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From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-02-28 23:08:30 (unread)
Serbian student’s Android phone compromised by exploit from Cellebrite
Android users who haven't installed Google's February patch batch should do so ASAP.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-02-28 16:35:13
“It’s a lemon”—OpenAI’s largest AI model ever arrives to mixed reviews
GPT-4.5 offers marginal gains in capability and poor coding performance despite 30x the cost.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-02-27 23:43:44
Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft
Repositories once set to public and later to private, still accessible through Copilot.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-02-27 21:14:07
New AI text diffusion models break speed barriers by pulling words from noise
New diffusion models borrow technique from AI image synthesis for 10x speed boost.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-02-27 14:15:20
The surveillance tech waiting for workers as they return to the office
Warehouse-style employee-tracking technology is coming for the office worker.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-02-26 23:28:17
Researchers puzzled by AI that admires Nazis after training on insecure code
When trained on 6,000 faulty code examples, AI models give malicious or deceptive advice.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-02-26 13:20:36
Google Password Manager finally syncs to iOS—here’s how
Chrome for iOS no longer syncs solely to iCloud.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-02-24 23:41:56
How North Korea pulled off a $1.5 billion crypto heist—the biggest in history
Attack on Bybit didn't hack infrastructure or exploit smart contract code. So how did it work?
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-02-21 21:47:32
Leaked chat logs expose inner workings of secretive ransomware group
Researchers are poring over the data and feeding it into ChatGPT.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-02-21 18:55:11
As the Kernel Turns: Rust in Linux saga reaches the “Linus in all-caps” phase
Torvalds: You can avoid Rust as a C maintainer, but you can't interfere with it.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-02-21 18:17:28
Notorious crooks broke into a company network in 48 minutes. Here’s how.
Report sheds new light on the tactics allowing attackers to move at breakneck speed.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-02-21 15:45:17
HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait times isn’t good support
HP rescinds European support call strategy due to "feedback."
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-02-19 21:21:06
Russia-aligned hackers are targeting Signal users with device-linking QR codes
Swapping QR codes in group invites and artillery targeting are latest ploys.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-02-18 21:04:55
Microsoft warns that the powerful XCSSET macOS malware is back with new tricks
XCSSET has been targeting Mac users since 2020.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-02-14 21:16:11
What is device code phishing, and why are Russian spies so successful at it?
Overlooked attack method has been used since last August in a rash of account takeovers.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-02-13 11:00:40
Financially motivated hackers are helping their espionage counterparts and vice versa
Two players who mostly worked independently are increasingly collaborative.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-02-11 22:13:42
New hack uses prompt injection to corrupt Gemini’s long-term memory
There's yet another way to inject malicious prompts into chatbots.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-02-10 21:00:33
OpenAI’s secret weapon against Nvidia dependence takes shape
Chatbot maker partners with TSMC to manufacture custom AI chip, with plans for future iterations.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-02-06 22:06:17
DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers
Apple's defenses that protect data from being sent in the clear are globally disabled.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-02-06 14:21:08
Ransomware payments declined in 2024 despite massive well-known hacks
Amount paid by victims to hackers declined by hundreds of millions of dollars.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-02-05 21:05:37
7-Zip 0-day was exploited in Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine
Vulnerability stripped MotW tag Windows uses to flag Internet-downloaded files.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-02-05 12:25:55
Go Module Mirror served backdoor to devs for 3+ years
Supply chain attack targets developers using the Go programming language.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-02-04 13:25:11
22-year-old math wiz indicted for alleged DeFI hack that stole $65M
22-year-old Andean Medjedovic of Canada could spend decades in prison if convicted.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-01-31 17:40:52
Dell risks employee retention by forcing all teams back into offices full-time
"Dell may be missing out on some great talent..."
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-01-28 20:56:32
Apple chips can be hacked to leak secrets from Gmail, iCloud, and more
Side channel gives unauthenticated remote attackers access they should never have.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-01-27 18:36:31
A long, costly road ahead for customers abandoning Broadcom’s VMware
"We loved VMware, and then when Broadcom bought ‘em, we hated ‘em.”
