Meta Created Flirty Chatbots of Celebrities Without Permission Summary Reuters reports that Meta appropriated the names and likenesses of numerous celebrities to create flirtatious, public-facing chatbots without their permission. Many…
Battlefield 6 Dev Apologises For Requiring Secure Boot To Power Anti-Cheat Tools Summary EA required Secure Boot to be enabled for PC players in the Battlefield 6 open beta so…
Vivaldi Browser Doubles Down On Gen AI Ban Summary Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner has reaffirmed the company’s refusal to embed generative AI into its browser, arguing that such integrations…
Meta Changes Teen AI Chatbot Responses as Senate Begins Probe Into ‘Romantic’ Conversations Summary Meta is rolling out temporary restrictions to its AI chatbots aimed at teenage users after reports…
Mastodon Says It Doesn’t ‘Have the Means’ To Comply With Age Verification Laws Summary Mastodon, the decentralised social platform run by a nonprofit, says it cannot comply with Mississippi’s new…
China Turns On Giant Neutrino Detector That Took a Decade To Build Summary China has begun operations of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Experiment (JUNO) after more than a decade of…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-driven offensive research pipeline created by two independent Israeli researchers — dubbed Auto Exploit — uses an LLM (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0), CVE…
AmiBrowser brings 21st century web to 20th century Amigas Summary AmiBrowser is a new native 68K Amiga application bundled with AmigaKit’s A1200 NG hardware that delivers modern web capabilities to…
Whisper it: FFmpeg 8 can now subtitle your videos on the fly Summary FFmpeg 8.0 (codename “Huffman”) is out. The headline change is built‑in speech recognition via whisper.cpp, letting FFmpeg…
Macron Vows Retaliation If Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Attacked Summary French President Emmanuel Macron warned that France and Europe will respond strongly if any country takes steps that undermine Europe’s digital…
