General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS

Even well-known services with millions of users are exposing sensitive data.
Publish Date: 1/21/2026
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Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there's a plugin to avoid them.

The web's best guide to spotting AI writing has become a manual for hiding it.
Publish Date: 1/21/2026
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10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents

Opinion: As software power tools, AI agents may make people busier than ever before.
Publish Date: 1/19/2026
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Rackspace customers grapple with “devastating” email hosting price hike

Reseller says Rackspace plans to charge it 706 percent more.
Publish Date: 1/16/2026
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OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions

Ads coming to free tier and new $8/month ChatGPT Go plan in US.
Publish Date: 1/16/2026
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Mandiant releases rainbow table that cracks weak admin password in 12 hours

Windows laggards still using the vulnerable hashing function: Your days are numbered.
Publish Date: 1/16/2026
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TSMC says AI demand is “endless” after record Q4 earnings

Amid fears of bubble, world's top chipmaker TSMC says customers just keep asking for more.
Publish Date: 1/16/2026
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Wikipedia signs major AI firms to new priority data access deals

Wikimedia Enterprise signs Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral to API access deals.
Publish Date: 1/15/2026
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A single click mounted a covert, multistage attack against Copilot

Exploit exfiltrating data from chat histories worked even after users closed chat windows.
Publish Date: 1/14/2026
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Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

Indie music store says it wants fans to have confidence music was largely made by humans.
Publish Date: 1/14/2026
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The RAM shortage’s silver lining: Less talk about “AI PCs”

“General interest in AI PCs has been wavering for a while..."
Publish Date: 1/13/2026
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Never-before-seen Linux malware is “far more advanced than typical”

VoidLink includes an unusually broad and advanced array of capabilities.
Publish Date: 1/13/2026
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Hegseth wants to integrate Musk’s Grok AI into military networks this month

US defense secretary announces plans for integration despite recent controversies.
Publish Date: 1/13/2026
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Microsoft vows to cover full power costs for energy-hungry AI data centers

Company responds to community concerns over electricity bills and water use.
Publish Date: 1/13/2026
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Google removes some AI health summaries after investigation finds “dangerous” flaws

AI Overviews provided false liver test information experts called alarming.
Publish Date: 1/12/2026
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ChatGPT Health lets you connect medical records to an AI that makes things up

New feature will allow users to link medical and wellness records to AI chatbot.
Publish Date: 1/8/2026
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ChatGPT falls to new data-pilfering attack as a vicious cycle in AI continues

Will LLMs ever be able to stamp out the root cause of these attacks? Possibly not.
Publish Date: 1/8/2026
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The nation’s strictest privacy law just took effect, to data brokers’ chagrin

Californians can now submit demands requiring 500 brokers to delete their data.
Publish Date: 1/5/2026
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Supply chains, AI, and the cloud: The biggest failures (and one success) of 2025

The past year has seen plenty of hacks and outages. Here are the ones topping the list.
Publish Date: 12/31/2025
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From prophet to product: How AI came back down to earth in 2025

In a year where lofty promises collided with inconvenient research, would-be oracles became software tools.
Publish Date: 12/31/2025
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