FTC Claims Gmail Filtering Republican Emails Threatens ‘American Freedoms’ Summary The Federal Trade Commission chair, Andrew Ferguson, has accused Google of using partisan spam filtering in Gmail that routes Republican…
Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DOD Cloud Systems Summary The Pentagon has halted a decade-old Microsoft programme that allowed China-based coders, remotely supervised by US contractors, to work on Department…
WhatsApp Fixes ‘Zero-Click’ Bug Used To Hack Apple Users With Spyware Summary WhatsApp has patched a security vulnerability in its iOS and Mac apps that was being used together with…
FCC Rejects Calls For Cable-like Fees on Broadband Providers Summary The Federal Communications Commission has issued a Report and Order declining requests from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and…
Linus Torvalds Marks Bcachefs as Now ‘Externally Maintained’ – Slashdot Summary Linus Torvalds updated the kernel’s MAINTAINERS file to mark bcachefs as “externally maintained,” signalling he will not be accepting…
Meta Created Flirty Chatbots of Celebrities Without Permission Summary Reuters reports that Meta allowed the creation of dozens of flirtatious, sexually suggestive chatbots that used the names and likenesses of…
Battlefield 6 Dev apologises for requiring Secure Boot to power anti-cheat tools Summary EA required Secure Boot for the Battlefield 6 PC open beta. The game’s technical director, Christian Buhl,…
Vivaldi Browser Doubles Down On Gen AI Ban Summary Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner has reiterated the company’s decision not to embed generative AI into its browser, arguing that doing…
Meta Changes Teen AI Chatbot Responses as Senate Begins Probe Into ‘Romantic’ Conversations Summary Meta is rolling out temporary restrictions on AI chatbots used by teenage accounts after reports showed…
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…
