Meta Changes Teen AI Chatbot Responses as Senate Begins Probe Into ‘Romantic’ Conversations Summary Meta has started rolling out temporary changes to how its AI chatbots respond to teenage users…
Mastodon Says It Doesn’t ‘Have the Means’ To Comply With Age Verification Laws Summary Mastodon says it cannot practically comply with Mississippi’s new age verification law because its decentralised software…
China Turns On Giant Neutrino Detector That Took a Decade To Build Summary The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) in China has been switched on after more than ten years…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-driven offensive research system, dubbed Auto Exploit and built by two Israeli security researchers, uses prompts to large language models (notably…
Macron Vows Retaliation If Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Attacked Summary French President Emmanuel Macron pledged a strong response if any country takes measures that undermine Europe’s digital sovereignty. Speaking in Toulon,…
Microsoft Says Recent Windows Update Didn’t Kill Your SSD Summary Microsoft has told BleepingComputer it found no connection between the August 2025 KB5063878 Windows 11 24H2 security update and user…
FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson sent a letter to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai accusing Gmail of partisan spam filtering that routes Republican fundraising emails to spam while allowing Democratic messages into…
Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DOD Cloud Systems Summary The Pentagon, led by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has halted a long-running Microsoft support programme that allowed China-based coders to work…
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 (tracked as CVE-2025-55177) that attackers were…
FCC Rejects Calls For Cable-like Fees on Broadband Providers Summary The Federal Communications Commission has rejected a request from the National Association of Broadcasters and several industry trade groups to…
