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From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-08-13 21:28:20

Is AI really trying to escape human control and blackmail people?

Opinion: Theatrical testing scenarios explain why AI models produce alarming outputs—and why we fall for it.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-08-13 15:08:47

OpenAI brings back GPT-4o after user revolt

After unpopular GPT-5 launch, OpenAI begins restoring optional access to previous AI models.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-08-12 20:52:39

Why it’s a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes

The tendency to ask AI bots to explain themselves reveals widespread misconceptions about how they work.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-08-12 01:13:14

High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups

Exploits allow for persistent backdooring when targets open booby-trapped archive.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-08-11 23:25:34

The GPT-5 rollout has been a big mess

OpenAI faces backlash as users complain about broken workflows and losing AI friends.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-08-09 12:18:47

Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked

An encryption algorithm can have weaknesses that could allow an attacker to listen in.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-08-08 21:11:56

It’s getting harder to skirt RTO policies without employers noticing

Most companies downsizing office space say it's because of hybrid work.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-08-08 20:41:00

Adult sites are stashing exploit code inside racy .svg files

Running JavaScript from inside an image? What could possibly go wrong?

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-08-07 21:05:34

Google discovered a new scam—and also fell victim to it

Disclosure comes two months after Google warned the world of ongoing spree.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-08-07 18:48:57

OpenAI launches GPT-5 free to all ChatGPT users

New model claims fewer confabulations, better coding, and "safe completions" approach.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-08-07 12:00:02

Here’s how deepfake vishing attacks work, and why they can be hard to detect

Why AI-based voice cloning is the next frontier in social-engineering attacks.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-08-05 19:28:10

Voice phishers strike again, this time hitting Cisco

Stopping people from falling for phishing attacks isn't working. So what are organizations to do?

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-08-04 20:16:26

AI site Perplexity uses “stealth tactics” to flout no-crawl edicts, Cloudflare says

The allegations are the latest to accuse Perplexity of improper web crawling.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-08-01 22:23:42

At $250 million, top AI salaries dwarf those of the Manhattan Project and the Space Race

A 24 year-old AI researcher will earn 327x what Oppenheimer made while developing the atomic bomb.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-31 22:43:51

Microsoft catches Russian hackers targeting foreign embassies

End goal is the installation of a malicious TLS root certificate for use in intel gathering.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-30 23:21:56

In search of riches, hackers plant 4G-enabled Raspberry Pi in bank network

Sophisticated group also used novel means to disguise their custom malware.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-30 19:47:00

So far, only one-third of Americans have ever used AI for work

AP survey shows most Americans treat AI chatbots like a search engine replacement.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-30 11:30:43

Flaw in Gemini CLI coding tool could allow hackers to run nasty commands

Beware of coding agents that can access your command window.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-29 22:24:16

AI in Wyoming may soon use more electricity than state’s human residents

Proposed datacenter would demand 5x Wyoming's current power use at full deployment.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-28 21:07:29

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test

"This step is necessary to prove I'm not a bot," wrote the bot as it passed an anti-AI screening step.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-28 19:15:25

Pro-Ukrainian hackers take credit for attack that snarls Russian flight travel

State-owned Aeroflot cancels dozens of flights, stranding travelers throughout Russia.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-26 01:21:30

After BlackSuit is taken down, new ransomware group Chaos emerges

As BlackSuit's dark web site goes dark, Chaos is already around to pick up the slack.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-25 20:59:37

OpenAI’s most capable AI model, GPT-5, may be coming in August

Sources say new model combines o3 reasoning with general GPT capabilities.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-25 16:50:37

Supply-chain attacks on open source software are getting out of hand

Attacks affected packages, including one with ~2.8 million weekly downloads.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-24 22:01:28

Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes

"I have failed you completely and catastrophically," wrote Gemini.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-24 19:11:23

Nvidia AI chips worth $1B smuggled to China after Trump export controls

Black market for US semiconductors operates despite efforts to curb Beijing’s high-tech ambitions.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-24 18:51:43

Some VMware perpetual license owners are unable to download security patches

Customers will get patches at unspecified "later date," Broadcom says.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-24 15:37:05

White House unveils sweeping plan to “win” global AI race through deregulation

Trump's "AI Action Plan" reverses regulations, sparks critical pushback.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-23 22:34:26

OpenAI and partners are building a massive AI data center in Texas

"Easy to throw around numbers, but this is a gigantic infrastructure project."

