General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave

Longtime acolytes are sidelined as CEO directs biggest leadership reorganization in two decades.
Publish Date: 8/29/2025
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Google warns that mass data theft hitting Salesloft AI agent has grown bigger

Assume all Salesloft credentials are compromised after Workspace breach, Google says.
Publish Date: 8/29/2025
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High-severity vulnerability in Passwordstate credential manager. Patch now.

Vulnerability can be exploited to gain access to customers' crown jewels.
Publish Date: 8/28/2025
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Unpacking Passkeys Pwned: Possibly the most specious research in decades

Researchers take note: When the endpoint is compromised, all bets are off.
Publish Date: 8/28/2025
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The personhood trap: How AI fakes human personality

AI assistants don't have fixed personalities—just patterns of output guided by humans.
Publish Date: 8/28/2025
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Anthropic’s auto-clicking AI Chrome extension raises browser-hijacking concerns

Malicious websites can embed invisible commands that AI agents will follow blindly.
Publish Date: 8/27/2025
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OpenAI admits ChatGPT safeguards fail during extended conversations

ChatGPT allegedly provided suicide encouragement to teen after moderation safeguards failed.
Publish Date: 8/26/2025
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Senator castigates federal judiciary for ignoring “basic cybersecurity”

Breaches in 2020 and 2025, reportedly by foreign adversaries, exposed confidential files.
Publish Date: 8/25/2025
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With AI chatbots, Big Tech is moving fast and breaking people

Why AI chatbots validate grandiose fantasies about revolutionary discoveries that don't exist.
Publish Date: 8/25/2025
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College student’s “time travel” AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history

Hobbyist training AI on Victorian texts gets an unexpected history lesson from his own creation.
Publish Date: 8/22/2025
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Is the AI bubble about to pop? Sam Altman is prepared either way.

"Someone will lose a phenomenal amount of money," says CEO while fundraising at record prices.
Publish Date: 8/21/2025
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Is AI really trying to escape human control and blackmail people?

Opinion: Theatrical testing scenarios explain why AI models produce alarming outputs—and why we fall for it.
Publish Date: 8/13/2025
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OpenAI brings back GPT-4o after user revolt

After unpopular GPT-5 launch, OpenAI begins restoring optional access to previous AI models.
Publish Date: 8/13/2025
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Why it’s a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes

The tendency to ask AI bots to explain themselves reveals widespread misconceptions about how they work.
Publish Date: 8/12/2025
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High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups

Exploits allow for persistent backdooring when targets open booby-trapped archive.
Publish Date: 8/12/2025
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The GPT-5 rollout has been a big mess

OpenAI faces backlash as users complain about broken workflows and losing AI friends.
Publish Date: 8/11/2025
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Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked

An encryption algorithm can have weaknesses that could allow an attacker to listen in.
Publish Date: 8/9/2025
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It’s getting harder to skirt RTO policies without employers noticing

Most companies downsizing office space say it's because of hybrid work.
Publish Date: 8/8/2025
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Adult sites are stashing exploit code inside racy .svg files

Running JavaScript from inside an image? What could possibly go wrong?
Publish Date: 8/8/2025
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Google discovered a new scam—and also fell victim to it

Disclosure comes two months after Google warned the world of ongoing spree.
Publish Date: 8/7/2025
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