Battlefield 6 Dev Apologises For Requiring Secure Boot To Power Anti-Cheat Tools Summary EA required Secure Boot enabled on PCs for Battlefield 6’s open beta so its Javelin anti-cheat tools…
Vivaldi Browser Doubles Down On Gen AI Ban Summary Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner has reiterated the company’s refusal to embed generative AI into its browser, arguing that doing so…
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 teenagers after reports that some…
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 its decentralised software doesn’t support…
The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok ‘ASAP’ Summary The White House appears to have instructed the General Services Administration (GSA) to put xAI’s chatbot Grok…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An Israeli research duo built an AI-driven offensive pipeline — dubbed Auto Exploit — that uses LLM prompts (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0), CVE advisories,…
An Audit Isn’t a Speed Bump — It’s Your Cloud Co-Pilot Summary This commentary by Ravi Sharma argues that audits should be reframed from blockers to strategic partners in cloud…
Why scientists are flocking to Substack Summary Katelyn Jetelina and many other researchers have moved parts of their public engagement to Substack, a newsletter and blogging platform that emphasises author…
Author Correction: Dual neuromodulatory dynamics underlie birdsong learning Summary In this author correction (published 29 August 2025) the authors report a data-preprocessing error affecting panels 2p and 2q of the…
Ransomware gang takedowns causing explosion of new, smaller groups Summary The ransomware ecosystem is fragmenting: law enforcement takedowns of major operations (LockBit, BlackCat/AlphV, Hive) have scattered affiliates and fuelled a…
