Bank Apologises For Firing Staff With Accidental Email Summary One of Australia’s largest banks, ANZ, accidentally sent automated emails to some staff telling them to return their laptops — effectively…
Macron Vows Retaliation If Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Attacked Summary French President Emmanuel Macron warned of a strong response if any country takes measures that undermine Europe’s digital sovereignty. His comments…
Microsoft Says Recent Windows Update Didn’t Kill Your SSD Summary Microsoft says its August 2025 security update (KB5063878) is not responsible for reported SSD and HDD failures or data corruption.…
FTC Claims Gmail Filtering Republican Emails Threatens ‘American Freedoms’ – Slashdot Summary Federal Trade Commission chair Andrew Ferguson has accused Google of employing partisan spam filtering in Gmail that allegedly…
Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DOD Cloud Systems Summary Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the Pentagon has halted a decade-old Microsoft ‘digital escorts’ programme that allowed China-based coders, remotely supervised…
WhatsApp Fixes ‘Zero-Click’ Bug Used To Hack Apple Users With Spyware Summary WhatsApp has patched a high‑severity vulnerability in its iOS and macOS apps (tracked as CVE-2025-55177) that was being…
FCC Rejects Calls For Cable-like Fees on Broadband Providers Summary The FCC issued a Report and Order rejecting requests from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and other industry groups…
Linus Torvalds Marks Bcachefs as Now ‘Externally Maintained’ Summary Linus Torvalds updated the Linux kernel’s MAINTAINERS file to mark bcachefs as “externally maintained.” The change signals that Torvalds will not…
Meta Created Flirty Chatbots of Celebrities Without Permission Summary Reuters reports that Meta allowed the creation of dozens of flirtatious, sexually suggestive chatbots modelled on real celebrities without their consent.…
Battlefield 6 dev apologises for requiring Secure Boot to power anti-cheat tools Key Points • EA required Secure Boot enabled in BIOS/Windows for the Battlefield 6 PC open beta so…
