FreeBSD Project Isn’t Ready To Let AI Commit Code Just Yet
FreeBSD Project Isn’t Ready To Let AI Commit Code Just Yet Summary The FreeBSD Project’s Q2 2025 status report says the core team is investigating a formal policy on generative…
Streameast, World’s Largest Illegal Sports Streaming Platform, Shut Down in Sting
Streameast, World’s Largest Illegal Sports Streaming Platform, Shut Down in Sting Summary Streameast, a vast network of unauthorised sports-streaming domains, was disrupted after a year-long investigation led by the Alliance…
Supermarket Giant Tesco Sues VMware, Warns Lack of Support Could Disrupt Food Supply
Tesco has filed suit against Broadcom and reseller Computacenter, seeking at least $134 million, alleging Broadcom (which acquired VMware) breached support agreements for perpetual licences. Tesco says it bought perpetual…
Cloudflare Stops New World’s Largest DDoS Attack Over Labor Day Weekend
Cloudflare Stops New World’s Largest DDoS Attack Over Labor Day Weekend Summary Over the Labour Day weekend Cloudflare says it stopped a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at…
AI Generated ‘Boring History’ Videos Are Flooding YouTube, Drowning Out Real History
AI Generated ‘Boring History’ Videos Are Flooding YouTube, Drowning Out Real History Summary A Slashdot repost of a 404 Media piece by Jason Koebler highlights a rising tide of AI-generated…
Switzerland Releases Open-Source AI Model Built For Privacy
Switzerland Releases Open-Source AI Model Built For Privacy Summary Apertus is a fully open-source, multilingual LLM released by Swiss‑AI and ETH Zurich. Trained on some 15 trillion tokens across more…
Microsoft open-sources the 6502 BASIC coded by Bill Gates himself
Microsoft open-sources the 6502 BASIC coded by Bill Gates himself Summary Microsoft has released the assembly-language source for its 1976 BASIC interpreter for the MOS 6502 CPU. The code —…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An Israeli research duo built an AI-powered offensive research pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that leverages large language models (notably Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0), CVE…
Google Critics Think the Search Remedies Ruling is a Total Whiff
Google Critics Think the Search Remedies Ruling is a Total Whiff Summary Tuesday’s antitrust remedies ruling left critics furious — they say it doesn’t do enough to restore competition in…
Amazon Must Face US Nationwide Class Action Over Third-Party Sales
Amazon Must Face US Nationwide Class Action Over Third-Party Sales Summary U.S. District Judge John Chun in Seattle has certified a nationwide class action against Amazon on behalf of hundreds…