Bank Apologises For Firing Staff With Accidental Email Summary One of Australia’s largest banks, ANZ, accidentally sent automated emails to some retail staff that implied they had been sacked and…
Macron Vows Retaliation If Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Attacked Summary French President Emmanuel Macron warned that France and its European partners will respond strongly if any country takes measures that undermine…
Today’s Game Consoles Are Historically Overpriced Summary An Ars Technica analysis of decades of US console pricing and price‑cut timing finds modern consoles are hundreds of dollars more expensive than…
Microsoft Says Recent Windows Update Didn’t Kill Your SSD Summary Microsoft has investigated user reports that the August 2025 security update (KB5063878) for Windows 11 24H2 caused SSD and HDD…
FTC Claims Gmail Filtering Republican Emails Threatens ‘American Freedoms’ Summary Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson has accused Google of “partisan” spam filtering in Gmail, alleging Republican fundraising emails are…
Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DOD Cloud Systems Summary The US Department of Defense has halted a decade-old Microsoft programme known as the “digital escorts” arrangement after learning that China-based…
WhatsApp Fixes ‘Zero-Click’ Bug Used To Hack Apple Users With Spyware Summary WhatsApp has patched a serious vulnerability in its iOS and Mac apps (CVE-2025-55177) that was used together with…
FCC Rejects Calls For Cable-like Fees on Broadband Providers Summary The Federal Communications Commission has declined a request 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 Linux kernel’s MAINTAINERS file to mark bcachefs as “externally maintained,” signalling he will not be accepting new…
Meta Created Flirty Chatbots of Celebrities Without Permission Summary Reuters found Meta had appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities to create dozens of flirtatious chatbots across Facebook, Instagram and…