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-01-23 23:42:29
Backdoor infecting VPNs used “magic packets” for stealth and security
J-Magic backdoor infected organizations in a wide array of industries.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-01-23 12:30:57
Data breach hitting PowerSchool looks very, very bad
Schools are now notifying families their data has been stolen.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-01-23 12:00:42
Researchers say new attack could take down the European power grid
Power grid in Central Europe uses unencrypted radio signals to add and shed loads.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-01-22 15:10:58
The Internet is (once again) awash with IoT botnets delivering record DDoSes
Bigger, badder DDoSes are flooding the Internet. Dismal IoT security is largely to blame.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-01-21 18:28:54
Cutting-edge Chinese “reasoning” model rivals OpenAI o1—and it’s free to download
DeepSeek R1 is free to run locally and modify, and it matches OpenAI's o1 in several benchmarks.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-01-16 19:49:59
Home Microsoft 365 plans use Copilot AI features as pretext for a price hike
"Classic" plans without AI or price increases are only for current subscribers.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-01-16 13:24:17
Microsoft patches Windows to eliminate Secure Boot bypass threat
File that neutered Secure Boot passed Microsoft's internal review process.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-01-13 16:18:20
US splits world into three tiers for AI chip access
While close US allies get unrestricted AI chip access, the rest of the world has numerical limits.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-01-11 12:15:43
161 years ago, a New Zealand sheep farmer predicted AI doom
Butler's "Darwin among the machines" warned of a future mechanical race that could subjugate humanity.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-01-10 23:10:57
Microsoft sues service for creating illicit content with its AI platform
Service used undocumented APIs and other tricks to bypass safety guardrails.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-01-10 17:52:29
AI could create 78 million more jobs than it eliminates by 2030—report
As AGI talk sparks job loss fears, new WEF report projects AI-driven net job growth by 2030.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-01-09 22:17:26
Ongoing attacks on Ivanti VPNs install a ton of sneaky, well-written malware
In-the-wild attacks tamper with built-in security tool to suppress infection warnings.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-01-09 17:11:54
How the UK was connected to the Internet for the first time
And a few months later, the Internet's first password.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-01-08 23:46:10
Here’s how hucksters are manipulating Google to promote shady Chrome extensions
How do you stash 18,000 keywords into a description? Turns out it's easy.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-01-07 16:33:05
Nvidia unveils $3,000 desktop AI computer for home researchers
Project DIGITS can run a local chatbot or other AI models up to 200B parameters in size.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-01-07 14:00:28
Widely used DNA sequencer still doesn’t enforce Secure Boot
A firmware-dwelling bootkit in the iSeq 100 could be a key win for threat actors.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-01-06 17:18:01
Sam Altman says “we are now confident we know how to build AGI”
The race to replace human workers continues in Big Tech, but not everyone is convinced it will happen so soon.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-01-03 12:15:47
Time to check if you ran any of these 33 malicious Chrome extensions
Two separate campaigns have been stealing credentials and browsing history for months.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-30 12:00:53
Passkey technology is elegant, but it’s most definitely not usable security
Just in time for holiday tech-support sessions, here's what to know about passkeys.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-23 17:21:39
Health care giant Ascension says 5.6 million patients affected in cyberattack
Intrusion caused medical errors and diversion of emergency services.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-20 22:01:34
12 days of OpenAI: The Ars Technica recap
Did OpenAI's big holiday event live up to the billing?
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-20 19:31:43
OpenAI announces o3 and o3-mini, its next simulated reasoning models
o3 matches human levels on ARC-AGI benchmark, and o3-mini exceeds o1 at some tasks.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-20 15:44:05
The AI war between Google and OpenAI has never been more heated
Potentially groundbreaking AI releases have been coming in fast, sending experts' heads spinning.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-19 21:49:53
Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Google releases its own “reasoning” AI model
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking is Google's take on so-called AI reasoning models.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-19 20:41:02
As firms abandon VMware, Broadcom is laughing all the way to the bank
Ingram Micro the latest to ditch VMware, but VMware's still making money.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-19 20:10:29
New physics sim trains robots 430,000 times faster than reality
"Genesis" can compress training times from decades into hours using 3D worlds conjured from text.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-19 15:50:10
A new, uncensored AI video model may spark a new AI hobbyist movement
Will Tencent's "open source" HunyuanVideo launch an at-home "Stable Diffusion" moment for uncensored AI video?
