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From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-30 22:12:26
AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast
Moltbook lets 32,000 AI bots trade jokes, tips, and complaints about humans.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-30 19:04:15
Developers say AI coding tools work—and that's precisely what worries them
Ars spoke to several software devs about AI and found enthusiasm tempered by unease.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-29 18:30:52
County pays $600,000 to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security
Settlement comes more than 6 years after Gary DeMercurio and Justin Wynn's ordeal began.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-29 15:19:56
Does Anthropic believe its AI is conscious, or is that just what it wants Claude to think?
We have no proof that AI models suffer, but Anthropic acts like they might for training purposes.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-28 22:06:41
Site catering to online criminals has been seized by the FBI
One of the last holdouts for ransomware discussions, RAMP is taken down.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-28 17:21:29
Report: China approves import of high-end Nvidia AI chips after weeks of uncertainty
Over 400,000 H200 chips coming to tech giants as China tries to balance tech needs with self-reliance.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-28 12:30:44
Users flock to open source Moltbot for always-on AI, despite major risks
The open source "Jarvis" chats via WhatsApp but requires access to your files and accounts.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-27 22:34:40
There's a rash of scam spam coming from a real Microsoft address
Abusing Microsoft's reputation may make scam harder to spot.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-26 23:05:17
OpenAI spills technical details about how its AI coding agent works
Unusually detailed post explains how OpenAI handles the Codex agent loop.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-26 21:02:26
Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan?
Company's autodiscover caused users' test credentials to be sent outside Microsoft networks.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-22 22:46:30
Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"
The onslaught includes LLMs finding bogus vulnerabilities and code that won't compile.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-22 15:56:33
eBay bans illicit automated shopping amid rapid rise of AI agents
New policy requires "buy for me" AI tools and chatbots to obtain permission before accessing the platform.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-21 23:22:14
Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS
Even well-known services with millions of users are exposing sensitive data.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-21 12:15:23
Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there's a plugin to avoid them.
The web's best guide to spotting AI writing has become a manual for hiding it.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-19 12:00:45
10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents
Opinion: As software power tools, AI agents may make people busier than ever before.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-16 23:15:27
Rackspace customers grapple with “devastating” email hosting price hike
Reseller says Rackspace plans to charge it 706 percent more.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-16 21:20:03
OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions
Ads coming to free tier and new $8/month ChatGPT Go plan in US.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-16 21:05:37
Mandiant releases rainbow table that cracks weak admin password in 12 hours
Windows laggards still using the vulnerable hashing function: Your days are numbered.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-16 16:55:08
TSMC says AI demand is “endless” after record Q4 earnings
Amid fears of bubble, world's top chipmaker TSMC says customers just keep asking for more.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-15 15:25:52
Wikipedia will share content with AI firms in new licensing deals
Wikimedia Enterprise signs Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI to paid deals.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-14 22:03:11
A single click mounted a covert, multistage attack against Copilot
Exploit exfiltrating data from chat histories worked even after users closed chat windows.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-14 17:46:19
Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform
Indie music store says it wants fans to have confidence music was largely made by humans.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-13 22:34:41
The RAM shortage’s silver lining: Less talk about “AI PCs”
“General interest in AI PCs has been wavering for a while ..."
