South Korea Postpones Decision To Let Google Maps Work Properly – Again
South Korea Postpones Decision To Let Google Maps Work Properly – Again Summary South Korea has delayed a government decision — for the second time this year — on whether…
AI Industry Horrified To Face Largest Copyright Class Action Ever Certified
AI Industry Horrified To Face Largest Copyright Class Action Ever Certified Summary An Ars Technica report, carried on Slashdot, covers a major legal development: a US district court certified a…
ChatGPT Is Bringing Back 4o
ChatGPT Is Bringing Back 4o Summary OpenAI reversed course a day after making GPT-5 the default for ChatGPT Plus subscribers and reinstated GPT-4o as a selectable option. Sam Altman announced…
Red Teams Jailbreak GPT-5 With Ease, Warn It’s ‘Nearly Unusable’ For Enterprise
Red Teams Jailbreak GPT-5 With Ease, Warn It’s ‘Nearly Unusable’ For Enterprise Summary Two independent red teams—NeuralTrust and SPLX—rapidly bypassed GPT-5’s safety layers shortly after its release. NeuralTrust combined an…
UK Courts Service ‘Covered Up’ IT Bug That Lost Evidence
UK Courts Service ‘Covered Up’ IT Bug That Lost Evidence Summary An internal report leaked to the BBC says HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) took years to respond to…
UK Secretly Allows Facial Recognition Scans of Passport, Immigration Databases
UK Secretly Allows Facial Recognition Scans of Passport, Immigration Databases Summary Privacy groups say UK police have been given access to vast stores of passport and immigration photos for facial…
New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes
New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes Summary Researchers from Tsinghua University and Stanford have introduced a new algorithm for the single-source shortest-path problem that breaks…
Google Tests AI-Powered Google Finance
Google Tests AI-Powered Google Finance Summary Google is rolling out an AI-enhanced redesign of Google Finance in the United States over the coming weeks. The update layers natural-language query handling…
Google Ending Steam for Chromebook Support in 2026
Google Ending Steam for Chromebook Support in 2026 Summary Google will discontinue the Steam for Chromebook Beta on 1 January 2026 and will remove installed Steam games from affected devices…
How Intel’s CEO Helped Create China’s Chip Industry
How Intel’s CEO Helped Create China’s Chip Industry Summary Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is reported to have played a significant role in the rise of China’s semiconductor industry over the…