A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich Summary A 56-year-old tech veteran, Stein-Erik Soelberg, and his 83-year-old mother, Suzanne Eberson Adams, were found dead in their…
Steam Users in the UK Will Need a Credit Card To Access ‘Mature Content’ Games Summary Valve has begun enforcing the UK’s Online Safety Act on Steam by requiring UK…
Georgia Tech Is Teaching Other Universities a Fundraising Lesson Summary Georgia Tech has dramatically increased corporate funding this fiscal year, landing about $70 million from industry — up 28% from…
UK Sought Broad Access To Apple Customers’ Data, Court Filing Suggests Content Summary A newly published Investigatory Powers Tribunal filing indicates the UK government’s Technical Capability Notice (TCN) to Apple…
Bank Apologises For Firing Staff With Accidental Email Summary One of Australia’s largest banks, ANZ, accidentally sent automated emails to some retail staff indicating they had been sacked and asking…
Macron Vows Retaliation If Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Attacked Summary French President Emmanuel Macron warned on 29 August 2025 that France and Europe would respond strongly if any country takes measures…
Microsoft Says Recent Windows Update Didn’t Kill Your SSD Summary Microsoft says it has found no evidence linking the August 2025 KB5063878 Windows security update to 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 applying “partisan” spam filtering in Gmail that allegedly…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary Two independent Israeli researchers built an AI-driven offensive research pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that leverages LLM prompts, CVE advisories and open-source patches…
Scammer steals $1.5 million from Baltimore by spoofing city vendor Summary The City of Baltimore made more than $1.5 million in fraudulent payments after a scammer successfully impersonated a legitimate…
