General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Did OpenAI's big holiday event live up to the billing?
Publish Date: 12/20/2024
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o3 matches human levels on ARC-AGI benchmark, and o3-mini exceeds o1 at some tasks.
Publish Date: 12/20/2024
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Potentially groundbreaking AI releases have been coming in fast, sending experts' heads spinning.
Publish Date: 12/20/2024
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Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking is Google's take on so-called AI reasoning models.
Publish Date: 12/19/2024
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Ingram Micro the latest to ditch VMware, but VMware's still making money.
Publish Date: 12/19/2024
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"Genesis" can compress training times from decades into hours using 3D worlds conjured from text.
Publish Date: 12/19/2024
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Will Tencent's "open source" HunyuanVideo launch an at-home "Stable Diffusion" moment for uncensored AI video?
Publish Date: 12/19/2024
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At issue: Arm SoC designs that Qualcomm acquired when it bought Nuvia in 2021.
Publish Date: 12/18/2024
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1-800-CHATGPT telephone number lets any US caller talk to OpenAI's assistant—no smartphone required.
Publish Date: 12/18/2024
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Beta registration opened today, will enable texting in dead zones in early 2025.
Publish Date: 12/16/2024
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Multifaceted, high-precision campaign targets malicious and benevolent hackers alike.
Publish Date: 12/13/2024
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Nonsensical jabberwocky movements created by OpenAI’s Sora are typical for current AI-generated video, and here's why.
Publish Date: 12/13/2024
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Vulnerability with severity rating of 9.8 out of possible 10 still live on >8,000 sites.
Publish Date: 12/12/2024
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An AI version of old St. Nick arrives as a seasonal character in popular chatbot app.
Publish Date: 12/12/2024
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Secret Blizzard has used the resources of at least 6 other groups in the past 7 years.
Publish Date: 12/11/2024
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Google barrels ahead with a push into AI systems that take action for you.
Publish Date: 12/11/2024
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Company boasts "AI workers" that never complain about work-life balance.
Publish Date: 12/10/2024
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Attack bypasses AMD protection promising security, even when a server is compromised.
Publish Date: 12/10/2024
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"Reddit Answers" will answer questions with AI-generated summaries of user content.
Publish Date: 12/9/2024
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It's a big launch, but AI video-synthesis competition has heated up over the past 10 months.
Publish Date: 12/9/2024
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