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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.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-10-06 15:45:28
AMD wins massive AI chip deal from OpenAI with stock sweetener
ChatGPT maker will be allowed to buy 10% of AMD for a penny per share.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-10-04 14:21:55
ICE wants to build a 24/7 social media surveillance team
ICE plans to hire contractors to scan platforms to target people for deportation.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-10-03 18:49:26
Ars Live: Is the AI bubble about to pop? A live chat with Ed Zitron.
Join a live discussion on October 7 about the AI gold rush.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-10-02 22:10:23
Why iRobot’s founder won’t go within 10 feet of today’s walking robots
Rodney Brooks says humanoid robots pose hidden safety challenges and won't learn dexterity from video alone.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-10-01 23:16:07
That annoying SMS phish you just got may have come from a box like this
Smishers looking for new infrastructure are getting creative.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-10-01 19:37:00
OpenAI’s Sora 2 lets users insert themselves into AI videos with sound
Sora social app launches with deepfake-style "cameos" and feed controls.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-30 21:25:08
Intel and AMD trusted enclaves, the backbone of network security, fall to physical attacks
The chipmakers say physical attacks aren't in the threat model. Many users didn't get the memo.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-30 21:18:39
DeepSeek tests “sparse attention” to slash AI processing costs
Chinese lab's v3.2 release explores a technique that could make running AI far less costly.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-30 16:12:10
California’s newly signed AI law just gave Big Tech exactly what it wanted
After the failure of S.B. 1047, new AI disclosure law drops kill switch for disclosure mandate.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-29 23:10:27
Anthropic says its new AI model “maintained focus” for 30 hours on multistep tasks
Latest Claude model beats OpenAI and Google on coding tests.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-26 23:22:13
Can AI detect hedgehogs from space? Maybe if you find brambles first.
Cambridge researchers use satellite-based bramble detection as a proxy for mapping hedgehog habitats.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-25 21:30:52
ChatGPT Pulse delivers morning updates based on your chat history
New mobile chatbot feature analyzes conversations overnight.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-25 19:10:50
Experts urge caution about using ChatGPT to pick stocks
AI-selected portfolios might perform well in a growing market, but experts warn of downturn risks.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-25 13:43:42
As many as 2 million Cisco devices affected by actively exploited 0-day
Search shows 2 million vulnerable Cisco SNMP interfaces exposed to the Internet.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-24 17:06:03
Why does OpenAI need six giant data centers?
OpenAI's new $400 billion announcement reveals both growing AI demand and circular investments.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-24 12:15:06
Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware
Baseboard management controller vulnerabilities make remote attacks possible.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-23 23:23:22
When “no” means “yes”: Why AI chatbots can’t process Persian social etiquette
New study examines how a helpful AI response could become a cultural disaster in Iran.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-23 16:52:45
Broadcom’s prohibitive VMware prices create a learning “barrier,” IT pro says
Public schools ran to VMware during the pandemic. Now they're running away.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-22 18:54:33
Here’s how potent Atomic credential stealer is finding its way onto Macs
LastPass warns it's one of the latest to see its well-known brand impersonated.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-19 20:35:38
Two of the Kremlin’s most active hack groups are collaborating, ESET says
Turla is getting a helping hand from Gamaredon. Both are units of Russia's FSB.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-19 01:00:37
Two UK teens charged in connection to Scattered Spider ransomware attacks
Ransomware group is one of the world's most prolific.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-18 17:29:22
New attack on ChatGPT research agent pilfers secrets from Gmail inboxes
Unlike most prompt injections, ShadowLeak executes on OpenAI's cloud-based infrastructure.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-18 15:31:22
How weak passwords and other failings led to catastrophic breach of Ascension
A deep-dive into Active Directory and how "Kerberoasting" breaks it wide open.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-17 23:03:11
White House officials reportedly frustrated by Anthropic’s law enforcement AI limits
Officials say Claude chatbot usage policies block FBI, Secret Service contractors' work.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-16 21:09:22
ChatGPT may soon require ID verification from adults, CEO says
Chatbot will "default to the under-18 experience" when age is uncertain after teen suicide lawsuit.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-16 12:15:32
Millions turn to AI chatbots for spiritual guidance and confession
Bible Chat hits 30 million downloads as users seek algorithmic absolution.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-12 22:36:48
Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack
Unofficial mod lets classic Nintendo GameCube title use AI chatbots with amusing results.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-11 23:27:53
OpenAI and Microsoft sign preliminary deal to revise partnership terms
Companies work to finalize terms as OpenAI pursues for-profit restructuring.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-11 18:56:35
35 percent of VMware workloads expected to migrate elsewhere by 2028
“We are all addicted to hypervisors, and that needs to change."
