General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

AI models can acquire backdoors from surprisingly few malicious documents

Anthropic study suggests "poison" training attacks don't scale with model size.
Publish Date: 10/9/2025
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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.
Publish Date: 10/9/2025
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Bank of England warns AI stock bubble rivals 2000 dotcom peak

Central bank says market concentration hasn't been this extreme in 50 years.
Publish Date: 10/8/2025
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Salesforce says it won’t pay extortion demand in 1 billion records breach

Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters gave Salesforce until Friday to pay or else.
Publish Date: 10/8/2025
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Synology caves, walks back some drive restrictions on upcoming NAS models

Policy change affects at least 2025 model Plus, Value, and J-series DiskStations.
Publish Date: 10/8/2025
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Ars Live: Is the AI bubble about to pop? Ed Zitron is on with Ars at 3:30pm EDT today

Our discussion happens today, October 7, at 3:30pm US Eastern time.
Publish Date: 10/7/2025
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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.
Publish Date: 10/6/2025
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ICE wants to build a 24/7 social media surveillance team

ICE plans to hire contractors to scan platforms to target people for deportation.
Publish Date: 10/4/2025
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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.
Publish Date: 10/2/2025
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That annoying SMS phish you just got may have come from a box like this

Smishers looking for new infrastructure are getting creative.
Publish Date: 10/1/2025
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OpenAI’s Sora 2 lets users insert themselves into AI videos with sound

Sora social app launches with deepfake-style "cameos" and feed controls.
Publish Date: 10/1/2025
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Intel and AMD trusted enclaves, a foundation for network security, fall to physical attacks

The chipmakers say physical attacks aren't in the threat model. Many users didn't get the memo.
Publish Date: 9/30/2025
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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.
Publish Date: 9/30/2025
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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.
Publish Date: 9/30/2025
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Anthropic says its new AI model “maintained focus” for 30 hours on multistep tasks

New Claude Sonnet 4.5 beats OpenAI and Google on coding tests.
Publish Date: 9/29/2025
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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.
Publish Date: 9/26/2025
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ChatGPT Pulse delivers morning updates based on your chat history

New mobile chatbot feature analyzes conversations overnight.
Publish Date: 9/25/2025
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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.
Publish Date: 9/25/2025
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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.
Publish Date: 9/25/2025
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Why does OpenAI need six giant data centers?

OpenAI's new $400 billion announcement reveals both growing AI demand and circular investments.
Publish Date: 9/24/2025
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