General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

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.
Publish Date: 12/11/2025
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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.
Publish Date: 12/11/2025
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Oracle shares slide on $15B increase in data center spending

Company raises its capital expenditure forecast as it doubles down on AI infrastructure bet.
Publish Date: 12/11/2025
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A new open-weights AI coding model is closing in on proprietary options

Devstral 2 model scores 72% on industry benchmark, nearing proprietary rivals.
Publish Date: 12/10/2025
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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.
Publish Date: 12/10/2025
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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.
Publish Date: 12/8/2025
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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?
Publish Date: 12/4/2025
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Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vuln

Open source React executes malicious code with malformed HTML—no authentication needed.
Publish Date: 12/3/2025
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Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas

Report: Microsoft declared "the era of AI agents" in May, but enterprise customers aren't buying.
Publish Date: 12/3/2025
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Fraudulent gambling network may actually be something more nefarious

Researchers say there's more to the network, which has operated for 14 years.
Publish Date: 12/3/2025
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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.
Publish Date: 12/2/2025
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Syntax hacking: Researchers discover sentence structure can bypass AI safety rules

New research offers clues about why some prompt injection attacks may succeed.
Publish Date: 12/2/2025
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HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use

Product development, internal operations among teams expected to be hit hardest.
Publish Date: 11/26/2025
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Crypto hoarders dump tokens as shares tumble

Several companies are selling crypto stockpiles in effort to fund share buybacks, shore up stock prices.
Publish Date: 11/26/2025
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UK government will buy tech to boost AI sector in $130M growth push

Plan will offer guaranteed payments for British startups making AI hardware
Publish Date: 11/24/2025
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Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key.

Voting system required three keys. One of them has been "irretrievably lost."
Publish Date: 11/22/2025
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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.
Publish Date: 11/21/2025
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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.
Publish Date: 11/21/2025
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HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

HEVC licensing gets more expensive in January.
Publish Date: 11/20/2025
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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.
Publish Date: 11/19/2025
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