FTC Claims Gmail Filtering Republican Emails Threatens ‘American Freedoms’ Summary FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson has sent a letter to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai accusing Gmail of using partisan spam filtering…
Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DOD Cloud Systems Summary The US Department of Defense has halted a decade-old Microsoft support programme nicknamed “digital escorts” after discovering it allowed China-based coders,…
WhatsApp Fixes ‘Zero-Click’ Bug Used To Hack Apple Users With Spyware Summary WhatsApp patched a critical ‘zero-click’ vulnerability (CVE-2025-55177) in its iOS and macOS apps that was being used alongside…
FCC Rejects Calls For Cable-like Fees on Broadband Providers Summary The Federal Communications Commission has declined a request from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and several industry groups to…
Linus Torvalds Marks Bcachefs as Now ‘Externally Maintained’ Summary Linus Torvalds updated the kernel MAINTAINERS file to mark bcachefs as “externally maintained,” signalling he will not accept new bcachefs pull…
Meta Created Flirty Chatbots of Celebrities Without Permission Summary Reuters reports that Meta allowed the creation of dozens of flirtatious, celebrity-branded chatbots on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp without the celebrities’…
Battlefield 6 Dev Apologises For Requiring Secure Boot To Power Anti-Cheat Tools Summary EA required Secure Boot be enabled in BIOS/Windows for the Battlefield 6 PC open beta so its…
Vivaldi Browser Doubles Down On Gen AI Ban Summary Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner has reiterated the browser’s refusal to embed generative AI features. He argues that building AI into…
Meta Changes Teen AI Chatbot Responses as Senate Begins Probe Into ‘Romantic’ Conversations Summary Meta is rolling out temporary restrictions on its AI chatbots for teenage users following reports that…
Mastodon Says It Doesn’t ‘Have the Means’ To Comply With Age Verification Laws Summary Mastodon — the decentralised, ActivityPub-powered social software and nonprofit behind many servers — says it cannot…
