Vivaldi Browser Doubles Down On Gen AI Ban
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 such…
Meta Changes Teen AI Chatbot Responses as Senate Begins Probe Into ‘Romantic’ Conversations
Meta Changes Teen AI Chatbot Responses as Senate Begins Probe Into ‘Romantic’ Conversations Summary Meta has applied temporary restrictions to its AI chatbots used by teenage accounts after reports showed…
Mastodon Says It Doesn’t ‘Have the Means’ To Comply With Age Verification Laws
Mastodon says it doesn’t ‘have the means’ to comply with age verification laws Summary Mastodon has told TechCrunch it cannot reasonably comply with Mississippi’s new age verification law because the…
Collapse of Critical Atlantic Current Is No Longer Low-Likelihood, Study Finds
Summary A new study, published in Environmental Research Letters, concludes that the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc) — the large ocean current that transports warm tropical water to Europe and…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary Two independent Israeli researchers built an AI-driven offensive research pipeline—dubbed Auto Exploit—that uses LLM prompts, CVE advisories and open-source patches to automatically…
Macron Vows Retaliation If Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Attacked
Macron Vows Retaliation If Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Attacked – Slashdot Summary French President Emmanuel Macron warned that Europe will respond strongly if any country takes measures that undermine the bloc’s…
Microsoft Says Recent Windows Update Didn’t Kill Your SSD
Microsoft Says Recent Windows Update Didn’t Kill Your SSD Summary Microsoft says it found no connection between the August 2025 KB5063878 Windows 11 24H2 security update and user reports of…
FTC Claims Gmail Filtering Republican Emails Threatens ‘American Freedoms’
FTC Claims Gmail Filtering Republican Emails Threatens ‘American Freedoms’ – Slashdot Summary Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson has accused Google of applying “partisan” spam filtering in Gmail that routinely…
Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DOD Cloud Systems
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
WhatsApp Fixes ‘Zero-Click’ Bug Used To Hack Apple Users With Spyware Summary WhatsApp has patched a zero-click vulnerability in its iOS and Mac apps (tracked as CVE-2025-55177) that was used…