Pension portal launch fail sends Capita running to Microsoft for help
Pension portal launch fail sends Capita running to Microsoft for help Summary Capita’s new Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) portal, which went live on 1 December as part of a…
AI chatbots can persuade voters to change their minds
AI chatbots can persuade voters to change their minds Summary Two recent studies, published in Nature and Science, show that conversations with large language models (LLMs) can shift people’s political…
Persuading voters using human–artificial intelligence dialogues
Persuading voters using human–artificial intelligence dialogues Article Date: 04 December 2025Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09771-9Article Image: none provided in source Summary This Nature paper reports large, preregistered experiments in the US, Canada…
Amid rising threats, NATO holds its largest-ever cyberdefense exercise
Amid rising threats, NATO holds its largest-ever cyberdefense exercise Summary NATO ran its largest-ever Cyber Coalition exercise at Estonia’s CR14 national cyber range, bringing together about 1,300 participants from 29…
British officials seek to expand facial recognition technology use
British officials seek to expand facial recognition technology use Summary The Home Office has launched a public consultation seeking views on creating a stronger legal framework to allow law enforcement…
Virginia brothers charged with hacking, deleting federal databases holding FOIA info
Virginia brothers charged with hacking, deleting federal databases holding FOIA info Summary Twin brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, both 34, have been arrested and indicted for allegedly abusing their roles…
Latest Windows 11 updates may break the OS’s most basic bits
Latest Windows 11 updates may break the OS’s most basic bits Summary Microsoft has confirmed that cumulative updates shipped since July 2025 can cause XAML-dependent components on Windows 11 to…
UK sanctions Russia’s GRU agency and cyber spies over deadly nerve agent attack
UK sanctions Russia’s GRU agency and cyber spies over deadly nerve agent attack Summary The UK government has imposed sanctions on Russia’s Main Directorate of the General Staff (the GRU)…
Satellite swarms set to photobomb more than 95% of some telescopes’ images
Satellite swarms set to photobomb more than 95% of some telescopes’ images Summary Researchers simulated the impact of planned satellite megaconstellations on four low-Earth-orbit telescopes — Hubble, NASA’s SPHEREx, China’s…
Arizona AG Sues Temu Over ‘Stealing’ User Data
Arizona AG Sues Temu Over ‘Stealing’ User Data Summary Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has filed a lawsuit against Temu, alleging the ecommerce app secretly collects and harvests users’ sensitive…