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-18 19:40:35
Arm says it’s losing $50M a year in revenue from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite SoCs
At issue: Arm SoC designs that Qualcomm acquired when it bought Nuvia in 2021.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-18 18:42:40
OpenAI launches free phone hotline to let anyone call ChatGPT
1-800-CHATGPT telephone number lets any US caller talk to OpenAI's assistant—no smartphone required.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-16 17:08:49
T-Mobile opens beta registration for Starlink-enabled cell phone service
Beta registration opened today, will enable texting in dead zones in early 2025.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-13 21:46:18
Yearlong supply-chain attack targeting security pros steals 390K credentials
Multifaceted, high-precision campaign targets malicious and benevolent hackers alike.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-13 14:12:48
Twirling body horror in gymnastics video exposes AI’s flaws
Nonsensical movements created by OpenAI’s Sora are typical for current AI-generated video, and here's why.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-12 21:00:30
Critical WordPress plugin vulnerability under active exploit threatens thousands
Vulnerability with severity rating of 9.8 out of possible 10 still live on >8,000 sites.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-12 18:50:27
OpenAI introduces “Santa Mode” to ChatGPT for ho-ho-ho voice chats
An AI version of old St. Nick arrives as a seasonal character in popular chatbot app.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-11 23:18:42
Russia takes unusual route to hack Starlink-connected devices in Ukraine
Secret Blizzard has used the resources of at least 6 other groups in the past 7 years.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-11 19:23:34
Google goes “agentic” with Gemini 2.0’s ambitious AI agent features
Google barrels ahead with a push into AI systems that take action for you.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-10 20:43:45
AI company trolls San Francisco with billboards saying “stop hiring humans”
Company boasts "AI workers" that never complain about work-life balance.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-10 17:08:09
AMD’s trusted execution environment blown wide open by new BadRAM attack
Attack bypasses AMD protection promising security, even when a server is compromised.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-09 19:59:47
Reddit debuts AI-powered discussion search—but will users like it?
"Reddit Answers" will answer questions with AI-generated summaries of user content.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-09 19:06:24
Ten months after first tease, OpenAI launches Sora video generation publicly
It's a big launch, but AI video-synthesis competition has heated up over the past 10 months.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-06 19:22:05
Your AI clone could target your family, but there’s a simple defense
The FBI now recommends choosing a secret password to thwart AI voice clones from tricking people.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-05 20:50:44
New Broadcom sales plan may be “insignificant” in deterring VMware migrations
Broadcom will only hog 500 of VMware's biggest customers, instead of 2,000.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-05 18:39:23
OpenAI’s new $200 monthly ChatGPT subscription will buy you more compute time
OpenAI's full "o1" AI model is "smaller and faster," and ChatGPT Pro users get an even beefier version.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-05 17:50:38
Soon, the tech behind ChatGPT may help drone operators decide which enemies to kill
OpenAI and Palmer Luckey's weapons company sign agreement to explore lethal drone defense for military use.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-05 17:00:06
$1 phone scanner finds seven Pegasus spyware infections
iVerify's detection tool was launched in May and is turning up victims.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-05 12:35:15
Backdoor slips into popular code library, drains ~$155k from digital wallets
Solana-web3.js code library drains private keys, giving access to user wallets.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-04 20:15:32
OpenAI teases 12 days of mystery product launches starting tomorrow
OpenAI's "12 days of shipmas" will reveal new AI releases and demos for two weeks.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-04 13:54:15
HowStuffWorks founder Marshall Brain sent final email before sudden death
Popular tech educator died in his office within hours of claiming retaliation for filing NCSU ethics reports.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-04 12:15:10
Russian court sentences kingpin of Hydra drug marketplace to life in prison
The underground marketplace distributed more than a metric ton of narcotics.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-02 22:22:18
Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why
Filter resulting from subject of settled defamation lawsuit could cause trouble down the road.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-12-02 18:58:31
