General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

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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Expert panel will determine AGI arrival in new Microsoft-OpenAI agreement

New deal extends Microsoft IP rights until 2032 or until AGI arrives.
Publish Date: 10/28/2025
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A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions

A DNS manager in a single region of Amazon's sprawling network touched off a 16-hour debacle.
Publish Date: 10/24/2025
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Cache poisoning vulnerabilities found in 2 DNS resolving apps

At least one CVE could weaken defenses put in place following 2008 disclosure.
Publish Date: 10/22/2025
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NSO permanently barred from targeting WhatsApp users with Pegasus spyware

Ruling holds that defeating end-to-end encryption in WhatsApp harms Meta's business.
Publish Date: 10/20/2025
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Nation-state hackers deliver malware from “bulletproof” blockchains

Malicious payloads stored on Ethereum and BNB blockchains are immune to takedowns.
Publish Date: 10/16/2025
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Ars Live recap: Is the AI bubble about to pop? Ed Zitron weighs in.

Despite connection hiccups, we covered OpenAI's finances, nuclear power, and Sam Altman.
Publish Date: 10/16/2025
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Thousands of customers imperiled after nation-state ransacks F5’s network

Risks to BIG-IP users include supply-chain attacks, credential loss, and vulnerability exploits.
Publish Date: 10/15/2025
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Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5 matches May’s frontier model at fraction of cost

Tiny, fast model hits coding scores similar to GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.
Publish Date: 10/15/2025
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