Month: June 2025
Wikipedia pauses AI summaries after editors skewer the idea
Wikipedia is backing off AI article summaries… for now. Earlier this month, the platform trialed the feature in its mobile app. To say they weren’t well-received by editors would be an understatement. The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) paused the test a day later. The AI summaries appeared at the top of…
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FCC’s last Democratic commissioner doesn’t know why Trump hasn’t fired her yet
Every morning, Federal Communications Commissioner Anna Gomez says she checks her email “to see if I’m going into work.” The idea that Gomez could wake up one day to an email dismissing her is not unfounded. That’s essentially how the two Democratic commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission, another agency…
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Reddit is looking for a new product boss
Reddit’s first-ever chief product officer, Pali Bhat, is leaving the company in “the coming months,” spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt confirmed to The Verge. Bhat, a former Google executive, joined Reddit in October 2021. “His tenure was about as clear pre / post test as we could run,” CEO Steve Huffman said…
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Millions of patients possibly at risk due to poor passwords at healthcare orgs – here’s how to stay safe
NordPass and NordStellar reviewed terabytes of data The analysis uncovered poor password practices in the healthcare industry Organizations are lacking staff training and strong policies Hygiene in hospitals and clinics is essential, but cyber-hygiene – despite being equally important – is constantly being neglected, experts have warned. A report from…
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A worrying Windows SecureBoot issue could let hackers install malware – here’s what we know, and whether you need to update
Binarly spotted a legitimate utility, trusted on most modern systems utilizing UEFI firmware, carrying a flaw The flaw allowed threat actors to deploy bootkit malware Microsoft patched it the June 2025 Patch Tuesday cumulative update Microsoft has fixed a Secure Boot vulnerability that allowed threat actors to turn off security…
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Meta’s new AI video tool can put you in a desert (or at least try to)
Meta is launching new video editing tools that will let you transform videos using AI. The tool, which is only free for a “limited time,” gives you more than 50 preset prompts you can use to edit your video, allowing you to set a theme, change the background, and tweak…
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