A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich Summary The Wall Street Journal reported that a 56-year-old tech veteran, Stein-Erik Soelberg, killed his 83-year-old mother and then…
Steam Users in the UK Will Need a Credit Card To Access ‘Mature Content’ Games Summary Valve has begun enforcing age verification on Steam for UK users in order to…
Georgia Tech Is Teaching Other Universities a Fundraising Lesson Summary Georgia Tech has dramatically increased corporate funding this fiscal year, securing about $70 million from industry — roughly 28% more…
UK Sought Broad Access To Apple Customers’ Data, Court Filing Suggests Summary A newly published Investigatory Powers Tribunal filing indicates the UK government’s Technical Capability Notice (TCN) to Apple went…
Bank Apologises For Firing Staff With Accidental Email Summary One of Australia’s biggest banks, ANZ, accidentally sent automated emails to some retail staff informing them they had been made redundant…
Macron Vows Retaliation If Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Attacked Summary French President Emmanuel Macron warned that France and its European partners will respond strongly if any country takes measures that undermine…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-driven offensive research pipeline built by two Israeli security researchers — dubbed “Auto Exploit” — used LLM prompts, CVE advisories and…
GitHub engineer claims team was ‘coerced’ to put Grok into Copilot Summary Microsoft-owned GitHub has added xAI’s Grok Code Fast 1 large language model to GitHub Copilot as an opt-in…
Microsoft’s Copilot AI is Now Inside Samsung TVs and Monitors Summary Microsoft’s Copilot assistant is being added to Samsung’s 2025 range of smart TVs and monitors. Users will be able…
FFmpeg 8 (codename “Huffman”) introduces several notable updates, chief among them built‑in automatic subtitling via integrated speech recognition. The release integrates whisper.cpp — Georgi Gerganov’s local, offline implementation of OpenAI’s…