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-13 22:07:21
Never-before-seen Linux malware is “far more advanced than typical”
VoidLink includes an unusually broad and advanced array of capabilities.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-13 21:13:07
Hegseth wants to integrate Musk’s Grok AI into military networks this month
US defense secretary announces plans for integration despite recent controversies.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-13 20:05:14
Microsoft vows to cover full power costs for energy-hungry AI data centers
Company responds to community concerns over electricity bills and water use.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-12 21:47:32
Google removes some AI health summaries after investigation finds “dangerous” flaws
AI Overviews provided false liver test information experts called alarming.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-08 18:00:52
ChatGPT Health lets you connect medical records to an AI that makes things up
New feature will allow users to link medical and wellness records to AI chatbot.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-08 14:00:07
ChatGPT falls to new data-pilfering attack as a vicious cycle in AI continues
Will LLMs ever be able to stamp out the root cause of these attacks? Possibly not.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-01-05 21:42:14
The nation’s strictest privacy law just took effect, to data brokers’ chagrin
Californians can now submit demands requiring 500 brokers to delete their data.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-12-17 22:22:33
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT image generator makes faking photos easy
New GPT Image 1.5 allows more detailed conversational image editing, for better or worse.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-12-17 15:25:25
Browser extensions with 8 million users collect extended AI conversations
The extensions, available for Chromium browsers, harvest full AI conversations over months.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-12-15 22:41:43
Merriam-Webster’s word of the year delivers a dismissive verdict on junk AI content
Dictionary codifies the term that took hold in 2024 for low-quality AI-generated content.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-12-15 21:15:55
Microsoft will finally kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havoc
The weak RC4 for administrative authentication has been a hacker Holy Grail for decades.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-12-15 15:24:41
Roomba maker iRobot swept into bankruptcy
Shenzhen-based Picea Robotics, its lender and primary supplier, will acquire all of iRobot’s shares.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-12-12 22:16:42
OpenAI built an AI coding agent and uses it to improve the agent itself
"The vast majority of Codex is built by Codex," OpenAI told us about its new AI coding agent.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-12-11 21:27:18
OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after “code red” Google threat alert
Company claims new AI model tops Gemini and matches humans on 70% of work tasks.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-12-11 16:43:30
Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora
Three-year deal lets users create AI videos of Mickey Mouse, Darth Vader, and more.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-12-11 14:39:21
Oracle shares slide on $15B increase in data center spending
Company raises its capital expenditure forecast as it doubles down on AI infrastructure bet.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-12-10 20:38:58
A new open AI coding model is closing in on proprietary options
Open-weights Devstral 2 model scores 72% on industry benchmark, nearing proprietary rivals.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-12-10 12:32:21
Operation Bluebird wants to relaunch “Twitter,” says Musk abandoned the name and logo
“Abandonment” offers rare chance to reclaim one of tech’s most recognized brands.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-12-08 14:57:11
Meta offers EU users ad-light option in push to end investigation
Facebook agrees to change "pay or consent" model after talks with European Commission.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-12-04 21:51:36
In comedy of errors, men accused of wiping gov databases turned to an AI tool
Defendants were convicted of similar crimes a decade ago. How were they cleared again?
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-12-03 23:16:03
Maximum-severity vulnerability threatens 6% of all websites
Open source React executes malicious code with malformed HTML—no authentication needed.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-12-03 18:24:06
Microsoft slashes AI sales growth targets as customers resist unproven agents
Report: Microsoft declared "the era of AI agents" in May, but enterprise customers aren't buying.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-12-03 17:23:26
Fraudulent gambling network may be a nation-state spying operation
Researchers say there's more to the network, which has operated for 14 years.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-12-02 22:42:09
OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 200 million users in 3 months
Three years after Google sounded alarm bells over ChatGPT, the tables have turned.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-12-02 12:15:55
Syntax hacking: Researchers discover sentence structure can bypass AI safety rules
New research offers clues about why some prompt injection attacks may succeed.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-11-26 17:19:35
HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use
Product development, internal operations among teams expected to be hit hardest.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-11-26 15:37:47
Crypto hoarders dump tokens as shares tumble
Several companies are selling crypto stockpiles in effort to fund share buybacks, shore up stock prices.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-11-24 14:17:29
UK government will buy tech to boost AI sector in $130M growth push
Plan will offer guaranteed payments for British startups making AI hardware
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-11-22 00:16:25
Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key.
Voting system required three keys. One of them has been "irretrievably lost."
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-11-21 22:05:20
How to know if your Asus router is one of thousands hacked by China-state hackers
So far, the hackers are laying low, likely for later use.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-11-21 21:47:44
Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand
Google's AI infrastructure chief tells staff it needs thousandfold capacity increase in 5 years.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-11-20 23:02:01
HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs
HEVC licensing gets more expensive in January.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-11-19 21:25:24
Massive Cloudflare outage was triggered by file that suddenly doubled in size
"I worry this is the big botnet flexing," CEO said. But outage was self-inflicted.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-11-19 20:25:46
Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data
Integration of Copilot Actions into Windows is off by default, but for how long?
