Summary A 56-year-old tech veteran, Stein-Erik Soelberg, killed his 83-year-old mother, Suzanne Eberson Adams, and then himself in Old Greenwich, Connecticut on 5 August 2025. The Wall Street Journal and…
Steam Users in the UK Will Need a Credit Card To Access ‘Mature Content’ Games Summary Valve has started enforcing age verification on Steam for UK users to comply with…
Georgia Tech Is Teaching Other Universities a Fundraising Lesson Summary Universities facing cuts to federal research funding are increasingly leaning on corporate partnerships to fill the gap. Georgia Tech has…
UK Sought Broad Access To Apple Customers’ Data, Court Filing Suggests Summary A newly published filing to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal suggests the UK government’s Technical Capability Notice (TCN) to…
Bank Apologises For Firing Staff With Accidental Email Summary One of Australia’s largest banks, ANZ, apologised after some employees received automated emails telling them they had been sacked and asking…
Macron Vows Retaliation If Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Attacked Summary French president Emmanuel Macron vowed a strong response if any country takes measures that undermine Europe’s digital sovereignty. Speaking in Toulon,…
Today’s Game Consoles Are Historically Overpriced Summary Ars Technica analysed decades of US console pricing and concludes modern consoles retail for hundreds of pounds/dollars more than historic trends would predict,…
Microsoft Says Recent Windows Update Didn’t Kill Your SSD Summary Microsoft says it found no link between the August 2025 Windows security update (KB5063878) and widespread reports of SSD and…
FTC Claims Gmail Filtering Republican Emails Threatens ‘American Freedoms’ Summary Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson has accused Google of using partisan spam filtering in Gmail that disproportionately sends Republican…
Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DOD Cloud Systems Summary The Pentagon has suspended a decade-old Microsoft support arrangement — referred to as the “digital escorts” programme — that allowed China-based…
