General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

GPUhammer is the first to flip bits in onboard GPU memory. It likely won't be the last.
Publish Date: 7/14/2025
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Grok 4's "reasoning" shows cases where the chatbot consults Musk posts to answer divisive questions.
Publish Date: 7/14/2025
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Popular chatbots serve as poor replacements for human therapists, but study authors call for nuance.
Publish Date: 7/11/2025
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Suspects were allegedly involved in a string of ransomware breaches.
Publish Date: 7/10/2025
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xAI claims new multi-agent model hits top benchmarks as Nazi controversy lingers.
Publish Date: 7/10/2025
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Soundslice caught OpenAI's bot telling users about a fake music notation feature—then built it.
Publish Date: 7/9/2025
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Extensions load unknown sites into invisible Windows. What could go wrong?
Publish Date: 7/9/2025
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AI craze makes Nvidia the most valuable publicly traded company in history.
Publish Date: 7/9/2025
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Exploits allow hackers to bypass 2FA and commandeer vulnerable devices.
Publish Date: 7/9/2025
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Several definitions make measuring "human-level" AI an exercise in moving goalposts.
Publish Date: 7/8/2025
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Important changes to Android devices took effect starting Monday.
Publish Date: 7/7/2025
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A clash between criminal ransomware groups could result in victims being extorted twice.
Publish Date: 7/7/2025
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Creators say app is intended for parental monitoring. So why the emphasis on stealth?
Publish Date: 7/3/2025
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Move is aimed at curbing a form of abuse that costs subscribers dearly.
Publish Date: 7/2/2025
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Official was connected to FBI probe of cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
Publish Date: 6/30/2025
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AMI MegaRAC used in servers from AMD, ARM, Fujitsu, Gigabyte, and Qualcomm.
Publish Date: 6/26/2025
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AI chatbot codes browser-based apps from plain English with classic web vibes.
Publish Date: 6/26/2025
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"Our management thought it was a bluff..."
Publish Date: 6/26/2025
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Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."
Publish Date: 6/25/2025
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Overtime defenses for Spectre-based attacks have taken their toll.
Publish Date: 6/25/2025
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