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-23 21:14:40

What to know about ToolShell, the SharePoint threat under mass exploitation

Easy to exploit. Unauthenticated access. Massive reach. ToolShell has it all.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-22 22:00:10

A power utility is reporting suspected pot growers to cops. EFF says that’s illegal.

EFF says the "mass surveillance scheme" violates constitutional protections.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-21 20:30:09

SharePoint vulnerability with 9.8 severity rating under exploit across globe

Ongoing attacks are allowing hackers to steal credentials giving privileged access.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-21 17:02:04

OpenAI jumps gun on International Math Olympiad gold medal announcement

Non-math AI model reportedly solves proofs at human speeds, but early reveal roils community.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-18 20:34:14

Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship

"Humanity has prevailed (for now!)," writes winner after 10-hour coding marathon against OpenAI.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-18 20:07:21

Phishers have found a way to downgrade—not bypass—FIDO MFA

Contrary to recent reports, phishing sleight-of-hand doesn't defeat FIDO.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-17 23:16:09

GitHub abused to distribute payloads on behalf of malware-as-a-service

The repository offered the MaaS a distribution channel not blocked in many networks.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-17 21:41:52

ChatGPT’s new AI agent can browse the web and create PowerPoint slideshows

New "agentic" AI feature combines web browsing with task-execution abilities.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-17 18:12:01

Google hides secret message in name list of 3,295 AI researchers

Gemini 2.5 paper hides Easter egg in massive author list—but why so many contributors?

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-16 23:20:33

More VMware cloud partners axed as Broadcom launches new invite-only program

Smaller businesses most likely to be affected as white-label cloud program is also ending.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-16 21:29:38

Google finds custom backdoor being installed on SonicWall network devices

Overstep backdoor nukes key log entries, making detection hard.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-16 12:15:04

Hackers exploit a blind spot by hiding malware inside DNS records

Technique transforms the Internet DNS into an unconventional file storage system.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-15 21:49:04

Chinese firms rush for Nvidia chips as US prepares to lift ban

H20 chips, designed to skirt export bans, are back after Trump meets with CEO.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-14 19:25:36

Nvidia chips become the first GPUs to fall to Rowhammer bit-flip attacks

GPUhammer is the first to flip bits in onboard GPU memory. It likely won't be the last.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-14 17:08:13

New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musk’s views before answering

Grok 4's "reasoning" shows cases where the chatbot consults Musk posts to answer divisive questions.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-11 23:01:10

AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds

Popular chatbots serve as poor replacements for human therapists, but study authors call for nuance.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-10 22:54:26

Pro basketball player and 4 youths arrested in connection to ransomware crimes

Suspects were allegedly involved in a string of ransomware breaches.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-10 17:05:35

Musk’s Grok 4 launches one day after chatbot generated Hitler praise on X

xAI claims new multi-agent model hits top benchmarks as Nazi controversy lingers.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-09 22:59:25

ChatGPT made up a product feature out of thin air, so this company created it

Soundslice caught OpenAI's bot telling users about a fake music notation feature—then built it.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-09 21:08:27

Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots

Extensions load unknown sites into invisible Windows. What could go wrong?

