Today’s Game Consoles Are Historically Overpriced Summary An Ars Technica analysed piece (picked up by Slashdot) finds that current console MSRPs are hundreds of pounds/dollars higher than historic pricing trends…
Microsoft Says Recent Windows Update Didn’t Kill Your SSD Summary Microsoft investigated reports that the August 2025 Windows 11 24H2 security update (KB5063878) caused SSD and HDD failures and data…
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 in Gmail that allegedly…
Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DOD Cloud Systems Summary The Pentagon has halted a decade-old Microsoft support programme — known internally as the “digital escorts” arrangement — that allowed Chinese…
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 (CVE-2025-55177) that was being exploited alongside…
FCC Rejects Calls For Cable-like Fees on Broadband Providers Content Summary The Federal Communications Commission has turned down requests 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 MAINTAINERS file to mark bcachefs as “externally maintained.” The change means bcachefs code remains in mainline…
Meta Created Flirty Chatbots of Celebrities Without Permission Summary Reuters reports that Meta allowed users — and at least one Meta employee — to create dozens of flirtatious chatbots modelled…
Battlefield 6 Dev Apologises For Requiring Secure Boot To Power Anti-Cheat Tools Summary EA required Secure Boot for players in the Battlefield 6 PC open beta so its Javelin anti-cheat…
Vivaldi Browser Doubles Down On Gen AI Ban Summary Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Vivaldi, has reiterated the browser’s refusal to integrate generative AI directly into Vivaldi. In a blog…
