General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Opinion: Theatrical testing scenarios explain why AI models produce alarming outputs—and why we fall for it.
Publish Date: 8/13/2025
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After unpopular GPT-5 launch, OpenAI begins restoring optional access to previous AI models.
Publish Date: 8/13/2025
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The tendency to ask AI bots to explain themselves reveals widespread misconceptions about how they work.
Publish Date: 8/12/2025
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Exploits allow for persistent backdooring when targets open booby-trapped archive.
Publish Date: 8/12/2025
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OpenAI faces backlash as users complain about broken workflows and losing AI friends.
Publish Date: 8/11/2025
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An encryption algorithm can have weaknesses that could allow an attacker to listen in.
Publish Date: 8/9/2025
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Most companies downsizing office space say it's because of hybrid work.
Publish Date: 8/8/2025
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Running JavaScript from inside an image? What could possibly go wrong?
Publish Date: 8/8/2025
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Disclosure comes two months after Google warned the world of ongoing spree.
Publish Date: 8/7/2025
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New model claims fewer confabulations, better coding, and "safe completions" approach.
Publish Date: 8/7/2025
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Why AI-based voice cloning is the next frontier in social-engineering attacks.
Publish Date: 8/7/2025
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Stopping people from falling for phishing attacks isn't working. So what are organizations to do?
Publish Date: 8/5/2025
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The allegations are the latest to accuse Perplexity of improper web crawling.
Publish Date: 8/4/2025
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A 24 year-old AI researcher will earn 327x what Oppenheimer made while developing the atomic bomb.
Publish Date: 8/1/2025
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End goal is the installation of a malicious TLS root certificate for use in intel gathering.
Publish Date: 7/31/2025
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Sophisticated group also used novel means to disguise their custom malware.
Publish Date: 7/30/2025
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AP survey shows most Americans treat AI chatbots like a search engine replacement.
Publish Date: 7/30/2025
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Beware of coding agents that can access your command window.
Publish Date: 7/30/2025
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Proposed data center would demand 5x Wyoming's current power use at full deployment.
Publish Date: 7/29/2025
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"This step is necessary to prove I'm not a bot," wrote the bot as it passed an anti-AI screening step.
Publish Date: 7/28/2025
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