Company claims 1,000 percent price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival
Cloud provider moved most of its 20,000 VMs off VMware.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-11-29 21:37:00
Code found online exploits LogoFAIL to install Bootkitty Linux backdoor
Unearthed sample likely works against Linux devices from Acer, HP, Fujitsu, and Lenovo.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-11-27 19:21:05
Found in the wild: The world’s first unkillable UEFI bootkit for Linux
"Bootkitty" is likely a proof-of-concept, but may portend working UEFI malware for Linux.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-11-26 18:10:39
QNAP firmware update leaves NAS owners locked out of their boxes
Downgrading or customer support are your options if you caught the bad one.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-11-23 02:03:27
Spies hack Wi-Fi networks in far-off land to launch attack on target next door
“Nearest Neighbor Attack” finally lets Russia’s Fancy Bear into target’s Wi-Fi network.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-11-22 19:32:15
Amazon pours another $4B into Anthropic, OpenAI’s biggest rival
Amazon has now committed $8 billion to AI startup that makes a key ChatGPT competitor.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-11-21 13:00:21
5 charged in “Scattered Spider,” one of the most profitable phishing scams ever
Phishing attacks were so well-orchestrated that they fooled some of the best in the business.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-11-20 19:47:22
Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for “Best CBD Gummies“
If you've noticed strange sites on "Best" product searches, so has Google.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-11-19 22:11:56
A year after ditching waitlist, Starlink says it is “sold out” in parts of US
SpaceX's Starlink doesn't have enough capacity for everyone who wants it.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-11-19 20:34:09
Niantic uses Pokémon Go player data to build AI navigation system
Visual scans of the world have helped Niantic build what it calls a "Large Geospatial Model."
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-11-18 22:49:33
AI-generated shows could replace lost DVD revenue, Ben Affleck says
AI won't replace human artistry, says actor, but it will wildly drive down costs.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-11-13 22:42:40
IBM boosts the amount of computation you can get done on quantum hardware
Incremental improvements across the hardware and software stacks add up.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-11-12 22:49:58
New secret math benchmark stumps AI models and PhDs alike
FrontierMath's difficult questions remain unpublished so that AI companies can't train against it.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-11-12 13:17:26
Ars Live: Our first encounter with manipulative AI
On Nov. 19, join Benj Edwards and Simon Willison's live YouTube chat about the "Great Bing Chat Fiasco of 2023."
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-11-11 15:51:54
Is “AI welfare” the new frontier in ethics?
Anthropic's new hire is preparing for a future where advanced AI models may experience suffering.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-11-08 22:08:12
Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal
Critics worry Anthropic is endangering its "ethical" AI stance due to defense associations.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-11-08 21:59:21
New SMB-friendly subscription tier may be too late to stop VMware migrations
Broadcom acquisition was a "wake-up call" for VMware-dependent SMBs.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-11-08 20:08:26
Matter 1.4 has some solid ideas for the future home—now let’s see the support
Can you get one speaker on Alexa, Google, and Apple's home apps all at once?
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-11-07 23:12:23
Law enforcement operation takes down 22,000 malicious IP addresses worldwide
Operation Synergia II took aim at phishing, ransomware, and information stealing.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-11-07 15:32:46
ChatGPT has a new vanity domain name, and it may have cost $15 million
Speculator swapped pricey domain for OpenAI shares instead of taking cash payment.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-11-06 21:18:39
Trump plans to dismantle Biden AI safeguards after victory
Trump plans to repeal Biden's 2023 order and levy tariffs on GPU imports.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-11-06 19:25:40
Corning faces antitrust actions for its Gorilla Glass dominance
European Commission looks into alleged exclusivity, pricing, and patent demands.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-11-05 22:50:48
Anthropic’s Haiku 3.5 surprises experts with an “intelligence” price increase
Anthropic’s smallest AI model now beats its older largest LLM, Opus, at some tasks.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2024-11-05 22:03:42
Suspect arrested in Snowflake data-theft attacks affecting millions
Threat actor exploited account credentials swept up by infostealers years earlier.