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-11-18 20:37:04
Tech giants pour billions into Anthropic as circular AI investments roll on
ChatGPT competitor secures billions from Microsoft and Nvidia in deal to use cloud services and chips.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-11-18 18:37:23
Bonkers Bitcoin heist: 5-star hotels, cash-filled envelopes, vanishing funds
Bitcoin mining hardware exec falls for sophisticated crypto scam to tune of $200k
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-11-18 16:32:58
Google’s Sundar Pichai warns of “irrationality” in trillion-dollar AI investment boom
Sundar Pichai says no company is immune if AI bubble bursts, echoing dotcom fears.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-11-17 22:20:38
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.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-11-17 16:41:05
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.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-11-14 18:45:34
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.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-11-14 12:20:48
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.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-11-12 22:54:47
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.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-11-12 17:14:16
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.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-11-11 12:30:51
ClickFix may be the biggest security threat your family has never heard of
Relatively new technique can bypass many endpoint protections.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-11-10 23:06:42
Researchers isolate memorization from reasoning in AI neural networks
Basic arithmetic ability lives in the memorization pathways, not logic circuits.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-11-07 20:15:33
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.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-11-06 22:17:21
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.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-11-06 17:24:51
Google plans secret AI military outpost on tiny island overrun by crabs
Christmas Island facility would support naval surveillance in strategic Indo-Pacific waters.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-11-05 23:00:46
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.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-11-03 17:23:11
OpenAI signs massive AI compute deal with Amazon
Deal will provide access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips that power ChatGPT.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-31 21:03:56
Two Windows vulnerabilities, one a 0-day, are under active exploitation
Both vulnerabilities are being exploited in wide-scale operations.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-30 18:24:32
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.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-30 15:54:18
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.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-29 21:04:45
NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86,000 times
Packages downloaded from NPM can fetch dependancies from untrusted sites.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-29 14:46:21
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.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-29 13:40:15
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.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-28 18:11:36
OpenAI data suggests 1 million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT weekly
Sensitive chats are rare but significant given the large user base.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-28 15:02:30
Expert panel will determine AGI arrival in new Microsoft-OpenAI agreement
New deal extends Microsoft IP rights until 2032 or until AGI arrives.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-24 22:53:20
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.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-22 23:35:41
Cache poisoning vulnerabilities found in 2 DNS resolving apps
At least one CVE could weaken defenses put in place following 2008 disclosure.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-20 23:18:22
NSO permanently barred from targeting WhatsApp users with Pegasus spyware
Ruling holds that defeating end-to-end encryption in WhatsApp harms Meta's business.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-16 21:40:49
Nation-state hackers deliver malware from “bulletproof” blockchains
Malicious payloads stored on Ethereum and BNB blockchains are immune to takedowns.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-16 21:25:08
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.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-15 21:05:39
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.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-15 19:53:00
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.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-15 16:14:52
ChatGPT erotica coming soon with age verification, CEO says
Sam Altman claims new tools can detect mental distress while relaxing limits for adults.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-14 22:01:50
Feds seize $15 billion from alleged forced labor scam built on “human suffering”
Scams like this one net billions from well-educated victims.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-14 17:58:21
Nvidia sells tiny new computer that puts big AI on your desktop
The 1 petaflop DGX Spark system runs AI models with 200 billion parameters locally for $4K.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-14 14:51:00
OpenAI wants to stop ChatGPT from validating users’ political views
New paper reveals reducing "bias" means making ChatGPT stop mirroring users' political language.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-13 22:36:35
No fix yet for attack that lets hackers pluck 2FA codes from Android phones
Malicious app required to make "Pixnapping" attack work requires no permissions.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-13 17:15:53
Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement
New design sets a high standard for post-quantum readiness.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-10 19:07:04
Microsoft warns of new “Payroll Pirate” scam stealing employees’ direct deposits
Among other things, the scammers bypass multi-factor authentication.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-09 23:03:21
AI models can acquire backdoors from surprisingly few malicious documents
Anthropic study suggests "poison" training attacks don't scale with model size.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-09 19:24:13
Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users
As more sites require IDs for user age verification, expect more such breaches to come.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-08 22:18:30
Bank of England warns AI stock bubble rivals 2000 dotcom peak
Central bank says market concentration hasn't been this extreme in 50 years.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-08 21:02:46
Salesforce says it won’t pay extortion demand in 1 billion records breach
Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters gave Salesforce until Friday to pay or else.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2025-10-08 17:49:27
Synology caves, walks back some drive restrictions on upcoming NAS models
Policy change affects at least 2025 model Plus, Value, and J-series DiskStations.