UK Sought Broad Access To Apple Customers’ Data, Court Filing Suggests Summary A newly published Investigatory Powers Tribunal filing indicates the UK government’s Technical Capability Notice (TCN) to Apple went…
Bank Apologises For Firing Staff With Accidental Email Summary One of Australia’s largest banks, ANZ, accidentally sent automated emails to some retail-banking staff asking them to return their laptops—messages that…
Macron Vows Retaliation If Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Attacked Summary French President Emmanuel Macron warned that France and Europe will respond strongly if any country takes measures that undermine Europe’s digital…
Microsoft Says Recent Windows Update Didn’t Kill Your SSD Summary Microsoft says it found no connection between the August 2025 KB5063878 Windows security update and reported SSD/HDD failures and data…
FTC Claims Gmail Filtering Republican Emails Threatens ‘American Freedoms’ Summary FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson has accused Google of using partisan spam filtering in Gmail that disproportionately routes Republican fundraising emails…
Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DOD Cloud Systems Summary Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the Pentagon has halted a decade-old Microsoft programme — known internally as the “digital escorts” arrangement…
WhatsApp Fixes ‘Zero-Click’ Bug Used To Hack Apple Users With Spyware Summary WhatsApp has patched a critical 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 Federal Communications Commission has rejected a push from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and several industry trade groups…
Linus Torvalds Marks Bcachefs as Now ‘Externally Maintained’ Summary Linus Torvalds updated the kernel’s 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 found that Meta appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities to create dozens of flirtatious chatbots available on Facebook, Instagram…
