction.…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An Israeli research duo built an automated offensive pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that uses an LLM (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0), CVE advisories and public…
French President Emmanuel Macron warned on 29 August 2025 that Europe will respond strongly if any country takes measures that undermine its digital sovereignty. The remarks came after US President…
Microsoft Says Recent Windows Update Didn’t Kill Your SSD Summary Microsoft says it has found no link between the August 2025 Windows 11 24H2 security update (KB5063878) and user reports…