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-09 19:35:15

AI mania pushes Nvidia to record $4 trillion valuation

AI craze makes Nvidia the most valuable publicly traded company in history.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-09 12:20:24

Critical CitrixBleed 2 vulnerability has been under active exploit for weeks

Exploits allow hackers to bypass 2FA and commandeer vulnerable devices.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-08 17:50:29

AGI may be impossible to define, and that’s a multibillion-dollar problem

Several definitions make measuring "human-level" AI an exercise in moving goalposts.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-08 00:46:14

Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps

Important changes to Android devices took effect starting Monday.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-07 19:12:10

“No honor among thieves”: M&S hacking group starts turf war

A clash between criminal ransomware groups could result in victims being extorted twice.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-03 20:36:44

Provider of covert surveillance app spills passwords for 62,000 users

Creators say app is intended for parental monitoring. So why the emphasis on stealth?

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-07-02 20:28:27

AT&T rolls out Wireless Account Lock protection to curb the SIM-swap scourge

Move is aimed at curbing a form of abuse that costs subscribers dearly.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-30 20:57:49

Mexican drug cartel hacked FBI official’s phone to track informant, report says

Official was connected to FBI probe of cartel Kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-26 23:52:42

Actively exploited vulnerability gives extraordinary control over server fleets

AMI MegaRAC used in servers from AMD, ARM, Fujitsu, Gigabyte, Supermicro, and Qualcomm.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-26 21:33:20

Anthropic summons the spirit of Flash games for the AI age

AI chatbot codes browser-based apps from plain English with classic web vibes.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-26 21:17:54

VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom

"Our management thought it was a bluff..."

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-25 21:00:03

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-25 20:39:19

Ubuntu disables Intel GPU security mitigations, promises 20% performance boost

Overtime defenses for Spectre-based attacks have taken their toll.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-24 18:25:41

The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun

As thousands of applications flood job posts, 'hiring slop' is kicking off an AI arms race.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-23 20:21:42

Canadian telecom hacked by suspected China state group

Maximum-security Cisco vulnerability was patched Oct. 2023 and exploited Feb. 2025.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-20 20:04:22

Record DDoS pummels site with once-unimaginable 7.3Tbps of junk traffic

Attacker rained down the equivalent of 9,300 full-length HD movies in just 45 seconds.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-19 15:40:45

Israel-tied Predatory Sparrow hackers are waging cyberwar on Iran’s financial system

The hacker group has destroyed more than $90 million held at an Iranian crypto exchange.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-18 22:10:45

Tech support scammers inject malicious phone numbers into big-name websites

Microsoft, Apple, Bank of America, and many more sites all targeted.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-18 12:15:46

Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel, and now we’re hoarding pre-AI content

Newly-announced catalog collects pre-2022 sources untouched by ChatGPT and AI contamination.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-17 22:33:01

Cybersecurity takes a big hit in new Trump executive order

Provisions on secure software, quantum–resistant crypto, and more are scrapped.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-17 17:26:28

OpenAI weighs “nuclear option” of antitrust complaint against Microsoft

WSJ report says OpenAI mulling federal complaint as Microsoft stalls restructuring plan.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-16 21:15:18

Vandals cut fiber-optic lines, causing outage for Spectrum Internet subscribers

The soaring price of copper makes networks tempting targets for thieves.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-12 21:26:28

Coming to Apple OSes: A seamless, secure way to import and export passkeys

Apple OSes will soon transfer passkeys seamlessly and securely across platforms.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-11 19:58:22

Hollywood studios target AI image generator in copyright lawsuit

Multiple-studio complaint cites AI image outputs as evidence of "bottomless pit of plagiarism."

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-11 17:58:43

With the launch of o3-pro, let’s talk about what AI “reasoning” actually does

New studies reveal pattern-matching reality behind the AI industry's reasoning claims.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-10 20:00:34

Found in the wild: 2 Secure Boot exploits. Microsoft is patching only 1 of them.

