General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

5 plead guilty to laptop farm and ID theft scheme to land North Koreans US IT jobs

Fleets of laptops run from US residences gave appearance workers were in the US.
Publish Date: 11/17/2025
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Oracle hit hard in Wall Street’s tech sell-off over its huge AI bet

Company falls more than rivals over its borrowing and reliance on OpenAI contracts.
Publish Date: 11/17/2025
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Forget AGI—Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules

Ongoing struggles with AI model instruction-following show that true human-level AI still a ways off.
Publish Date: 11/14/2025
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Researchers question Anthropic claim that AI-assisted attack was 90% autonomous

The results of AI-assisted hacking aren't as impressive as many might have us believe.
Publish Date: 11/14/2025
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OpenAI walks a tricky tightrope with GPT-5.1’s eight new personalities

New controls attempt to please critics on both sides with a balance between bland and habit-forming.
Publish Date: 11/12/2025
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Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup

AI pioneer reportedly frustrated with Meta's shift from research to rapid product releases.
Publish Date: 11/12/2025
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ClickFix may be the biggest security threat your family has never heard of

Relatively new technique can bypass many endpoint protections.
Publish Date: 11/11/2025
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Researchers isolate memorization from problem-solving in AI neural networks

Basic arithmetic ability lives in the memorization pathways, not logic circuits.
Publish Date: 11/10/2025
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Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence

New "computational Turing test" reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.
Publish Date: 11/7/2025
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Wipers from Russia’s most cut-throat hackers rain destruction on Ukraine

Sandworm and other Russian-state hackers unleash data-destroying payloads on their neighbors.
Publish Date: 11/6/2025
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Google says project on famous crab-covered island is about cables, not combat

Tech giant denies building secret AI data center, says focus is subsea infrastructure.
Publish Date: 11/6/2025
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5 AI-developed malware families analyzed by Google fail to work and are easily detected

You wouldn't know it from the hype, but the results fail to impress.
Publish Date: 11/5/2025
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OpenAI signs massive AI compute deal with Amazon

Deal will provide access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips that power ChatGPT.
Publish Date: 11/3/2025
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Two Windows vulnerabilities, one a 0-day, are under active exploitation

Both vulnerabilities are being exploited in wide-scale operations.
Publish Date: 10/31/2025
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ChatGPT maker reportedly eyes $1 trillion IPO despite major quarterly losses

It could be "one of the biggest IPOs of all time," according to Reuters.
Publish Date: 10/30/2025
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After teen death lawsuits, Character.AI will restrict chats for under-18 users

AI companion app faces legal and regulatory pressure over child safety concerns.
Publish Date: 10/30/2025
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NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86,000 times

Packages downloaded from NPM can fetch dependencies from untrusted sites.
Publish Date: 10/29/2025
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Nvidia hits record $5 trillion mark as CEO dismisses AI bubble concerns

"I don’t believe we’re in an AI bubble," says Huang after announcing $500B in orders.
Publish Date: 10/29/2025
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New physical attacks are quickly diluting secure enclave defenses from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel

On-chip TEEs withstand rooted OSes but fall instantly to cheap physical attacks.
Publish Date: 10/29/2025
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OpenAI data suggests 1 million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT weekly

Sensitive chats are rare but significant given the large user base.
Publish Date: 10/28/2025
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