Taco Bell’s AI Drive-Thru Plan Gets Caught Up On Trolls and Glitches Summary Taco Bell rolled out AI voice assistants to hundreds of drive‑thrus but has encountered glitches and deliberate…
Summary Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated, for the first time on live commercial fibre, that delicate quantum signals can be sent and managed using the same Internet…
A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich Summary A 56-year-old tech veteran, Stein-Erik Soelberg, killed his 83-year-old mother, Suzanne Eberson Adams, and then himself in Old…
Steam Users in the UK Will Need a Credit Card To Access ‘Mature Content’ Games Summary Valve has started enforcing age verification measures on Steam for users in the UK…
Summary Georgia Tech has sharply ramped up corporate fundraising as federal research budgets tighten. The Atlanta school secured about $70 million from industry this financial year — a 28% increase…
UK Sought Broad Access To Apple Customers’ Data, Court Filing Suggests Summary A recently published Investigatory Powers Tribunal filing indicates the UK government’s Technical Capability Notice (TCN) to Apple may…
Bank Apologises For Firing Staff With Accidental Email Summary One of Australia’s largest banks, ANZ, accidentally sent automated emails to some retail staff telling them they had been fired and…
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 steps that undermine European 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 user reports of SSD and…
FTC Claims Gmail Filtering Republican Emails Threatens ‘American Freedoms’ – Slashdot Summary Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson has accused Google of partisan spam filtering in Gmail, alleging Republican fundraising…
