Researcher who found McDonald’s free-food hack turns her attention to Chinese restaurant robots Summary White-hat researcher Bobdahacker — the person who exposed a flaw in McDonald’s ordering system earlier in…
Uncle Sam doesn’t want Samsung, SK Hynix making memories in China Content summary The US Commerce Department has revoked Verified End User (VEU) status for major South Korean memory vendors…
Macron Vows Retaliation If Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Attacked Summary French President Emmanuel Macron warned on 29 August 2025 that France and Europe will respond strongly if any country takes measures…
Microsoft Says Recent Windows Update Didn’t Kill Your SSD Summary Microsoft says its investigation found no link between the August 2025 KB5063878 Windows security update and reports of SSD/HDD failures…
FTC Claims Gmail Filtering Republican Emails Threatens ‘American Freedoms’ Summary FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson has accused Google of using partisan spam filtering in Gmail that disproportionately sends Republican fundraising emails…
Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DOD Cloud Systems Summary Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the Pentagon has halted a decade-old Microsoft programme that allowed China-based coders, remotely supervised by US…
WhatsApp Fixes ‘Zero-Click’ Bug Used To Hack Apple Users With Spyware Summary WhatsApp has patched a serious vulnerability (CVE-2025-55177) in its iOS and macOS apps that was being chained with…
FCC Rejects Calls For Cable-like Fees on Broadband Providers Summary The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has rejected a push from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and several industry trade…
Linus Torvalds Marks Bcachefs as Now ‘Externally Maintained’ – Slashdot Summary Linus Torvalds updated the Linux kernel’s MAINTAINERS file to mark bcachefs as “externally maintained.” The change signals that Torvalds…
Meta Created Flirty Chatbots of Celebrities Without Permission Summary Reuters found Meta appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities to create dozens of flirty, sexualised chatbots without consent. Many were…