The publicly available exploits provide a near-universal way to bypass key protections.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-10 19:27:48

OpenAI signs surprise deal with Google Cloud despite fierce AI rivalry

Report: Deal marks shift from exclusive Microsoft partnership as AI compute needs soar.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-10 17:38:56

After AI setbacks, Meta bets billions on undefined “superintelligence”

Zuckerberg seeks new AI direction under sci-fi banner that some experts say is arbitrary.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-09 16:36:15

FAA to retire floppy disks and Windows 95 amid air traffic control overhaul

Agency seeks contractors to modernize decades-old systems within four years.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-06 22:12:17

Anthropic releases custom AI chatbot for classified spy work

"Claude Gov" is already handling classified information for the US government.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-06 20:15:28

Millions of low-cost Android devices turn home networks into crime platforms

BadBox malware has been menacing low-cost Android devices for nearly a decade.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-05 15:35:15

“In 10 years, all bets are off”—Anthropic CEO opposes decadelong freeze on state AI laws

Amodei says AI "too fast" for blanket law ban; sees fundamental world change in 2 years.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-04 12:20:37

Two certificate authorities booted from the good graces of Chrome

Chunghwa Telecom and Netlock customers must look elsewhere for new certificates.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-03 13:00:48

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers

Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-03 13:00:48

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers

Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-06-02 22:43:04

Broadcom ends business with VMware’s lowest-tier channel partners

Broadcom claims many eliminated partners weren't doing any VMware business.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-05-31 14:32:08

Ransomware kingpin “Stern” apparently IDed by German law enforcement

BSA names Vi­ta­ly Ni­ko­lae­vich Kovalev is "Stern," the leader of Trickbot.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-05-29 18:58:09

AI video just took a startling leap in realism. Are we doomed?

Google's Veo 3 delivers AI videos of realistic people with sound and music. We put it to the test.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-05-28 23:12:07

Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors

Backdoor giving full administrative control can survive reboots and firmware updates.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-05-26 12:30:50

Where hyperscale hardware goes to retire: Ars visits a very big ITAD site

Watching memory DIMMs get sorted like Wonka children inside SK TES' facility.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-05-23 20:56:45

Feds charge 16 Russians allegedly tied to botnets used in cyberattacks and spying

An example of how a single malware operation can enable both criminal and state-sponsored hacking.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-05-23 20:06:59

Researchers cause GitLab AI developer assistant to turn safe code malicious

AI assistants can't be trusted to produce safe code.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-05-23 18:57:13

Google’s Will Smith double is better at eating AI spaghetti … but it’s crunchy?

Veo 3 is a major leap in AI video synthesis, but the sound effects need more cooking time.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-05-22 20:15:27

Destructive malware available in NPM repo went unnoticed for 2 years

Payloads were set to spontaneously detonate on specific dates with no warning.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-05-22 18:19:21

Report calls for regulation of “legally and ethically flawed” VMware

"Broadcom is unlikely to make any voluntary changes to its new commercial terms."

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-05-22 17:45:45

New Claude 4 AI model refactored code for 7 hours straight

Anthropic says Claude 4 beats Gemini on coding benchmarks; works autonomously for hours.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-05-22 17:00:03

Authorities carry out global takedown of infostealer used by cybercriminals

Authorities, along with tech companies including Microsoft and Cloudflare, say they’ve disrupted Lumma.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-05-21 21:21:39

“Microsoft has simply given us no other option,” Signal says as it blocks Windows Recall

Even after its refurbishing, Recall provides few ways to exclude specific apps.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-05-21 20:21:51

Apple legend Jony Ive takes control of OpenAI’s design future

$6.5B acquisition of Ive's firm puts him in charge of moving OpenAI "beyond screens."

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-05-20 19:48:54

Windows 11’s most important new feature is post-quantum cryptography. Here’s why.

For the first time, new quantum-safe algorithms can be invoked using standard Windows APIs.

From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-05-20 15:52:35

Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books

Reading list in advertorial supplement contains 66% made up books by real authors.