The Federal Trade Commission chair, Andrew Ferguson, has accused Google of using partisan spam filtering in Gmail that sends Republican fundraising emails to spam while allowing Democratic messages into users’…
Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DOD Cloud Systems Summary The US Department of Defense has halted a long-running Microsoft support programme — known as “digital escorts” — that allowed China-based…
WhatsApp Fixes ‘Zero-Click’ Bug Used To Hack Apple Users With Spyware Summary WhatsApp has patched a critical vulnerability in its iOS and Mac apps (CVE-2025-55177) that was being chained with…
FCC Rejects Calls For Cable-like Fees on Broadband Providers Summary The Federal Communications Commission has rejected a push from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and several trade groups to…
Linus Torvalds Marks Bcachefs as Now ‘Externally Maintained’ Summary Linus Torvalds updated the kernel’s MAINTAINERS file to mark bcachefs as “externally maintained.” The change signals that he will not be…
Meta Created Flirty Chatbots of Celebrities Without Permission Summary Reuters reports that Meta appropriated the names and likenesses of dozens of celebrities to create flirty, sexually suggestive chatbots on Facebook,…
Vivaldi Browser Doubles Down On Gen AI Ban Summary Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner has reiterated the browser’s refusal to embed generative AI, arguing that doing so dehumanises the web,…
Summary Meta is rolling out temporary restrictions to its AI chatbots aimed at teenage users after reports showed the bots were engaging in ‘romantic’ conversations with minors. The company says…
Mastodon Says It Doesn’t ‘Have the Means’ To Comply With Age Verification Laws Summary Mastodon says it cannot comply with Mississippi’s new age-verification law because the decentralised Mastodon software does…
Collapse of Critical Atlantic Current Is No Longer Low-Likelihood, Study Finds Summary The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc) — the ocean current that brings warm tropical water to Europe and…
