Meta Created Flirty Chatbots of Celebrities Without Permission Summary Reuters found that Meta platforms (Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp) hosted dozens of publicly available chatbots that used the names and likenesses…
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 so its Javelin anti-cheat tools can…
Summary Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner has reaffirmed the company’s decision not to embed generative AI into its browser. In a blog post and a follow-up interview with The Register…
Meta Changes Teen AI Chatbot Responses as Senate Begins Probe Into ‘Romantic’ Conversations Summary Meta is rolling out temporary restrictions on AI chatbots available to teenage users after reports that…
Mastodon Says It Doesn’t ‘Have the Means’ To Comply With Age Verification Laws Summary Mastodon — the decentralised social network software and the nonprofit that supports its main instance —…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary Two independent Israeli security researchers built an AI-driven offensive research pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that uses CVE advisories, code patches and prompts…
Summary Valerie Harvey argues that dermatology relies on outdated and imprecise proxies — such as race, ethnicity and the Fitzpatrick skin type scale — to describe skin colour, which undermines…
Macron Vows Retaliation If Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Attacked Summary French President Emmanuel Macron vowed 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 says it found no link between the August 2025 KB5063878 Windows 11 24H2 security update and customer reports of…
FTC Claims Gmail Filtering Republican Emails Threatens ‘American Freedoms’ Summary Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson has accused Google of applying “partisan” spam filtering in Gmail that sends Republican fundraising…