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-10 20:38:13
Senator blasts Microsoft for making default Windows vulnerable to “Kerberoasting”
Wyden says default use of RC4 cipher led to last year's breach of health giant Ascension.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-10 19:08:49
Developers joke about “coding like cavemen” as AI service suffers major outage
Anthropic outage takes down AI tools some developers rely on to create software.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-10 16:41:42
Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic
Microsoft will end OpenAI's exclusive hold on its productivity suite, adding second AI supplier.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-09 21:55:34
Claude’s new AI file creation feature ships with deep security risks built in
Expert calls security advice "unfairly outsourcing the problem to Anthropic's users."
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-09 20:55:22
SAP warns of high-severity vulnerabilities in multiple products
Users of SAP's S/4HANA and NetWeaver products are at risk and should patch soon.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-09 12:08:44
Why accessibility might be AI’s biggest breakthrough
UK study findings may challenge assumptions about who benefits most from AI tools.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-09 01:37:04
Software packages with more than 2 billion weekly downloads hit in supply-chain attack
Incident hitting npm users is likely the biggest supply-chain attack ever.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-08 21:26:02
Former WhatsApp security boss sues Meta for “systemic cybersecurity failures”
Meta allegedly prioritized user growth over security, lawsuit said.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-08 18:17:49
AI will consume all of IT by 2030—but not all IT jobs, Gartner says
AI still threatens entry-level IT jobs.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-05 17:06:55
ChatGPT’s new branching feature is a good reminder that AI chatbots aren’t people
Users can explore multiple paths without losing their original chat thread.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-04 23:29:34
The number of mis-issued 1.1.1.1 certificates grows. Here’s the latest.
Everything to know about about the mishap that threatened to expose millions of users' queries.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-04 17:56:13
Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978
Historic interpreter taught millions to program on Commodore and Apple computers.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-03 22:56:07
New AI model turns photos into explorable 3D worlds, with caveats
Openly available AI tool creates steerable 3D-like video, but requires serious GPU muscle.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-03 19:40:38
Mis-issued certificates for 1.1.1.1 DNS service pose a threat to the Internet
The three certificates were issued in May but only came to light Wednesday.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-09-02 16:10:26
OpenAI announces parental controls for ChatGPT after teen suicide lawsuit
Promised protections follow reports of vulnerable users misled in extended chats.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-08-29 19:02:22
Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave
Longtime acolytes are sidelined as CEO directs biggest leadership reorganization in two decades.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-08-29 13:15:00
Google warns that mass data theft hitting Salesloft AI agent has grown bigger
Assume all Salesloft credentials are compromised after Workspace breach, Google says.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-08-28 19:46:43
High-severity vulnerability in Passwordstate credential manager. Patch now.
Vulnerability can be exploited to gain access to customers' crown jewels.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-08-28 14:00:10
Unpacking Passkeys Pwned: Possibly the most specious research in decades
Researchers take note: When the endpoint is compromised, all bets are off.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-08-28 12:00:57
The personhood trap: How AI fakes human personality
AI assistants don't have fixed personalities—just patterns of output guided by humans.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-08-27 17:17:29
Anthropic’s auto-clicking AI Chrome extension raises browser-hijacking concerns
Malicious websites can embed invisible commands that AI agents will follow blindly.
From Biz & IT – Ars Technica at 2025-08-26 23:08:38
After teen suicide, OpenAI claims it is “helping people when they need it most”
ChatGPT allegedly provided suicide encouragement to teen after moderation safeguards failed.