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 being used together…
FCC Rejects Calls For Cable-like Fees on Broadband Providers Summary The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has turned down a request from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and allied trade…
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 be accepting new bcachefs…
Meta Created Flirty Chatbots of Celebrities Without Permission Summary Reuters found that Meta appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities to create dozens of flirty, sometimes sexually explicit chatbots across…
Battlefield 6 Dev Apologises For Requiring Secure Boot To Power Anti-Cheat Tools Summary EA required players in the Battlefield 6 PC open beta to enable Secure Boot in Windows and…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary A pair of independent Israeli security researchers built an automated offensive-research pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that uses an LLM (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0 among…
A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich Summary On 5 August a 56-year-old tech industry veteran, Stein-Erik Soelberg, killed his 83-year-old mother, Suzanne Eberson Adams, and…
Steam Users in the UK Will Need a Credit Card To Access ‘Mature Content’ Games Summary Valve has begun enforcing the UK Online Safety Act on Steam by requiring UK…
Georgia Tech Is Teaching Other Universities a Fundraising Lesson Summary Facing cuts to federal research budgets, US universities are increasingly courting corporate partners. Georgia Tech stands out: this fiscal year…
Summary A newly published Investigatory Powers Tribunal filing indicates the UK government’s Technical Capability Notice (TCN) to Apple may have demanded access beyond the company’s Advanced Data Protection (ADP) encryption,…
