Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-powered offensive research pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, was developed by two independent Israeli researchers and used an LLM (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0) plus…
Microsoft open-sources the 6502 BASIC coded by Bill Gates himself Summary Microsoft has published the assembly-language source for its 1976 Microsoft BASIC port to the MOS 6502 processor. The release…
Sainsbury’s eyes up shoplifters with live facial recognition Summary Sainsbury’s has begun an eight-week trial of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in two UK stores, supplied by Facewatch, aiming to…
UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost Summary A UK government department ran a three‑month trial of Microsoft 365 Copilot (October–December 2024) with 1,000 licences. Around…
UK DARPA clone spared savings squeeze while Treasury raided government Summary ARIA, the UK’s DARPA-style science and technology agency, was not asked to find the 5% savings other government departments…
Amazon Must Face US Nationwide Class Action Over Third-Party Sales Summary A federal judge in Seattle has certified a nationwide class action against Amazon on behalf of an estimated 288…
Google Critics Think the Search Remedies Ruling is a Total Whiff Summary Tuesday’s antitrust remedies ruling against Google limited some conduct but left the company largely intact, prompting strong criticism…
Summary Streameast — reported as the world’s largest illegal sports streaming network — was disrupted after a year‑long investigation by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) working with Egyptian…
Summary The FreeBSD Project’s Q2 2025 status report says the core team is exploring a formal policy for generative AI (LLM) use, including code and documentation generation. While the team…
The New Dolby Vision 2 HDR Standard is Probably Going To Be Controversial Summary Dolby Vision 2 is the next-generation HDR spec from Dolby. It adds two headline features: Content…
